Augusto Duarte 🥄 (tablespoon arc)

blurry and laggy uber nerd. 28 y/o.

Absolutely obsessed with display technologies, but I hyperfocus on other stuff too.

he/him. TRANS RIGHTS.

[Trav Guy 🏳️‍⚧️ @TheOtherTravGuy]

I hear "We're not aiming for the truck" and my fight or flight kicked in

[𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯 @heis_fede]

Endrick: “I’m scared of the alien invasion, I don’t want to play”

Ancelotti:

[mrshovelmin @idioticgamer262]

@tobyfox DELTARUNE RIGHT NOW

[Carlos Viana @carlosaviana]

O que aconteceu nesta madrugada é mais grave do que parece.

Milhões de brasileiros receberam um Alerta Extremo, o mais alto nível de notificação do sistema de emergência, destinado a situações de risco iminente à vida. No entanto, em vez de orientações à população, a mensagem continha apenas uma palavra: “misantropia”.

Não se trata de um simples erro de comunicação. Estamos falando de uma ferramenta oficial que interrompe o sono das pessoas e mobiliza a atenção de toda uma população justamente porque foi criada para alertar sobre tragédias, desastres e emergências reais.

A pergunta que precisa ser respondida é simples: como uma mensagem sem qualquer utilidade pública foi disparada por um sistema com alcance nacional e protocolos rigorosos de segurança?

A população tem o direito de saber quem autorizou o envio, como ocorreu a falha e quais medidas serão adotadas para garantir que esse sistema jamais seja utilizado de forma indevida.

Quando um alerta extremo perde credibilidade, o risco não é político. O risco é humano.

[The Kavernacle @TheKavernacle]

BREAKING: Starmer BANS PictoChat on Nintendo DS for under 16s ❎

[Augusto Duarte 🥄 (tablespoon arc) @Gutopperson]

@PurpleT3e_ Now i need a drawing of

GUESS WHO EMBARRASSED ME IN FRONT OF SUSIE TODAAAAY???

[Augusto Duarte 🥄 (tablespoon arc) @Gutopperson]

@yoshinokentarou @scratchyshirt Oh i agree completely, and I loved mvg's video. I'm confident the ports will progressively play closer and closer to the original. People are insane like that

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Recent algorithm changes on X may be unfairly hammering Brave users. And there's a larger issue here about bad interactions between robots and privacy measures.

@nikitabier @brave

My friend Jay Maynard, who some of you may know as Tron Guy, just got permabanned off X for "inauthentic behavior". His appeal was swiftly denied.

Jay is not a spammer, scammer or engagement farmer; he is, in fact, exactly the kind of good citizen X says it wants. Jay asked Gemini for analysis, and now thinks he knows what happened.

Brave, as a privacy measure, randomly changes the identity presented to sites in order to avoid tracking by the ad vampires. Gemini suggested that some code at X interpreted this as spammy behavior using multiple browsers. If so - and this does seem plausible - everybody trying to protect their privacy with Brave is at risk.

This is a general problem, not just an X glitch or a Brave issue. Social media sites are increasingly relying for security on forms of heuristic AI that are prone to unacceptably high false-positive rates.

More specifically, platforms are increasingly treating a user's refusal to be tracked, fingerprinted, and categorized as a hostile act. When a site makes it impossible to connect via a privacy-focused user agent without getting flagged as a malicious bot, it stops being "security" and effectively becomes a retaliatory lockout for protecting oneself.

Worse yet, such system architecture provides no circuit breaker - humans are only rarely and exceptionally asked review for errors. Jay's appeal denial came back so fast that it was obvious no meat-brain ever saw it. He has filed complaints within the Minnesota Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau, because what else can he do? The robots have locked him out.

Badly designed robots and zeal to squeeze human oversight out of the system forces regular citizens to rely on state law enforcement or consumer protection bureaus.

Allow me to gently suggest to the people running X that unless you want politicians poking their noses into your business and imposing constraints on you that you are not going to like, you need to fix your security and appeal processes so running to the law isn't necessary.

[🌹lore cartomante | AGENDA JULHO @soleil_mystic]

acabei de pagar uma fortuna por uma nutricionista > ela gerou um cardápio no Gemini na minha frente > imprimiu e me entregou

[Rick Brewster @rickbrewPDN]

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉

Paint​.NET is now at https://t.co/ZJTUII4bVG!

Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

[zenshidev @zenshidev]

how it started vs how its going XD
another one in the bag

[devCansado @devcansado404]

2 horas de call pq os dev de front exigiram graphql
motivo: buscar os 27 estados do brasil num form de cadastro
bicho a lista de uf n muda desde 1988
bota a porra de um json hardcoded no client e segue o baile
agente perde mto tempo discutindo o vazio existencial da web

[NEO 🌼 @neorouxls]

@tobyfox POSSIBILITIES:
1. Toby composed music for the movie
2. Toby has a voice cameo in the movie
3. There's some sort of UTDR character referenced in the movie
4. He's taking the piss out of friend inside me for funnies

[Joeveno // AVIÃOZINHO DO TRÁFICO NA STEAM @JoevenoYT]

People love this image, it never gets fucking old lmao
the sequel

[FLONCHCORE @flonchcore]

I don’t go anywhere without it

[owen.sol @owen_venter]

Programming used to put me into FLOW state often. That’s a big part of why I fell in love with it. Late night missions building games, apps, whatever, it felt great.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has a great quote on this:

“The best moments in our lives… occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult or worthwhile.”

AI has kind of nuked the personal challenge part of that. I don’t fall into those same FLOW states nearly as often anymore. It’s a strange position to be in because I’m undeniably more productive, but some of the joy is gone. I still love building software, but now the enjoyment comes more from seeing products come to life and have real-world impact than from the actual process of writing the code.

I’ll miss the deep flow states that came from fighting code for hours into the night, but I feel like I do need to find new areas that still offer that same sense of challenge.