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i made that mastodon boop sound

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"In England and Wales, courts consider computers, as a matter of law, to have been working correctly unless there is evidence to the contrary. Therefore, evidence produced by computers is treated as reliable unless other evidence suggests otherwise. [...] A court will treat a computer as if it is working perfectly unless someone can show why that is not the case. This presumption poses a challenge to those who dispute evidence produced by a computer system"

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i had an app on my iphone which my phone's operating system randomly decided to delete off my phone. thankfully, they replaced the icon with a shortcut to re-download the app from the app store. when i tapped it, it said "sorry this app no longer exists on the app store so it's gone forever". so they deleted my app! not the developer's app, sure the developer made the app but the app was mine, it was on my phone! and they deleted it!

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everything is so ephemeral now that i don't develop any kind of memory of, or attachment to, anything technology-related anymore. no brand can do any specific thing for long enough to exist in brain

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consumer choice nowadays is like a kind of "two guys with sawn-off shotguns, circling each other very slowly, while one attempts to hand the other a fistful of bottle caps in exchange for a rotten onion"

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i think when the usa collapses the process will look a lot less like rome and more like what happened with blockbuster video

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"in general, we have not seen a significant uptick in rock-eating or pizza-gluing," the spokesperson said, "only a few hundred thousand cases in the past week, so the vast majority of our users remain unaffected by any relevant gastrointestinal issues."

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440 Hz: normal tuning
432 Hz: mystical tuning
400 Hz: for recording in an airplane

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I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg

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@mcc i've always wondered why arpeggios with delay are universally synonymous with the imparting of factual information. you see it everywhere, in documentaries, video game scores, etc. maybe the repeating patterns are kinda like a clock signal for your brain to latch their infodump by

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@mcc theyre probably in the tail-end of it, by which i mean that D-50/M1 marimba arpeggio which you hear behind explanations of the lifecycle of reptiles, or descriptions of chemical accidents

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@mcc @savedr paddy kingsland specifically loved his arpeggios

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to effectively compete with microsoft, linux needs to up its AI game. heres some ideas:

  • new default shell with "did you mean" autocomplete recommendation carousel showing adverts for popular pay-to-win games using sixel graphics
  • kernel continuously runs strings on /dev/mem and pipes the result up to the chatgpt 32-gigatoken-context model
  • drop support for opengl/vulkan and replace with dall-e for increased realism
  • tux now lives on your desktop and can joke, write rap lyrics, and flirt
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expired: online streaming service

tired: local music library app

wired: sorting every sound file on your computer by date modified and really drilling down into the 2002-2005 era, really bathing in all the 96kbps weird al limewire content, just absolutely jiving and bumpin it with star wars disco theme, absolutely living and loving life with 59 second long wma clips of the matrix soundtrack in mono

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this morning i am thinking about the clarinet solo on 'Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold'

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what's the most powerful RISC-V computer you can buy in mid-2024

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i gave up caffeine completely two months ago. it was pretty easy after i got past a couple of days of constant low-level flu-like headache. over the subsequent 71 days i've noticed the following results:

  • slightly less energy
  • slightly less ability to concentrate
  • slightly less desire to do things

the only reason i've stuck with it this long is that it seemed like an achievement that i didn't want to ruin, but to be honest, i should probably just start drinking coffee again at some point

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The wifi on my Thinkpad running Linux works really, really bad and I don't understand why, and it seems to only behave this way intermittently

Speed test on desktop with ethernet: 804 Mbps down, 500 Mbps up

Speed test on laptop with wifi: 1-4 Mbps down, upload test simply crashes and sends no data (this is the Google/MLabs internet test), meanwhile I'm downloading a new Rust with Rustup and it's going at 300kb/s which takes a long time

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@mcc if it's worth anything, my thinkpad x13 seems extremely susceptible to interference, more so than any other device i own for some reason. i was having problems similar to yours (extremely rare but unbearable slowdowns etc) and nothing really seemed to help until i ended up trying different channels and looking at linssid

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15 years ago

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the ultimate and most 00s photo i have ever taken

(you may note by the cursor on screen that the ps3 is actually in the process of booting ubuntu)

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in six months the nintendo wii will be 18 years old

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@tomw there are only seven novels which have sold more copies than wii sports. and only one album (thriller)

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everything youd put in a fragment shader was probably invented by pixar, whereas everything youd put in a vertex shader was probably invented by lockheed

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me: hmm let’s have a look, which library should i use?

library A: it’s 1c1h. one c file, one header file

library B: to build this repo you need to install GluoOn, a fork of MoonOn, a build system based on the Ploob ecosystem. Edit the Ploob intermediates for your platform and include them in the XJAMELLE files. XJAMELLE is a post-Turing-complete configuration solution based on JSON, YAML and XML. To get familiar with the language, i recommend these books: note that these are affiliate links,

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"if you don't have a copy of Ploob on your computer, you must build it... using CMake"

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its kind of an indictment of space that the main reason to go to space is to look at the earth

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