Catherine (@whitequark) / X

Catherine

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Catherine

@whitequark

this account is no longer monitored i primarily post on whitequark at mastodon dot social, or elsewhere under the same username 2010-2024 bye!

Joined July 2010

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Catherine
@whitequark
Dec 31, 2023
who wants to meet me in 2024? it has to be in the UK but i'm happy to hop on a train (the offer is open to anyone, i will decide based on inscrutable criteria and reply whether i'm interested)
Catherine
@whitequark
Jun 11, 2024
people saying "ChatGPT editing your messages is good for ESL speakers who want to sound professional" do not account for the fact that speaking like ChatGPT makes you look a lot less trustworthy than speaking an unusual dialect of English
Catherine
@whitequark
May 5, 2020
i'm happy to announce our problems are over
Catherine
@whitequark
Sep 16, 2018
Linus Torvalds wrote an email to LKML that, against all odds, one might want to read lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16…
Catherine
@whitequark
Nov 9, 2021
everyone knows furries run the internet but i didn't realize we're at the point of openly saying so on the corporate websites
Catherine
@whitequark
Dec 24, 2023
I finally did it!!! a complete FPGA toolchain (synthesis, placement, routing, and programming) running entirely in the browser
00:00
Catherine
@whitequark
Jul 17, 2022
Catherine
@whitequark
Feb 12, 2022
THESE ARE NOT MADE THESE SHOULD NEVER BE MADE WE WILL NOT MAKE ONE WE WILL NOT AID OR ABET IN THE MAKING OF ONE
Catherine
@whitequark
Nov 10, 2021
do you see interactions with doctors as a form of asymmetric information warfare, or are you cis and without chronic conditions
Catherine
@whitequark
Dec 29, 2017
you, sobbing: "you can't just point at every thing using a merkle tree and call them blockchains" me, pointing at git: "blockchain"
Catherine
@whitequark
May 15, 2022
there are so many UI patterns in tech that are reminiscent of the things abusers do, but of all of them, the foremost is Windows Update. your only two choices are "Yes" and "Not Now" and if you go for the latter it *will* ruin your work at a later point without asking
Catherine
@whitequark
May 21, 2022
i'm amused by this journalist discovering that the equipment required to reliably repair a modern cellphone is, in fact, complex, heavy, and expensive
Apple shipped us a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery
From theverge.com
Catherine
@whitequark
Aug 14, 2018
small brain: playing on original GameBoy Advanced glowing brain: playing on GBA with backlight incandescent hivemind: writing gateware for your FPGA multitool to sniff the pixels at 60 fps as they go through the GBA LCD bus and stretch them on a glorious 4k IPS panel
Catherine
@whitequark
Jun 24, 2019
just like email is a way for other people to give you to-do list items, twitter is a way for other people to give you intrusive thoughts