gregorein

☧ | senior swe, solo dev building Flör is Lava | tinkering small llms for @AileenTheAI | unfiltered and honest

[gregorein @Gregorein]

You thought it was Diana...
but it was me, D-I-0336-7!!

KONO DIANA DAAAAA!!!

#PRAGMATA #プラグマタ

[gregorein @Gregorein]

i was playing Pragmata and had the dumbest funniest drawing idea for a meme… then Krita decided to have a full meltdown with mutter/qt. i’m so done debugging, my bag is packed and i'm disappearing into the mountains for a week to meditate instead. argh.

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> „It’s not a bubble!”
- Soap inc.

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fun fact: to make the "you wouldn't steal a..." anti-piracy ad, the studio used a pirated font XBAND Rought, a bootleg copy of FF Confidential.

the OG font designer found out years later and thought it was hilarious.

but yeah, stealing is against the law.

[vaxry @vaxryy]

I am ripping some old dvds so that I can make a home jellyfin server and not lose them as the dvds naturally degrade

this is what's playing in my head lmao

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@CryptoCyberia @SilasOnLinux Poland’s it is 99% an outsourcing hell, fml

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@CryptoCyberia a friendly reminder that garry tan hates audits

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@bee_fumo > confusing and opaque board behaviour
> "GNOME is Antifa"

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@GinpingPooh @Rev_says_desu God’s rainbow has 7 colours. Pride is a cardinal sin.

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@CryptoCyberia oh yesss, even more stupid reactions to a calculator

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@bee_fumo shh, that's a proper senior swe behaviour, don't reveal our secrets

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@CryptoCyberia *points to the sign*

(sign shows time-to-vscode)

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@USB_tan c*vid tourists

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@USB_tan that's normie tourist tho, not otaku...

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@peach2k2 Warzone indeed lmao

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@FreeArchivist @real_hotaru tbh, the average age of homebuyers froze in place, which makes it more properly dire

[Eira @eiranoirx]

Electron hate is one of the most confidently wrong opinions in tech. People say it like they've cracked something open. "Discord is just a website." "VS Code is Chrome with a titlebar." Yeah, and your kitchen knife is just shaped metal. The framing tells you nothing about whether the thing is actually good.
Writing a real cross-platform native app is brutally hard, and not because the logic is complicated. Every platform has different UI conventions, different system APIs, different accessibility models, different font rendering, different input handling. Write a macOS app in Swift and it looks great on macOS and doesn't exist anywhere else. Want Windows? WinUI, WPF, take your pick, each with its own learning curve and its own special set of things that don't quite work right. Linux? Qt or GTK, both of which produce apps that feel slightly wrong on every platform they target, and you're maintaining all of this in parallel, same features across three codebases, three bug trackers, three build pipelines, three sets of platform-specific nonsense to debug Or use Electron with just oneOne codebase.
"Electron uses too much RAM." VS Code idles around 150-300MB on a typical project. Sounds bad until you check what else is open. Chrome with four tabs is using 800MB. Your JetBrains IDE, fully native, compiled to the JVM, is sitting at 1.2GB before you've opened a single file. The native Slack alternative someone built in Qt uses 90MB, sure, but it also hasn't shipped a new feature in two years and the emoji picker breaks on HiDPI and nobody is fixing it. Memory is cheap. The RAM argument is almost always made by people who don't look at what their "good" native apps are actually consuming.
Chromium is good. It is one of the most tested, most optimized pieces of software running on consumer hardware right now. The rendering is fast. V8 is fast. The security model has sandboxed processes and site isolation baked in, which is more than most native apps bother with. Embedding it in a desktop framework is not a betrayal of some pure native ideal. It's using a genuinely good piece of engineering for a job it's good at.
The app is not slop because it runs on Chromium. The app is slop if the team who built it didn't care. Those are different things. Maybe stop confusing them.

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@kabrutusdeid

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@HomerPavlos small correction - they *do* understand Homer, that's why they hate him. They know what he represents and what he could instill in young hears looking for role model, for a path once trodden.

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@treetopians You can’t do swamp without monster-sized plant-traps. And bouncepads. It’s a must

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to your right to protest..

The FBI just invented a new domestic extremism category called "anti-tech violent extremism" - and it doesn't exist in any public document.

WIRED got 1000+ leaked pages proving they're already using it to track AI critics and data center protesters.

What the leak exposed:

- Photographing a data center is now officially "suspicious behavior" in Virginia
- Fusion centers are surveilling town halls where residents complain about water
- 61% of Americans believe AI will destroy more jobs than it creates
- Even Marjorie Taylor Greene snapped: "how dare the peasants complain"

They built a new extremist category for you before they told you it exists.

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@LunarVesperaww Congrats on successful passing and even more successful cheating 🤣

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i couldn't watch the whole stream beacuse of pure horror i felt.

i'm worried about neuro going up in flames if vedal was not ragebaiting... come on... it's just big lego

[安坂星海 Azaka || VTuber @AzakaSekai_]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT' KNOW WHICH SIDE IS THE STICKER SIDE HUH