abadidea

the hex is silent

professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song, will decipher ancient writing systems for free

English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文：我是宝宝

Amsterdam

pronouns: she/her

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2024-09-06 11:19:30

you ever suspect that the IT team you're dealing with is being judged solely on absolute numbers of tickets closed without factoring in work to prevent tickets needing to be opened in the first place

2024-09-03 06:05:20

there’s a template engine for making pokemon-style games on itch.io, which I bookmarked in case I ever get, well, the itch. This morning I dreamed that it was on sale. I checked, and it is in fact on sale. That makes it a prophecy. If you have been thinking “maybe I should make a pokemon-like game,” the gods have spoken https://yanako-rpgs.itch.io/monmae

2024-09-02 16:37:20

Camille Saint-Saëns (the danse macabre guy) wrote a piece called Carnival of the Animals which is a series of short songs imitating different species such as lions, elephants and swans. Tucked in the middle is one called "pianists." It's just rapidly ascending and descending scales.
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2024-08-31 12:38:04

what the translation says: the pale glow of a gray dawn
what the original Chinese says: the sky was fish guts white.

2024-08-31 10:23:26

every time Odin meets a smaller dog
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2024-08-31 08:09:40

I took this photo myself and even I think it looks like Odin has been shopped into this picture at 2x scale
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-08-30 05:13:07

I had a dream that programmers said something was “all wangled and wuffed” when they finally got it configured and running properly.

2024-08-29 06:56:34

Odin had a tennis ball in his mouth when I asked him to pose for this photo. He dropped it while sitting and it bounced clean through the balcony railing. F
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-08-28 10:46:08

My employer got acquired by a slightly bigger employer. They sent us new laptops. The instructions say to remember to export your PGP private key from your old computer and import it on the new one. With a USB stick, presumably, since any other method would be unhinged.
Every USB stick in this lab is supposed to be encrypted with the PGP key of its owner. The one that needs to be imported before Windows can mount it.
I went around begging until someone slipped me an unencrypted USB stick. It’s named “CONTRABAND.” 😂

2024-08-28 06:29:01

There’s only a few Starbucks in the Netherlands, and the workers there keep complimenting me on my innate American ability to rattle off all the information they need to punch in the order

2024-08-27 13:25:26

I looked up where the name of Gelderland (a province in NL) came from, expecting it to have something to do with "geld" money - but it's named after the city of Geldern, and THEIR explanation - the actual reason they wrote down - is that it's the sound a dragon makes when you kill it.

2024-08-26 13:37:13

a very funny thing Odin does is that he's very well-behaved about not taking food that he hasn't been offered, but he will sit as close to it as he thinks he can get away with and just repeatedly lick at the empty air to catch as many stray molecules as he can

2024-08-26 12:01:57

I took this picture of Odin and my husband insisted I must post it in this specific way.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-08-25 12:36:29

Where is Odin? I only see this enormous ghost
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-08-25 11:34:24

reposting an old hit: a typewriter (yes, they specifically listed it under typewriters and not under the separate home PC section) from a 1991 Christmas catalog... that runs Tetris.
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2024-08-24 12:01:13

The insects are attempting to glean the secret of language
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2024-08-23 19:12:57

listen up y'all: in 20 years, we're all going to insist Windows 9 was real and we all remember using it. Tell the youths the isos must be out there somewhere

2024-08-21 06:20:47

How trash collection works in Amsterdam:
The dumpsters are completely underground except for an access chute. They have a big handle on top, and the garbage truck has a crane that attaches to the handle and lifts the entire dumpster over the truck; the bottom falls open to dump. It’s controlled by a wireless joystick held by the driver.
There’s separate glass and cardboard dumpsters, and completely free bulk trash pickup once a week. In the US I had to make a special trip to town hall and stand in a line to buy a sticker if I wanted to throw out a chair or something, here you just leave it by the dumpster on your designated day of the week. (There’s a cottage industry of salvagers who swing by to see if there’s anything worth saving)
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2024-08-19 15:49:48

we took Odin to the vet because he's been limping occasionally since his last trip to the park where he chased another dog a little too hard. diagnosed with non-mortal ouchie, given pain killers, sentenced to No Fun for a few weeks
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2024-08-19 06:25:11

today on Very Large Dog: Odin tried to scratch an itch against the sofa and succeeded only in shifting the sofa so far he fell over

2024-06-17 20:27:55

Odin with the last dog in the neighborhood still a little bigger than him (taken in broad daylight at 10 pm)
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-06-14 14:14:52

The ramen that Denmark outlawed for being too spicy was on 2-for-1 sale at the local Korean store here in NL (I suspect they're worried it will be banned in the whole EU soon). I bought some and tried it; I finished the bowl and did not die. I am officially no longer the whitest person on earth. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/denmark-recalls-south-korean-firms-instant-noodles-for-being-too-spicy-samyang-foods-buldak

