Weird thing about me as a retro tech collector, I will probably never remove these blockbuster stickers from this cartridge. Not because doing so might damage something on the cart itself but because they're part of the story and history of the cartridge and I like keeping that.
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mastodon 4.6.7+glitch-thI like video games, programming languages, and hacking things up with old video game hardware. I also post a lot about TV I'm watching, and sometimes books I'm reading too.
Used to stream on twitch (as megmactv) but don't really anymore.
Anything I say here is 1000% my own opinion and probably no one, including any employers I have or have had in the past, agree with me.
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My central computing conspiracy theory is that "general computing for normal people" was largely a solved problem by the 90s, through things like Excel, visual basic (and HyperCard before it), Flash, and comprehensible html (along with web design tools that were deeply flawed but extremely usable like Front Page and Dreamweaver), and the industry has spent every year since ripping us farther and farther away from it by forcing effective software development to happen only in enterprises contexts.
And the only reason they're letting people have something like it again through "AI" is that they(*) think they can wrap it up in subscription fees. If "open models" "win", look for the gates to shut, the MCP descriptions and AGENTS.md files to evaporate, etc. Just like how the app APIs evaporated from Facebook and Twitter when they were no longer useful. Look for corp llms to require enterprise licences with lock-in clauses and to refuse to work if you hold them wrong.
Because we've been here before. They'll do it again. If you're betting your farm on this stuff you should have a plan for this.
(*) "they" are not a shadowy cabal of evil mustache twirling guys in a smoky room, "they" is all the humans responding to the incentive structures around tech and venture capital as an industry.
If I had the power I would make everyone in a position of power in the tech industry go on a leave of absence until they had read the mythical man month at least 10 times.
There's a very particular kind of bike nimby that seems weirdly common where they seem to believe that people on bikes do not exist other than when they're on their bikes, and they're particularly obsessed with the idea that bikes should require paid licenses.
I saw someone say that they think the literal only tax cyclists pay is gst on their bikes. Apparently according to this person they don't live anywhere or buy groceries or make income or anything. They just buy bikes.
People are so damn weird.
I dunno what associate member means but yes plz to being in the schengen area if that's on the table at least.
Seems like I'm pretty alone in this among online trek fans but I'm pretty ok with this season of snw being kinda dumb to be honest. It's not very tng, but I do think it's pretty close to a more silver age of sf sensibility that tos exemplified pretty well and that's the world the show is inevitably moving towards. I think it makes sense to bridge the tonal gap between "everyone scowls all the time" discovery and "sometimes someone's brain is in a jar or this planet is literally the town of tombstone" tos. Brilliant and strikingly dramatic episodes like City on the Edge of Forever were ultimately the exception not the rule in tos imo.
I expect the final short season will be a lot more serious though. I think
Something that I'm realizing as I bike a lot more this year is that I think I pretty much value good bike *crossings* over a lot of bike *lanes*. I feel like these get conflated into one project a lot, but honestly intersections scare me more than side by side traffic.
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@jeffsamsonow@mstdn.ca I didn't think it would be enough votes in the advance polls to flip it and I've never been happier to be wrong lol
This is a very cool observation that you can find a lot of information about changes to time zones from the tzdb project's commit log and mailing list.
I think it's really funny how all the trailers before the transformers 40th anniversary theatrical rerelease were for kids movies.
Even funnier though is that almost every one of those trailers had a needle drop on a 40ish year old song.
Gonna go to a local trans-people swim night put on by pflag tomorrow night. I miss swimming regularly, and Swimming While Trans is just like.. this whole complicated thing. So this should be nice.
Hey people who know Montreal, if you were gonna stay in Montreal with your partner for a fall weekend, and you'd mostly be intending to get around by transit, where in the city (that there are hotels) do you think would be a good place to stay?
Assume we're mostly interested in foodie kinds of things, as well as like.. Nice places to walk around outside. We'd consider renting bikes too. Not so much outright full on tourist traps.
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The only thing worse than bad, unvetted, ai subtitles is bad, unvetted, ai subtitles that have been burned into the video itself.
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And here we go again lol
Really glad I was feeling too groggy to go out an hour ago!
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io @cwebber@social.coop yes! This is a thing I keep coming back to in how I feel about what's going on. The effort here is to build the ultimate "rent a shovel" service where the entire economy is dependent on an oligopoly of cloud providers to functionally do work.
I can live with a lot of things I don't like, but that's basically anathema to me.
https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/
The physical guide (my preferred way to browse) doesn't come out until the 29th, but Edmonton Fringe show listings are up on the website now!
If you go to some shows I might be the one scanning your ticket! :)
#yegfringe #yeg
Lmao matchbox car movie.
