masukomi

gvy_dvpont, 1 day ago to random

We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

danilo, 3 days ago to random

I don’t consume much YouTube but for years I’ve been making an exception for Jenny Nicholson’s deep dives on theme parks, which are a matter FORENSIC special interest for her

She offers us this FOUR HOUR post mortem of the Star Wars Hotel, and I’m going to watch every minute of the detailed analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4

masukomi, 12 days ago to random

My phone saw some truly amazing things.

I mostly saw what looked like light pollution on the wrong side of the clouds. Occasionally we could see a brighter streak reaching up. @dachary was able to make out fainter things with more colors, but only tempting hints.

These were all long exposures on a jib with iPhone 15 Pro Max.

#Aurora

The same silhouette of trees and clouds, but all the colors in between are fading as if the saturation has been dropped and a green haze lays over things
A dramatically different photo. The bottom match is a silhouette of trees above that is an incredibly bright section very pale, green, almost white stripes, heading up at a slight angle to the right before being occluded by clouds a little higher there is a break in the clouds and you can see that it has transitioned to a beautiful violet.

whitequark, 24 days ago to random

hm, what's a good way to convert an SVG path to CSV?

masukomi, 23 days ago to 3DPrinting

A little over a week ago I put my #3DPrinting Filament Stackers up for sale on @cults3d & Printables. I'm happy to report a handful of sales 😄

quick numbers, commentary, & screenshots of sales pages in thread.
🧵1/4

masukomi, 7 days ago to mastodon

I've just released a new version 1.2.0 of #FediThready

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready/releases/tag/v1.2.0

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FediThready's a tool for splitting up long posts in to #Mastodon sized chunks. It's a web page that lives on your computer.

#app

mcc, 2 months ago to random

He's here… it's Google. It's him

masukomi, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to ADHD

For all those people out there who still claim that we are getting our kids high by giving them Adderall:

I took my dose at 6:30 AM , went back to sleep, just getting up now 10 minutes before nine.

#ADHD brains are chemically different. Normal brains, get high or focused or whatever. I become slightly more able to find the thing I set down three seconds ago.

masukomi, 17 days ago to random

I sat down to my computer this morning around 7:30 or so. Dr. asked me to look at 2 providers & tell them which I wanted a referral to.

Since then I've

• found a potentially significant security bug in Firefox
• switched back to Vivaldi
• read Tampermonkey Docs
• installed a WebDav server on our Synology
• assigned a domain name to an IP in our Unifi
• failed to do the same in NextDNS
• called a game warden
• made dog food
• called to have our septic tank emptied
• NOT done what I sat down to

masukomi, 16 days ago to random

Side view: normal.
Rear view: uhhh … er.. 🤷‍♀️

A rear view of the same dog. You can see his back paws are on the ground, not supporting his weight, and his butt has slumped down below the top of the hassock. He walked up to it, put his front paws on it and just flopped.

masukomi, 7 days ago to random

Audible started allowing “AI” generated audiobooks ( > 40,000 so far ) but provides no mechanism to filter them out.

Voice actors bring stories to life. Computer voices destroy emotional moments and massacre the sentiment with which phrases are expressed.

This is absolutely terrible

masukomi, 4 hours ago to github

TIL you can set a "Social preview" for your #GitHub repo.

It's under settings, and setting one should make the preview of your repo not be completely useless when you link to it on sites like this.

Let's try it out...

[edit...uh. I'm just seeing the normal default preview. Please fill in poll in reply]

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi, 6 days ago to random

The floof-monster has gone-a-grazing.

Binder, 6 hours ago to random

Stop looking in my direction w/e anyone says “fat fingering” at work challenge 2024

rachelnabors, 2 days ago to random

Me: "Why would people assume ill intent because of being asked questions questions? I thought people liked to be asked questions? Shows interest, makes them the center of attention..."

Other Me: "They don't like them when they assume hidden agendas."

Me: "What, like KGB agent interrogations?"

Other Me: "..."

Me: "Ok, who hurt these people."

masukomi, 8 hours ago to esperanto

Last night i left a little rant about how #Duolingo 's lack of explanations for anything made it impossible to derive when or why you'd use some observable rules AND that it made it impossible to know if it the sentence was correct or an AI generated fuck-up.

It was Perfect fodder for "reply guys", but instead 2 folks showed why i love #Esperanto They stepped up helped. One dug out a helpful link, another explained things in detail that took time.

Thanks Esperanto folks. 🙇‍♀️

masukomi, 6 hours ago to accessibility

I've just pushed a bunch of #accessibility changes for screen readers to the main branch of FediThready. ( It makes long texts into post sized chunks)

I've run through it with #VoiceOver and it seems ok. HOWEVER it all feels like it's "usable" instead of "good".

If there's a #a11y geek out there who uses screen readers regularly I would REALLY appreciate some suggestions on how to make this actually feel good for folks who rely on screen readers.

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi, 4 hours ago to random

TIL that Herman Miller has made a "for-realzies" gaming chair. As opposed to the “let's change the color of the Embody” and call it a gaming chair.

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-furniture/vantum-gaming-chair.html

Wifey & think of ergonomics as a form of insurance. Invest in the good stuff now, so that you don't need to see a doctor later.

Our #HermanMiller Embody chairs have absolutely proven their worth over the years.

masukomi, 19 hours ago to esperanto

I'm seriously thinking about quitting Duolingo, because the more advanced the conjugations get the less clue i have what the fuck is going on because they literally Never explain Anything.

Ex. In #Esperanto "el" means "from" & "de" means "of"

I came FROM the United States
Mi venis EL Usono.

The House OF Usher
La domo DE Usher.

and yet, it's insisting that when you go FROM France to Germany it's

...DE Francio al Germanio

and that EL Franco is definitely wrong.

WHY?!

masukomi, 5 hours ago to random

I am a naturally loud person. Not just volume, though, I am usually either talking to myself, to the dogs, singing something, or having echolalia with a nearby appliance.

On the occasions where I become aware of the fact that I am currently being loud my mind always harkens back to a moment in The Crying Game where Forest Whitaker is telling the story of the scorpion and the frog. The last line is “I can’t hept it. It’s in my nature.”