Les Orchard

he / him; semi-hermit in PDX, USA; tinkerer; old adhd cat dad; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for http://lmorchard.com; astra mortemque superare gradatim; tootfinder

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2024-06-14 00:24:22

You know, I, too, could lead your company into driving its stock down by 30-50% for the mere sum of $1 billion per year.
It would be a challenge, but I could do it. I'm not even looking for double-digits here. Or even multiple years of employment.

2024-06-13 23:29:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I do think perhaps you have a different attitude toward ants than many other folks

2024-06-07 20:50:00

scifi idea: when the AI bubble bursts, the sidewalks of san francisco fill up with small fusion reactors once used to support GPUs, kind of like aeron chairs in the 2000s once used to support dotcom butts. everyone runs off with cheap energy in the lull until the next stupid craze

2024-06-07 17:06:58

Really wish there was a feature in Zoom where I could “peek” in a room to see who’s there or at least see a head count before joining

2024-06-03 19:55:20

There are dozens of us! (gaming on linux on AMD CPU + GPU)
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Steam-2024-Above-2

2024-05-31 20:18:32

The year is 2030, all graphical user interfaces are illegal. Everything talks. The punks on the street are twiddling knobs and pushing buttons

2024-05-30 21:23:48

You know, there's a part of me who WISHES the Biden administration was shady & cunning enough to actually have rigged a trial against Trump.
But, like, which is it? Biden & Co are too feeble & dumb to wipe own their asses? or Biden & Co are evil geniuses pulling all the strings?
Neither, Trump's just a crook and the system may or may not actually make it stick and Biden doesn't really have much to do with it

2024-05-30 16:12:25

helpmeiaminhell
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2024-05-29 01:00:50

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@npub1sfl…gczt You could also make a Oxacan Old Fashioned if you have a little tequila along with that mezcal! https://www.thespruceeats.com/oaxaca-old-fashioned-recipe-5210400

2024-05-26 16:56:01

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@npub1mxu…3edu "at a loss" could be a good name 🤔

2024-05-21 18:35:09

Time vertigo moment: I plucked a book from my shelf. It is the 1999 "20th-anniversary Edition" of Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
Inside is a faded receipt that I used as a bookmark from the last time I was reading the book. It's dated 2004.
The bookmark has itself seen its 20th anniversary.
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2024-05-20 20:14:41

Hahahahahahahahha
“We have seen instances where people have commented that an advert was AI-generated rubbish when it was not,” he says, adding that it could become a problem for the social media industry if consumers “start to feel they are being served rubbish all the time”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/19/spam-junk-slop-the-latest-wave-of-ai-behind-the-zombie-internet

2024-05-19 16:24:09

Yeah emulating games with Delta on an iPhone is great, but have you ever had a handheld game console with built-in buttons? /s

2024-05-14 05:50:20

There's a guy named "Pete Grabiel" running for state representative here in Oregon.
Every time I see his commercial, I think I'm having a slight stroke and wonder why Peter Gabriel is running for office here

2024-05-13 19:39:18

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Update: he’s still in there
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2024-05-13 16:42:34

Just heard a rustling and realized Catsby found his new box #cats
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2024-05-11 20:39:21

Alright, Armenia is fun & boppy as heck #eurovision

2024-05-11 20:31:08

WINDOWS95MAN: simultaneously SO MUCH DENIM yet so little pants #eurovision

2024-05-08 19:00:46

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@npub19st…u9g9 Been kind of thinking in recent years that spinning HDs are the new tapes

2024-05-07 20:09:46

Well WINDOWS95MAN from #Finland look like nice boys.
#eurovision #denim
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2024-05-07 19:28:31

Apologies in advance, I may toot with annoying frequency about #eurovision this week.
Like, Bambie Thug is pretty rad
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2024-05-06 22:29:44

I kinda wish Mastodon described "content warnings" more as "subject headers" to make them maybe sound like a mutual-utility thing than a "censorship aaaaa i thought this was america aaaaa stop bullying me" mess.
It's really handy to have toots labelled with a subject, whether that subject's something folks do or do not want to hear about.

