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Hello! This is the sideblog of @serinemolecule, which you should follow for my posts that I spend more effort on. This blog, in contrast, is for lower-effort chatter, technical (mostly programming) posts, and things like that.
"in my history of china, I actually renamed all the historical figures to have english sounding names since I didn't want to exoticize the region"
I honestly think this kind of localization should be more common. I'm literally Chinese and I still have trouble tracking Chinese names if I'm just reading the toneless pinyin. You really benefit from knowing the actual characters and meaning.
I'm normally very a "let people enjoy things" kind of person, but I make an exception for flags. I think a lot of people who defend bad flags are wrong, actually.
(On my mind because of the ACX article mention.)
I think these guys are wrong actually.
Probably the first article I read on why vexillology matters opened by talking about the Amsterdam flag. It's simple and recognizable and it's used everywhere in Amsterdam.
I was thinking about that when I saw these designs for ICE whistles in Minnesota.
It's one of the flags that tweet criticized! And yet, can you imagine a seal on blue in one of these? I've been seeing so many things with the Minnesota flag design since it got redesigned. Sure, part of that's just because it's new. But a lot of that is that it's simple and straightforward and fits on a lot of things, while the old flag never did.
Even the California flag everyone argues is so great even though it breaks all the rules, how often do you actually see it on anything but a literal flag?
The thing I'm trying to get at, here, is that the people who defend bad flags, they're not actually using those bad flags as designs on other things, either.
I actually think it's a good thing Minnesota got a new flag before the ICE thing, it really gave us a good symbol to rally behind.
Hacker News is bickering about the resurgence of TUIs, saying "it's just because people want to feel like l33t h4X0rs but don't want to actually give up a GUI". And I think that's definitely true and a big part of the comeback, but I also think it's fine? Software should make you happy to use it, if a TUI does that while being functional and full-featured, who cares? We're not here to keep out poseurs.
(The accessibility and performance concerns are real, but I think those can be fixed with framework support)
There's also the thing where TUIs tend to be keyboard accessible, and put a lot of thought into efficient keyboard use. GUIs frequently don't put much thought into keyboard accessibility, if they put any at all.
Unfortunately, also trending is that TUIs tend not to be very screenreader-accessible.
Hey, remember when I said that string types should just be binary buffers?
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
There's some vulns in Rust coreutils because Rust's string type isn't just binary buffers. Here is the thing I said five years ago (with the cause of the vuln bolded for your convenience):
Is it, though??? What’s your plan, to convert it to “error” placeholder characters? To raise an error? Are either of these a good default? Make it as hard as possible to handle a combination of text data and binary data? Lose everything the moment an attacker sneaks some invalid Unicode somewhere? It maybe useful to validate UTF-8 but is it useful to give programmers no choice over whether or not you validate, every time you want to treat a buffer as a string? Especially if you’re supposedly a high performance language, Rust.
I feel so vindicated.
To be clear, I do see value in having a validated string type. But I think all string APIs (and most APIs accepting strings) should also work on binary buffers, instead of how most languages do it which is to have much worse support for manipulating binary buffers than strings.
I am a huge Valve fanboy but let's not white knight them too hard okay
(Also, the Playstation thing is real, but the supposed line from Sony is that it's a bug. No policy change has taken place, but an unused feature is being surfaced and they're working on a fix)
It's not like Steam is any better. If I google it, I see a lot of people say you have to relogin every few weeks for offline mode to work.
Steam games can generally be played in Offline Mode for roughly 2-3 weeks (14-21 days) before requiring an online check-in to refresh cached credentials. While some users report longer periods, 2-3 weeks is the standard expectation. Some third-party DRM games may require earlier re-authentication.
today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.
reblog this post to help a child break the law
Since I think this might be unclear, a child can bypass an age gate by lying about their age on any Linux distro. The special thing about Ageless Linux is that it doesn't ask in the first place, purely as an act of defiance against the law, not to do anything useful for any individual child.
Okay, so, I understand how it must seem, especially since the tags on most reblogs of that post are very political, but I swear I was not trying to advocate for tearing down mall parking lots and I was just trying to be informative.
I considered adding the #politics tag myself, and I didn't because I was like "this is a useful fact presented in a funny way, which is my usual Tumblr brand, and while I have personal politics informed by those facts, I'm not telling anyone else to take any of the many possible sides, so I'm safe" and that was maybe dumb of me.
On the other hand, a lot of the commenters who live near that mall, or near other places like it, are calling for the dismantling of that car-centric infrastructure. And while I wasn't necessarily intending for it to be interpreted that way, I really do empathize with that.
