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SnepperStepper

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Social media rebel! Snow Leopard Furry! Transgender! She/her! 1994! Learning to love myself one day at a time! MacGyvering my way through life!

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nivrig, to random
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SnepperStepper,
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@nivrig it would be nice if these posts came with a guy wearing sunglasses replying with information on how to do the pirating. The sentiment is great and all but where is the affirmative action?

Love,
A lady in sunglasses.

georgetakei, to random

The birds would like a word.

SnepperStepper,
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@georgetakei even America hates what America is doing

jacqueline, to random
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how it’s going

camera playing back a recording that’s meant to be a still shot of tangara. it is interrupted by my beautiful orange son putting his paw in frame

SnepperStepper,
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@jacqueline that actually looks like the beginning of a commercial i'd actually watch.

SnepperStepper,
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@jacqueline the cat????

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I wonder if the “Right to Repair” laws will extend to software. At some point, software gets abandoned, and maybe codebases should be made OSS after a certain period.

This will become more critical as vehicles are more integrated with software and services that will one day shut down.

SnepperStepper,
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@khalidabuhakmeh amazing how the actual problem of vehicles running software and how absolutely fucking braindead that shit is goes right over all your heads.

foone, to random
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introducing the first smartphone with RF modulator.

why share your screen over finnicky wifi video streaming protocols, when you can just broadcast NTSC TV signals for any local CRT TV to pick up?

SnepperStepper,
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@foone i would literally buy a phone specifically for this feature. I don't care if its a joke I want this like you have no idea.

dgar, to random
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In the future:
Someone sits in their car on the side of the road, with a police car behind and an officer walking up to their window.

Officer: “Do you have any idea why my car pulled your car over?”

SnepperStepper,
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@dgar the future is sad and nobody knows what to do or why they're doing it. The utopia was a failure and life went on, was it worth it? Carl's Jr. Thinks so, that's why Carl's Jr brought you this thought-provoking look at the days of our lives in this High-tech brand-driven modern society [personalized greeting to serial # 626717647827553677279010]. So why not enjoy a delicious supper from Carl's Jr while you watch this hologram? We love you.

mcc, to random
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There has been a lot of talk about the problems with so-called "AI" but one I don't feel gets enough attention is that "AI" products are surveillance products. "AI" is inevitably run in a cloud service, and in order for the AI to know what to generate some amount of the context within your application— usually it's not clear to the user what context, or how much— has to get sent to the cloud. The more of my local app state that gets transmitted over the Internet, the less comfortable I am.

SnepperStepper,
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@mcc this is why, despite all the theoretical possibilities for limitless potential that modern systems have to offer, i only put in effort on old computer systems and software and keep my modern hardware and use to an absolute bare minimum.

mcnees, to random
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Edwin Hubble announced in 1925 that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were in fact separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.

The Universe was far larger than what many astronomers had allowed themselves to imagine. It was more than just our little island of stars.

Hubble built on observations by Vesto Slipher, collaborated with Milton Humason, and relied on Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s Cepheid variable work to reach this conclusion.

SnepperStepper,
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@mcnees everything is just dust in the wind and meaningless outside of our stupid little traditions and celebrations to break up the otherwise bleak monotony of existence. Life is pointless and we all die eventually. Everything you know and love will come to and end and be forgotten. But hey, there's dark matter somewhere that might be interesting. Thanks for this reminder!

foone, to random
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You know that old legend about how VHS won because Beta didn't have porn?

HEY LOOK, PORN ON BETA. How about that?

disproval of the entire concept in one image.

SnepperStepper,
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@foone it was actually the football game length on VHS's EP/SLP mode, wasn't it? I've never heard the porn thing.

But also i don't condone the format wars. In the words of a canine-rating legend; they're all good formats, brent. They're all unique and have interesting attributes and its worth getting involved with and using all of them.

golgaloth, to ai
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So, CEOs...

