Thomas Hunter II

Thomas Hunter II

@thomashunter.name

I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum. Author of Distributed Systems with Node.js and Multithreaded JavaScript. Bluesky is pronounced like Brewski.

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Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name

I have to admit, the vibe-coded Adobe knockoff launched immediately on my Linux machine. Both gimp and darktable take several seconds. I haven't used Photoshop in a decade and all the ergonomics and keyboard shortcuts came right back to me. I kinda liked it.

Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name

Does someone in the Trump family own the .si top-level domain?

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US Justice Dept tells staff to call AI 'super intelligence' under Trump order reut.rs/4y56aSm

reut.rsUS Justice Dept tells staff to call AI 'super intelligence' under Trump orderThe US Justice Department directed its employees on Tuesday ​to use the words "super intelligence" instead ‌of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology in most circumstances, including in court, according ​to a memo seen by Reuters.
Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name

Does anyone know a good way to scan and view the data in a QR code on Android? The default camera app opens the QR URL and follows redirects and is inadequate.

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pumpkin potch
@potch.me

"no you HAVE to say it's okay and not just okay but cool and exciting that I like and use it. you have to like it and me or it is you who is bad and wrong and dumb and history will agree with me" is some pathetic musk-grade insecurity. if we're being left behind stop looking back at us! orpheus ass

Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name

Keep an eye out for the latest @npmjs.com phishing attack. This one showed up from an automatically-enrolled Google group titled "Google" with the handle "accountsecurity @ googlegroups . com". That npm URL points to "https :// verifygate . org / npm-verify".

Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ― Frank Herbert, Dune

Thomas Hunter II
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An LLM is basically a big database that's slow and expensive to query. The code it produces is just a query result. If you publish a library made up of LLM-produced code then that library is just a cache.

Thomas Hunter II
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FreeBSD 15.1 (due in a month) ships with some laptop compatibility improvements. Once it ships I'm going to give it a series try on my spare laptop. @freebsdfoundation.bsky.social freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd...

freebsdfoundation.orgFreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update | FreeBSD FoundationIf you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note - 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation's ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is systematic...
Thomas Hunter II
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I'm starting to wonder if powerful elites are convinced that the Second Coming (Christianity, Islam) or Rapture will occur soon. Like someone discovered or fabricated some evidence. And that all the unbelievable political chaos happening right now is to either trigger it or gain advantage.

Thomas Hunter II
@thomashunter.name

// Firefox = true, V8 = false Intl.supportedValuesOf('timeZone') .includes('America/Nuuk'); // Firefox = OK, V8 = OK Intl.DateTimeFormat('ia', { timeZone: 'America/Nuuk' }) // Firefox = Throws, V8 = Throws Intl.DateTimeFormat('ia', { timeZone: 'XXX' })