I'm glad April Fools Day is over so I can trust everything I read on the internet today
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Andy Price
@andyprice@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Senior software engineer, gfs2 file system at Red Hat, serial hobbyist, cat parent, gardener, casual gamer, humanist. Views are my own.
Once gave a talk showing that crochet is programming.
Inventor of the word "filey-go-round" 💾
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Hearing sounds that suggest my neighbour has left a cardboard box outside and my cat has found it...
Why do tech journalists never describe email as confusing to new users because they have to choose a server?
Sometimes I feel like the people around me just don't appreciate it when I externalise the song lyrics that pop into my head while they're talking
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Say what you like about Thomas Edison, at least he was smart enough not to rename his power company to Direct Current Mains.
Email clients that strip the > characters from the replied-to lines in the whole conversation. What evil is this.
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@major@social.lol Nice, I was just looking yesterday for a good way to set the PATH that bemenu uses too.
I really enjoyed this sort-of-text-based puzzle-mystery game. It's a good one to play if you like a good detective story.
"Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)" was released 32 years ago.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I wonder if they standardised it from implementations that decided to use -1 for "nanoseconds unsupported" or something like that.
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@tccoxon@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm genuinely curious about what use case would require a reverse-Proton.
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@tccoxon@mastodon.gamedev.place Ah I see. I guess it would be a headache to build the engine under Wine/Proton. If a Linux build of the engine can output game builds for Windows that might be a solution but I suppose you'd still need to test that the game works on Windows. Tricky one.