SnepperStepper,
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@golgaloth if they didn't put in the effort to make it why should i put in the effort to give it my attention

Daojoan, to random
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Excellent. Via @parismarx

SnepperStepper,
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@Daojoan @parismarx why does the fact teslas & EVs in general are huge terrorism targets not get mentioned much? They burst into flames even on their own and fire depts have a difficult time dealing with so when they get put in parking garages, large amounts of infrastructure damage can occur from their flames. They're practically ticking explosions that are just waiting to happen on the roads and highways.

foone, to random
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I discovered a fun way to break chrome today!

<a href="http://foobar.egg/blah">somelink</a>

Set up foobar.egg so that it has both HTTP and HTTPS set up, but they lead to different places or HTTPS returns a 404/403.

SnepperStepper,
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@foone i'd love to see a browser developed that mimics the old versions, that can run on a modern computer or an old computer the same. I'd think you might have to tune out things like shopify and things that rely on chrome but like, no big loss let's be real. Websites developed old skool are really the only ones worth visiting.

SnepperStepper,
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@foone is that gonna run on my windows 98 setup?

nixCraft, (edited ) to FreeBSD
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"240 million PCs could end up in landfills when Windows 10 support ends"

Sure.

Or they could be repurposed with #Linux or Chrome OS Flex, or #FreeBSD, and we can stop being so freaking dramatic.

If you just browse, watch Netflix, shop, net banking, etc, Linux distributions like Mint or Ubuntu could save you money. It is an environment-friendly option.

SnepperStepper,
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@nixCraft also, if windows 10 wasn't such a trash operating system on lame hardware most of those would be skimmed by hardware enthusiasts and loved again like the pre-7 systems. So really who's fault is all this ewaste but a company who no longer provides a good or service anybody wants to buy and instead hangs on as a corporate leach with a dying niche.

256, to random
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The New Way Things Work (1998)
The Silicon Age

SnepperStepper,
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@256 honestly needs the Comodore Amiga and Video Toaster, condensing the pro grade TV station video editing tools into a package anybody could afford.

nyquildotorg, to random
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"Could AI lead to a four-day workweek?"

Sure! Just get everyone to start posting on the web that there are only four days in a week, then the AI will believe it to be true. Once the AI believes it's true, everyone else will too.

SnepperStepper,
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@nyquildotorg honestly that's not a bad silver lining. Do you think we could get it to lower the cost of living and raise wages too?

carnage4life, to gaming
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Mountain Dew has a new marketing program, called MTN DEW RAID which will scan Twitch streams with the tag, searching for Mountain Dew products and logos visible.

If the streamer is part of the RAID program then they'll be rewarded, otherwise it'll send a chat to the streamer asking if they want to participate.

This is a great example of the kinds of capabilities that will now be widespread as AI is commoditized .

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mountain-dew-ai-twitch-gamers/

SnepperStepper,
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@Lando @codinghorror macdonald spicegy hamburgar

SnepperStepper,
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@codinghorror @Lando yeb verby gewb speekimn

SnepperStepper,
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@codinghorror @Lando I am feeling anguish at your responses, thank you.

SnepperStepper, to random
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@foone riddle me this: what's cool and old and should be beloved by lofi video nerds but retains zero online footprint and only one instance in existance (that i'm aware of)? The answer is in the pictures.

Inside page of the same userguide, denoting a date of manufacture and some specs
Feature list inside the same manual. It has an excellent chroma key function
The Videonics Studio Sketch itself

Chrishallbeck, to comics
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Pain.

SnepperStepper,
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@Chrishallbeck try new caplita

256, to random
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PC/Computing - September 1996
https://archive.org/details/pc-computing-magazine-v9i9/page/n103/mode/2up

SnepperStepper,
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@256 i am horrified yet slightly aroused

sundogplanets, to random
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COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

SnepperStepper,
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@sundogplanets fucking starlink has been overhead like 5 times recently. It was novel the first time i guess but now its just like "oh boy here we go again. And the stars were looking so pretty tonight"

256, to random
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PC Mag - September 1998
https://books.google.com/books?id=sdGz21L4yuAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

SnepperStepper,
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@256 honestly fuck google chrome i'm downloading netscape navigator

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