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2024-09-11 14:07:09

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@npub1x4z…y2ll Yes, I'm observing it happening with Paint and other apps such as Joy2key depend on it

2024-09-11 13:44:25

Weirdest Windows (10) question:
Sometimes when "Microsoft Paint" is open in the background, I see a weird behavior where using the arrow keys causes the mouse cursor to move around. This only occurs when MS Paint is open and if I close MS Paint it stops. It also doesn't occur *every* time MS Paint is open (or rather, it always happens when MS Paint is foregrounded but only *on some Paint boots* does MS Paint hijack the cursor while backgrounded).
Can I do anything about this?

2024-09-07 21:03:26

Seriously though: I want (okay, demand) a version of Firefox with the "AI chatbot" functionality removed. Not disabled. Removed. I want all code which is specifically designed to connect to OpenAI removed from my computer completely. I do not care if the vampires have promised not to suck my blood. I do not want the vampires in my house in the first place.
https://mk.nyaa.place/notes/9xvolkux40ok0n1m

2024-08-19 20:15:59

The existence of LLM and LMM implies the existence of an axis with Large Language Models at point -0.5, Lin-Manuel Miranda at point +0.5, and then a hypothetical LLL at -1.5 (meaning unknown) and MMM at +1.5 (meaning unknown), each as unlike LLM & LMM respectively as LLM & LMM are from each other. Also implied: a Zero Point, inexpressible in Latin writing, halfway between Large Language Models and Lin-Manuel Miranda—probably under active development by Disney right now. I apologize for this post

2024-08-12 03:45:27

I have a npm module I published in 2016, which to my knowledge has not worked since about 2018 (due to my failure to correctly use package-lock.json— in my defense, introduced in 2017). At some point in the last few years npm started getting very worried about supply chain attacks, so they started trying to get everyone to enable 2FA on their npm account, so frequently they send me emails asking for my phone number, and that's very reasonable, but also I think it's reasonable for me to not care

2024-08-06 04:43:09

Just learned about "ads.txt"… will Google penalize my site if I give it an ads.txt but put nothing inside except the EICAR antivirus test string, do you think

2024-08-05 23:02:02

NordVPN just popped up an honest to fucking goodness advertisement in my Windows 10 notifications so this is me using my social reach to say I really dislike NordVPN, they've been a big constant hassle from day one and I'm canceling my subscription the MOMENT circumstances no longer require me to use this specific provider
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/911/898/356/684/293/original/b098e0c818acbc25.png

2024-08-04 15:34:09

I don't know where this Kombucha in the fridge came from, but nobody else seems to be drinking it. Should I drink the Kombucha. Should I just do it. I don't even know what "Kombucha" is. No don't explain it to me I want to be surprised

2024-07-23 17:04:09

Holy fuck I just got literally Plato's Cave'd by ReCaptcha
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/836/881/695/186/181/original/ad674631f5c1c2c4.png

2024-07-22 15:24:45

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@npub1nhk…30va omg ur famous

2024-07-21 20:40:11

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@npub1y0e…mm9n radians in 3space tho? like do i just do euclidean angles?
not sure if i can do lookup tables or not. maybe. my target platform kinda doesn't have, uh, RAM

2024-07-17 19:57:08

So like when I was growing up in Houston I had this feeling that Houston was just a place without any culture, and then I moved *out* of Houston I was surprised to find a bunch of rap artists I just thought were regular famous from the radio were just unknown where I'd moved because Houston (or the corridor from Houston to NOLA to Atlanta, at least) actually had an extremely active hip hop scene https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112803378707144439

2024-07-14 23:01:18

Hey, linuxy folks.
I know Ubuntu uses Snap. If I install Flatpak on my Ubuntu machine, will I be able to install Flatpaks and it will just coexist with the Snaps fine? There's no reason to avoid that, right?

