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tef, to random
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you know how the futurama theme is just a reworking of 'Psyche Rock' by Pierre Henry

today i learned the ending theme to ren and stimpy is 'heavily inspired' by howlin' wolf's 'killing floor'

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today is probably the only day you'll see a screenshot of meta's threads on other social networks

by the end of the week, threads will be full of screenshots from social networks where people talk to each other, rather than engage with brands, and you'll never think about it again

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facebook's threads, a competitor to iFunny, 9gag, ebaumsworld, and imgur, launched today

it's basically everything you hate about instagram with nothing you like, assuming there's anything left of insta to actually like

there's one firehose "for you" page which, judging by instagram's efforts, will soon have eighteen copies of the same tiktok video on every page

an absolute dog shit app for terminal cases of linked in brain

tef,
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@glyph it is a very polished "what if we made instagram for text but also you only had the explore tab"

tef, to random
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the fake blink 182 song "my dumb stepdad's drowning in a submarine" as been all over tiktok and now the band's made a full version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzbdPAGkA2s

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Sometimes people ask: “Why can’t we just replace async/.await with green threads?”

I’m trying to find a good way to answer it. But roughly I think that kind of like how it doesn’t make much sense to try and replace callbacks with threads, it doesn’t make sense to try and replace Rust futures with green threads. They’re different things with optimized for different tasks with different performance profiles.

tef,
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@yosh the answer is "it's harder to embed a language with green threads, but it's relatively easy to embed one with async/await"

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in "post your drafts" news, i compulsively wrote up some tech shit again

this time it's me whining "that's not restful. nothing is restful. i'm sorry the thesis is awful" https://cohost.org/tef/post/1794038-special-interest-inf

tef,
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@glyph nah it's more that old arguments are rattling around in my head and i'm writing posts to excise my daemons

tef, to random
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today a website crashed and as a result, the webpage i was on suddenly went blank, because of a failed API call in the background

all while i was editing a post, incredible

tef, to random
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i have a four step plan for dealing with spam on twitter

  1. fire all the support team
  2. turn off any redundant capacity
  3. turn off the api for almost everyone to force spammers to screen scrape
  4. turn off the website because of screen scrapers
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Nobody is this bad at what they do. Twitter has to be a tax write-off. Has to be.

tef,
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@ben on the contrary, this is genuinely pretty normal

the thing is, usually tech companies are run into the ground before they're successful, rather than after

tef, to random
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unsure, may have just seen a bat

tef,
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@bitprophet it was 3am, and it did not make bird noises

but then again the birds are waking up now

tef, to random
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google's pretty useless while reddit is in lockdown huh

tef, to random
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i think my blandest and yet most contentious computer opinion is that PUT, PATCH, DELETE are part of WebDav, rather than being part of HTTP

tef,
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@glyph this comes up when someone is fitting an api into a http shaped hole, and it's like "are you exposing a filesystem" no "so why are you doing it that way" it's the right way

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nerd posting about restful again i'm sorry https://cohost.org/tef/post/1601060-restful-is-antimemet

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Tonight's Four Tet gig was like Yayoi Kusama got into electronica and let you touch the light balls

tef,
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@jonty Led Balls

gsuberland, to random
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It's time!

tef,
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@gsuberland kat and I are asking the same goddam thing

tef,
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@gsuberland kat thinks it's "right where it belongs"

tef,
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@gsuberland oh the mel from mel and sue

tef, to random
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fixed the front door lock today, even got to take out my little toolbox of screwdrivers

cementing my position amongst my neighbours as a big old nerd, excellent

tef, to random
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looking forward to being in the pub in a few years and reminiscing about the sound of 56k modems and watching as the kids think i'm having a stroke

tef, to random
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real weird that nerds think "people pick social software by features" over "they go where their friends are"

tef,
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"but i picked the features!!!" i know, nerd

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