mallaidh (dork aspect) @mallaidh@witches.town

why do people not read my bio before following

issue ticket is here, if that's of interest
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6714

the "ugly media links" were the only thing that made media viewable in a reasonable manner in browsers not running javascript

thanks for that

of course it wasn't, because that just doesn't matter to them lol

so was the issue of viewing media toots without javascript ever resolved?

"Drivers are necessary for the rift to function, and certs are necessary for drivers to function."

to write a device driver, one must first write device driver cert code

interesting how troff just formats documents without spitting out incomprehensible errors

looking at you, latex

hrm, what should i do next for the animals zine?

wish i could bring my headphones around in my laptop bag more easily, just kinda bulky especially with the case. at least there are empty study offices i can use with my speakers on low.

"! End of file on the terminal... why?"

i feel like i just betrayed my computer's trust with that message

"Redox is an operating system. An operating system needs a C library."

and which law of computing states this?

urgh i don't wanna deal with printing tonight whatsoever

i kinda wish i knew how to write vim filetype plugins so i could get paragraph autoformatting to stop wrapping macros into the text, because they have to be at the start of the line. i could hack something with treating them as section headers but that would break [[ & ]] navigation...

gosh i love the adorable little polycule antics that show up on my tl sometimes

when you kinda wish your laptop had a 4:3 screen just so you could have moar stickers on the lid

when you turn down the clock speed for power savings and your glorified irc client starts freezing up as a result