2024-07-10 17:58:55

TFW your laptop/phone is low on battery so you plug it in to the power cable and then you keep using it and 20 minutes later you realize it is even lower on battery and then you realize the *other end* of the power cable is just sitting on the floor, not plugged in to anything

2024-07-10 17:44:28

So for a while now when I mention the problems I have with Firefox on my linux laptop I get people saying it is my fault because I am running the "Snap" version of Firefox (IE, the one bundled with my OS) rather than performing complex steps to install one direct from Firefox. After resisting doing this for a long time I guess I'm doing it now bc it turns out when you file a bug on Firefox the first thing they do is say "please first reproduce in a regular Firefox instead of the 'Snap' version"

2024-06-30 01:00:17

Anyway despite all the complaining having my Sony set back up means one thing: I can take selfies with the superior camera again #selfie
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/702/861/300/151/689/original/04b4f666d1314e66.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/702/861/535/230/754/original/7a4166acd57acbe4.jpg

2024-05-31 05:10:56

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@npub1qz2…nlrg it's a good game to stream with a chat audience

2024-05-19 03:39:17

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@npub1y4h…t26u We finally got around to following this rec, and that was really fun.
Should we watch Day Watch?

2024-05-14 03:40:42

Hello. My computer is not working. Can anyone give me some advice?

2024-05-13 23:44:26

Oh… so you describe yourself as a "computer toucher"? How quaint… personally I command my computer from afar with my immense psychic abilities… *turns over three playing cards on a table, they show a red diamond, a blue circle and a long error message concerning "dbus"*

2024-05-11 22:43:36

Dead internet theory but for IRL

2024-04-28 03:38:15

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@npub1qz2…nlrg it must be real… it's got standard encryption (TLS)

2024-04-20 01:59:17

And now for what feels like the millionth time in my career with computers I type into google "useradd adduser difference"

2024-04-13 03:08:03

Say I have a 670 MB file and I want to copy it over the network using SMB (FROM a Windows machine, TO a Linux machine), and both Windows Explorer and Teracopy only get through like 10-50 MB and then freeze up and stop copying. And furthermore say that I can copy gobs of other files to the same server at the same time (like while the 670 MB file is sitting there stalled) quickly and without problems.
Any ideas wtf could be happening here?

2024-04-08 02:07:16

Have you ever heard of "Linux"? It's the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

2024-04-04 22:25:01

Hey is it too late to request that APTs get named something else? After the xz thing I'm having to worry about APTs attacking my apt and that's just too confusing

2024-04-04 15:59:09

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I wish to go back to doing Computer Science instead of Computer Magic. I would like "does my program work or not?" to be based on whether I have followed a proper series of rationally composed steps rather than the phase of the moon or whether or not my offerings of frog entrails are correctly aligned with the correct constellation

2024-04-04 15:56:48

*quietly under breath* *but in text* i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity

2024-03-30 04:17:13

Hey, imagine I want to do dithering, but also imagine that I am the laziest programmer you have ever fricking met. Is there a trick/simple algorithm for doing dithering that is so simple you can just tell it to me in a reply to this post and I will instantly memorize it just reading your post and then never have to look it up again. It doesn't even have to be good dithering

2024-03-24 03:12:15

Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on

2024-03-09 16:12:28

Today is my birthday!
If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.
If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/066/578/879/950/804/original/ae2ab61d8fb46e0e.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/066/579/182/628/572/original/94e2c8941b8a786f.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/066/579/420/738/144/original/11381668eef9509b.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/066/582/561/181/881/original/6539b0eee32755ea.webp

2024-02-01 23:04:43

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@npub1qz2…nlrg One thing I did notice while implementing RSS readers was that virtually no one was following any precise standard. People just sort of mixed and matched various bits of the three active standards as they felt like

2024-02-01 21:58:02

Confession: I have never successfully used RSS, for anything, despite having personally written two separate RSS clients in the late 00s

2024-01-16 22:46:37

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@npub14n4…y3e3 Mastodon.social is generally using nightly builds off Github, and often contains strange or transient UIs and behaviors. For example, check out how the "CW" and "EN" buttons in the compose pane are at this moment not aligned
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/768/055/676/268/369/original/b5df9bcf334301ef.png

2024-01-10 22:13:24

Bar for time travelers. A programmer from the 21st century is complaining about bugs caused by time zones. A programmer from the 31st century scoffs and starts talking about bugs caused by relativistic time dilation. Next to them, the guy who writes the firmware for the time machines is grinding his teeth

2023-11-25 20:56:29

I have this SD card I keep plugging in and yanking, and when it's plugged in I have a prompt in the directory `/media/mcc/3930-6663/Cores/agg23.RISCV`. And if I yank the SD card then plug it back in, that directory is no longer mounted due to being yanked— I `ls` to list the files & it gives an error. So to make it work again, I have to `cd .` which is a Linux command equivalent to "go to the current directory". Normally it's a no-op but in this case, it causes it to correct pwd to the new mount

