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@resuna@ohai.social · Feb 17, 2026

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"If you know what you're doing there's usually a way to optimize the rite and achieve the same results, the same mana release, using five drops of blood and a giant prawn or something."

SPOTTED THE REFERENCE

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@resuna@ohai.social · Feb 14, 2026

I have mild face blindness and since I first read Steve Mann's write-ups on his Wearcams I have wanted to be able to put people's pictures and names into smart glasses and have them help me recognize people I actually know.

I deeply hate how Meta and other companies that have been marketing related products have poisoned the well and nobody will dare produce this feature now.

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You can tell if someone is a computering supergenius if their solution to a difficult problem looks like nothing. Lisp is six functions. Forth is 200 bytes. Unix is just tiny programs and text files.

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@resuna@ohai.social · Feb 01, 2026

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The original web is just a hacked SMTP server sending SGML files.

Actually, it’s an enhanced version of ‘finger’ protocol. SMTP is much more complex.

The fact that the web is literally an extended finger explains so much.

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GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) is a core principle of basic computing science, yet we collectively fail to grasp its significance at scale when it comes to generative AI. Those who don't learn from his

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@resuna@ohai.social · Jan 24, 2026

@flargh@mastodon.social The problem with generative automation is that it's always garbage out no matter what you put in.

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@resuna@ohai.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social GPD made some really nice 7" to 8" palmtops, as did One Netbook, but they both seem to have pivoted hard towards handheld console PCs or AI laptops in th

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@resuna@ohai.social · Jan 10, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I have a GPD but it has thermal problems, so I'm reluctant to depend on it.

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SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION TIME: There are now only 30 days until publication of "The Regicide Report", the 14th (and final!) book in the Laundry Files. Preorders help enormously! British/EU edition: ht

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"The Regicide Report" contains 100% more Doctor Phibes fanfic than previous Laundry Files novels! (And the former Prince Andrew meets a gruesome end.)

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@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 28, 2025

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Doctor Phibes fanfic

Holy shit.

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I have no idea how many folks here have Apple Music, but here's my alleged favourites of the year as a playlist. It's a bit hit and miss (there's stuff absent and some stuff that's "where did THAT com

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@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 28, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Oh, you actually need a real "Apple Music" account. Never going to do that, I'm still in legacy iTunes-compatible mode and happy there.

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In my alternate universe we never stopped using Amiga and BeOS beat Windows and macOS. Also, the Smithereens were the biggest band from Jersey and no one has ever heard of Bon Jovi.

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@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 25, 2025

@flargh@mastodon.social This is the alternate universe in which AmigaOS had protected memory?

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@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 20, 2025

Every time I see someone writing “so-and-so was not phased by…” I want to hit them over the head with a complete multi-volume OED.

phased adjective [ usually before noun ]

A phased process is planned to happen in stages over a particular period of time.

fazed verb [ T; not continuous ]

past tense of faze (to surprise and worry someone).

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@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 18, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Tooth barnacles *and* isopods.

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I’m always amused when movies set in the present day have scene with a crowd of press photographers and use the whirring of 35mm film motor drives as a sound effect.

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It’s similar to the (until recently almost universally used) sound effect of a dial tone to indicate being hung up on. Except that real phones never actually worked like that. You’d just hear a click

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@resuna@ohai.social · Dec 07, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Geiger-counter sound effects for metal detectors.

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Next up on the CDC website: "The germ theory of disease is just a theory. There are no recent controlled studies to support sterilizing surgical instruments; this superstitious practice costs hospital

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@mattblaze@federate.social Scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of lycanthropy and vampirism either.

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@resuna@ohai.social Fact: 100% of documented human-werewolf cases in the last 40 years were vaccinated as children.

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@resuna@ohai.social · Nov 22, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Also the tragic were-diplodocus documented by Anthony Boucher.

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Next up on the CDC website: "The germ theory of disease is just a theory. There are no recent controlled studies to support sterilizing surgical instruments; this superstitious practice costs hospital

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@resuna@ohai.social · Nov 22, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of lycanthropy and vampirism either.

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