Yeah, you can get them from Ipkea, but note that it’s only available as flatpak from them.

I literally got Signal because my sister told me to get on it. That’s the only contact I have on Signal.

When the Recent Fascist Takeover happened, an American friend asked me for app opinions - I told him Signal was great, aside of the fact that the desktop app keeps getting updated every femtosecond. …we’re still talking over Discord, sad to say.

Signal keeps suggesting I add a contact for my old boss. (Who was a cool guy, but not cool enough to keep in contact with years afterwards.) Actually, when I had an internship a few years afterwards, the new boss’s preferred app was Telegram, so, uh, a red flag? …Yeah, didn’t get that job.

There’s two variants of Debian: Debian, and “damn, this distro is not as flexible as I’d like, I guess I should have just installed Debian in the first place”.

EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go “well, looks like you’re not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you’re doing.” And again. And again.

Historical tangent: Electronic Arts was originally supposed to be named “Electronic Artists” (as a play on United Artists, the film company). The whole reason the company was founded was because Atari and Activision made game designers anonymous cogs in the machine. EA was like “we’ll actually pay solid compensations and we’ll actually put your name on the cover, how’s that sound?” But, of course, the founders noticed that they weren’t the artists in question, the game designers were, so they changed it.

Whenever I order stuff at McDonald’s, it’s been over a femtosecond since my last visit, so the app has logged itself out. So I always need to sit down and re-login. With mandatory 2 factor authentication. No TOTP, of course, it sends the code to email.

Welcome to McDonald’s. Papers please.

Name 3 UML diagrams

Class diagram, use case diagram and… What was the useless, barely readable evolution of flowcharts called again? Activity diagram?

and 3 architectures!

MOS 6502, amd64, and… I’ve never figured out the ARM naming scheme. AAAAAAarch64 or something?

Not long ago, I needed to quickly add a 4-line thing to my Ruby on Rails app on my Raspberry Pi. I was like, shit, I really can’t be arsed to mount the RPi over Samba to edit this stuff on VSCode on my Windows laptop to add like 4 lines. I don’t have vim, I can’t be arsed to check which vimlike I have at hand, I can’t be arsed to see if my Emacs setup has been customised for this RPi. So fuck it, Nano it is!

Oh lord my code is actively helping making AI worse.

I checked out, it has some of my repositories. They crawled this stuff in 2025 and they probably won’t update it. Whoever uses this dataset will have to deal with some super garbage, I tell ya.

I’m unemployed, I’m incredibly snarky at the recruitment posts. (This literally hasn’t changed in decades.) Right now I’m like “oh, they want Python programmers…? Good, I’m one. For web scraping tasks…? Okay that’s bullshit. Wait, this is an AI job post? The MBAs, drunk with their Vibe Coding power, thought they could feed the Machine, but lo, they were mistaken!!! For web scraping was a Dark Art.”

GNOME folks are like “well, before GNOME was even a thing, we had this application called The Gimp, and we kinda wish we didn’t call it that, so please don’t name your apps for laughs OK?”

The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.

(PRO TIP: dolphin is the KDE file manager, dolphin-emu is what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)

Well, there’s a reason why I shut down my Windows laptop at least 30 minutes before I have to actually leave somewhere.

My biggest annoyance isn’t even Windows as such, but random applications that have auto-updaters that run when the app is closed. “Okay, time to go now.” “NO! I must update this app!! Do not stop this update or hideously evil data corruption will happen!!!” …there’s no excuse for this stuff. Just do it when starting the application.

Our local Pride Week is in August. It’s weird, but it may have something to do with corporate shenanigans if you catch my drift.

Most of my microblogging stuff has been just shouting in the void about stuff I’ve been doing. And random brainfarts. I follow cool people on social media so I can see them shout in the void about what they’re doing. And their random brainfarts.

I’m happy Mastodon still lets me do just that. Perfect platform for that sort of stuff.

The Algo Lords decided people don’t actually want to see that, they want “popular” things and engagement bait. Yeah no, not what I want.

I don’t care how “open source” the printer claims to be. Both hardware and software belong to Belzebub. Such was the dark pact printer makers signed in blood decades ago, and all land shall obey by those words. We shall hit the print button and wallow in torment forever.

You’re saying an actual human called that thing both “pen & ink” and a “typewrite”?

It’s Ben Garrison! Dude can’t get an erection unless he labels every single goddamn thing. While being barely coherent. He’s been doing this for ages!

3D printing working, safe-to-handle and durable guns is a pretty complicated technical problem. Don’t need to be a genius to figure out that making 100% plastic guns is asking for trouble. Tiny explosion = big plastic cracky.

Meanwhile, any monkey can bash together pieces of scrap metal and produce a durable gun that way. And that was a thing long, long before 3D printers existed.

I wouldn’t say it was borrowed

Reminds me of a disclaimer in a public domain software package: “No warranty expressed or implied. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.”

I just use K3B to rip audio CDs. In particularly tricky places, I use cdparanoia and the FLAC encoder on command line. MusicBrainz Picard to fix the metadata. ffmpeg on command line to convert the FLAC albums to MP3 or other formats.