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indigoparadox

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I'm interested in things (computers, mostly. Old computers, handheld computers, personal computers, minicomputers, etc). Sometimes I also like manga, Pokemon, Vocaloid, or other things.

I like programming as a hobby. Mainly in C and Python but I try to branch out sometimes if appropriate. I also like sensors and automation. Check my media tab for more!

I am 30 or 40 years old. 🦝

If this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.

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NanoRaptor, to random
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It's always a pleasure to open an addition to the collection and find it's brand new inside.

indigoparadox,
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@NanoRaptor I mean, those are good, but I'm also partial to the ones that blow out fine nicotine dust and fumes. I don't drink or do other recreational drugs so I gotta take my highs where they come. 😔

eniko, to random
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The problem with outsourcing your chat or forum to third parties is that you don't own them. That is correct

The problem with self hosting those things yourself is that 1. nobody will use them because why aren't you just using this 3rd party app that everyone is already using and 2. have fun doing your own spam control

Seems like a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation if you ask me

indigoparadox,
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@oblomov @eniko @spots1000 Does anybody remember when Humble Bundle was still a legit thing and they gave you a Steam key and. Desirability key? Does anybody remember Desura? 😌

jake4480, to retrogaming
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Bout time they put SimCity in the World Video Game Hall of Fame, eh? And the others! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-hall-of-fame-rochester-atari-the-sims-b2542346.html

indigoparadox,
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@jake4480 Looking at these games, in particular... if they were just included... I gotta wonder what games could possibly have been there before now? Was it just Minecraft and Skyrim?

screwtape, to Lisp
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I added a get/put example of persistent knowledgebase changes in #Pawn75 #KnowledgeRepresentation #lisp

https://codeberg.org/tfw/pawn-75

(see the README.org)

Basically

-- pineapple

[: type fruit]
[: has-color brown]
[: plant-type bush]
[: produced-in {thailand nicaragua}]
[: latest-rearchived nil]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

indigoparadox,
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@screwtape This kinda reminds me of Prolog...? A little?

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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Can you answer this simple question about the C programming language?

$ cat test.c
<string.h>
<stdio.h>
int main() { printf("%d\n", strlen("\x01c")); }
$ cc test.c && ./a.out

What number does this program print?

indigoparadox,
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@whitequark Hey I answered and then was worried because the majority answered a different thing but then I tried it after doubting my sanity and it turned out I was right! I'm pretty good at this. 😏

Kudos to those folks for answering honestly, tho. 😌

indigoparadox, to random
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Apparently I forgot to turn on the clothes dryer four hours ago when I loaded it with the last load, and now it's midnight.

I'm frustrated.

indigoparadox,
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I really need to figure out some kind of system to tell me (on the second floor) if the 240V dryer in the basement is running and for how long without modifying the house's wiring (or the dryer that matter).

indigoparadox,
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@promovicz Yeah they have all kinds of three-prong smart plugs available (suitable for 99% of things), but I can't find a single four-prong 240V 2-phase (pretty much only used for clothes dryers) smart plug. 😩

indigoparadox,
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@promovicz Yeah, most sane people around here use clamps, I think. I rent, tho, so I can't do anything too crazy, or that I'd want to take w/ me.

I'm also scared of high currents and voltages and AC in general. I've replaced 120V switches and faulty outlets and installed smoke alarms when I had to, but I always use the cheaty lever nuts, following the directions precisely and being very nervous about them after. 😩

I'd very much like to avoid that route, if I can! 😩

NanoRaptor, to random
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Same picture. Same bullshit.

A report card from year 10. It reads in part: English, Grade A, Dana is a very able and talented student who does not always give of her best. This failure to invest much energy in her English prevents her from achieving her full potential although this is not the say that this work is of an inferior standard. Also, Mathematics (Advanced), Grade A, Dana is a keen student but her work lacks discipline. She has a lot of ability but this needs further development.

indigoparadox,
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@NanoRaptor /Hard/ identify with this. It's probably pretty common on the Fediverse. I give my best where I care to, darn it!

hankg, to history

I didn't join the PC world until 1994 when Windows 3.x/DOS 6.x were new. Even from my corner of the computer universe I heard about how "bad" DOS 4.0 was initially. OS/2 Museum does a detailed history of it coinciding with its source release. #ComputerHistory #history #Retrocomputing os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/

indigoparadox,
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@hankg Love the shoutout for COMPAQ DOS 3.31. Still my go-to for sub-386 machines!

