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dheadshot

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I really ought to have a bio, but I never know what to write. You can probably get a feel for who I am by just reading a few of my toots TBH.

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NanoRaptor, to random
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Overheard today someone referring to the cybertruck as an Elon P76 and it just tickled my slightly obscure Australian motoring history gland.

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane @NanoRaptor Big, heavy American cars have been known as "Yank Tanks" here for decades, so "WankerPanzer" is fitting as a term...

joel, (edited ) to ps1graphics
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Today's is quite a one. Do you remember your first experience with ? I do, and here's the story!

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/first-contact-with-emulation

Day 42 of and day 10 of

cc: @amin @RL_Dane @sotolf @jp @thedoctor @ivan @orbitalmartian @btp

dheadshot,
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@joel
Project64 at school. I'd seen people use various MegaDrive emulators before then, but that was the first emulator I used myself. Diddy Kong Racing was my favourite.

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

dheadshot,
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@sundogplanets I wonder if Boeing had something to do with that?

RL_Dane, to random
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Ooo, found a new-to-me fediverse software in < 15k SLOC of C: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

$ cloc snac2

Language code

C 11441
C/C++ Header 3351
...

SUM: 15533

cc: @amin

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane
Ruby is heavier than Go, I think?
@amin

RL_Dane, to random
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I gave up on using 24-hour time.
I just could never quite get used to it. I was always having to do the math in my head.

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane I use both all the time (I have to living in the UK). Practice helps.

RL_Dane, to random
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Great, the new captcha involves looking for a combination of numbered and dotted 6-sided dice that total to a number given.

Now I'm actually having to THINK to solve captchas.

If they start using differential equations in captchas, I'm sunk.

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane You mean this one? https://nearcyan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/complex_captcha.gif

ghalfacree, to random
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I have to ask, Top Trumps research staff... are you absolutely sure that Edward IV was crowned in 1961?

dheadshot,
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@ghalfacree My theory: someone had bad handwriting and it was misread? (Since handwritten 4s and 9s can look similar).

KelvinShadewing, to random
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Can someone please explain to me why "state" is so evil and why programmers bend over backwards trying to remove it from their code?

dheadshot,
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@KelvinShadewing
Maybe security?

JenMsft, to random
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When your password is 12345

dheadshot,
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@JenMsft Looks like Yorkshire?

popey, to random
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Today I learned that LinkedIn has a 'medium-style' blog platform. Who knew!? So I wrote an article to try it out. It works 🤷

simone is a fledgling Open-Source tool for repurposing YouTube videos as blog posts. I tried it out over my morning coffee. What do you think?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-know-simone-alan-pope-p9cre

dheadshot,
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@popey Instead of using LLMs, wouldn't it be better to just use the autogenerated YouTube subtitles?

dheadshot,
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@popey LLMs have a high power usage. If YouTube's AI captioner has already done the work, why do it again?

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Just realized that tomorrow is a religious holiday.

dheadshot,
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@Mrfunkedude
It is? I thought Passover was next week - that's the only religion I think has a thing around now? According to a search, I see it's an important date for the far right though (Hitler's birthday), but you don't strike me as one of them though?

dosnostalgic, to random
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Spaced, the best sitcom about being in one's early 20s, is free on Tubi, and you should be watching it.
https://tubitv.com/series/300004490/spaced

dheadshot,
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@dosnostalgic Blocked in any country that implements adequate privacy legislation because "Tubi" refuse to even pretend to do the bare minimum to comply...

dheadshot,
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@dosnostalgic What I mean is I can't watch anything from here...

dheadshot,
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@dosnostalgic
Oh. OK

RL_Dane, to privacy
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You know what would be awesome?

A service for the web that renders web pages for you on a server, caches ones that are polled frequently, and presents you with just the useful static elements of the page and no privacy invasion.
Think of shells dot com, but just for the browser, and streaming either something like SVG/PDF or a very sanitized HTML+CSS.

It would be great for casual browsing and web searches where you're just looking for INFORMATION, not an obnoxious web app.

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane frogfind and wallabag do similar things?

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane Of course, if you want webapp-like contents in plain text, the only project I can think of is Browsh: https://www.brow.sh/

RL_Dane, to random
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Me: <logs in with userid and password>
Website: "We sent you an email, please 2FA..."

<thirty minutes pass>

Me: <logs in to same website with userid and password>
Website: "We sent you an email, please 2FA..."
Me: "THAT IS NOT HOW 2FA IS SUPPOSED TO WORK."

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane Worse is:
Website: "We sent you an email, please 2FA..."

<thirty minutes pass>

<Email finally arrives>

Website: "This code is out of date. We sent you a new email, please 2FA..."

mntmn, to random
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ok stuff: uart, vga, hdmi, dp, usb (except usb3 sometimes)

nightmare fuel: dsi, spi, sai/i2s, pcie

dheadshot,
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@mntmn SPI is great for low-level communication, but for displays it is a bit mad...

RL_Dane, to random
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I realized recently that my phone typing accuracy goes way up if I hold the phone lower down, giving my thumbs more space to hit the space bar accurately (because nothing I've used so far is particularly good at recognizing something like "goingbhome" as "going home").

The only problem is the center of gravity of the phone is mostly out of my hands at that point.

Phone cases really need "wings" like game controllers have. Foldable ones would be groovy.

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane Phones just need to return to their circa 2016 size, so they can be held and typed on by the same hand if you want...

dheadshot,
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@RL_Dane 2016, not 2012. 2016 was 5-5.5" screens, meaning around 6" phones.

mxk, to random
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We could all stop writing C/C++ code. But for those of us who don't, we now at least get our buffer overflows visualized as ASCII-art by our compiler.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-fanalyzer-Enhancements

dheadshot,
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@mxk
"For one, GCC 14 gains a new "-Wanalyzer-infinite-loop" option to try to detect simple cases of infinite loops occurring" - isn't this the halting problem? Have they solved it somehow? Does run on ?

Mrfunkedude, to random
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What’s “Threads“? Is it a clothing brand the president likes to wear? Is that what’s happening?

dheadshot,
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@Mrfunkedude
Isn't it a film about a post-apocalyptic dystopia?

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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This country isn't going to survive much longer if we don't get rid of these ghouls.

The Times: "Rishi Sunak faces revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-tory-mps-revolt-homelessness-criminalisation-w07rwhzm6

dheadshot,
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@fkamiah17 Paywall-Free version: https://archive.ph/J2dsE

dheadshot,
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@fkamiah17 Ah, I think they've been DDOSed recently...

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