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apgarcia

@apgarcia@fosstodon.org

:c_language: :bash: :linux: 👾 :copyleft:
linux sysadmin.
i dabble in: coding, making, retrocomputing, synths...

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DZGrizzle, to random
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From the Coaching Network

apgarcia,
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@DZGrizzle Cartoons about Republican Jesus have been around a long time, but to hear people actually espouse those views is inspiring in a way. It makes me want to start a movement, call it "Conservative Christianity", and make some money off these people. Tax free! Then use their own dollars to fund homeless shelters and such...or is that where the scheme falls apart, once they get wise to it?

NanoRaptor, to random
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Installing Mac system software on your Ti-92 Plus gives you a calculator in your calculator.

apgarcia,
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@NanoRaptor there's a great story about that Mac calculator! Forgive me if my details are off, but the gist of it is that the guy who wrote it got fired from Apple. But he came into the office anyway and worked on it, even enlisting the help of Apple employees. Before Apple got wise to the scheme, the product shipped!

diyelectromusic, to RaspberryPi
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I appear to have MiniDexed (and circle) supporting ST7789 displays now, which means I can use a Pimoroni Pirate Audio with MiniDexed!

If you only need USB MIDI this is about as simple an option as it will be possible to have.

It would be a particularly neat, self-contained Pi Zero USB Gadget...

apgarcia,
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@diyelectromusic sweet! Just curious, do you have a favorite audio shield for raspberry pi?

sxa, to VintageOSes
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I may just admit to myself that I'm unlikely to really use some of the old kit like this Ultra-10 again. A lot of them have had the onboard (not trivial replaceable) battery due so they've lost the memory of what their MAC addresses were ...

apgarcia,
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@sxa it's a tough call. I still regret getting rid of my microvax, but there's only so much space.

Sonikku, to random
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NNNOOOOO
https://mastodon.social/

apgarcia,
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@Sonikku

Dark have been my dreams of late.

mitch, to random
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God has a plan for me. I just know it.

apgarcia,
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@mitch

Through fate, or divine intervention?

Do you want to continue this theological discussion in the car, or at the jail house with the cops?

Sonikku, to random
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I miss the simpler times in my life…

Just me and and my janky computer and a Dreamcast.

apgarcia,
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@Sonikku is that a street fighter joystick?

rightardia, to random
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Scientists test for quantum nature of gravity | ScienceDaily

What is gravity? No one knows for certain.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502141218.htm

apgarcia,
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@rightardia when my sister was little, she thought that gravity was like gravel. One day I saw her scraping her shoes and asked her what she was doing. She said, "I'm trying to scrape the gravity off them so I can fly."

juglugs, to random
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Leave me unattended in your home for 30 seconds and there's a pretty good chance I'm going to run upstairs and try on your pyjamas

apgarcia,
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@juglugs I guess they'll just have to make it a sleepover. 😆

apgarcia, to random
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That's terrible, and I'm sorry you've been through all that.

GrimmReality, to random
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She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.

apgarcia,
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@seachanger @GrimmReality bear spray works pretty well on people, too...

mhalligan, to random
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Hipsters who threaten to leave America if Trump wins don’t understand that they have two options for migration: Marry, someone for a visa or spend $500k-$1million on a golden visa.

It’s a herculean effort just to get a bank account in another country.

Work visas are only available for STEM positions if you are recognized as being the very top of your field.

We aren’t really welcome in other countries. America is all we have, If we lose it, we lose eveything.

apgarcia,
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@mhalligan I didn't look into this seriously, but when that guy was in office, I briefly looked it up once. IIRC, it costs $20K to become a Canadian citizen, and they have some sort of points system to determine whether you're approved.

jik, to privacy
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No, Senator Bennet, I didn't fucking sign up for or agree to you sending me text messages, and fuck you for buying a list and spamming everyone on it with texts falsely claiming they signed up.
I fucking hate these fucking politicians fucking lying and fucking spamming people without their consent.
In case you didn't notice, this is something I feel strongly about.

apgarcia,
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@jik and six F bombs, for those who lost count 😁

apgarcia, to animals
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atomicpoet, to random
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This guy took a SEGA Genesis and transformed it into a working keyboard synth.

