Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:

nerd, weirdo, person, whatever. i enjoy bad puns and you will see them. i also like going off on random tangents about tech, movies, or other random things of interest. fun activities include having mental health and flight simulation.

you may enjoy my work on mediawiki & wikipedia, or my wacky webassembly codecs. or my cat photos!

formerly of mastodon.technology and identi.ca (so it goes)

no bio means no follow request approval! just be cool. :)

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2024-10-12 03:06:07

every once in a while i remember the virtual reality episode of murder, she wrote and i smile
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2024-10-11 03:46:07

is the new york strip steak so named because it resembles the island of manhattan?
or just because it was the style at a restaurant in new york
:blobcat_thinking_glare:

2024-10-10 01:12:52

it's a good thing they haven't shut down the net, cause i have a dot net domain

2024-10-10 01:12:02

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@npub1y4n…25mf @npub1sj9…fzul https://typeof.guy

2024-10-06 20:58:01

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@npub1x6a…d5cx so it's a cartel

2024-10-06 19:58:35

all i want added to html is <include src="example.html">
this is the only thing html5 needed other than video and standardizing the parser
*smdh*

2024-10-02 23:53:59

never forget what they stole from you
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2024-10-01 14:25:15

% make out
make: *** No rule to make target `out'. Stop.

2024-09-29 19:12:58

bradwife -- woman who's always assembling punch-holed zines with these
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2024-09-13 15:57:28

the true passion of the foo fighters is semantic variable naming

2024-09-07 22:34:45

petition to find the executives who green-lit "region coding" for DVD and Blu-Ray and torture them by making them walk on wet towels forever

2024-09-07 13:52:57

feel like eating something
don't feel like making something
the struggle is real

2024-09-05 19:03:56

die hard 2 is great, but the way they crash that plane by changing the ILS beacons to the wrong ground altitude is literally _not how the instrument landing system works_
ILS doesn't broadcast altitude! the glidescope gives you a way to verify you're approacing on the right *angle*, while your altitude is measured with standard pressure and/or radar altimeters on the aircraft

2024-09-02 16:27:08

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@npub1k06…zyu9 in a pinch ;)

2024-09-02 16:19:21

petition to make phone screens turn off while snapping a selfie so it doesn't reflect in your glasses

2024-09-02 16:19:21

petition to make phone screens turn off while snapping a selfie so it doesn't reflect in your glasses

2024-08-28 16:14:38

brain empty this morning

2024-08-26 14:21:41

never / jamais
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2024-08-15 22:36:05

transfems of portland, oregon: who do you trust to do your hair?
i need to get my first girl haircut sooner or later; looking for someone who will be chill and can help with advice on my thin hair spot, talk real to me when i ask about bangs, and advise me about color (those grays are coming in oh no!)

2024-08-14 23:10:25

quick, time for the devops general strike
you have nothing to lose but your dependencies
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2024-08-08 00:53:21

america's next top model view controller

2024-07-30 13:41:14

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
ok trying to wrap up a couple quick things for work today then tomorrow i drive to california to camp in the woods out of cell phone range :D

2024-07-28 23:16:18

the real ethical dilemma is why we don't do anything about that guy who keeps tying people to trolley tracks

2024-07-28 23:16:18

the real ethical dilemma is why we don't do anything about that guy who keeps tying people to trolley tracks

2024-07-21 23:14:15

to reach the left/anarchist vote, harris will be announcing that gritty is her running mate
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2024-07-21 23:14:15

2024-07-21 21:28:53

💍 🦶
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2024-07-16 15:22:17

🤖
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2024-07-15 22:28:19

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@npub1vr4…92wq sounds like a solid step up from the 8cx family, yay!

2024-07-14 17:36:23

:neocat_cool: strong Bill Gates boudoir shot energy
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2024-07-10 22:02:04

super smash brothers when the large hadron collider walks in

2024-07-05 17:20:37

hey you know what's a surprisingly consistently high quality album?
lady gaga - the fame monster (2009)

2024-07-05 17:07:20

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@npub1vu7…nmuv RIP old plane ;_;

2024-07-05 15:06:25

Trying out the A-37 Dragonfly, light attack variant of the Cessna T-37 Tweet trainer. This was used in the Vietnam era and sold to some export countries, later retired in favor of the beefier A-10.
Lotta dials!
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2024-07-04 15:39:28

Ross: "So the house was built on radioactive waste *and* an Indian burial ground? That would *never* happen."
Phoebe: "Shows how much you know about the U.S. government!"

