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Dan Sugalski
@Dan Sugalski

Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.

Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg.

One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)

Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https://socel.net/@heyheymomo

Currently not in France. Dammit.

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Artemis · 3w
"You can feed 4 people on $300 a month. In this video, I will show you how to make a thin rice gruel..." (The first sentence is really from a real person. The second is what I assume came next)
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@nprofile1q... I saw Farming While Beige rip into one of these and as someone who has had to live on a painfully tight budget it was very satisfying. What these dim-fluencers love to ignore is the value of time — if I had the time to cook in the way you need to to live on $300 in groceries for a month I’d have the time to work another shift or theee and have a bigger food budget.
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€1.8T in four years exfiltrated from the EU, all for single-use sludge. This is why renewables are such a long term win -- replace that with wind, solar, and batteries (likely for less than €1.8T) *and then you never have to spend that money in the future*. You can do a lot with that money you didn't spend.

Which is why, I expect, all the petrostates and fossil fuel companies are so against renewables, it means cutting off their guaranteed subscription payments.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/22/clean-break-eu-can-build-nearly-twice-as-many-wind-turbines-and-evs-as-it-needs-each-year/
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Here's @nprofile1q... bringing some serious truth.

I will point out this bit from the start of the thread: "Picture being the first person to step out onto a dance floor at a party. Scary, right? It feels a lot easier to be the second, even better to be the third or fourth"

This is where folks with comfort/privilege should exercise that comfort/privilege. There's no meaningful downside to being the first, so do that thing. You're safe, so leverage that safety for good.

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116755374133880007
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I know some folks are upset that Elon has co-opted the word "grok" for his pervy and gross libertarian/fascistic chat monstrosity. Totally understandable given the word is taken from a... pervy and kind of gross book written by a libertarian/fascistic author. Definitely unfair and wrong.
Baldur Bjarnason · 5w
This is such a long-standing issue that I had a long argument about this with one of the original RMSDK devs on Twitter fifteen years ago. They kept trying to convince me that the spec-violating beh...
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@nprofile1q... You know it's got to be a nightmare piece of code when a hardware vendor goes to the trouble of writing a second parallel program to do the exact same thing and ships both of them on a resource-constrained device.

I am both annoyed Kobo did this, but also at this point mostly just happy I now know how to bypass the damn thing and use a real renderer (which is probably still getting bug fixes) instead.
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Baldur Bjarnason · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqt5922r5qgg5w3vcr94uf3kahcm43c77tc3t0u3utklq0dvgau2nq9ja8rk The reason for this specific mess, ultimately, is DRM. RMSDK was only used because publishers demanded DRM and now vendors can't fully remove it because they have users, clients, and par...