And I just love the sound that comes out of it. That Yamaha DX7 sound chip is iconic.

https://youtu.be/V0kq0yCTpNE

apgarcia,
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@atomicpoet You can buy a synth with two of those chips. I don't have one, but I do have a couple other synths by Twisted Electrons, and I love them.

https://www.twistedelectrons.com/megafm

apgarcia, to GenX
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I felt like a time traveler today. I asked a 26 year old guy, "Do you like Smashing Pumpkins?"

He looked confused for a moment, and then he said, "I don't think I've ever done that."

I explained that they were a band from Chicago that was fairly big in the 1990s.

"I've never heard of them," he said.

#GenX

unixbhaskar, to random
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Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Willie Nelson's number

🎶 Always On My Mind 🎶.......... ah, lovely!

and the verses...

🎶 Maybe I didn't love you

Quite as often as I could have

Maybe I didn't treat you

Quite as good as I should have

If I made you feel, oh, second best (you did, you did)

Girl, I'm sorry I was blind

apgarcia,
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@unixbhaskar Elvis sang it before Willie, I think, but neither of them wrote it. A fine little tune..

adrianco, to random
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Visiting the UK and watching a 1980’s rerun episode of Top of the Pops and seeing Duran Duran again was cool but WTF was this? Willie Nelson duet with Julio Inglesias…

apgarcia,
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@adrianco "To all the girls I've loved before", a karaoke favorite...

amoroso, to Java
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This HotJava lapel pin is swag I got at a mid 1990s Sun Java event in Milan, Italy, where Jim Gosling gave a talk.

One of the lead developers of HotJava, Herb Jellinek, worked on Interlisp at Xerox prior to Sun and now he's on the board of the Medley Interlisp Project. It's a small world.

In case you never heard of HotJava:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava

apgarcia,
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@amoroso I actually used hotjava for a short while back then...

apgarcia,
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@amoroso One feature I remember is that it had a separate download bar for each file in the web page as it loaded. This new www thing was taking off, and people were connecting to the Internet with their modems at typical speeds of 2400 bps, 9600 bps, etc. 🙂

yakkoj, to random
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Someone with a big SUV: details freak accident; tries to convince me that I should buy WankPanzer like they have.

Me: If I get capped in the ass because someone in a heavy goods vehicle had a seizure, it will have been a good run; I'll KEEP my "small" car.

apgarcia,
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@yakkoj I know someone whose mini Cooper was rear ended by a Yukon, and it was none the worse for it...

starfrost, to random
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Oh fuck

apgarcia,
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@starfrost what is this, an Elmer Fudd locale?

carnage4life, to random
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The CEO of Tata Consultancy Services thinks we are a year or so away from chatbots being able to analyze a customer’s account history and do most of what a human call center operator does today. He expects the need for humans will be minimal after that.

I agree that looks likely as call center interactions have quite a narrow script and a ton of data that can be used to train AI. Replacing humans with chatbots here feels inevitable and continuation of a decades long trend.

apgarcia,
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@carnage4life imagine how hard it's going to be to actually speak with a human when you need to. I wonder if it will even be possible. Sounds nightmarish and dystopian to me.

apgarcia, to random
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It is with some sadness I have learned not everything can be solved with a Unix command.

apgarcia,
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@unixbhaskar I have not yet found a Unix command to make my ex girlfriend take me back.

EDIT: but she was always on my mind...

holly, to random
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@selzero blue man group (1923)

apgarcia,
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@holly @selzero

Something like this?
https://youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc?si=-SrzUf9dQFsnt7rf

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