2024-06-14 08:44:42

struggling to learn the lyrics of Rossini's opera piece "comic duet for two cats"
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2024-06-13 13:26:37

yes, hello gentlemen. I have summoned you all here because you share a unique property: you manually label files you've uploaded as "pdf" in the search indexes, but then when one clicks through to download, it's a mobi. Please, gentlemen, I have a surprise for you in the basement

2024-06-12 08:01:58

Rare lore: Bach’s incredibly famous and popular Toccata and Fugue exists today because a single teenage boy, Johannes Ringk, made a handwritten personal copy — either from Bach’s original or from the personal copy of his teacher, who knew Bach. He kept that copy safe, it was eventually published, and it’s now one of the most important public domain cultural inheritances we have.
https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/ce3f94c4-8215-4130-a757-b218c1310379

2024-06-06 15:53:22

if you have a github integration that just started crashing, it's because the comment IDs have surpassed signed 32-bit range.
[twitter citation](https://x.com/davidtolnay/status/1798483916015436158 )

2024-06-06 11:48:03

did you know? you can write literally anything, they can’t stop you.
#calligraphy
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2024-06-04 10:53:58

as a wildly popular video game for young children that was bought by Microsoft for a billion dollars to be their flagship entertainment option, Minecraft ought to have the singly most polished installation experience on earth. And yet I just went through an absolute hell of get strange errors, manually run as administrator, get different strange errors, manually install Java which it never mentioned I'd need to do as a separate step, and finally only be able to launch in offline mode because of nonspecific SSL errors trying to contact the mothership to verify my license (my system clock is correct according to Microsoft's own time server)
PS. if you @ me about Linux I will block you into the sun ffs.

2024-06-01 07:15:40

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the tragic irony is that surely just measuring “probability likes cars”, “probability likes clothes” and such directly would result in better outcomes for the advertisements

2024-06-01 06:35:09

This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink.
Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women
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2024-05-31 08:26:41

honestly I appreciate that ali express is like "hey before you pay you should know: 1) there is a site-wide sale starting in 13 hours 2) the prices for the sale have already been locked in, so here's exactly what the price difference will be if you wait"

2024-05-27 11:13:33

I am a 36 year old woman with no children associated with my reluctantly-existing Microsoft account and my laptop just popped up a window claiming I need to log in so I can ask my mother for permission to use my own computer
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2024-05-24 18:28:45

So Neuralink has an open technical challenge – which is fine – but what they want is comically absurd (1:200 lossless compression of a signal that looks like TV static, that runs very quickly, on an extremely low power chip) and they don't even promise any sort of specific reward for a working solution that only needs to break physics, disregard information theory, and summon six unicorns https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

2024-05-20 18:58:47

I wish I could do that thing Link does where he spreads his arms a bit and the person he’s talking to instantly receives a complete lore dump of the situation

2024-05-19 10:01:45

Safety tip for visiting the Netherlands: is the sidewalk more red than gray? You’re actually standing on a bike path. There’s usually a gray path parallel to it for walking. Bikes can come up very quickly and quietly.
If a road for cars is red all the way across, that means cars and bikes are expected to share it as equals. If you are driving a car, slow down on red pavement and pay extra attention for bikes.
Edit: if you have difficulty judging colors, note that the walking path will always be outermost, closest to houses and trees; next comes bike paths and then roads for cars are innermost
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2024-05-17 09:22:08

a package from bol (Dutch local amazon-like) went missing in the postal system. bol sent me an email asking whether or not I received the package. I clicked "did not receive." the link was a 404

2024-05-12 14:46:03

boy who was very surprised to learn canals do not have a shallow end
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-05-12 09:07:21

a poem by Odin, age four months
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2024-05-02 20:07:29

protip: drawing a hilariously bad artwork in MS Paint with a mouse is a much stronger quality signal that you care about the blog post than attaching an obvious AI generation

2024-05-01 05:44:04

Everything is Android. If it needs a bit more oomph than a one dollar microcontroller, it’s Android. Gadget that does graphics, sound, and internet? 1000% Android, every time. And it really strikes me as quite absurd to make what amounts to a second phone to run one app your phone clearly could also run, and it would have a better user experience at that https://mastodon.social/@verge/112363005615470761

2024-04-28 16:40:48

company branding departments that did not understand the assignment: palantir, soylent, reply guy https://503junk.house/@rose/112349387538932488

2024-04-27 07:03:12

2 months / 4 months
Odin is a Newfoundlander and this is turning into a bit of a Clifford situation
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-04-26 18:59:59

1500 years ago, some Chinese scholar wrote down "those losers and their fake-ass highway" as the translation of a foreign term for delivery guys in an official document
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2024-04-26 07:02:39

Walkable city success story: was in my bedroom at 8:50 when I suddenly remembered I have a dentist appointment at 9:00. Checked in at 9:01

