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nyquildotorg

@nyquildotorg@fedia.social

Mobile-addicted. Web-dependent. Digital Plumber. Nerd. He/him. No-coiner.

Citizen of various fediverses over the years, this one since my first Mastodon account in January 2017. Alt-text enthusiast, lover of having his mind changed.

If you engage to disagree with something I've posted, it probably increases the likelihood of a follow. (But chances are pretty good, anyway.)

Boosts and quote-boosts welcome.

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Bottle caps as currency in the Fallout show cracked me up.

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Okay, there's an Iceshrimp issue where copying a link to a post from a fly out menu sometimes also clicks through to the boost button on that post. Really annoying.

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We have lots of hummingbirds.

There are plenty of healthy options for them, but damn if they don't all go for my feeder.

What should I call it?

nyquildotorg,
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@jrconlin Starbeaks?

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@jrconlin that's rad!

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@jrconlin Starbeax maybe?

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@jrconlin I think I just had a Mandela Effect for a second there. I was sure they used an X in Starbucks lol

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Help Computer:

I got a futon kinda like this, the mattress keeps slipping down very fast after I bump it back up. IDK if it's gotten worse or I'm doing something wrong but I have to adjust it more than once a week now

What do

nyquildotorg,
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@SirTapTap I think I found covers that had ties on all four corners

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@SirTapTap

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Yankee Candle Truther leaving reviews about how super duper strong each candle's smell is in order to "cancel out" ANTIFA's effort to leave so many "I can't smell it at all!" reviews.

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"[LLMs] owe a lot to non-commercial user content: Reddit, Stack Exchange, Quora, Wikipedia, and the "small web".

Ok, but Reddit, Stack Exchange and Quora are not non-commercial 🤷

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@jamie the sites are making the money off the stuff the users are posting for free.

I think I see what you're getting at. The users are writing the content without commercial intent on their part. They're working for a commercial entity for free.

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Slowly adding erotica phrases to all the Google Docs I'm sick of having to maintain at work

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I've heard the story about how the A&W' 1/3 lb burger at the same price as McDonald's Quarter Pounder failed because America is bad at fractions, but I do not believe that's the whole story.

Incredibly important factors:

  1. A&W burgers sucked.

  2. McDonalds was already an advertising juggernaut by that point. No kids have ever begged their parents to go to A&W to get a burger, which means the parents don't need to buy a bigger burger.

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@suetanvil I'll have to try it. Not sure how much I trust the memory or tastes of six-year-old me.

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@suetanvil I love their Coney dogs though

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At the time I made the comparison I was probably 6 years old, and getting to go to McDonald's was a rarity, so it was like a special treat.

I love a really expensive burger, but I also love a shitty flat burger from McDonalds. I don't think they can be compared because they're different things.

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Scientists / Zionists has the same energy as Tobias thinking Job's show was at The Gothic Asshole instead of The Gothic Castle.

skepchick.org/2024/05/this-pro-science-political-charity-actually-sucks/

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Antisemitic Space Laser

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"Once installed, you just need to hook up your PS4 to the TV via the Ethernet port. Then, with the exploit running on the TV, telling the PS4 to set up the LAN via PPPoE will be enough to complete the jailbreak."

I love the idea of this hyper-specific PS4 jailbreak leveraging a particular model of LG television hooked to the PS4.

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I just remembered the time I was working on reverse engineering the Vine API and discovered that there were no checks at all for the size/length of the video at upload time. The length of the video was enforced in the app at capture time...

I joked about uploading The Matrix (1999) a few weeks before some kid discovered the same thing I did, but actually did upload The Matrix (1999) which caused a cascade of problems.

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Something something "Adam and Eve, not Eve and Steve"

(Both Eve and Steve were Questionable Apple pushers.)

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It was so hot and humid that by 11am the Gold Bond Medicated Powder in my pants had turned into Gold Bond Medicated Chowder

nyquildotorg,
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@techphotoguy I don't know if it'll help at all, but it's purely hypothetical, not autobiographical

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Huh. Vivaldi on Android suddenly refuses to open one of the PWAs I have installed. I hope this isn't permanent

nyquildotorg,
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I decided to install Vivaldi Snapshot, which is like a frequently updated dev version, and it doesn't have a menu item for installing PWAs anymore :(

nyquildotorg,
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Oh, because it sees the site in question is already installed as a PWA. And now it works again. Wtf.

nyquildotorg,
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Ok, Vivaldi Snapshot does seem to have fixed the PWA issue. I forgot that yesterday I installed one via Chrome so I could get some work done and forgot about it. Removed it and installed via Vivaldi Snapshot and everything works as expected

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