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emily

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I make electronics go beep boop and tools go spinny. Also, I pet cats sometimes.

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ailurux, to random
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blender's freestyle has a lot more fun options to twiddle than i thought

emily,
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@jacqueline @ailurux honestly I can see this being like a cover image on a manual or something

emily, to random
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Blargh. Migraine after work, applied drugs and slept for four hours to make it mostly go away.

Had a dream about a tall building held together with three screws, and I found one of them on the ground nearby and was like "oh no, fixing this is my responsibility now". I don't believe in dream interpretation at all in the sense of getting any sort of new information out of them, but damn, the sleepy hallucination lobe accidentally spits out some fun metaphors once in a while.

emily, to random
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it has been 0 days since I had to drill out a tiny hex head screw that became a circle head screw

orders more torx

emily, to random
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had an idea that needed a bunch of weather forecast data, hacked it together using the US NWS API, getting so many 500s I am slightly concerned that I melted a government server somewhere

provide bulk data dumps you dummies

emily, to random
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Mm. Cardiologist appointments are noticeably different since transitioning.

Cardiologist appointments as a man are like "fuckit, just take your shirt off, display your nipples to the world".

As a woman, I get a robe and a towel while they're poking at my chest with the echocardiothing, and they go out of their way to not look under them and generally be as polite as one can be while intently rubbing a device on a woman's chest.

(nothing is wrong, this is a routine checkup for an Unusual Heart Geometry Issue at birth that has long since stopped being a real issue)

emily,
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Unrelated to that, my cardiologist works in a children's hospital so while they do this I get to watch both the pretty galaxy projector thing designed to amuse small children and the HGTV house hunting show they presumably flipped the TV to immediately before I walked in thinking "wait shit what do grownups like"

mlsn, to random
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I finally set up my nginx to send a gzip bomb to scanners that try to hit /wp-* stuff because there ain't no wordpress on my website thank you very much

emily,
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@mlsn that sounds fun, mind sharing the config for it?

emily,
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@mlsn Done :D I went with 100MB of '<'. 100MB to not waste so much of my own bandwidth (gzip is bad; you wouldn't think gzip | gzip would do anything but it does), '<' because that sounds like it might crash an HTML parser somewhere.

emily,
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@mlsn future Em is going to be so fucking confused if she ever tries to set up wordpress

trixter, to animals
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My foster cats getting ready to drop a new album.

emily,
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@trixter actually for cats the correct phrase is "knock a new album on the floor"

emily, to random
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whenever someone abbreviates "capacitors" to "caps" I imagine capacitors wearing little hats

emily,
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jacqueline, to random
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dear lazy electronics fedi,

why does pulseview seem to crash so much. is there a piece of software that's like pulseview but doesnt crash all the time? is it not meant to crash and i'm holding it wrong? let me know!

emily,
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@jacqueline pulseview never crashes for me. my logic analyzer does occasionally crash and need to be power cycled, but pulseview stays running and trying its best in vain to be useful

emily, to random
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Asked my label maker to print out its symbol list for reference and instead I got a series of emoji that are, as far as I can tell, not available to select anywhere?

emily, to random
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I set up a camera pointed at my printer yesterday, just in time to generate a time lapse of it running out of plastic and moving around uselessly for 6 hours last night

emily, to random
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I'm playing with a RC receiver that has a feature where its firmware can be updated over wifi. They have an electron app for it. Okay, fine, saves me from having to deal with your probably terrible build system.

The app breaks if you don't have an internet connection, even if you've previously downloaded and built the same version of the firmware.

Someone did not think this through at all.

emily, to random
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the passive voice should be used more

emily, to random
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suddenly acutely aware that "bemused", "beloved", "bedazzled", etc. suggest a nonzero level of amusement, love, or dazzling respectively, but "beheaded" suggests a significantly more zero number of heads

emily,
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Betrayal is when you give someone trays

emily, to woodworking
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I learned how to do splines today :D

emily, to random
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: Is there a place I can throw firmware dumps of devices in case people ever need them for something?

Mostly things that still exist from companies that are still around, so I don't know if I can get away with just throwing them on archive.org (their upload page says "that you have the right to share", unclear if they actually care or are just covering their asses).

emily, to random
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ever since I stopped using the same username everywhere I now spend like half an hour trying to think of a username every time I register for something that doesn't just use your email address

ktemkin, (edited ) to random
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okay, here's an interesting wide-open one: what services [in general, no restrictions] do people like/recommend?

e.g we use:

  • Mattermost (self-hosted work chat)
  • FastMail (work & personal e-mail, work calendar, work storage)
  • Xero (work accounting software)
  • Simplifi (personal accounting)
  • NextCloud (self-hosted personal storage, calendar)
  • SearXNG (self-hosted [meta] search engine)
  • Forgejo (work git; gitea but federated)
  • BookStack (work wiki)

what do y'all use/recommend?

emily,
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@ktemkin my two are rsync.net and purelymail, they are "you want X. You know what X is. We sell X. That is all." for backup storage and email respectively. <3 companies that do one thing well and get out of the way, on the assumption that you know what you want better than they do.

Also shoutout to radicale (self-hosted caldav/carddav), for being that one thing I regularly outright forget I use for months at a time, because it just sits on a server quietly doing its thing with no maintenance.

emily, to random
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HTML is when you put pictures and words together, and it is not possible

emily,
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a picture is worth a thousand <span class="word">s

emily,
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oh no, I just realized something: HTML gets more bloated over time. Image compression improves over time. There will come a day, if it hasn't already, when - even with an ad blocker - it is actually more bandwidth-efficient to share a screenshot than a link due to the sheer volume of meaningless container divs.

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