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Zik is my pet project - a photos manager that is as fast as possible and as small as possible. It leaves sparks as it goes (lol jk)

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i like things being as fast as possible. link?

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Unfortunately no. Just starting it. Got the proof of concept loading a dir with its sub-dirs then rendering on the GPU in textures silky smooth. 1.7mb executable, but will need to level up to SDL and that will double the size I think.

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Ah, then it isn't , it is . :-P

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I agree. It is for now. Will do better next time, but in my defence the text above the text box (when writing a new message, not a reply) says “What’s on your mind”. :-P

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Economist Lant Pritchett describes shifts in ideas as silly, controversial, progressive, then obvious. Also: "Radio has no future. X-rays are clearly a hoax. The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." - Lord Kelvin ". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

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work has been dreadful recently. spending so much time on processes and in meetings :(

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The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...

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They will become more frequent before they become “dangerous”, giving us time to mitigate. Of course if someone says “hey let’s connect an agent to our biolab infrastructure” and then that designs a lethal virus it would be a stupid plan to begin with. Noone can stop them though.

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I think a trusted piece of software such as your operating system should be in charge of managing permissions. For example, I believe with Wayland on gnome you no longer need to promise you aren't secretly taking screenshots of the whole monitor and shipping it somewhere because to do that Wayland requires you to get user permission.

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I was thinking along the same line, but then if it is not a gated system - there’s always ways for software to sidestep these - just going down to a lower level. The other issue I have is if the system or software asks or notifies all the time - for every tiny user action!

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I have tiktok and instagram on this phone and both of them have no notification permissions. I'd rather miss all notifications for these apps than be bothered unnecessarily. it can wait until I open the app 🤣 yes, it should be gated in the sense studying locally needs to be root, not in the sense that the apple app store or Google play store reviewers need to review each update.

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- Is there a way to get an atom version of the “for-you” feed? I’m guessing this is complicated by needing to be authenticated.

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Exactly, it makes it way more complicated that's why it's not there yet. Not against the idea though.

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Found out about plain text accounting recently, and set up a journal. It was a bit tricky to understand at first, but I think I am getting better at it... will see if it helps me to analyze my monthly spendings...

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The machine I use textlog on didn't have a functioning display due to the xlibre drama. It's over and I'm back now!

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Was not aware that there had been any xlibre drama. What's the story there?

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Xlibre had some bad releases that broke people's displays, Artix maintainers went back to Xorg as the default, xlibre maintainers got mad. It's all kind of sad, one of the Artix maintainers quit over being stalked and harassed.

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Drama indeed. It's all X.org here as there's no reason not to for me. Anyway, glad you have your display back.

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WeakNotes 2026-09-27

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HelloWorld show code

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
formatted_time = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
print("Formatted:", formatted_time)

Wow

Formatted: 2026-08-28 07:22:42

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My 3yr old woke up at 5am this morning crying - not terribly uncommon - and when I went in there to check on her she just said "daddy's here" without looking at me and went back to sleep

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My 3yo woke up at midnight fully believing that I was about to walk out the door and go to work.

created a poll:

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Yes29%

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Potato29%

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I very much like textlog, it feels like a breath of fresh air

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this

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feel the same!

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tysm! welcome!

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Looks like I am user #482

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It is evident that the use of AI in the workplace has had an immense impact on the awareness and mental capabilities of knowledge workers

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crush-tui: A lightning fast, terminal-first dating app written in rust. supports custom themes!

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This is actually a hilarious idea

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i thought of it more as satire :D but anything goes

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Searched, found some ai agent. Crush-tui is a must but how to bring girls there?

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make random cards and place them everywhere!!!! or it can be le lgbtq

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besides a few nerdy girls, thats not happening :D this is either gonna be grindr for devs or you gotta build a tui for an existing app.

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අද පොහොය දවස. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හැම මාසයකම පුන් සඳ පායන දවස පොදු නිවාඩු දිනයක්. වෙසක් පොහොය (මැයි මස) ලෝකයටම නිවාඩු දිනයක්.

Today is Poya Day. The full moon day of every month in Sri Lanka is a public holiday. Vesak Poya (May) is a holiday for the whole world.

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Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you.

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Had a solid UKG banger slip in while cooling down post-run earlier this morning.

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Day length formula: (Did you know that it becomes a triangle wave at the (ant)arctic circle?)

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