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Just watched "Prisoners" (2013)

Holy shit. I feel like I just found a lost fossil explaining Denis Villvenue

Denis, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis and two separate Batman villains all in the same movie, and you've still somehow never heard of this

Denis shoots exurban Pennsylvania* like it's an alien planet and it is the right choice

  • Spent the whole movie going… PA? Really? These freeways look like Texas to me. Whole thing looks like Texas but wetter. Yeah, they shot in Georgia
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Me at 2 PM: I don't want to do anything today!

Me at 6 PM, after several hours of not doing anything: I'm bored

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I have just been informed that Plex has a bug where if you upload to your Plex server an album either credited to "Various Artists" or containing a mix of artists on each track, it will list that album in the UI as being by "KONAMI". This is apparently a known issue.

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Is there a way in EITHER Firefox or Chrome to block a page (in this case, YouTube) from loading or playing video?

Chrome (though not firefox afaict) has a site/global setting for "block site from showing images", but completely inexplicably¹ blocking images does not block video

¹ Okay, I can explain this, it's probably because the setting is an artifact of the old era when Chrome tried to be useful and that maybe predates the <video> tag

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Cryptic army!! Cryptic army!! Cryptic army!!! https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112549719218391937

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Have you ever heard of "Tiny Tapeout"? It's a tiny service that allows you to make one-off integrated circuit chips (something that normally is expensive and has to be done in large batches). There's a fun thread here: https://mastodon.online/@sylefeb/112548515959650837

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Just opened Firefox for the first time in ages on this computer and oh my god this dialog is so cute it makes me actually forgive how much I hate this kind of dialog

It's animated

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God cyberstalks me he showed me his own face

"God cyberstalks me he showed me his own face"

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Imagine I was feeling less lazy this morning and that I photoshopped these three YouTube thumbnails into the meme image of Vince McMahon getting more and more excited until his brain stops functioning

"Rain" 30min Texas Thunderstorm "Sleep Sounds" | TexasHighDef 826K views
"6 Hours of Washing Machine Sound with Rain | Relaxation & Sleep Therapy" Dead Perspective

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I wish Audacity were better than it is

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I think my favorite program in the entire linux/unix toolchain is "file". Did you even know about this program? It's on every system including MacOS and it's magic. You run it on any file and it just tells you what it is. Any file. I don't know who keeps this updated but it supports surprising things. Like it knows Windows file formats. If it's a executable it tells you if it's 32- or 64- bit. If it's an image it tells you the size and channels. If the file extension lies it just figures it out.

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Do you ever think about how the writers of the cheapo Home Alone cash-in "Blank Check" were really focused on the idea that a bank would not normally actually simply cash a check such as the one at the center of the movie's plot and so they devote an incredible amount of work to contriving a set of circumstances that would cause a bank to not follow the security procedures which a bank in the real world ordinarily be expected to follow when cashing an unusually large check

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This horrible feeling of despair and dread sinks in as I begin to realize that the sample code and the documentation describe completely different interfaces with no overlap whatsoever

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Is this a good time to bring up my deeply held belief that people should be allowed to vote in elections even if they are convicted felons

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Just demoscene problems https://icosahedron.website/@gasman/112536114280738217

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Plastic brain

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A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

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A thing I hate hate hate (but always happens) is when a company distributes "Sample Code" for their API, and you open it up, and what they did was make a series of "Helpful" wrapper classes for the API then write code using the wrapper classes. Now suddenly it isn't sample code for the API, it's sample code for the helper classes. You can't just paste the sample code into your own project, unless you copy the helper classes into every project, in which case why aren't the helper classes the API?

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An interesting statistical quirk: Notice the disjoint in these two posts. This is not rounding; Godfrey, on the left, is counting Grover Cleveland twice

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I wonder what's happening on cable news right now

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LOL

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Long shot: Can anyone recommend me structureless harsh noise. I'm doing a really mind-numbing code maintenance task and I need something to blast all thought out of my head

Currently I'm listening to https://impermanence.bandcamp.com/track/ii and if I can't find a good thing to switch to after that I'm going with this YouTube asmr recording of a washing machine

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Woo the IRS "direct free file" pilot from last year is going to be expanded to everyone* for 2025 https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program

  • Axios specifically says all states will be "invited to participate" so not clear to me if states can choose to opt out. Also not clear, do you have to be a U.S. resident. In the pilot, expatriates could not participate even if our state of last residence was in the pilot.
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Sam Anon, the protagonist of Christine Love's pixelart roadtrip RPG "Get in the Car Loser", is now going to be a plushie https://mastodon.social/@christinelove/112530982622829969

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