Since I've moved to a new instance I guess I should (finally) introduce myself!

I go by Vapour, I'm an Autistic NB AMAB (still discovering so subject to change). I'm a programmer, tech enthusiast and budding FOSS contributor.

Anti gen-AI, crypto-sceptic, NFT hater.

I play games but at the minute that's mostly chill co-op games or trying to do giant stupid things in Minecraft (the stereotypes are real for me).

As the world economy buckles under the weight of one man's delusions, the rest of the nationalist world is waking up to the fact that Trump was never a friend, never an ally, never an example. Merely a wrecking ball looking for somewhere to swing.
https://www.theindex.media/trumps-trade-war-just-nuked-his-international-fan-club/

For reasons entirely unrelated to *gestures at the world*, I'm finally going to _actually_ spend time learning more about cryptography than that one glance through stream-ciphers I did two years ago to figure out how to use them.

We've been featured on TechCrunch!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/ente-wants-to-take-on-google-photos-with-its-privacy-first-photo-storage-service/

I've been trying to use Hetzner to finally move away from DigitalOcean to an EU provider and they keep rejecting my account.

Is it purely because I'm using an alias email address? I'm HESITANTLY giving my actual information to a service for once and it seemingly isn't enough. They also don't seem to tell you WHY they make these decisions.

A reminder that if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.

This is becoming more and more important to remember.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know (The Onion)

New cryptography diagram just dropped.

Trying to learn Dutch as an English speaker feels so strange. My tongue has never had to make half of these shapes.

But I do find the sentence structure oddly makes a lot of sense.

I've had this album on repeat for 7 hours over the last 24. It'd have been longer if I didn't need to sleep and then meetings all morning. I can't stop listening and I don't want to! I haven't been this obsesses with an album since Zeal & Ardor's Strange Fruit.

If you like heavy-pop'y-metal then you'll enjoy this: https://izzyreign.bandcamp.com/album/izzy-reign

Why must I struggle to make working in Rust in Neovim easy? Go-to-definition never seems to want to work

Truly my life is the most difficultest /s

From Mind, a major mental health charity in the UK

Every day I wake up and repeat the mantra:

"I hate frontend. I hate React. I hate frontend. I hate React."

And every day I'm reminded why this is correct. Modern frontend frameworks are insane.

Feminist slogans written on walls along the route of the 2025 #8M demonstration in Bogota, Colombia.

"Stop Femicide"
Graff mural painted in Berlin for 8M

How do other #programming nerds deal with wanting to learn and do _all of the things_?

How am I supposed to focus on learning hardware programming and firmware when there's game dev and cyber security and networking and signals processing and on and on?

I need infinite time and to never sleep ever again.

I'm getting tired of software developers berating normal people for buying everyday household items on Amazon, considering that 3/4 of its operating income comes from the cloud computing services it sells to software developers.

(read it here when you feel all haughty, nerds: https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/01/10/amazon-e-commerce-company-74-profit-this-instead/ )