2023-11-16 22:50:04

You think this is the darkest timeline but there's one where the USA and Britain re-merged and developed a "mixed-endian" date format where you write it like MD/MD/YYYY

2023-11-16 20:45:12

Working with compiler triples today which means I keep getting messages involving "-unknown-elf" and I cannot stop thinking about the Unknown Elf. How do we summon the Unknown Elf. What if the Unknown Elf can never be found
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/422/174/285/913/472/original/53d8c5e4bccfd85e.png

2023-11-14 16:11:08

Maybe some "cute" product names are just a bad idea?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/409/774/987/662/236/original/0b1a869a2b8ad14d.png

2023-11-03 03:09:23

I bought shows at DSW once a decade ago and then moved out of the country. Out of the blue, they just sent me an email updating me on my balance with their rewards program. The email seems to believe my name is "Not Applicable"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/344/409/907/390/396/original/004b552b4825638f.png

2023-11-02 02:29:03

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@npub1y4h…t26u Hey uhhhh can I hear more about this
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/338/593/799/772/613/original/381a655b00960a4c.png

2023-10-26 13:57:36

I am on a BUS
I am going to a place called STRATFORD
I am going to a SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
That's Stratford in ONTARIO
It is some sort of JOKE
However it is by all accounts THE BEST SHAKESPEARE IN ONTARIO
I had to get up at NINE AM to catch the BUS and I am AGITATED
It is making me type in CAPITAL LETTERS
I am going to see KING LEAR
And also RENT
Apparently RENT was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

2023-10-23 21:52:48

Consider: People often remark that cats often suddenly stop and stare in strange directions, seemingly looking at nothing at all. What humans don't understand is that the cat is in fact not looking, but *listening*; the cat has heard something, and is turning its head so its ears are cupped in the direction of the sound.
Implication: If elves were real, they would often as a group swiftly turn their heads to apparently stare at nothing at all, swiveling their ears slightly as they do so

2023-10-21 03:10:26

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@npub1y0e…mm9n

2023-10-21 03:05:47

Hey, so, weird Linux question
I ran this script that talks to the serial port https://mastodon.social/@mcc/111270685822595407
It uses PyScripting
It only works if I run as root
The device is owned by the "dialout" group, so I added myself to the dialout group— id(1) confirms I'm in the group
But I'm still being denied
What am I missing? I tried logging Wayland out and back in.
Is there something I have to do to like… rehash group privs?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/270/789/490/487/051/original/90af08af1d3a8e9c.png

2023-10-07 19:25:00

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@npub1y0e…mm9n okay. Is displayport easy to convert to mini displayport and/or "USB c shaped thunderbolt"?

2023-10-03 16:44:47

It finally happened. A robot asked me if I have stairs in my house
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/172/089/173/938/146/original/6cf7264185e767bf.png

2023-10-02 19:24:20

Something really cool that dropped on the FPGAming discord this weekend: Someone named Tom Salvo is making an FPGA core for UXN! (That's the 100 Rabbits fantasy console: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html) This allows UXN to be run on Analogue Pocket and potentially later on MiSTers. This is the first pure-hardware (well, gateware, but that counts) implementation of a UXN execution environment I am aware of.
Tom's code
https://github.com/tsalvo/openfpga-uxn Analogue Pocket Core
https://github.com/tsalvo/uxn-fpga PipelineC Uxn Code
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/167/046/832/568/429/original/0a97ec970f186af2.png

2023-10-01 17:33:56

I'm here to EAT BRIE and PLAY PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR VIDEO GAMES and I have adequate quantities of both Brie and psychological horror video games

2023-09-27 14:21:16

Every day I wake up and discover all the new ways that giant corporations have made my computer just a little less pleasant to use than it was the day before

2023-09-24 19:34:35

I very much wish I lived in a world where this post/linked article ("Hydrogen is dead as a fuel for cars") were wrong. But I cannot come up with a single counterpoint.
https://social.naln1.ca/objects/6be4b56c-cd45-4519-b4f0-1964393cbf47
PS: I am linking someone's mastodon post here, so please do not get weird in their mentions due to me leading you to them!