2024-04-24 17:20:56

I was chasing Odin around saying “what do you have in your mouth, what do you have in your mouth?!” as he tried to steal his prize away from me. My husband said “I can help you” … and quickly typed “benny hill” into youtube and clicked the first result

2024-04-24 07:57:49

there’s a woman in the next building who likes to throw bird seed out the window, an event that is attended by a dozen small birds and one huge fuck-off heron. The heron has internalized the belief that all women are endless fountains of bird seed and stalks all of us around the neighborhood
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2024-04-23 17:37:07

if pannenkoek and hbomberguy teamed up, we'd get a 17 hour video that begins with "how do we define a doorknob?" and ends with a grand unification of ethics and physics
[my husband contributed to this joke. he is over here ranting that I own the posting means of production]

2024-04-23 14:56:27

are you studying hard? doodle in your notes. doodle absolutely anything that comes to mind. put stickers in your notes. put silly commentary in your notes. it forms associations in your memory and causes each page to look distinct, forming a navigable geography.
(this doodle is in reference to the song Doom Crossing: Eternal Horizons) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U4lz8MN6MQA&pp=ygUVaXNhYmVsbGUgcmlwIGFuZCB0ZWFy
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2024-04-23 10:06:46

I want to explain the scene in the Chinese time travel novel for children I’m reading:
Little girl: hey so I know you can’t hear this cricket talk, but I can. He says he’s a Ming Dynasty cricket. A clumsy imperial eunuch dropped his cage and he fell into the wormhole that is apparently here in the Forbidden City.
Older boy: … you made that up
Older girl: no, no, where would a first grader learn the word ‘eunuch’? The cricket told her, there is no other possible explanation.

2024-04-23 08:06:24

a bit of a less happy pupdate: Odin’s ongoing tummy troubles have been diagnosed as a rather serious parasite, but he’s big enough and we caught it early enough that he should be okay after nuking his gut biome with three concurrent medications and repeatedly sanitizing his blankets, toys, etc. Most of the time he is cheerful and is only intermittently experiencing pain and distress. His mother and father are experiencing quite a lot of distress as this has involved several hours of scrubbing floors and counting
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2024-04-22 11:16:47

As a lifelong ten year old girl, I need y’all to know that I found these markers with patterned rollerballs on Ali Express
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2024-04-21 19:40:21

My husband has two monitors: one for balatro and one for a twitch stream of someone else playing balatro

2024-04-20 17:01:34

**Odin pupdate!**
He learned to climb and hence to crime. He has been having tummy troubles the last few days, please send him your strength
Odin is a 15 week old Newfoundlander.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-04-16 18:05:53

my ISP has begun intercepting all the good sites for obtaining academic PDFs, which is annoying, but the scold page you get if you accept the bad HTTPS certificate seems to sincerely believe that every single download site is The Pirate Bay specifically, which is hilarious

2024-04-16 05:33:46

I live about a mile from a major international airport runway and as the planes come down directly over my house I think about how on every one of them are people making a trip so routine they won’t remember it in a month and people who are on the most important journey of their lives

2024-04-15 11:27:44

this past Saturday night, a Dutch train conductor was punched and knocked down the stairs by a rowdy passenger, and so this coming Saturday night, they’re gonna throw the brakes on the entire national train system for a few minutes to give everyone an earful about respect and safety. I’m bringing this up because I feel like no American institution would do that because one of their employees got decked by a customer.

2024-04-13 17:12:09

**Odin pupdate!**
Odin is a 14 weeks old newfoundlander
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2024-04-13 11:41:16

Odin: mother, making me walk FIVE MINUTES to the end of the street we live on is a CRIME AGAINST DOGNITY. I shall register my protest by making this as obscenely difficult as possible and dragging this out to twen— IS THAT THE PARK?!
Me: yes, it’s the park, the same place we’re going every time I drag you this way
Odin: I LOVE THE PARK
Me: 😑

2024-03-30 17:38:27

well this backdoor is fucking awful to untangle and computers are a nightmare labyrinth of deceit but at least delivery pizza is always exactly what it should be
[I open the box, it's clearly been delivered by Spiderman during a minigame]

2024-03-29 21:26:50

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so after blearily reading a bunch of blog posts immediately before bed I have come to the conclusion that only one month between the commits and Andres Freund sending what I hope is the most dramatic mailing list post of their career is actually a pretty good turnaround, this could have easily festered much longer

2024-03-29 21:13:47

so it seems that while I was playing with a puppy in a field of daisies, some fucker broke computing

2024-03-23 14:51:57

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I told my husband that posting this could literally take down the instance and he is insisting I post it
#dogsofmastodon #dogs
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2024-03-23 14:32:45

#
Odin pupdatehe is currently 11 weeks old
#dogsofmastodon #dogs
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2023-08-29 21:08:16

3000 years ago, a king found a cool rock and engraved it with a picture of himself handing it to his young daughter with the caption “I gave this cool rock to my beloved daughter, Bar-Uli” https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1919-0712-635
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