Mattel really learned all the wrong lessons from The Barbie Movie. Like, impressively so.
I think one of the most hilarious things about the American psyche, such as anything like that exists, is the inexplicable belief in a "timeline for war".
Like killing people is a thing you can do on a neat little schedule, where the other side just does exactly what you predict they'll do, which is for some reason always "give up and surrender" or "go so crazy that they can't effectively fight back."
The media inevitably demands this fairy tale, that can't possibly exist, and a fairy tale answer is of course given, and some people believe it unconditionally and others will use it as some kind of gotcha in a political game that's as nonsensical as the killing itself is.
But it will never work out that way. And playing along is no better, whether you think the timeline is realistic or are going to use it to score points that it wasn't met, as if all the death would be worthwhile if only the killing had proceeded as scheduled.
It's exhausting.
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@jrose@social.belkadan.com @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I mean, they're not going to be paid well for it for long either way if all they want to do is manage a computer doing their job for them. That's just not a job that is worth what we get paid, frankly.
The problem is they're going to take the rest of us down with them.
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@reallyflygreg @AmeliasBrain @Daveography I think vertical solar panels can take in a bunch of reflected light as well, especially if the building is tall. If your panels are roof mounted it basically never makes sense to aim them north but the calculation is different for opportunistic vertical.
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@AmeliasBrain I ate on a patio last weekend so as far as I'm concerned it's been patio season already, last couple days aside :)
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@mcc@mastodon.social I was just thinking the other day about how Streisand's own Streisand Effect will never be topped because hers will be remembered every time someone else does one for a very long time.
It's also lolsob funny how quaint hers was in hindsight, for all that.
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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @eclectech@things.uk I voted for the first two, but if I knew a better word for the second option I'd probably use it.
To me there's a material line at whether "I can quickly pop back home to get something I forgot" that matters more than the specific bed I'm sleeping in though.
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@AmeliasBrain more serious thought from a patio today: I think it's really more about the sun and wind than temperature. Even 10c can be really comfy if the sun is out in full force, and 20c can be miserable if it's cloudy and windy.
Kind of funny to be watching a movie set in Red Deer and get taken out of it for a minute because they get takeout from a Chinese restaurant and you can see that the sign on the outside is The Lingnan.
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@silverface@cyberpunk.lol Oh also Boy Meets Girl (2014), which is a fairly cute romantic drama/coming of age story about a trans girl.
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@forth@neuromatch.social I think it all depends on how well ventilated it is, which makes broad analysis hard. Tbh, I think because time spent on it tends to be short it's not as high risk as most people think *if* it's not too busy and ventilated well, but I'm not aware of research about that. That's just my gut feeling.
I keep an aranet with me so I can spot check ventilation and develop an intuition of risk over time, personally.
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@AmeliasBrain @linux_mclinuxface I think it's probably just a really bad time to try to convince anyone of any income level that they should spend more on groceries. The sticker shock of 2022-24 or whatever is still pretty fresh.
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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net yep! Filmed and set in red deer and Edmonton. It's Before I Change My Mind, a queer coming of age movie by local queer icon Trevor Anderson.
I definitely recognized some red deer landmarks even aside from much of it being set in red deer college, where my parents taught. I'm not sure what grade school they filmed in though.
(Funnily enough I found out about it because the lead actor was in the Malcolm In The Middle revival as the youngest sibling of the family)
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net please post again when you've gotten them to carry it and I'll buy it through them :)
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @Chigaze@mstdn.ca my brother in law (who is local) self published a book (I think through Amazon) and we were able to get Audrey's to buy a few copies and buy one through them.
@Mustbetuesday@sunny.garden might know or be able to find out more details.
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@silverface@cyberpunk.lol there's a movie doing the festival circuit right now called She's The He that's supposed to get a wider release this year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_the_He) And there's Bit, about a trans girl who falls in with a bunch of vampire women.
For docs there's Will & Harper, by and about a friend and collaborator of Will Farrell's coming out process. And Chasing Chasing Amy about a trans guy's self discovery through the controversy around chasing amy.
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@linux_mclinuxface @AmeliasBrain yeah same. I make very good pay but I also pay for 5 adult's worth of food and every grocery bill is still shocking to me.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win last night I discovered that I've let my workbench get so messy if I put a magnetized screwdriver on it it ends up with wire poop stuck all over it. :/
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems i.. was somewhat involved in early steps towards starting something like this (but not on tv) a long time ago. Didn't go anywhere because the person who would have been bankrolling it lost interest but tbh i think it'd be kinda fun.
It really feels like the new season of Ted Lasso was written by two completely different set of writers, and for some reason they forgot half the plots they set up in the first episode until after halfway through the season.