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foone, 4 days ago to random

The kinda counterpart to the Torment Nexus is that sometimes as a writer you're not really trying to write a cautionary tale so much as thinking that if the Torment Nexus did exist, you personally would not be able to resist it, and would have a lot of fun (and probably screw up your life big time) abusing the Torment Nexus.

So you're writing about the Torment Nexus because it doesn't exist and writing about it is as close as you can get to being able to play with it.

foone, 4 days ago to random

My temp job hasn't been able to have any hours for me for about a month, thanks to technical issues (I can't exactly run the scanner if the scanner is broken!), so I'm kinda completely broke at the moment.
If you've got a spare couple of dollars, it'd really help me get to the next paycheck.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone, 5 days ago to random

I could go down the long rabbithole of figuring out how to call g*mp's image manipulation tools from a commandline or API, or getting imagemagick installed on this PC and figuring out how to port it over there...

or I could be silly and take advantage of the fact that I'm applying gamma ramps to an 8-bit greyscale image. What's the difference between the "before" and "after" images? a different palette.

foone, 4 days ago to random

I found an amazon listing that is for an "HD DVD player"

by which they mean a DVD player that supports HD output, because it's an upscaler.

YALL KNOW HD-DVD IS A DIFFERENT THING, RIGHT?

foone, 4 days ago to random

I'm disappointed that progress in dial up modems seems to have stopped around 2002. You can buy a PCIe modem and it'll be 56k just like the PCI modem you bought back in 2000!

We should invest more into improving modems that work over plain old telephone lines.

foone, 4 days ago to random

I wonder how illegal it would be if you opened up a VHS rental store today, and had unofficial VHS copies of modern films, dubbed from either Netflix or uhd 4k blurays

foone, 3 days ago to random

I've been trying to google/amazon this and having basically no results, so I'm asking here in case anyone knows:

I need graph paper. Specifically I need LARGE graph paper. Like, not an A4 sheet, I need A1-A0 (24/33" or 33x46").
4x4 per inch, or 5x5 per inch grid spaces. I basically need a graph paper with a TON of squares, and I'm not finding it.

foone, 3 days ago to random

a twitch streamer who has a 2D or 3D animated avatar on screen. They're writing C++ code with virtual inheritance

it's a vtuber vtable!

foone, 5 days ago to random

Oh come on, America! It's not THAT bad of a programming language!

foone, 27 days ago to random

thanks to the lack of specificity on this form, I am now free from ALL EMAILS!

foone, 6 days ago to random

I think this is what my next keyboard is gonna look like.

RickiTarr, 7 days ago to random

I love when the world tells older women they are becoming irrelevant and invisible, and they're just like, Good, now I can do what I want, and no one will bother me.

foone, 5 days ago to random

It's funny how I've seen multiple people talking about how Microsoft Recall doesn't take pictures of DRM media, as if this was a conscious decision the Recall team made, and not just a natural consequence of how screenshots already work on modern windows.

foone, 5 days ago to random

Based on this idea:
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/112572811010797144

How about an email client that uses Glide, the 3DFX 3d rendering library?
Specifically targeting the voodoo 2. (I know it's PCI, but there are PCI->PCIe adapters).

The OS can't screenshot it because the OS has no idea what pixels are there!

foone, 6 days ago to random

Silly question:
You know how there are HDMI splitters/adapters that strip DRM?

Are there any that do the opposite? Add DRM?

Like, if I want my computer to think my VCR's HDMI signal is Highly Copyrighted Stuff, can I do that?

foone, 7 days ago to random

The worst part about repairing a dryer over several days is that by the time you're finally able to put it back together, you have no idea where the SCSI cable went.
Gotta check all the DIY repair YouTube videos to see where this came from.

foone, 6 days ago to random

we need metacomputers.

one of the big features of computers and how they improved productivity was how they let us automate a lot of things that we had to do by hand before.

well, most of the things I have to do by hand these days involve badly designed software.

mcc, 6 days ago to random

A funny thing about Google's terrible "AI" is that sometimes when people try to defend it, they say "but if you don't want Google to use 'AI', wouldn't that mean they'd have to remove 'Featured snippets' also?", and this is extremely humorous because featured snippets are also consistently terrible and I've been watching people make fun of them constantly for like ten years