anthropy

anthropy, 22 hours ago (edited 5 hours ago) to random

When referring to "yourself", the thing that makes you you,

Are you:

anthropy, 2 days ago to random

I messed up, accidentally broke off the dumpvalve instead of nulling it. It's very null now, and very good at dumping. Tried to fix it with ducttape, but...

Same area but the hole has been wrapped with ducttape (poorly)

anthropy, 3 days ago to random

this is a test, please heavily engage for no reason at all :bongo:

anthropy, 3 days ago to random

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mri small, simple magnet MRI that can be plugged into a normal wall outlet

anthropy, 4 days ago to random

I have a theory that people who dislike the caps attached to bottles, actually don't push the cap away far enough to click into resting position on the side, causing it to press against their face when they try drink from the bottle.

I don't see any other reason to dislike them anyway, if you use them properly they don't get in the way, it means you never have to look for or place the cap anywhere while pouring, you can't lose the cap, it means you can drink with one hand while e.g biking, etc🤷

anthropy, 3 days ago to random

Reminder for people who can't find a political candidate to represent them:

It's not supposed to represent you, it's supposed to be the least evil choice you manage to pick, and not picking anything, will usually result in the most inconvenient choice being picked for you.

Not voting is not a signal, it's aiming a gun at your own foot and giving someone else the trigger.

This also goes if your lesser-evil option has done very evil things. Lesser evil doesn't imply lawful good, unfortunately 😶

anthropy, 5 days ago to random

writing a chat thingy in NodeJS + clientside JS.. the idea is to make it as simple and foolproof as possible, easy to host, with optional end to end encryption that's entirely taken care of on the client. The server will just forward what it receives, optionally caching it and allowing clients to pull messages based on a timestamp delta. Everything will be 'groups', a DM with a friend is a 2 person group, a groupchat is a 3 person group, etc, to keep things simple. Probably add file/images later

anthropy, 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

When are you part of "the rich"?

Feel free to comment if you think the line isn't on here and it should e.g be lower or higher.

If you have (in assets or cash):

anthropy, 9 days ago to random

Little secret about datacenter water usage: they actually don't USE nearly as much as they report-- they DRAW a lot of water yes, but they'll only cycle it a few times before giving it back, either through waste pipes or other ways, otherwise you get sediment buildup in the pipes and heatexchangers. The average golf course uses far more water, and actually uses it without returning any of it

And the alternative, is to use energy-heavy AC/heatpumps, which due to public outcry, is happening more.

anthropy, 9 days ago to random

Idea: set up a volunteers and donation-run server hosting platform, where you can apply for a free VM or container if you do not have much money to play with these things. Applying & verification would involve a short conversation with someone to get an idea of the situation and the needs, and off it goes. Running a platform like that wouldn't be very different from running a mastodon server in terms of moderation, you'd need to find a bunch of folk that'd help but it could be mostly automated 🤔

anthropy, 9 days ago to random

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2430601-dozens-of-stars-show-signs-of-hosting-advanced-alien-civilisations/

apparently we aren't that advanced, we're behind on all the other Dyson sphere civilizations out there

anthropy, 9 days ago to random

☐ please verify you are creature 🐉

anthropy, 9 days ago to random

It's lovely weather, you know what that means!

Sitting outside and enjoying a nice lukewarm glass of hotdog water. sip 🍹

anthropy, 10 days ago to random

ordered a second hand 800w car alternator for 20€, want to try hook it up to my old exercise bike and see what I can get out of it, maybe charge some 12v batteries with it if it works

now to just get a v-belt and some mounting and tensioning gear, I already have a battery and charge controller that should do the trick, it'd be amazing if I could make this whole thing work for less than 50

anthropy, 10 days ago to random

I hope you find this email.

anthropy, 12 days ago to random

Went to the windmill nearby because they had an open day, got an amazing tour while they were closing up everything, very happy I went to check it out

Walking around a windmill, starting at the top, pointing at parts of the machinery, then going down. Some Dutch words are exchanged with the maintainer of the windmill

anthropy, 14 days ago to random

Have something cursed, because I beer'd my laptop and it made the keyboard sticky. I'm too lazy to take it apart entirely just to fix the keyboard, so I'm just dousing it in distilled water :drgn_3c_evil:

It'll be fine.. Probably. Likely. Hopefully. Only one way to find out and that's Science! :bongo:

Video of a sink where someone is holding a laptop, the keyboard keys aren't working well (sticky) and are making crackling noises, so the laptop (with the full mobo still inside) gets hosed off with distilled water

anthropy, 14 days ago to random

seeing a 'new' 'TunnelVision' attack where they (ab)use DHCP option 121 to introduce routes that redirect all traffic from the user to the attacker.

it doesn't.. really seem that new though? DHCP has always been a weak point, just set up a fast DHCP server and you can usually outrun the centralized ones and get clients in the same network to use you as their host, you could even set the default gateway that way and don't need option 121 🤷
not to mention all the crap you can pull with ARP poison

anthropy, 15 days ago to random

english should get smallification words like dutch so you can be like "henlo yas i would liek to have a breadje with cheemzies and a glassje milkies" and call your friends cutesy and smol by just adding je/tje to their names

anthropy, 16 days ago to random

I maded a foob

(Fried beef, brie and fresh garlic slices, topped with wasabi mayo, on a warm baguette)

anthropy, 16 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Apparently 'the USA' (probably some republican?) sent this threat to the ICJ for trying to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for their war crimes.

I have a feeling there's bits of zionists spread out across the globe, infiltrated into various govt institutions, pressuring and sending out these kinds of letters, pretending it's for the good of everyone but they just have the very specific agenda of letting Israel get away with whatever they want. Probably similar to Russian infiltration tbh

anthropy, 17 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SfhgWkgeTNw seen this absolute wild ride going around, can anyone confirm if it's real?

anthropy, 17 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-hzue8KIS9M clever way to make thermite with two metal balls and some alufoil, by letting one of the balls get rusty and wrapping the other one in the alufoil

anthropy, 18 days ago to random

"henlo yes i am a rer monster, can u send me a frend rerquest"

why are domains so addictive to get 😭 now to decide if I'm going to bite the bullet and host some public fedi social on one or both of these or if I'll chicken out and do something else with them

anthropy, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

I think it's safe to add (giga/peta/tera)flops per second to the list of LCD display, LED diode/light, CD/DVD disc, SSD drive, ATM machine, PIN number, PDF format, GPS system, LAN network, RAID array, RAM memory, HTML language, GUI interface, SCSI interface, NIC card, SAT test, UPC code / ISBN number etc