2024-05-04 23:36:55

Attempting a refresh of some silica gel dessicant pellets for my #3dprinting filament boxen. 2 hours at 225F in the oven. Looks like it worked, insofar as they went from dark colored to bright colored again?
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2024-04-09 17:58:08

Just watched an ADHD coach on youtube say the best mindfulness meditation trick to work for her in years was to stand on one leg for 5 minutes (2:30, each side) - and you know what? I'm in

2024-03-15 16:26:51

We're still trying to make Didthis happen on my team at Mozilla!
It's not AI, and it's not (exactly) social media. It's just a baby step into trying to build a cozy web flavored tool for sharing hobby enthusiasms.
I built a mobile app for it at the end of last year, then a Discord bot at the start of this year. We're kind of letting it simmer for now, feature-wise, to see if we can drum up interest and decide to keep building.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/introducing-didthis-a-new-app-for-hobbyists/

2024-03-14 17:24:28

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@npub1t8u…c7sk @npub1wvr…ur2y @npub1uyh…d3wt Glitch is one of my very favorite things on the internet! Happy Birthday, Glitch! 👏👏👏

2024-03-12 18:15:43

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@npub1cat…9z7c :oof: dang, that's a good one!

2024-03-12 18:00:43

Have seen a few headlines now where apparently Trump is trying to make "Honest Don" happen as his own nickname?
Is that like calling a big dude "Tiny"? Or a bald dude "Curly"? Or calling me "Champ"?

2024-02-02 22:44:49

Oh holy crap: The Didthis app that I started working on before the holidays just went fully live in the App Store!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mozilla-didthis/id6468680088

2023-12-20 19:05:40

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@npub1xjz…6ncl "why do we do it this way?" "because we do it this way" :blobangry:

2023-12-19 17:31:21

Type of ADHD human who pursues immortality just to have time for all these rotating Special Interests and hobbies

2023-12-18 20:26:40

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Like, maybe have a half-dozen episodes that don't push the overall season arc forward, just do a day-in-the-life-of story or do a weird musical thing or tell a story from the perspective of an inanimate object. Sprawl out, get weird

2023-07-14 17:40:21

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There's also the thing where I imagine someone on the receiving end of a scheduled communication from me going :flan_eyeroll: "there's the fortnightly ping from lmorchard again"

2023-07-14 17:35:22

How do people, like, actually keep in touch? With my ADHD, I think I've come to accept that I basically have a lack of social object permanence. Out of sight, out of mind.
Over the past literal decades, I've sometimes tried setting up a list of contacts and a scheduling system - but ADHD also means I get bored / annoyed with that and either never get it working or stop using it after awhile.

2023-07-10 02:18:29

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@npub1fh4…44wz I'm just vaguely rooting for them to mutually annihilate like matter & anti-matter and be out of the blast range

2023-07-01 17:50:52

A thing that maybe folks don't realize about ActivityPub & the fediverse:
ActivityPub is for publishing your activities. It's mainly designed to disseminate and spread things around. It's not really designed to keep things secret or compartmentalized.
There are copies of your stuff in lots of places. Your server purposefully sends your stuff to other servers. Even "direct messages" are just sort of a friendly agreement between servers and admins, not a private channel.
If you don't want what you say to end up in front of many eyes, don't use this network to say it.

2023-05-28 18:45:19

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@npub1g8e…qdqf FWIW, it seems rather feasible to play with personal feed algorithms against the streaming API of a Mastodon instance.
That'll repeatedly bash into the "don't index what I toot" sentiment, though.

2023-05-10 16:38:51

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@npub1ate…wkt8 Have you considered sharing less interesting thoughts? 😅

2023-04-13 22:51:13

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#[0] #[1] Yeah, I went looking for a real account of his. But from what I've heard on the Vergecast, he doesn't really hang here much. 😞
Sounds like that bot's at least not objected-to by Verge folks but it's not official. (sigh)

2023-04-13 20:31:14

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Like, it's not censorship to simply decline to build & hand out megaphones to absolute dipshits

2023-04-13 20:24:37

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/
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