fontconfig 2.18 is broken and looking at the commit log makes me want to throw up

i was right to start my own replacement but i’m gonna need stims for it to get anywhere

some X11-era games like serious sam 2 will not properly handle their keyboard input so once the process terminates whatever window gets focus will receive the whole string of wwwwwwwssssddddddssssdddwwwwwwaaaaaaasss keypresses

i don’t know how that works at the protocol level but i’m glad x11 is basically dead now and i won’t end up spamming random IRC channels with that again

starlabs.sg/blog/2026/06-old-wine-in-a-new-bottle-a-decade-old-lxd-group-root-re-armed/ absolute joke of a distro

there’s an impostor among them

https://shrimptest.0x0.st/files/c0c7a95d-ed39-4f49-bde6-13adb5b282cf.webm

shame we can’t see how colorful crows are because they’re outside the human-visible spectrum

very polite birb

clang still can’t do trig at compile time. in this example, GCC will just inline everything and turn it into a constant on all optimization levels, and it also generates more efficient code than clang when compile-time evaluation is prevented

fortune asking the tough questions (i believe the answer is yes)

pigeon

honestly who needs GPU-accelerated GUI
low-effort SIMD optimization with only generic compiler built-ins and no arch-specific intrinsics already makes a 12yo low-power laptop CPU render floating-point math heavy 1080p graphics faster than some of those fancy new toolkits can manage on GPU