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foone, 14 hours ago to random

Personally I only use the most legitimate of software.

foone, 1 day ago to random

Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/750216135935492096/why-do-35-inch-floppy-disks-seem-so-much-more

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

foone, 1 day ago to random

this electrical device is a special sort of terrible: They labeled the polarity of the DC power jack, but not the voltage (or current, for that matter)

foone, 1 day ago to random

I love when sites have 1.5factor authentication.

You put in your username, and it's like "hey, log in with a code to your phone, or a password!" and my password manager already filled the password, so I just hit continue.

and then it asks me to verify a code it sent to my phone anyway for 2fa

foone, 1 day ago to random

Is anyone planning a Berlin Airlift situation to drop vitally needed hormones and antiandrogens into occupied England?

foone, 2 days ago to random

Here's a weird question: so Dynix made a text-based library catalog system that used Wyse terminals, and they shipped them with custom keyboards. They had four keys above the numpad: one of these keys was Start Over/New Search.

Does anyone remember having used these terminals, and recall what those other keys were?

foone, 2 days ago to random

Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

foone, 2 days ago to random

"2 factor authentication" is an english word meaning "we'll text you a 6 digit number"

foone, 2 days ago to random

my telco just gave me the option to login to my account with fingerprint or face-id.

totally normal except I'm just using firefox on a laptop. I'm picking that option just to see how it works!

foone, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

foone, 3 days ago to random

We need a different word for "old computer parts" and "parts for old computers". People use "retro" for both.

Like a Packard Bell 486 is the former: it was made in the 90s.

And a PicoGUS is the later: it's an ISA card that can be used in computers from the 90s, but it was made recently.

foone, 3 days ago to random

I wonder how hard it would be to introduce intentionally faulty memory to QEMU, to emulate what happens when bits flip

foone, 4 days ago to random

When are they gonna make a smartphone with a built in RFID cloner? It'd make managing all those fobs easier

foone, 4 days ago to random

you know what'd be a cool feature for an image editor?
"export last action as code"

where it looks at the last thing in the undo/redo buffer, and saves it out as a program (in C/C++/whateverscripting) that uses an ImageEditorLibrary to do the same thing

foone, 4 days ago to random

You know the whole "defund the National Labor Relations Board" thing that musk & bezos are pushing?

I'm currently working on a project where I'm digitizing old supreme court records, and it makes me think we definitely need the NLRB, if only for how often they were having to sue companies for flagrant violations of labor law.
Seriously it seems sometimes every 3rd case is "Some Horrible Employer vs NLRB"

foone, 5 days ago to random

every time a job asks for BDD experience I'm like "why do they need people with Body dysmorphic disorder?"

foone, 6 days ago to random

The way sentences containing the German character ß get longer when uppercased was specially designed to create memory problems in C programs doing string handling

foone, 6 days ago to random

it doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that the fools who were supposed to be paying my HMO have apparently lost their DNS server

foone, 6 days ago to random

The worst part of digitization work is having to practice reloading the label printer blindfolded

foone, 6 days ago to random

Good news everyone! It is NOT radioactive!

foone, 8 days ago to random

So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

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foone, 9 days ago to random

The real reason HD-DVD failed is because it used Javascript for interactivity

foone, 9 days ago to random

Idea: the Doom Army Knife.
It's an arm SBC with multiple types of lvds output and parallel RGB, plus a bunch of GPIO for inputs.

The idea is that it's designed for splicing into a devices existing screen and buttons, and producing a Doom-playing device

foone, 10 days ago to random

I just saw a job listing for a company doing "home defense using AI and non-lethal deterrence"

The company's name? Sauron.

foone, 11 days ago to random

I want a macropad keyboard that's also kind-of a watch. Like, it's a macropad, but you wear it on your wrist/arm.