I lived in the area as a kid, after all; that's one of the reasons I chose that mall in particular; I've seen that parking lot a million times. I lived in that area back before I could drive, so I know very well what that area is like on foot, how getting anywhere in the Minneapolis suburbs is like when it is illegal for you to drive.
I think Tumblr especially is full of autistic people, who frequently hate driving or simply cannot drive for one reason or another. They're especially impacted by this sort of car-centric infrastructure. Maybe that's another reason my post struck a nerve.
I guess my personal politics are focused on "let's make cities more walkable; you suburban voters please understand I am not advocating for any changes to your own neighborhoods". But my heart does go out to those people stuck in the suburbs (be they kids still living with their parents, or people who can't drive for other reasons), who would still suffer from the kind of compromise policies I want.
I think it's a little misleading to compare a mall parking lot with a city block to show the impact of car-centrism. American malls are typically out in the middle of nowhere, where the land is cheap, so building a huge parking lot around them is basically free. The actual cost of the car centrism is on the other side, in the city center, when the people who live there need to store their cars somewhere.
But people in Tokyo do pay that cost! They have fewer cars, 0.3 per household, as compared to 1 per household in America and the rest of Japan, but they still have them. U.S. cities devote 22% of the area to car parking. If you cut the number of cars to a third and built housing on the freed space, that would raise the density by a factor of 1.17, which doesn't sound amazing. I think the bigger problem is that Americans just hate density in general, like if you look just next to the mall the buildings are like this:
The driveways for parking don't help, but they are hardly the biggest drag on density.
Conversely, I think a big reason Tokyo neighborhoods look so nice and walkable is that they don't provide street parking (forcing people to put their cars in garages instead), so the streets are really narrow and cozy. The U.S. could also do that! Or I guess we can't now, we're locked into our own insane system, but if we could go back in time that would have been a really good idea.
I think you're misinterpreting my point. I think a lot of Americans have grown up in America, and have heard some urbanist anti-car talking points, but have never really had a visceral sense of exactly what the alternative is, of exactly how walkable a walkable neighborhood is.
I chose a mall parking lot because it's a funny example of a distance drivers clearly consider walkable. I'm not anti-mall-parking-lot (not without caveats, at least).
When I wrote it, my friend in the room with me commented that it made her even more anti-car than she already was, because she didn't realize just how walkable Tokyo was. That was really what convinced me it was a useful post to make.
My original post is tagged "vagueblogging" because it's a response to a thread where many people seemed afraid that anti-car infrastructure would be too much walking, so I thought a worked example would help establish exactly how much walking it is.
A lot of people don't realize just how much space car infrastructure takes up. So I've decided to provide everyone a visual aid!
I've presented two maps at the exact same zoom level, as indicated by the big red arrow. They also each have a red area circled, of approximately the same area.
In the first image, I've circled one of eightish parking lots at a US mall. A normal amount of distance for even Americans who drive everywhere to walk through.
In the second image, I've circled:
a subway station
a park
like twenty apartment buildings
like twenty restaurants
three convenience stores (which, being Japanese, can also handle banking, copying/printing, and a variety of governmental paperwork)
one grocery store (another two right outside the circle)
seven medical clinics, two pharmacies
a fire station
a post office
two preschools and three cram schools
a Shintō shrine
a Buddhist temple
multiple parking lots
This wasn't even a particularly cherry-picked part of Tokyo! I just picked the area around my house.
there is a unit for sale in each of the park tower kachidoki south building, and the point of france condominiums building which is right across the street from the shopping mall pictured.
the apartment in the point of france condos is 289,900 USD for 1165 sq ft, or ~$249 per square foot.
the apartment in park tower kachidoki is 368,000,000 JPY (2,312,436 USD) for 94.95 sq m (1022 sq ft), or ~$2263 per square foot.
this is not "what we could have without car-centric infrastructure" this is "the relative density between the outskirts of minneapolis and the tokyo bay where land costs 9x as much"
I want you to know that you found the most expensive apartment in the most expensive apartment tower in the screenshot. Which, valid, the most expensive apartment tower is the only one big enough to have its label visible, and the most expensive apartment is the only one available because it's in very high demand. But I did say there were like twenty apartment buildings in the circle. Here's one for $1.2K/mo which is quite low by US standards. Most parts of Tokyo are quite affordable by locals, and still quite walkable. There's a reason everyone wants to move there despite the prices.
But I mean it's true that you have to live with smaller apartments if you want to live in more walkable parts of cities. That is a tradeoff you have to make and I think it's valid to prefer rural houses which are larger and cheaper and navigated by car (although I think that Japan does this better, too, by having those areas still be relatively walkable and transitable, and having significantly smaller cars). I mostly just wanted to make the point about exactly how walkable an area could be if you just legalized mixed-use density.
