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whitequark, 26 days ago to random

lol get fucked

i didn't expect to see the Hague Invasion Act be tested in my lifetime

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10545882/vs-dreigt-met-maatregelen-tegen-strafhof-den-haag

anildash, 4 months ago to random

Really pleased to see this post outlining how @devs helps deliver more of the fediverse than any other platform. And the majority of that is done for free, as part of our Fast Forward program for supporting open source and the open web. Best of all, there are lots of different platforms doing this work, exactly as you'd hope — the open web is more competitive and enables lots of different options. https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances

foone, 2 months ago to random

I listened to a podcast about the Therac-25 disaster ( where a malfunctioning radiotherapy machine injured several patients ) and I learned the funniest element of this whole situation:

at one point the company that made the thing issued directions on how to work around the error: They told the hospitals to go to their PDP-11 terminals, and remove the "up" key from the keyboards.

foone, 10 months ago to random

If you're trying to hack the code for a hentai game or a IoT sex toy, is that considered perverse engineering?

foone, 4 months ago to random

I wonder how much the push to return to office is companies realizing that given their business practices, having every conversation they have with employees be recordable is probably going to bite them in the end

foone, 9 months ago to random

I've been trying to move out of my old storage unit (because I can't afford it) but it's gotten delayed, and I'm at risk of losing it.

Any donations to help me keep my collection of old computers would be very helpful!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone, 9 months ago to random

I have a USB-C cable that only works one way. You plug it in, no charging. Flip it 180, It works fine.

This seems wrong

foone, 9 months ago to random

I'm having to use VSCode for a project, but what I want to know is where is the theme that makes it look like this?

foone, 8 months ago to random

ahh, that fun feeling when you're like "damn it, I need a tool to do X"
and then you realize there is one
and you wrote it
18 years ago

foone, 6 months ago to random

fun fact: if you design a product that takes a barrel-jack plug, and don't specify anywhere if it's center-positive or center-negative, you go to hell when you die

foone, 6 months ago to random

my favorite thing about the XFCE desktop environment is how the network applet pops up these messages all the time and there's a handy dandy "don't show this again" button that does ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING

foone, 11 months ago to random

You know, the older I get, the more I think about Charles Stross's Laundry Series and how in it, computer science and applied demonology are the same subject, and older experts in this joint field tend to develop spongey brains from accidentally summoning tiny demons in their head.

I'm just saying "your brain doesn't work because your knowledge of programming has caused interdimensional energy beings to manifest in your grey matter" keeps making more and more sense as time goes on.

foone, 5 months ago to random

3d printing makes you realize how big a millimeter is, and video game programming and video editing makes you realize how long a second is.

I need to find more hobbies that'll mess up my other sense of units. I've got space and time, what about weight? density? brightness? temperature?

foone, 4 months ago to random

I'm sure it's fine

foone, 4 months ago to random

I tried to cat a text file to my printer and this is what happened

foone, 1 year ago to random

weird things I find while reverse engineering:

every Player object has a Gender field, but it's unused unless you're a robot.

foone, 7 months ago to random

I wonder if anyone has ever made a key lock where it turns on any key, but provides a value back to the connected computer to tell you the bitting of the key

foone, 9 months ago to random

Have you ever wondered if you can run Microsoft 3D Movie Maker on the Hand386?

You can. It's not fast, but it runs.

foone, 3 months ago to random

I'm kinda horribly broke again and need to get back to getting out of my storage units, but at the moment I can't even pay for them, let alone the shelving/truck/time I'd need to be able to move out of them. So if you're able to donate something, that'd be really helpful!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone, 1 day ago to random

I was copying a Totally Legal Game Backup onto my roommate's switch and it confused Windows so much that it told me I had the wrong floppy diskette in the drive.

foone, 1 month ago to random

I got recognized at the electronics fair, but the funniest part is that they didn't fully recognize me at first.

Then I mentioned I was planning to do Terrible Things to a keyboard I bought, and THAT'S WHEN they recognized me.

Apparently my reputation precedes me.

foone, 1 month ago to random

The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

foone, 27 days ago to random

Who is letting @NanoRaptor design ram sticks?

foone, 24 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, 2 days ago to random

Apparently DoorDash has started filling in missing item descriptions by generating them with AI.

I'm sure this'll not cause ANY problems