2023-09-23 19:20:09

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@npub1src…fms4 This is absolutely horrifying. Good work, nailed it

2023-09-22 19:15:34

@npub1qz2…nlrg Out of curiosity, is there a part of archive.org which would be most appropriate for uploading archives of BBS chiptune files? https://mastodon.social/@hanna@gamedev.lgbt/111110393932424393

2023-09-21 03:55:01

Imagine using a website or computer program that you were not in an actively adversarial relationship with the people who created it

2023-09-20 19:40:54

Things I fucking hate: Menu screens on video services that while selecting a video to play start playing the video before you have said you want to play it

2023-09-18 15:24:49

So I guess Unity's plan on the "we can demand more money whenever we like on the games you already developed with the software you potentially already paid for" thing is just every few days for the next month, they'll issue an "apology" and announce they're going to announce changes and then not actually fix any of the issues.
I guess they're hoping some large % of whoever they're trying to reach (journalists? investors?) see the "we're fixing it" but don't see they never actually fixed it?

2023-09-15 23:13:03

The nice thing about posting on mastodon dot social is you never have to worry about getting blocked from your contacts due to a temporary spat between admins, because everyone is already blocking you to begin with

2023-09-06 19:23:51

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@npub1src…fms4 Hazlo

2023-09-03 19:11:27

I have bought an anti static strap and I'd like to start using it when I open my computer. I have here a wallplug, into which is plugged an APS UPC (physically a little further away) into which is plugged a computer. Exactly what do I clip the strap to? The computer case?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/002/790/669/575/359/original/98de76dea8c8c994.jpg

2023-09-01 17:20:34

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@npub1svm…hfej Gorgeous

2023-08-31 16:51:08

*wizened voice* BUT BEFORE YOU MAY RECEIVE YOUR PACKAGE. YOU MUST ANSWER MY QUESTIONS THREE
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/985/257/691/472/340/original/756d9dd61d5fdd74.png

2023-08-30 20:27:34

Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.
The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:
https://opencollective.com/tusky/updates/tusky-contributor-response-to-nik-clayton
Or a TL;DR:
https://mastodon.social/@Tusky/110980432313299809

2023-08-26 16:12:30

Source: Ginny Di
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/956/795/791/037/469/original/f046f2cf7314dbc3.png

2023-08-25 14:57:00

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 So, I definitely don't feel confident America is able to convict a powerful white man who is guilty of a crime of that crime.
But I do imagine putting this image next to the "Dewey defeats Truman" image in 5 years.

2023-08-23 17:27:15

TFW multiple people on your feed simultaneously make cryptic jokes about people falling out of windows and u sigh and type "Russia" into Google News

2023-08-22 17:30:37

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Cursed. Is it possible closing and reopening upgraded you from 115.0.5790.171 to a newer version?

2023-08-22 16:37:29

Unbelievably cursed Chrome behavior I have encountered just now.
If I open a new tab, paste or type in this URL, and hit return:
https://cohost.org/mcc/tagged/mastodon
The moment I hit return, Chrome instantly rewrites the URL I wrote as
https://cohost.org/mcc/tagged/Mastodon
(Notice: "Mastodon" is uppercase in the second url)
…and loads that other page instead. The other page is incorrect and does not contain content. So Chrome is banning me from loading the correct page, unless I click an A HREF link on another page.

2023-08-19 04:10:01

Some ideas just clicked together in the right way in my head and I realized something: Eventually on Mastodon I'm going to get told I should try out Linux by someone who was born after the first time I installed Linux

2023-08-17 21:27:18

A couple weeks ago while I was trying to find an object and I removed everything from the storage bin in the closet looking for it ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110551350768091030 ) I at least found my missing Switch charger, which was nice. I took the missing Switch charger out from the illogical place it was in before and put it in some other, logical place.
But now I can't remember what the more logical place was, and it isn't in any of the logical places I'm checking

2023-08-17 20:41:39

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@npub1wts…grgd The process of installing it is very slow and shows a long ASCII art progress bar, over the course of which inset text repeatedly explains to you it is just a little further to the cask of amontillado

2023-08-17 19:33:17

Observation:
2021: The big deal in tech investing is MLMs (cryptocurrency)
2023: The big deal in tech investing is LLMs ("AI")
From this we can conclude the big deal in 2025 will be MLLs. So if you want to get ahead of the curve, all you have to do is figure out what an "MLL" is and have an investor-ready example of one by 2025, and you'll be golden

