socketwench

Doesn't do ironic liking. Loves open source, loathes "meritocracy". Tech is social. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈.
That's wench, not wrench.

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2024-06-19 12:26:59

The reason why so many species in season one and two of Star Trek Voyager are lacking water is because progenitor Borg used it all up cooling LLMs servers until they switched to cybernetics.

2024-05-25 16:14:08

Ooooh! The reason (I think) MosFETs are used as switches in the ground side, rather than the positive side, is that the load acts as a voltage drop. Since the load comes first in the circuit, the MosFET can to handle a *smaller* load while acting as a switch.

2024-05-24 15:42:17

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I'm imagining the A plot being some conspiracy or political treachery. In the B plot, Grudge gets loose on Discovery, and loses her collar (so she can't be tracked). We continue to follow the A plot, an occasionally drop into the B plot where Grudge overhears details from the antagonists. Perhaps she steals an important trinket. Perhaps Grudge is about to be captured at one point and Zora lets her escape into a turbolift. It could have been cute *and* exciting.

2024-05-24 15:37:32

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I realize it would have never worked within Disco's 10 episode per season schedule. It would have also had to be a mid-season B-plot. I just wish Disco had that leeway sometime in the last few seasons.

2024-05-24 15:22:15

Grudge needs her own episode.

2024-05-22 12:42:39

If you're installing Linux for a friend this weekend, think about asking:
"Hey, do you have an old laptop you're not using any more?"
Try making *that* useful. Keeps your friend calm because their main system is fine. Keeps you calm because you're not worried about your friend. And, you reduce some e-waste.

2024-05-21 21:05:11

Finding a #linux distro isn't like solving an equation.
It's *dating*. It's a relationship.
Sometimes you grow into them.
Sometimes you grow out of them.
Sometimes they move on from you.

2024-05-14 12:27:14

Ever get the sense you're not a citizen?
You're not even an employee.
That you're a convict?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/supreme-court-civil-forfeiture-hearing/

2024-05-09 12:08:11

"So, serverless runs on demand, only using resources when executing, and shuts down afterward. Clever caching is used to keep execution startup time to minimal."
"Yep!"
"So, it's PHP. You invented PHP."

2024-05-05 22:54:17

Wanted: read it later extension which doesn't send to an off-site service like The Internet Archive, but to your local hard drive with all images and assets intact.
And since your browser already does that, curates a list of read it laters with history and rules to auto purge entries after a configurable period.

2024-04-10 18:13:06

Hard problems in tech:
1. Naming things.
2. Cache invalidation.
3. Convincing developers from privileged backgrounds that [their] experience is not universal.

2024-03-05 16:34:50

I am here to remind you that phpBB is still maintained, and had a new version just last year.
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2646991

2024-03-02 18:48:21

Well hey, that's a good sign. #rc2014
https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/027/581/825/571/359/original/b85c0eb66d5e5aad.jpeg

2024-02-23 13:02:28

RIAA: We really want to close the analog loophole. We want DRM right to the ear.
Apple: As one of the largest digital music stores, I want what the RIAA wants. I'll remove the headphone jack, make its use hostile, and claim it's a feature.
All other phone manufacturers: I want to be Apple.

2024-02-19 20:46:42

Anyone else notice that the cadence of "On top of spaghetti" also matches "At the mountains of madness"?

2024-02-19 02:40:03

Yes, Saucers, destroy the American Military Industrial Complex.
Make the people happy.
#monsterdon

2024-02-17 13:30:43

Them: "They want to develop a new phone *without* apps..."
Me: "Oh good, there's a market for distraction free, utility devic--."
Them: "...and replace them with AI".
Me: :picardfacepalm:
https://www.tmonews.com/2024/02/deutsche-telekom-plans-to-develop-new-phone-without-apps/

2024-02-13 17:28:00

No:
Definitely no one:
Me: "..........my GOD. Slime girls would be immune to Moopsy!"

2024-02-09 15:13:33

While there's a lot of great points in this article, it's glaring to me what's not mentioned.
Capitalism.
"You can write lean code today!" Really, man? Really? Got your boss's permission and everything? Ah. Right. You're not talking about this in contexts where most programmers have a say.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

2023-12-16 14:53:34

Since I was gifted a little NAS a while ago, and then got lucky at the computer recycler and found 4 1GB 7200rpm drives for it for $20, it's been humming along happily. My entire movie collection is on it, with easy access on standard protocols.
It's been a real, "how did I live without this" experience.

2023-07-17 01:11:35

A little background on Planet of the Vampires.
Originally "Terrore nello Spazio" or "Terror in Space", this Italian production is rumored to be one of two film inspirations for Alien.
You know what other film is? "Attack of the Mushroom People", or as we know it in #monsterdon, "Matango".

2023-07-12 14:55:15

[hangs head]
We shouldn't need cookie popups.
Ever.
GDPR does not specify you need cookie popups.
It specifies you need *consent* to collect private data.
"What private data?" you ask. All the crap which goes to Google Analytics.
You don't need a cookie popup if you don't use intrusive analytics.

2023-07-04 22:46:56

"For Mastodon to succeed..."
I'm going to stop you right there. When I look around Fediverse, I see people chatting with friends, making new ones, connecting with old ones, people sharing their fun, their fears, their anger, their sadness. I see people asking for help, offering to help, wondering if they need help. I see a microcosm of humanity.
I don't need to wait for Fedi to succeed, because, in my view. It. Already. Has.

2023-07-04 18:01:28

While it's nearly a tired cliche at this point that fedi runs on trans people and furries, under it all is something unsaid.
A lot of marginalized people keep this place going, not to make money, but to create a space for people like themselves.
Social media hits different when those running the network are in the community, rather than extracting *from* that community for their own ends.

2023-06-18 21:03:09

"Stakeholders" is a word capitalist brainworms use to signal to another infected host they too are infected.