Brion Vibber @brion@mastodon.technology

KITTEHS

In the 80s computers weren’t snitches — if they detected an illegal operation they just looked the other way

Now they take a crash dump and send it automatically to The Man

LOOKIT HIM FACE

i really want a clippy plug-in that's like

"it looks like you're replying on a toxic web forum. would you like to delete and go do anything else instead?"

Might see if I can throw together a quick WebM video encoder. Current Android provides not only the codecs, but demuxing and muxing so it should be trivial to squeeze an MP4 video from the photo library into a VP9+Opus WebM.

Not today though. That's for the weekend.

Apparently I can just distribute something for internal testing, don't have to publish immediately, but ... the deadline is October 13. ;)

Hm, maybe I should publish an Android app.

Google Marketplace is whinging that my account is inactive and they're threatening to close it.

Poirot in particular is *really good* at letting me know he wants to play.

First, he swerves underfoot to slow my motion, directing me toward where he left one of the toys which he's dragged somewhere. Sometimes he then drags the handle end straight to me.

By this time I've figured out he wants to play 'stalk the feathery thing on the end of the teaser wand', but *coffee comes first* even if there's a cat in front of every step I take.

Coffee time for daddy, *then* he'll play. 😉

the kittens are about 6 months old now! i don't know their exact birthday but it's early april (they're from the same litter; they all got brought into the shelter together, and a third litter-mate was adopted separately)

we've had them for nearly 2 months of that, and they've definitely grown visibly and are heavier :D

gotta take them in soon for another vet appointment for a couple of final vax shots, but they seem healthy overall. sleep sometimes, play other times, eat when possible ;)

brain's not been good lately so i'm taking a no-guilt chill day today

Got Fedora updated to 35 beta... and it looks like it still forces the NVidia driver to X11 only. awesome.

ok now i think i have a fedora beta update too? shall i? shall i? :D

An article suggests re-running the installation assistant as administrator, and if that doesn't work, upgrading from the .iso

"Something went wrong", error code 0x8007007f

beware: treacherous computing! (ooooooo spooky!)

enabling fTPM in BIOS

Looks like TPM 2.0 is off on my main PC. Hopefully I can just switch it on in the BIOS. :)

is it just me or is windows 11 just another half-yearly update of windows 10 with a new theme?

not complaining, that's just fine

just.... it doesn't actually do anything to "go to 11" imho

I don't like that I'm going to be frequently allocating 4-byte heap objects (including the 2-byte header with type byte + GC mark and object size). heap fragmentation's gonna be a problem in this project