2024-07-03 15:24:24

i keep hearing 'the bear' is fun to watch, gotta add that to the list i guess
(hashtag choose the bear? ;) )

2024-06-27 00:24:13

my mother got the tuxedo cat lego set and customized his nose to look like my mr poirot <3
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2024-06-24 21:46:07

how weird is it that the jurisdictions that require cookie approval like, run on the idea that if they violate your preference some day they might have to pay a fine
instead of just having the browser ask you if you want to save any cookies or not and respect you because the browser exists to serve the user?
*looks at the companies that make browser* oh right

2024-06-24 18:41:28

"Rizz" is the quality embodied in the personality of Rizzo the Rat. I will not be dissuaded from this.
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Rizzo_the_Rat
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2024-06-23 16:58:07

lol remember this
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2024-06-21 20:43:55

Windows 11 is constantly prompting me to turn off notifications from various apps because it thinks I'm not interacting with them.
This is a lie: I interact with them by noticing them and then alt+tabbing to the app.
Just because I don't click it doesn't mean it's not useful to me, you illuminous fuckwit.

2024-06-18 22:48:06

so fun fact: the various iso bmff/mp4/mov flavors are handled by the same muxer implementation in ffmpeg, but they have different preferences not only about what codecs are allowed but how to mark them, so you need to use the right one
if your transcode workflow saves with "-f mp4" and has an mp3 audio track, it'll get marked as mp4a.something, while if it's done with "-f mov" it'll get marked as ".mp3"
quicktime player / safari will play the latter but skip the audio on the former
*headdesk*

2024-06-13 01:47:08

Portland World Naked Bike Ride canceled for 2024 because they got a late start planning and are just, like, SOOOOO behind. They'll catch up next year, and are getting a jump on planning Portland World Naked Bike Ride 2025.
(This is the most Portland thing I've heard all week.)
https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2024/06/portland-world-naked-bike-ride-canceled-for-2024-but-it-will-return.html

2024-06-10 18:01:00

all i wanna know is "does finder still do blocking network i/o on the main thread yes/no?" #wwdc

2024-06-09 12:12:39

GDP is the BMI of national economic measures

2024-06-08 20:43:10

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@npub1x6a…d5cx lil souvenir

2024-06-05 14:28:29

kernel space program

2024-06-04 20:23:06

ugh i still kinda want to do a wasm->6502 compiler just for the travesty of it
it's not really a great match because the type/op sizes for wasm are only 32 and 64 bits, like a modern risc-ish machine
compliant linear memory (supporting 64-kb pages) would obvs require a paged expanded memory device

2024-06-04 19:12:04

making computers do horrible things is my passion

2024-06-04 13:55:27

happy pride month, whatever your thing is
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2024-06-02 00:50:15

🚀 🌠
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2024-05-27 17:33:17

"not in time compiler" (nit-compiler) tells you how you should've optimized your code after the fact

2024-05-22 22:05:19

sites, not silos
protocols, not platforms
communities, not consumers

2024-05-15 02:09:56

is Linux old enough to be retro computing? >:-D

2024-05-13 00:46:48

it's pronounced gpeg

2024-05-10 15:24:23

what a week!
captain, it's friday

2024-05-09 20:56:08

you wouldn't
DOWNLOAD
a
GENDER

2024-05-08 22:28:34

Does ownCloud encrypt all data storage on-server? Or does it rely on Unix permissions etc to secure your server data?
(checks)
answer: yes (optionally), but it doesn't protect the files *on* the server because the keys are on server and a server compromise can access them. it's meant for encrypting data that then gets offloaded to s3/gdrive/etc
https://doc.owncloud.com/webui/next/classic_ui/files/encrypting_files.html

2024-05-08 20:41:23

Every worker should join or form a union to protect their rights and hold management accountable.
Yes, that includes "professional" tech workers (who can generally be fired/"laid off" at any time). Yes, that includes not-for-profits.
Yes, that includes my workplace and my employer. If you don't have a union, you really should be looking into how to form one.
It's just common sense.

2024-05-08 19:24:32

"monocoque" sounds dirty, but that's just because it's french
it actually refers to a boat or aircraft hull where loads are supported by the outer skin/shell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque

2024-05-07 02:01:58

somebody linking something relevant to my interests: "wow this video's really eye opening"
video: 44 minutes
me: "guess i'll never know"

2024-05-07 02:01:58

somebody linking something relevant to my interests: "wow this video's really eye opening"
video: 44 minutes
me: "guess i'll never know"

2024-05-03 15:57:21

Whatever happened to the Metaverse? They still boiling money on that or is the future now crypto^H^H^H^Hweb3^H^H^H^H^Hai chatbots?

