yomna

(young dewey) man i hope one day i can have my own decimal system

Two panel comic where first panel shows someone saying "Kids these days and their weird fashion" while looking at someone in a large, frilly dress. Second panel is a closeup with the person wearing the dress saying "Bitches I am tech lead with 23 years of experience."

my favourite fact about this song is they wrote it without ever having been to west virginia

Woman smiling wearing a frilly pink and black dress with cherry blossom motifs, and beret with bows. Background is cute forest-themed home goods.

just another day being a 10x engineer

me: waiting for stdout
grep: waiting for stdin

me: when someone says "we're on a wild goose chase", do they mean we're chasing a wild goose, or rather that this goose chase is particularly wild? if it means chasing a wild goose, does that mean the goose is not domesticated, or that it's particularly unruly?

kidnappers: ...you're free to go

howdy greeting salutation, originally a dialectal contraction of a phrase inquiring after someone's health, by 1570s as howedye (where it is contrasted with good-bye); modern spelling by 18c. A contraction of how do ye? (1560s), Huet dest þou? (mid-14c.). The form how dee do is attested from 1680s.

tempted to respond with "Fine, thank you" whenever anyone says "howdy" to me

in addition to price and date listed, clothing websites should let you sort items by how weird they are

#pixelart #ドット絵

this is so funny

Part of what makes this so interesting is it's in a weird tuning and requires a spider capo to play, which is really, really uncommon!

YouTube video by pokoo Duvet - Classical Guitar Cover in "Weird" tuning (with Tab)

Really creative classical guitar cover of the Serial Experiments Lain opening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uY...

What news sites do people pay for? Currently I'm only directly supporting @404media.co, curious about folks' other choices.

The “World Wide Web” was a great name, in hindsight. I’ve been trapped here for decades.

OH: she's A/B testing the prophecy

The Accuratus Mouse Phone was an optical mouse that doubled as a Skype phone

USENIX Security '26 Enigma Track Call for Participation USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others to share and explore the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

The Usenix Security '26 Enigma call for presentations is now live!

I'm thrilled to be on the program committee and looking forward to all of the brilliant talk proposals you'll be sending our way. Details at the link.

www.usenix.org/conference/u...

今日のやつです。「ひよこのお宿」。ててん

no one has noticed the donkey playing guitar hidden in this

Ah I'd forgotten about this! I remember using this in Pidgin, which I'd also totally forgotten about.

Just realized I've been using Signal for 10 years now as my main messaging app 💖

E2EE apps felt so fringe until recently. Kind of can't believe it's been so long!

Blingee is gone from the Internet :(

When I was in college, my friend started a trend where we used to make over-the-top sparkly gifs with fairies that said "Gödel, Escher, Bach" and we'd all share them with each other.

someone built a Linux CPU scheduler that makes scheduling decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs

it actually works haha:

this made me laugh

the kind of evening where I wish I had a physical Korg Wavestation from the 1990s

Ah, here's one I recognize. I took a class with Alfred Menezes and he told us to avoid reading the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes" lol

I have a math degree, but outside of like ~3 courses I didn't have textbooks, just course notes the professors would provide, so I recognize almost none of these!

I feel like I've read more textbooks outside of college than during.

Open Syllabus: Galaxy The citation graph of the ~1M most-assigned books and articles (node2vec -> UMAP).

Just learned about the Open Syllabus map, where you can browse a visualization of the most frequently assigned college textbooks across college courses galaxy.opensyllabus.org