Nevkontakte
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Lawful neutral. Definitely not a cat in a hat. Opinions are of Cthulhu. what/why.
Nevkontakte shared 6 hours ago
After enough years in software, you learn that LGTM doesn't actually stand for "Looks Good To Me".
Only the pros know its real meaning:
"Looked. Got tired. Merged."
Nevkontakte shared 6 hours agoGitHub Copilot got 25x more expensive over night.
I just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of low-effort PRs suddenly cried out and were silenced.
Maintainers worldwide breathe a sigh of relief. Businesses are about to wake up to some very interesting invoices.
I wish YouTube supported word banlist for suggested videos. "Reacts to" would go straight on that.
Yes, there are a few informative videos where someone knowledgeable does an actual analysis of the thing, and shares useful information that isn't readily apparent in the original.
But the vast majority is just "ooooh" and "woooow" and "this is nuts" and rehashing the obvious.
It irritates me to no end that a lot of folks seem to believe that since we have the AI, only velocity matters, and all the engineering principles of abstraction, encapsulation, access control and good architecture can go out the window. Because AI can bridge the gap or something.
Yes, AI is a powerful tool. No, it won't be fine if you ignore all lessons computer science has learned in the last 70 or so years.
Nevkontakte shared 22 days ago
Nevkontakte shared 23 days ago
If you were curious about how much websites can gleam about you, check this out:
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
Edit: glean, not gleam
Nevkontakte shared 28 days ago
Dear politicians,
your push for surveillance is wrong! Not just morally, but also from a strategic perspective. In a geopolitical environment shaped by digital warfare, the data you collect on citizens will become a threat. Adversaries will try to weaponize those data, and sooner or later, they will succeed.
A transparent society is vulnerable to all sorts of malicious influence.
Privacy supports resilience! Data you don't have cannot be used by or against anyone!
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#privacy #DataProtection
Nevkontakte shared a month ago
Tired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.
I think I've reached the point in my career where "pivot" has become a swear word for me 
Nevkontakte shared a month ago
🌟 Project Release Announcement Time! 🎉
I wrote a WebUSB extension for Firefox.
This lets web pages access USB devices (with your permission). This has long been supported by Chrome, but Mozilla has not wanted it, at least by default. Fortunately, because add-ons are a thing (for now. make sure to keep fighting for this!), it's possible to change that!
Common reasons for wanting this include programming microcontrollers, 3d-printers, smartphone bootloaders, and similar "physical computing" projects.
This works on Windows, Linux, and macOS
You can get the source code here: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
In order to make this work, you will need to install a small program on your computer. This is explained in the README. You can then install the .xpi file (on the GitHub Releases page) into your browser (which was _just_ auto-approved while I was typing this announcement up).
Please boost (if you want), test, report bugs, etc. etc. (although do keep in mind that this code is entirely written by a single catgirl)
i think this is the perfect type of project to drop late on a sunday / very early on a monday?
Me: update and shutdown. Windows 10: restarting…
So here's a funny thing. Maybe 4 or 5 years ago someone told me that using capitalized sentences with punctuation conveys angry/annoyed emotion. To which I laughed and said that you don't need to be angry to appreciate proper grammar.
Now, 5 years later chat messages with a period at the end feel angry to me 
hello.
Nevkontakte shared a month ago
1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conversation on the subject because the trillion-dollar bet’s fear+greed pressure crowds out truth.
4. When the bubble pops, the shitty people will melt away. Then we can maybe figure it out.
5. We so *SO* need that bubble to pop. Next week would be ideal.
Nevkontakte shared 2 months ago
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116217029716302392
Can LLMs think is a hard question not because we don’t know how LLMs work. But because we don’t know how “think” works
Nevkontakte shared 2 months ago
Picard management tip: "That's the way it's always been" is never an adequate reason to continue doing something.
Nevkontakte shared 2 months ago
Removing physical buttons from hardware was one of the worst product design decisions in history and everyone involved should be publicly shamed.
Nevkontakte shared 3 months ago
Video Game Archive Myrient to Shut Down on March 31
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/27/video-game-archive-myrient-to-shut-down-on-march-31/
Nevkontakte shared 3 months ago
I will not verify my identity or age for any online service, other than clicking on an "I am over 18" button, ever. I will simply stop using the service, if it is required.
I encourage you to do the same. It's not "for the children". It's to harvest even more information from you so corporations can try to squeeze even more money out of you and to be able to track you and everything you do.
Nevkontakte shared 3 months ago
Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
Sometimes I feel like we are already living out Roko's Balisisk's retribution. That would explain a lot of what's going on.