Pink

Chronically online hobbyist programmer.

[the-pink-hacker]

Welcome

You can call me Pink.

(They/Them) and very queer

DMs are open

Never mind flattery or flirting

Send whatever asks

I do a lot of programming stuff; I'm on GitHub.

Cohost! (RIP)

WAFRN (wafrn.thepinkhacker.com)

More info after break.

Featured Tags:

You can easily (wrong) find the following tags in my blog's search bar (no you can't because I suck at tagging):

.txt - Text posts

random reblog - Random stuff I find

the finite doctor - OC (I suck at working on OCs)

text doctor - Posts with a text doctor in them

meta - stuff about tumblr or this blog in general

gg2 rust - The GG2 Rust rewrite I'm working on

ti sans - Porting the Sans bossfight to the TI-84+ CE

Regulars

(I'm very slow to update this)

@the-arcade-doctor

@netherator

@hellotherediesel

@yourlocalnerd07

@bisexual-engineer-guy

@i-love-linux-and-reject-gender

@guttermanfan2

@rust-official

[evillordzog]

So last month you got Dex-Starr...

This month I give you perhaps my favouritest Star Trek comic.

[absurdcrow-deactivated20251107]

CURRENTLY SOBBING. OK SOO, RIPLEY IS GAY?!!

and lambert is actually trans?? 😭😭

[not-in-absentia-deactivated2023]

I had to check, it does also appear on screen

[necromanticalscience]

There's a better shot of it in Aliens, right at the start when they're listing the Nostromo crew memebrs!

Also I read that there are deleted scenes of Ripley and Lambert arguing and being more overtly in a relationship. Ever since I learned that it's been my favorite ship.

[gamebird]

Oh neat, I didn't know this!

(I'd heard the bit about the role being originally written for a man and they cast a woman, which explained many things.)

[brightlotusmoon]

[ancientson]

I know this is meant to be funny but it actually makes such a good point about how ADHD and executive dysfunction can impact people in really major ways, including financially

[penny-anna]

Fatigue after wisdom tooth extraction is such bullshit. Why are my legs tired. That's not where the tooth was.

[penny-anna]

#the rest of your bones know that one of them was taken

you jest but im having a hard time bcos my tooth had ankylosed and when i spoke to the dentist afterwards he was like 'we basically removed a piece of your jaw bone'

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

The entirety of Western Digital’s 2026 hard drive output is already sold to data centers and won’t have consumer stock until at least 2027

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.

WD makes more money selling drives to data centers that then lease you the storage as a subscription

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I don’t think there’s enough coordination and cooperation for this to be a ‘force people to rely on cloud storage’ conspiracy buuuut i do think all the players involved are smart enough to know that’s what’s going to happen and have no reason to stop it

Plus, with WD specifically, it’s 7 customers. Not 7 retailers, but 7 corporate consumers. Imagine being a company with close to a $100 billion market cap and for the next fiscal year you have to only deal with 7 clients. Why on earth would you prioritize consumer sales when you’ve got these dream clients beating down your door

[teratocybernetics]

'That's not going to last': Jeff Bezos believes AI will force you to rent your PC from the cloud, and the RAM crisis is accelerating it

Your next PC upgrade might be a subscription

idk it may have started as an accident but i wouldn't for a second believe they're not actively shooting for that now

[plotholes-and-spellingerrors]

I also try not the engage in "this has always been the plan" type thinking. But the second that SaaS proved to be profitable, the moment Adobe proved that you can hold software hostage for a monthly fee by changing the contract and license and people will stick with it because the switching costs are too high, this was the logical conclusion. I don't believe in a shadowy cabal sitting in smoky rooms planning out every detail of the economy half a century in advance, but I do believe in the rent-seeking pressures of the private ownership economy and in the willingness of those in power to just keep pushing a little more each year to see what they can get away with.

[hellenhighwater]

In the vet waiting room, watching YouTube for cats

[hellenhighwater]

We've been home for 45 minutes and Mayhem is simply not interested in coming out of her carrier.

I wish I could say she's on drugs.

[hellenhighwater]

She's been very well behaved, so it's time for her shows again.

[deaths-accountant]

Citations could be so awesome without copyright. Imagine just being able to click on a footnote and it takes you to the exact section of another book being quoted. Imagine how much that would do for stemming misinformation.

[lemonsweet]

I still won't forget when my wisdom tooth got infected and couldn't sleep bc the pain was so bad and I took like 4 of those those blue gel ibuprofens and I finally fell asleep for a couple hours and kept having dreams about beautiful glowing blue animals that help you and I kept waking up thinking the blue animals will help me and realizing wait what are blue animals they aren't real and immediately falling back asleep thinking about the blue animals again

[lemonsweet]

My blue animals

[treatsformeeko]

hi op. fanart of my blue animals

[theprofessional-amateur]

This sketch is incredible. Perfect moment to capture. 10/10 for the artist.

Link to post

Luigi Mangione's hearing delayed a day after DA failed to tell jail he's needed in court

A hearing in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after pr

[ambrosial-sunshine]

[serial777killers]

🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[jimxugle]

40.4004260, -79.8731200

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

[utafumi]

Relevant XKCD

[i-love-linux-and-i-am-back]

there is something about this picture of clinton and gore

[shitpeoplesayintf2]

i love when a fanbase gets so old that every joke has been done before and all that’s left is to create images that induce psychosis in the viewer

[voidpaws]

ok anyways. post this beast

[foxonrollerskates]

I HAVE THE OTHER PART TO THIS PHOTO

[dogtoks]

[higglety]

you're laughing. Those dogs were stuck on that large pile of snow until it melted into a tiny pile of snow and you're laughing

[cipheramnesia]

But what about my cat? Consider how cute and fluffy and large he is.

[cipheramnesia]

He had a tail but he's sitting on it.

[cipheramnesia]

I thought he was a grown cat when we got him, he looked like this:

[cipheramnesia]

Fully Loaded

[cipheramnesia]

For context the kitten shaped older picture of Loiosh was from when he was 12lb (5.4kg), and the adoption place claimed he was one year old. I know I look stupid in hindsight but a 12lb one year old cat is a completely average cat and I saw no reason to assume he was going to keep growing.

[cipheramnesia]

So I am just now realizing his face and fur have changed considerably from the pictures in the cat tree to now (a few years apart). Which means that I thought I had a finished cat, I was wrong. Then it looked like I had a finished cat for real, and I was wrong, and I got blown up in an explosion, so my cat is going through his formative years unbeknownst to me, mid fireball. And now, now I think perhaps this is a finished cat but I do not want to be blown up again to test this theory.

[sandersstudies]

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.