2023-08-17 18:12:24

I sincerely believe that notification systems on desktop operating systems exist for no reason except to show ads
(media hidden for advertising)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/906/304/677/957/170/original/8b2fc12eef7ff1ce.png

2023-08-16 15:06:30

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@npub1jj0…p72q @npub1zdp…vqv8 What I'd guess the cartoonist's thought was, is although MLK had strong ideological commitment to nonviolence, he and his methods were not *considered* nonviolent by the targets of his protests at the time. Mattie's cartoon is from 2015, and the BLM protests then were similarly denounced as violent regardless of how peaceful they were… The point is probs to emphasize no level of politeness is ever enough for bad faith observers.
There's this 1967 political cartoon…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/899/890/086/354/809/original/6dab0aa2db869267.jpg

2023-08-15 04:00:05

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@npub1pfe…e2dm words cannot describe my relief.

2023-08-15 03:54:32

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@npub1pfe…e2dm yeah I'm feeling pretty good actually. As of today zero problems! Also my computer stayed up through a 30 second event where my wife forgot to turn off the air conditioner before running a hair dryer and a breaker tripped

2023-08-15 03:01:43

I wonder what will be the final time Donald Trump gets indicted for a crime.
Logically, there has to be a final time, because his lifespan is finite. You can't indict a dead person. I think.
And there's no way to point at an indictment and go "okay. That's the final one. He hasn't committed any crimes". Because as long as he's alive he can commit more crimes. And probably will

2023-08-15 02:19:30

So
I had this problem for like months, where my computer kept turning off or rebooting for no reason. Eventually I bought a UPS and the problem went away.
The logical conclusion is the wall power was the problem, and the UPS fixed it.
But!
There's another possibility, which is that the old power strip I had went bad.
So, the old power strip is actually a *pretty nice* power strip. It wasn't even cheap. I want to reuse it for something else. But
What if it's cursed?
What if it's cursed??!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/891/224/644/187/309/original/fa49f352e4c465ea.jpg

2023-08-14 16:10:58

Fascinating how it's basically impossible to tell the difference between a real Tom Scott thumbnail and a fake parody of a Tom Scott thumbnail
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/888/777/942/429/999/original/e391b2087f73511e.png

2023-08-13 20:37:14

Behold! My first ever FPGA project, functional
It simulates a one-dimensional cellular automata, displays it and its history on a 4x4 LED "screen", & collaborates with an onboard microcontroller (which actually could have run the entire thing to begin with, technically? but that's not the point) which DAC outputs audio based on the highlighted row bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz4tJGT-01s
I did some ABEL in college but that doesn't qualify as "FPGA". This was written in Amaranth (https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110833706042479220)

2023-08-13 05:02:48

1 AM. I cannot sleep. Went looking for cursed content on the internet. Succeeded harder than I intended to. Now I still can't sleep, but for a different reason.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/880/541/552/367/384/original/1d9fc00e99be4454.png

2023-08-11 21:50:35

Rubber Duck Effect is real

2023-08-11 17:35:56

The words "fifty" and "fifteen" sound too similar. Someone should do something about that

2023-08-11 14:50:40

Over the last several days Stefan Torto has posted on YouTube multiple videos in which he is playing synthesizers on this table, with the camera on the exact same position and the cat in his lap. From this I conclude that sometime three or four days ago Stefan's cat sat in his lap and he has been sitting in that chair the entire time since then, unwilling to dislodge the cat to stand up, with nothing to do except create electronic music with the handful of synthesizers that happen to be in reach
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/871/538/174/108/898/original/a7ada88e9621c16b.png

2023-08-10 17:54:50

Imagine an enormous mass of don

2023-08-10 03:33:06

*Suddenly hit with the perfect Inspiration Particle but 25 years too late* Oh man a really good name for a LAN party would be "LANarchy"

2023-08-09 20:59:57

About once every ten years there's a huge scandal where it turns out the NSA has been spying on basically everyone on earth without a warrant, and there's a big angry blowup and Congressional hearings, and there's an agreement not to prosecute if the NSA agrees not to do it again. And then ten years later it turns out they kept doing it, or rather, shut down the old program and started up a new program doing the same thing in a new way. (1/2)

2023-08-09 19:30:58

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@npub1xzm…eykm Hi. Can you explain this?

