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hobbsc

@hobbsc@social.sdf.org

network cowboy and mercenary janitor; one half hillbilly and one half [cyber]punk. clown computing enthusiast. i do filthy, nerdy things.

aka cmhobbs, hobbsc, notcmhobbs, nilmethod, rev. dok. granggg, kd5ryo, and a heap of other names.

elder fedizen from the statusnet days. i am fickle and flighty with social media, so expect this account to implode at any time. i ramble about infosec, tech, games, and whatever the hell else comes to mind. i aggressively mute or block political posts.

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hobbsc, to gaming
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Is anyone aware of game controllers with oversized or very large grips that might work for someone with arthritis?

vga256, to random
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@ThreeOhFour this has your ah, flavour profile

from post by @jesse https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2024/3/31/realmz

hobbsc,
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@vga256 @ThreeOhFour @jesse this looks like an upgraded castle of the winds

gsuberland, to random
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installed Win11 on an old laptop and Rufus prompted me to autopatch the installer to remove the Microsoft account and TPM requirements when I wrote the ISO to USB. cool feature. made it a lot less annoying to set up.

hobbsc,
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@gsuberland would love a more detailed writeup on this, especially the part about "debloater tools". the family and i have to run win11 occasionally and it'd be nice to get rid of the cruft.

hobbsc, to random
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@duran meu amigo ganhou com um estrangulamento na segunda rodada

duran, to random Portuguese
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Qual a sua meta para essa semana?
A minha é jantar algo gostoso na sexta-feira

hobbsc,
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@duran vá assistir a luta do meu companheiro de equipe no fim de semana! 💪

hobbsc,
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@duran MMA

hobbsc,
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@duran valeu! ele está mais que pronto, vem treinando bastante.

hobbsc,
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@duran eu vou, sim! pode haver um vídeo também. eu vou lhe avisar.

ele prefere a trocação, mas também é um guerreiro no chão.

gsuberland, to random
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exhausted today :|

hobbsc,
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@gsuberland apply stimulants! better living through chemical augmentation!

hobbsc,
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@gsuberland apply others, then! stimulant cocktail! get weird!

hobbsc, to gaming
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I wonder what the oldest is that still has some kind of community. I was watching a video about people playing dead games and it made me curious. Initially I thought maybe but I know there's some game on the that's still a thing but I can't remember it. Also maybe (not technically multiplayer) or (maybe doesn't have much of a community?).

killyourfm, to Transformers
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Welcome to the family, Blaster!

A toy robot with red, yellow, and grey colors is held in front of a beach backdrop, with its arm extended and holding a blaster.

hobbsc,
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@killyourfm wasn't there a Soundwave that also became a boom box of sorts?

hobbsc, to random
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this is rad. kinda like websdr: https://swling.com/blog/2024/02/radioside-a-cool-web-based-portable-internet-radio-interface/

hobbsc, to generativeAI
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Been staring at radios for a little bit now. Should probably play with the radios I already have, though. Been a hot minute since I've touched anything radio related. I think I enjoy theory more than communications, which is why was so nice for me. I am quite mic shy.

JoeRess, to random
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I get why companies want to buy pre-roll ads on podcasts that offer them occasionally, but why on earth would they buy them on shows where the first 90 seconds is ALWAYS ads and people instinctively press play, skip, skip, skip, and then listen? Do some people just sit through them or something? Weird.

hobbsc,
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@JoeRess sometimes i sit through ads if my hands are full. maybe there are enough people doing the same to make it viable?

hobbsc, to fediverse
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Today marks my 41th loop of screaming around the sun. Things are generally good considering all of the bad. I'm not much of a birthday celebration kinda guy but I did get myself a piece of cake last night, só that was nice. There's always a good excuse for cake.

Good , ! I'm gonna chug some and go to an open mat at a gym I've never been to before. Should be fun.

hobbsc, to random
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Visiting a site today and I overhear one of the guys say "some dude with a mohawk just rolled up on a dirt bike. I think we're about to get jumped."

Perception is everything, I guess. They didn't immediately think I was gonna stare at computers.

hobbsc, to DOOM
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Hey awesome! A WAD I worked on was in a runner up for the Cacowards!

https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2023/best3/

I made the map PALSIE in The Diseases, and Casualties of This Year Being 1632.

killyourfm, to random
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It's alive! I've resurrected my iPod!

hobbsc,
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@killyourfm i've got an older one running . i've considered getting the flash card upgrades for them for some time now. good stuff.

sdw, to random
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Please choose from the two contemporary design styles for your wifi hardware: “rounded soft box with white light” or “satanic death cult blood sacrifice altar”

hobbsc,
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@sdw i'll have the altar, please. it's bound to produce unholy speeds.

hobbsc,
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@jezra @sdw yeah it'd be a shame to have the antennae all clogged up with viscera after a serious download ritual. i'm with jezra on this one. i didn't think it through...

hobbsc,
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@chillicampari @jezra @sdw this toot almost sounds like it was generated by @spellbookimp

hobbsc, to Signal
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I know a lot of folks are still using and the like for their secure messaging. I haven't heard many people talk about Threema: https://threema.ch

I've been using it for a hot minute ever since the images bug and the response from Signal: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247

I'm not a fan of Moxie or Signal's execs, either. That's mostly a personal thing. Just not folks I trust. It's hard to trust anyone in tech.

I don't have anything to do with . Just figured I'd pass the info along.

duran, to random Portuguese
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    hobbsc,
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    @duran um jogo otimo, ne?

    symmetrizer, to modularsynth
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    As a n00b I have to wonder why some, even DIY style, modules are so outrageously priced? Looking at some schematics I've concluded that some of these are pretty simple circuits consisting of relatively cheap components and PCBs are cheap nowadays so in some cases I really don't get it. A smallish module consisting of 2-3 PCBs, a couple of pots and thonkiconns, some opamps and one or two standard ICs + caps and resistors probably isn't worth a substantial fraction of one months rent. Maybe I'm missing something fundamental.

    hobbsc,
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    @symmetrizer some of it may be folks trying to squeak out a living with the equipment. Custom fabrication of the module cases may be a piece of the puzzle as well. Back when I messed about with synth stuff I usually just tried to make my own modules in order to save money. It was ugly but it mostly worked

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