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winkElda King
wink shared a note by Elda King Aug 16, 2025

As humans get older, their hair slowly loses pigmentation, becoming grey and then finally white.

This behavior is shared by common printers, which suggests it evolved before the last common ancestors of humans and printers diverged. However, humans do not possess replaceable pigment cartridges, indicating this trait evolved after the split. In this paper I will...

winkSimon Tatham
wink shared a note by Simon Tatham Aug 14, 2025

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!

winkLady Laura :bongoCat:
wink shared a note by Lady Laura :bongoCat: Aug 11, 2025

Little known fact: Before the crowbar was invented.
Crows simply drank at home.

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I moved a couple things to codeberg a while ago and I really liked what I saw but I'm kinda expecting a mass exodus from github will not mean good things. Hate to be pessimistic, and I wish them all the best, but I'm low key looking for alternatives now - not that I think my meager repos would make any difference (except maybe 1GB in storage)

winkSteve
wink shared a note by Steve Aug 4, 2025

Ra-Ra-Rasputin
Lover of the Russian Queen
This is a haiku

winkDaveography 🇨🇦 :magpie:

Inside every QA tester there are:

- Two wolves
- One wolf
- Zero wolves
- 0.5 wolves
- 2,147,483,648 wolves
- -2 wolves
- Beer wolves
- Two coyotes
- 🐺🐺
- Два волка
- '); DROP TABLE WOLVES;--
- <script>alert('Awooooo')</script>

winkNiko
wink shared a note by Niko Jun 10, 2025

-funsafe-math-optimizations
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︀︀fun AND safe math optimizations? sign me up!

winkTom :damnified:

Seit ein paar Tagen ärgert mich, dass mein S3 Media Storage für metalhead.club deutlich mehr belegt ist, als es zunächst den Anschein erweckt.

Ich habe auch mal eine Dateigrößenanalyse laufen lassen. Das Ergebnis: Der Overhead durch das Dateisystem ist für viele kleine Dateien zwar sehr heftig, erklärt aber dennoch nicht die Diskrepanz zwischen dem, was mir Mastodon erzählt und dem, was mir das Dateisystem als Speicherbelegung angibt.

In meinem neuen Blogpost habe ich einmal alles aufgeschrieben, was ich bisher herausfinden konnte:

thomas-leister.de/mastodon-s3-

Ratlos bin ich trotzdem. Vllt kennt sich ja jemand von euch mit Storage aus?

#mastodon #3 #minio

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wink shared a note by Kestral Jun 8, 2025
A screenshot from a 1968 Burger King advert that says "the burgers are bigger at Burger King" in orange text on a black background.

Me: "I wonder what inspired the look of the 'safe to turn off your computer' screen in Windows 95."

Burger King in 1968:

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Anyone have good pointers to getting started with Packet radio on VHF/UHF? Things I should not learn the hard way? #HamRadio #AmateurRadio My plan is to start off with Direwolf as a TNC on 2m locally. Nearest node is just maybe within range if I am lucky.