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one of the dangers of having a spice rack is that spices smell very nice and you might sometimes go to it and just open one of the jars… and it’ll smell nice… and you’ll get hungry and want to cook something with that spice.

very dangerous… look out for yourself!!

if you’re following me and just want to get notified when there’s a new touchHLE release, you can join https://discord.gg/z9AFDURTFa and you’ll be @‘ed for new versions. (no, you can’t send messages in that server, sorry.)

hello fellow swedes, it’s tax declaration season

it may interest you to know that you don’t pay tax if you sold second-hand goods online… at least, within a fairly generous allowance and if you’re not doing it in a businesslike way: https://www.skatteverket.se/privat/skatter/arbeteochinkomst/inkomster/kopforsaljningochspelpainternet/forsaljning.4.7b610ded10741da92fa8000834.html (IANAL etc)

always funny to see right-wing online swedes using the word “liberal” as an insult. they’re either not swedish, consume too much american content, too ignorant of politics, or some combination of all of those, if they somehow don’t know that that’s not a synonym of left-wing here

LIGHTS IN VIDEO GAMES ARE NOT REAL BUT DARKNESS IS

listening to some MIDI files on my keyboard

@qyliss https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243068

“Steamed Hams but it was banned in the USSR” is, of course, yet another play on that goddamn Simpsons sketch, but… it’s so high-effort, so lovingly crafted, so well-executed, it’s… transcendent.

please watch it.

https://youtu.be/yVmw3ZhdzEs

Rust tooling improvement suggestion: warn about uses of #[cfg(…)] and cfg!(…) in build scripts (build.rs files). they’re usually incorrect (testing the platform the build script is being run on, not the platform the build script is trying to build for)

I’m convinced that AI as we know it (machine learning systems, LLMs etc) isn’t conscious in the way that humans are, because if it was, we wouldn’t be constantly having problems with it being susceptible to prompt injection, being racist, repeating misinformation, etc etc