mei

mei, 6 days ago to random

OH: so here's my first unhinged project... and here's my second unhinged project...

mei, 11 days ago to random

jailbreaking the robogirl and installing gdb to help it figure itself out

mei, 12 days ago to random

it's so cool how the Strasbourg public transit also services some nearby over-the-border places like Kehl or Rotterdam

mei, 13 days ago to random

mimi: "oh, this thing is labeled "spicy", i'm gonna try it"
also mimi: "hi, i can't handle spicy things, do you want to finish this"

silly goofster

mei, 21 days ago to random

omg i can finally learn what poly1305 is all about

mei, 1 month ago to random

fuck computers

mei, 1 month ago to random

i got pulled into sysadmining for a research project. as luck would have it, not even 4 days later, Contabo decided to perform maintenance on a Friday evening and fucked up the VPS in such a way that any disk write command immediately freezes the entire VM.

adding insult to injury, support is not even staffed on weekends 🙃

mei, 1 month ago to random

OH: i'm bisexual! i'm into the people who make cat noises and those who don't

mei, 1 month ago to random

tfw you meet a cute girl and decide to learn her native language

anyway

toki! mi sona lili e toki pona :3

mei, 2 months ago to random

I really like the concept of FPGAs but when I want to actually get into them I remember that all the vendor bullshit and toolchain bullshit and HDL language design bullshit and I'm just way too tired to actually get through that and get into that ecosystem properly

mei, 3 months ago to random

what is a group but a miserable pile of symmetries

mei, 3 months ago to random

mei, 3 months ago to random

i love it when my timetables are consistent, predictable and well-balanced. truly the best I've seen.

mei, 3 months ago to random

warning: if you let @domi into your house she will set up TCP/IP on your Amiga

mei, 3 months ago to random

there should be something like lwn.net except instead of LKML and kernel dev it's fedi drama

mei, 3 months ago to random

english: names everything ending with -berry
dutch: cool trick bro. names everything ending with -appel, including, of all things, fucking potatoes

mei, 3 months ago to random

@Vierkantor you know what? fuck you graduates you

RE: https://mastodon.vierkantor.com/users/Vierkantor/statuses/111851326936999021

mei, 4 months ago to random

when you use a computer long enough, random stuff just starts organically appearing in your files

this toot is dedicated to the directory ~/kebab on my laptop, dated June 2023.

mei, 4 months ago to random

besties what is a good computer toothpaste to buy

mei, 4 months ago to random

with the latest advances in miniature optics, the newest generation of Intel CPUs will employ oracles with crystal balls as part of the branch predictor mechanism.

we have obtained an engineering sample and will report on the benchmark results shortly

mei, 4 months ago to random

the ZFC construction of the natural numbers is fake. everybody knows that 7 ate 9, but if you believe those charlatans saying that 7 ∈ 9, you get that 9 ate 7. clearly, something is up

mei, 4 months ago to random

excuse me???

mei, 6 months ago to random

thinking about how the Commodore 1541 floppy drive had its own CPU which was as powerful as the C64, so you could literally offload computations onto the floppy drive

mei, 6 months ago to random

fun fact: all diodes can be light-emitting diodes if they just believe in themselves

mei, 8 months ago to random

a guy at the station had stopped me for directions. he spoke arabic, french, and perhaps some dutch. despite his best efforts, and despite me trying to use technology to help out as best as I can, he wasn't able to communicate where he wants to go

but in the middle of it all, he asked, "êtes-vous un homme ou une femme"

so i think i'm doing something right