I personally really enjoy social betting, for trivial to moderate stakes, but have no interest in what people generally think of as gambling. but I guess this is one of those places where I am simply kind of abnormal about it. if you want to bet the lunch bill on some stupid shit I'm in, but I have zero interest in casino games or sports betting with strangers
anyway I haven't dug into the evidence enough to form a solid opinion, but I am coming around on maybe gambling does need more significant controls. think it probably falls into the same bracket as e.g. marijuana for me, where I think you should be allowed to do it, basically as much as you want, but it should be regulated on the supply side such that it's basically illegal to make too much money supplying it, albeit gambling is probably somewhat worse than weed
I have a problem where I also like social betting but I'm a rat so whenever I offer to bet someone they think I'm accusing them of being poorly calibrated.
reblog this and tag with a food you no longer have access to (closed restaurant, state you moved away from, ex’s mom’s cooking, etc) that will haunt you until your dying day, mine are the spicy chicken sandwich on the employee menu at the fine dining restaurant I was a prep cook at, and the onion bagel from the kosher place down the street from my house when I lived in the city
The brunch from Café Obel on C. W. Obel's Plads in Aalborg.
I left in 2006 and never went back. The 2010 google street view picture already showed a new restaurant at the location.
Pasta Freska, a tiny italian restaurant in Westlake in Seattle. It had no menu, and when you sat down, the owner would come out and ask you what you liked. "Do you like eggplant?" "No" "Well, you're gonna like my eggplant!" and he was right. It was also only like $30, so it wasn't fancy restaurant prix fixe prices or anything.
The other one was Marinepolis Sushi Land, also in Seattle. Once they put a whole fish head on the conveyor belt and it was the best whole fish head I've ever had. We don't even have any conveyor belt sushi places in Seattle anymore, you gotta go way out to Bellevue for them now. :(
incredibly funny seeing people complain that a game about breeding cats turned out to have eugenics in it
Wait, are we talking about Mewgenics, the game whose name is literally a pun on "eugenics"? People are surprised it has eugenics in it?
In January 2017, Pornhub announced that "Overwatch" was the 11th-most searched term on their website in the previous year, beating out searches for words such as "anal" and "threesome".
holy shit. I'd be bragging about that, no matter how crap my game was.
Yeah sure your game is neat, but is it more popular than anal porn? I think not!
#that one fuckin gearbox game could never
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1r03xer/this_is_a_hill_worth_dying_on_overwatch_actor/
This is definitely a thing to read after reading some complaints a few days ago about how every woman in Overwatch has the same face.
Let me tell you, the first time I heard "communism works great in theory but not in practice" was from my mom, and, like, she grew up through the Cultural Revolution. She fought to go to the first university that was allowed to reopen. She was telling me about the fucking famines she lived through. Is that enough studying actual socialist projects for you?
i think everyone should use yyyy-mm-dd
Good for companies, but for everyday use, you want the least significant figure first and assume the rest is identical to the current date
You can do that without putting it first, you know. Like yyyy-mm-dd is the standard in Japan/China and I assure you we're still capable of saying the equivalent of "the 23rd" or "January 23rd".
As no one else has mentioned, this is AI.
Take, for example, this vent that's stuffed into the crown molding and ceiling:
Or this map that features nonexistent world geography:
Or, say, the "plastic" feel of it all.
If I had to guess, the person who generated this used "backrooms" in their prompt.
So why would a realtor bother to generate an ai picture of this space for this home, I looked at the entire home and it was old and outdated so it’s ai ??? The fuck. I’ll give you the realtors phone number and address to go see this home so you can figure this shit out. I’m so baffled why everyone has to nit pick every god damn thing.
this is a picture that is fucking full to bursting with very straight lines converging on a consistent perspective point, this is one of the least AI images ever
I assume the joke is that it is not AI, making fun of people who have never seen the real world and think every weird detail is evidence of hallucination rather than, you know, the world having a lot of weird shit.
The "nonexistent geography" is recognizably North America... It's either a weird projection, or just very distorted by the photo's perspective. And it's got some crap -- probably a legend, or logo, or inset -- in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. But it's very clearly a map of North America.
Yeah, it's really obviously a map of the US once you correct for the perspective. I think this person was confused bg thinking the teal parts are water.
The vent is also just a common way home builders half-ass these things in the US.
Edit: @vesperlf found the exact map it probably is. And yeah this is a near-exact match.
