notably, alpine with kde running under wayland and firefox running under MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 is able to display 2160p60 video from youtube without dropping frames. not bad for a PC that is designed to go into a factory.

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well, as amusing as watching an industrial pc try to run windows 11 was, it now has alpine on it

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surprisingly, the industrial pc can actually output 2160p, but no HDR.

There is a startup in the bay area that offers a service to change someone's accent.

sanas.ai/

And of course the example is of someone speaking Indian English having their accent changed to General American English.

Pretty sure this is racist af.

congrats to the kubernetes 1.25 release team on their release happening today

upon finding out that 1'000'000 is valid C now I endorse C23 wholeheartedly

to be clear i never had anything against it but i like this

.@plausocks took it apart earlier. surprisingly, it has a socketed skylake core i5!

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which means i am going to play with this industrial PC i bought for $93 instead

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well, in theory, i'm most of the way done with having the next step in the big thing i am doing in $dayjob done, but we had some bugs in a microservice, so i have to wait for another build to complete

only 1.5 years after ordering it on kickstarter, the scientifically accurate covid-19 plushie i ordered finally arrived

"Ariadne, why do you name all of your servers after plague deities?"

"I work in tech, haven't you noticed? Why are you even asking this?"

I try to be positive and post positive things (and cat pics), but when a company is constantly publishing FUD about a free software project I helped to start, I am going to address it, every time.

sexual assault, C++ 

Technical writing sure feels different to read when you know the author has bent over backwards to not merely protect a rapist, but elevate him to a position of more power.

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BLÅHAJ shitpost/meme, stupid, ANTIBLA 

I am ready to be ex-communicated from the trans community for my sins. ANTIBLA!

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