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glitch girl

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evilchili, to Canada
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Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?

I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.

Please boost for visibility kthx!

#canada #regex #perl

aeva, to random
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I've been aware of the idea since my late teens or early twenties or so, but I've really come to appreciate in the last couple of years to what degree the information your senses tell you is subjective to the point of approaching total fiction.

aeva,
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There's something I read a few years ago that I think about a lot, where it is theorized that the psychological mechanism behind tool use is this: we habitually incorporate objects into our own body schemas, which allows us to both operate the tool without extra cognitive load, but also this creates new temporary ad hoc sense through interpretation.

mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

mjg59, to random
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Adverts with utterly terrifying auras

futurebird, to random
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Is there a good resource or book for learning about some of the details of how webservers work?

For example if I want an IP address on a intranet to be a webpage that people on that intranet can go to... how would I set that up from scratch. Let's say I have a machine with a static IP on the local net... (but what I really also need to understand is how a static IP is established locally, a DNS?)

Maybe the dream book or resource doesn't exist. But I ask anyway.

(it's macs if that matters)

loadhigh, to random
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I completely forgot I uploaded VistaPro 3.20 (the scenery renderer) to the Internet Archive, where you can run it from your browser. For those sudden urges of wanting to create some landscapes.

https://archive.org/details/vistapro320

Includes the MakePath tool.

Don't forget to take screenshots of your creations! Nothing can be retrieved from the disk the in-browser DOSBox keeps, as far as I know.

(Please be patient with the Archive's speed, they're dealing with persistent DDoS attacks at the moment)

glyph, to random
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@mcc me thinking about using systemd: "I don't understand why people are so mad about this, launchd is better than sysv init, this is just launchd for linux, I guess they couldn't just port it because some low-level stuff is different but I'm sure it's basically the same"

me actually using systemd: "fuck fuck what is this shit what the fuck why didn't they just actually port launchd to linux, there's no excuse for this"

mcc,
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@glyph it's extra weird because whenever I read the description of how a thing is architected in systemd I go oh, that's pretty reasonable, that's a good way to do it. And then I use it and I just doesn't live up to what I expected, either because of some horrible gaping sore in the UX or because they constrained the functionality to some really narrow case (I assume, something RHEL asked for) and didn't anticipate even slight generalizations of the use case

alexch, to random
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coders were kinda like gods for a few decades, but now we’re more like Daedalus, imprisoned by the greedy and powerful King Minos inside the very labyrinth he paid us to invent and build

thomasfuchs, to retrocomputing
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Missing the time when computer expansions came in beer cans

donni, to random
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Scientists announced today that I am not so bad once you get to know me

lzg, to random
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i once again have a headache and maybe it's that I have a lot of work, but maybe it's that we're witnessing a brutal genocide. who's to say.

lzg,
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maybe i'm dehydrated, maybe it's the collapse of the international human rights system

seaside, to gamedev
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Another rendering has it in for you. Do you believe in dreams?

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deater78, to random
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MichaelKlamerus, to random
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Wrote about some neat looking indie games again

https://virtualmoose.org/2024/05/28/indie-game-roundup-may-28-2024/

screenshot of someone standing next to a pool and saying "A beautiful shimmering patina of damp shines on the slick wet tiles all round. Something sprays me but I don't mind as fresh towels will be provided later by the management. My emotional needs met, I may now enter the sea"
elderly woman sitting in a chair in a small apartment
a bunch of yellow guys and one red guy standing in a field next to a boombox

jk, to random
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in england “twink” means cigarette

curved_ruler, to random
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Is this a tiling? A classic genart piece for

curved_ruler,
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Spiral

256, to random
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The Way Things Work (1994)
Personal Computer

ronikaufman, to random
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Imaginary UI

ronikaufman,
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hannah, to random
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Sorry, large numbers of what

mcc, to random
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It's really difficult to search search engines for information about the Apple 1 and Apple 2 due to the ambiguous and symbol-heavy naming of Apple 2 vs Apple II vs Apple //

Cdespinosa,
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@mcc You forgot Apple ][

mcc, to random
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In 2014, Steve Wozniak woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly thought of a possible improvement on the Apple // design he had until that moment entirely missed https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apple2/c/iiLgD-7INtE

polpo,
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@mcc @foone Yuri's Night was so cool!

I almost literally ran into Woz at Cicero's Pizza in Cupertino. I was looking at a signed photo of him on the wall, said "oh cool, Woz has been here" to myself, turned around and was face to face with the man. I said "whoops, excuse me" and went on my way.

mcc, to random
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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "Desmorph", AcidTonic

Made on one of those wall-sized modular synth racks, the artist describes the video with "Loose ended live improv. First take."

A chill but determined groove undergirded by erratic drums, with a sense of low menace starting to creep in in the second half. Good zone-out music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkh9xgNaplU

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "Techno Live Jam 3 || Subharmonicon, Dfam, Eurorack, Ableton", Sorrowless

This is a driving electronic jam I think I'd describe as "industrial" or "dark trance". The sounds are made on a couple modular synth racks so a neat property of this one is far as I can tell all the drums are being generated live from analog circuitry. Intense, exceptionally clean, effective production and it's all done on some evening's whim for uploading to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsVyQ1zS3mY

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "Battery Driven", quadratschulz

This is a quirky little hiphop jam on a small collection of handheld/toy synthesizer equipment. Featuring 808 cowbells, Chase Bliss pedal mangling, and extended vocals by Miku Hatsune. For serious. That stylophone looking thing is the "Gakken Otona no Kagaku NSX-39 Pocket Miku Singing Keyboard", an officially licensed Vocaloid product. Skranky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSrYpB53JU

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