2024-04-26 15:50:36

most of y'all ;)
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2024-04-24 12:11:02

the talented ellen ripley

2024-04-20 21:37:09

i just lost The Game

2024-04-18 14:57:38

🎵 oh no I’ve sed too much
I haven’t grepped enough 🎵

2024-04-18 02:42:52

Steganography is when you hide a message in a dinosaur

2024-04-16 12:19:24

gender binary implies the existence of gender plaintext

2024-04-15 17:30:07

PNG is pronounced with a hard G cause "Graphics"
ping-GUH

2024-04-15 15:01:31

:blobCat_huggies:
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2024-04-13 00:08:08

"Aziz, LIGHT!"
yes I'm watching 5th element for the 5 millionth time

2024-04-07 01:36:03

"gender is a spectrum" implies that complex gender profiles can be compressed using a discrete cosine transform to a close approximation transmitted with fewer bits

2024-04-02 16:16:16

NTSC carries a nominal visible picture area of 480 scan lines (240 per interlaced field), but 1970s-80s computers targeting it for display tended to use a smaller area for text/gfx because old TVs extended the picture *outside* the physically visible area to avoid borders, so things would get cropped.
The IBM PC's CGA used 200 scan lines; the Atari defaulted to 192 (but was capable of displaying the full 240 lines per field if you set up a display list with smaller borders!)

2024-04-01 13:45:14

👓 👧
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2024-03-29 18:08:17

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@npub1vu7…nmuv I remember just sitting with a hot cocoa and watching the hard drive defrag on cold winter nights

2024-03-29 18:06:14

if you don't defrag your own hard drive, how the HELL are you gonna defrag someone else's

2024-03-28 23:29:00

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@npub1y4h…t26u *squints* yeah i can see more differences in there too yeah. same issue with not supporting the extended palette seems relevant though

2024-03-28 16:07:31

Step 1) too early to get on the call
Step 2) kill some time
Step 3) late for call
Profit!

2024-03-27 18:01:46

yay, call i thought was today is tomorrow :D
:blobcatthankful:

2024-03-26 19:20:10

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@npub1e9f…usan [[special:awoo]]

2024-03-24 23:22:34

🎵 and if this frozen dinner world in which we live in
makes you give in and cry
bake chicken pot pie 🎵

2024-03-22 23:38:17

using my own damn software and grumbling at it

2024-03-16 14:47:21

"Pardon me, do you have a few minutes to talk about how cool cats are?"
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2024-03-16 13:45:33

defund the tone police

2024-03-11 19:16:06

I appreciate meetings for their role in keeping things organized but they are not my brain's native system :D
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2024-03-09 15:15:20

🎵 you can tell by the way i use my wok
i'm a fried rice shrimp, no time to talk 🎵

2024-03-06 17:08:50

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2024-02-29 23:22:12

see
see plus plus
see hashtag

2024-02-26 21:09:28

all these buttons saying "submit"
it's indoctrination i'm telling you

2024-02-25 21:06:51

In the old Julian calendar, the leap day was not February 29, but rather a *second February 24.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissextus

2024-02-25 12:35:32

USA social media: MySpace
USSR social media: OurSpace

2024-02-20 14:56:55

rage against the machine learning

2024-02-13 21:57:05

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@npub1y4h…t26u well congrats everyone, we finally found it: the software with a short name that's much, much more unfortunate than gnu image manipulation program

2024-02-13 17:53:53

✉️ 👽
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2024-02-06 23:43:40

are you the last of the mohicans or the last of the mohican'ts?

2024-02-04 17:49:52

Is an integer overflow 'thinking outside the box'? :blobcat_thinking_glare:

2024-01-30 14:36:16

can't believe they're still flying B-52s from the 1950s/60s and Boeing can't put out a 737 anymore without the door plugs coming off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress

2024-01-28 19:03:16

💅👖📱
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2024-01-22 14:58:59

i am once again asking you
to learn to use ffmpeg like a pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM

2024-01-21 23:27:07

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2024-01-10 19:47:22

Cory Doctorow implies the existence of Cory Hasamastersdegreeow

2024-01-08 21:13:38

🛫 🛬
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2024-01-06 13:57:17

Mister Poirot knows you must rest the little gray cells
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