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TIL There's a website that shows a random image of a person pointing at your mouse pointer, every time you move your mouse
Welp!
#ChatGPT is now in school textbooks in India
Bring back netbooks, you cowards!
Good news, everyone!
Everything is down
In light of the U.S. gov's refusal to acknowledge reality exists, the climate scientists have created this:
https://www.climate.us
It's been only a little while since I came back to the U.S. and I've been itching to get to the woods to start camping again this winter. When I mention this, someone inevitably mentions the "creepy" story
You'd think I would have spotted a Wendigo, Bigfoot, or a Chupacabra at least once
Thing is, I've never had any sort of something-is-out-there feeling in all the years I've been outdoors. I mean, there's plenty out there, but all are known critters
If it feels "creepy", it's probably people
You want buttons on your devices for nostalgia
I want buttons on my devices in case I need to type a distress message to my colleague, with the sniper rifle in the next building, by touch from the phone I hid in my sock while my hands are tied behind my back
We're not the same
Current status
I've been trying to develop a terminal-like portable computer that's able to survive desert heat, arctic freezing, and resist dust damage. All the while being cost effective to make on a DIY budget
It's like that NASA's "Faster, Better, Cheaper: Pick 2" dilemma
So far, I'm only at the keyboard stage, but I think the keyswitch will work. We'll see after testing in my freezer for a bit, followed by the greenhouse treatment on my balcony in the summer heat
I really should be using my new laptop to work, but... anime in high resolution
I guess I'm starting a new hobby this weekend. That makes 12 this month
I need to keep a lid on these rabbit holes
TIL This project exists:
"X is dead, long live X
what?
a Debian stable GNU/Linux®* openbox/tint2 desktop
why?
like CrunchBang but simpler
where?
the project is hosted at sourcehut
how?
download the image"
Trying out something
Going Home Club supremacy
It's been a while since I've been back at my apartment. And while everything is still on fire (but the sky isn't acrid because of smoke anymore, thankfully) this mess, all of it, still feels like home
From my cursory read of the docs, it's possible to run an entire ISP, all the way from running BGP, ASN, routers, firewalls etc... to web and email hosting and even user mgmt. with just a default installation of #OpenBSD
Wouldn't recommend doing that for prod, but might be a fun exercise to see how much of the infrastructure we take for granted can be implemented out of the box on commodity hardware
Just thought about it after seeing this BSDcan talk from 9 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbofrUzYpOE
Running an ISP on OpenBSD
And that's how #VibeCoding works...
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@mikrotik@mikrotik.social Well, it's definitely fiber-through-the-wall
Sometimes, /r/camping delivers
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@kaflurbaleen Ah, a copycat
I'll see myself out...
I've been using more of the #Firefox "Split View" feature. Basically side-by-side panels allowing you to browse two pages in the same tab
It's great for multitasking
Not sure if multitasking is great for me
TIL There's a subreddit dedicated entirely to blurry pictures of cats
https://www.reddit.com/r/blurrypicturesofcats/
TIL There's a "Russian Gadget Hackwrench Religion"
https://englishrussia.com/2010/02/17/russian-gadget-hackwrench-religion/
It's a "cult" worshiping Gadget Hackwrench from Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
What kind of an idiot thought this code was ready for production?
*last modified by cypnk*
...oh
❌ Actual versioning
✅ "project.2026.v23.zip"
Sometimes, I like to think of the people running my work in production right now and think to myself "You reckless bastards!"
I opened a new set of socks and missed one of those plastic thingies that keep all the pairs together. It's now conducting asymmetric warfare on my heel :angery:
Current mood
Excuse me, I was using em dash before it was an AI thing. Not playing second fiddle to some dang clanker!
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@fsphil@mastodon.social B924A1 is a constant current driver IC. You'll see it being used to drive LEDs, probably as in this case, but also some measurement devices where exact reference isn't critical
PT4115 is a very similar device, and you can probably use it interchangeably (it's also more available outside of China/Taiwan)
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/evvo/PT4115/22482069
The internet was supposed to be a redundant series of tubes
That works less well when there are only a few big pipes and someone's holding the taps hostage
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@afewbugs Ah, yes. The Pavlov-Sainsbury's conjecture
I think I read a paper on that on the back of a napkin once
I estimate 450 days to go through all the bookmarks in my collection and dedicate the time each page deserves
Well, the fires were mostly contained
After an evening working on my hobbies, I just don't want to be "Local Man" on the news for all the wrong reasons
Diogenes sticks a Celeron on a potato
"Behold, an intelligence!"
My new seat neighbor is a mix between chill uncle and "that dude definitely killed someone in high school, back in '74"
Fashionably late static binding
Why did I think rewriting my blog script in Notepad was a good idea?
It's like 15K lines :blobcatcry:
Most of the items on the list of unsolved problems in physics can be solved by rebooting the universe
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@pzmyers There were fewer opportunities for him to out himself as a well-read nincompoop back then
When I come across a Flickr account created in the early-mid 2000s and last updated in 2019
So full of memories over the years
This whole concept of "smart bulbs" or "smart" anything in general feel like a mistake
If I want to fix a system, I don't typically visit the thing (unless they insist it's on, but the switch is off or plug is disconnected. In which case, I will also pull a Samuel L. Jackson stare on the person after "fixing" it)
"Smart" things seem like a workaround for the existing dumb electrical panels most of us are stuck with
Tempted to PoE All The Things if I'm going the smart cabin route (maybe)
"He was a product of his time"
Hmm... yes. Flesh
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@MedeaVanamonde @Axolotl1 The ancient texts!
The infection is spreading
The whole point of having human authors and editors was so that someone could verify the information and knowledge can be taken as reasonably reliable
But when search engines are also showing #AI summaries of Wikipedia entries...
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@timjclevenger This is a combination of sentences that I never expected to read in my lifetime
Replying to
@jk Have you considered evolving into a compiler?
@Luna@meowing.zip This is probably the tip of the iceberg. As if school text books weren't already mostly slop before AI
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