2023-08-09 19:29:12

So, this is … disastrous.
https://mastodon.social/@packetcat@tenforward.social/110860186505855819
Mastodon.social is adding full text. That's not what concerns me right now.
The problem is that "get your account indexed in full-text search" is *the same option* as "have your account listed in 'search for account by name'".
The result is that people are now turning this option off en masse. (Even before the option rolls out, meaning if Eugen changes his mind, the damage will be done). It will soon be basically impossible to find an account

2023-08-08 20:35:19

I am in Rust. I have a Vec<f64> and I need to convert it to a Vec<f32>. I find the only way that works to do this is to say:
let outdata2 = outdata.iter().map(|x|*x as f32).collect::<Vec<f32>>();
It felt like I should be able to say
let outdata2 = outdata.map(f32::from);
But (1) there's no map on Vec, only Iter, and (2) if I say outdata.iter.map, now I'm iterating over &f64s not f64s and f32::from no longer works.
This whole thing felt *very* messy and unfunctional. What am I missing?

2023-08-08 16:33:10

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@npub13kl…q6yp Without pizza scissors, you will never become a real estate novelist.

2023-08-07 00:39:52

Biggest fail I've ever seen from Google… 🙅
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/845/543/325/081/920/original/d4a6e90ad037c5c0.png

2023-08-07 00:36:44

GUITAR WITCH vs GUN TWINK

2023-08-06 19:40:01

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@npub12ty…vnqc Neat. I'd be curious what the function of the "server" is, and what its relationship to the "account" (if accounts on existing instances can be used) is.
Is this encrypted chat transported over the existing ActivityPub network, or a new network that does an Oauth thing to use ActivityPub accounts as usernames?

2023-08-06 16:28:38

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 The indictments refer to two specific memos written by Trump's lawyers which document the mechanics of the overall plan. Since the whole thing is grounded in a sort of SovCit-like legalist magical thinking, I assume(?) the conspiracy was following the memo plans. I assume these memos will become public in later filings in the lawsuit, though those same documents might have already been released by the Congressional Jan 6 committee.

2023-08-06 16:26:23

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 The plan, at least in one version that was put in writing, was to have Pence, as presiding officer of the Senate, simply "gavel" Trump as having been the winner. This isn't compatible with the Electoral Count Act or the U.S. Constitution and possibly not even with Robert's Rules of Order?
The "send it back to the states" plan is less clear to me. It's unclear if this ever *was* a concrete plan or just something Trump said (the indictment documents him saying it a number of times).
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/843/593/472/185/862/original/028d22ef412b2e54.png

2023-08-05 15:41:54

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 The British government is currently in the process of passing a bill to make this illegal in apparently direct response to this exact company https://decoded.legal/blog/2022/09/proposal-no-computer-code-in-company-names

2023-08-05 04:14:04

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This is, by the way, why you should trust *nothing* Google says about how "Web Environment Integrity" has safeguards against abuse. The pro-user safeguards are there to be removed! The moment the users have bought into the program, the safeguards aren't needed anymore! That's how these things work! That's the only way these things work!

2023-08-05 04:12:21

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I am never going to stop being angry at the people who told me, when I said around 2010 that Gatekeeper was the end of the Macintosh and possibly the end of all computers, that there was nothing to worry about because they'd never remove that third "run any software" option from the control panel

2023-08-05 04:11:28

So. Homebrew is illegal now too, then?
EDIT: People seem to be misunderstanding this screenshot. This is me running a program installed by Brew and it being blocked by macOS Gatekeeper. You can see me executing it from the command line and you can see in the error message that Homebrew downloaded it. Although brew is in general working for me, this particular formula's app got blocked. After making the post I resolved the problem and do not need help.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/835/051/617/958/748/original/cc733b2b0027bdcb.png

2023-08-02 20:33:27

So Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of my favorite authors, and I particularly like his novellas, and he's got these three novellas that I always felt were kind of of a piece, they were approaching the idea of Late Capitalist Apocalypses from different angles. I always thought they should just put those three novellas together in a single book.
…anyway, apparently I wasn't the only one thinking that, because they did exactly that! It's a new collection named "Terrible Worlds":
https://www.amazon.ca/Terrible-Worlds-Revolutions-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/1786188880