Also love the line "IBM made another mistake in assuming that it was free to change many undocumented aspects of DOS." One of the classic blunders developers still make today. 😌

nervous_jessica, to random
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Exciting update about our sculpture at MIT, a robin has built a nest in it! And it's having babies!

a closer photo of the robin perched on the sculpture showing its nest filled with blue eggs housed inside the sculpture

indigoparadox,
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@nervous_jessica You know what they say... art incubates life. 😌

indigoparadox, to random
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Sometimes I'll see something that is so, obviously, brazenly contradictory to reality that it just puts me in a bad mood. The flaws are so obvious that I know that if I respond by pointing them out, I'll be shouting into the void at best, which makes it more annoying. I wish people wouldn't do that. Have some respect for yourself.

indigoparadox, to random
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100MB file copied over sshfs:

104857600 bytes (105 MB, 100 MiB) copied, 1.70101 s, 61.6 MB/s

100MB file copied over sshfs via SSH ProxyCommand:

104857600 bytes (105 MB, 100 MiB) copied, 10.1955 s, 10.3 MB/s

And that's on the local network... guess that isn't a good way to achieve transparency to the NAS. 😔

indigoparadox,
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@promovicz I've been using sshfs for a while, now, and the speed is fine... so I must be OK with 60MB/s. But it's really draggy through the proxy (but maybe I didn't give nautilus enough time to "adjust" after restarting autofs)...

I get it. NFS got parole and has totally reformed and turned over a new leaf and everyone trusts it now. I'm still... testing the waters. I'm using mbsync to backup my gmail to an NFS share and it's getting an awful lot of duplicate IDs... I don't trust it.

jensorensen, to ukteachers
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A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.

indigoparadox,
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@jensorensen Ignorance is a sin but knowledge is a crime. 😌

futurebird, to random
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OK Maybe I just don't see ads often because I have them blocked so hard but the little box that shows ads in the CurseForge start up screen on Minecraft caught my eye. It's google adsense. I saw:

  • Ad from local college they want people to apply to teach STEM
  • Thriftbooks
  • Discount on makeup and brown foundation

I was disappointed there were no ads for antkeeping products. But this is CREEPY. Is this the current typical state of ads?

This is in ... a minecraft modpack login screen.

indigoparadox,
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@futurebird I saw this toot out of context first and I had questions, but I figured it out. 😌

futurebird, to random
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Sometimes over on formiculture, the premiere ant-keeping discussion forum, parents show up and post because their kid is keeping ants and Something Has Gone Wrong. These are some of the most cryptic and unintentionally hilarious posts on the site.

Title: Random shoots from ant sandwich?
Post: "My son bought an ant farm. It contained a box a tube and a sandwich. He started with lasius Niger ants these died. We bought some fire ants. Now there are shots."

I have SO MANY questions. 1/

indigoparadox,
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@futurebird @irenes "Here's the thing. You said a "pogonomyrmex is a fire ant." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that..."

"Pogo no Myrmex" (ポゴのマーメクス) sounds like an anime about a little ant that rides around on a pogo stick. It makes me think of the first boss, Mack, from Super Mario RPG.

mcc, to random
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I'm in this weird position where I don't necessarily think it's a problem for Brendan Eich to continue working in tech but almost anytime someone tries to specifically defend Brendan Eich's continued presence in tech they seem entirely unable to do so without saying something that sets off every alarm bell I've got

indigoparadox,
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@mcc Every living thing deserves to live, and our system doesn't have much of a social safety net.

Idunno, what other marketable skills does he have? He seems like the kind of guy to have savings, anyway, so I guess this isn't really a good defense.

🤷‍♀️

(EDIT: Still not gonna use Brave, tho. looolololol)

indigoparadox, to random
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I setup one of my old Raspberry Pi 4s with a USB/SATA SSD and Dokemon because I have no principles. I complained about systemd, but I eventually figured that out, too.

indigoparadox,
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@promovicz I bought a bunch of them way before the prices got out of control... I guess they were a bit expensive to start, but $80 and they run off PoE with a little $20 hat and fit anywhere and can do composite video and GPIO to sensors and whatnot... they're so versatile... it seemed worth it! 😩

EDIT: I just realized that means they came out before the start of the pandemic... my perception of time really has stopped lol...

foone, to random
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I wonder if anyone has made a USB PC speaker.

It'd be one of those 2-3" speakers, only bleeps, and it comes inside a reverberant metal box

indigoparadox,
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@foone I have a USB-ISA bridge around somewhere that can theoretically do that (but it needs proprietary drivers for an obsolete kernel that are download restricted by a serial number I don't have)... Let's build a whole old PC out of USB! Like one of those flight simulator cockpits!

indigoparadox,
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@foone Pretty sure it was that one, maybe. By Arstech.

Looks like it wasn't a serial, just a download link I didn't have... I found the downloads (including special DOSBox) in a Vogons thread after looking again... Software last updated in 2013. 😌

EDIT: This guy: http://arstech.com/install/ecom-prodshow/usb2isax3.html

And software: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=76234

eniko, to random
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youtubers stop using the term "asset flip" for reusing an enemy sprite or model recolored for a different enemy challenge

words have meaning and that is not even remotely close to what that term means

indigoparadox,
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@eniko Do the kids not say "palette swap" anymore? I use it quite a bit but it's usually around normies and they seem just as puzzled as when I talk about SMS.

whitequark, to random
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girl who interprets "the Intel architecture" to refer to iAPX 432

indigoparadox,
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@foone I only saw this reply and my first immediate thought was "Intel architecture? You mean the iAPX?" Then I saw the originall post by @whitequark and it was like, right? We're talking about normal people, here. Desktop architectures are what normal people are focused on. This is normal.

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