morix

inthehands, 4 months ago to random

For the past year or so, I’ve been using and enjoying the search engine Kagi. Its search results are…fine, no worse than others, and it’s ad-free, stated privacy as a primary goal, and seemed to have a better ethical sense than its competitors.

Or so I hoped.

1/

rysiek, 21 days ago to random

Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

morix, 10 months ago to animals

Today one of my precious idiot kittens decided she needed to fight string instead of napping, and then had a great time doing it and was far too adorable to not share.

#CatsOfMastodon

A tortoiseshell cat laying in a gray basket, she is flailing and chewing on a dangling piece of string with her back paws claws extended sticking up showing off her toe beans

cstross, 6 months ago to random

GOOD MORNING!

Your thought for the day is:

Muppet Yiffing

aral, 3 months ago to random

Spare a thought for this poor little one tonight. He had a lump removed from his leg today. It’s breaking my heart to see him like this.

Close up of the bandage. The vets were lovely and made him a blue band with a red heart on it.

morix, 7 months ago to emacs

Did a quick lunchtime hack of making a spoopy Emacs zone mode that randomly inserts halloween related emojis into the buffer.

Is it probably buggy? Yup I'd guess it probably is.

Is it rather cool and seasonably appropriate? Also yes, for sure

https://github.com/twitchy-ears/zone-pgm-spoopy

#Emacs #Halloween #Tech

morix, 5 months ago to shitposting

Tag yourself. I think I'm mostly oscillating between True Baby, Cat, and non malicious Rat Bastard because biting people.

#Shitposting #CatsOfMastodon #YesTheTypists #FurryAdjacent

morix, 4 months ago to keyboard

Fedizens! Now in this darkest time of the year it is the time I urge you to give any keyboards, mice, and other input devices you have laying around a bit of a clean if you feel they need it. We use them every day to communicate with the wider world and we deserve to have the nicest user experience we can give ourselves and that includes nice clean boards and mice :)

#keyboard #mice

morix, 3 days ago to shitposting

So with the upcoming UK general election I got inspired to make a fun little toy:

https://github.com/twitchy-ears/2024-uk-general-election-bingo

Basically its some PHP that generates very simple/awful web pages with a CSV file as a data source (yeah it should be an SQLite DB or just statically generated data - I know) to act as random bingo cards to play along with the election, cross them off as they lose their seats :)

#UKPol #Shitposting #Coding

morix, 4 months ago to music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAPxtxyri94 Apparently Dolly Parton just covered "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" and its really rather good :) #Music

morix, 7 months ago to tech

Got reminded of Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324) and how I actually have some servers that return "418 I'M A TEAPOT" when not serving data the way you've contacted them.

Then I thought about Charlie Stross's (@cstross) Laundry novels and the implication of having servers all shout I'M A TEAPOT into the void in unison whenever they deny you something.

Are... are we invoking something we shouldn't?

#Tech #Shitposting #Laundry #Bookstodon

morix, 7 months ago to shitposting

Just getting this in now, I figure it'll make me look like fucking Cassandra in a couple of years.

#Shitposting

morix, 7 months ago to animals

Today in #CatsOfMastodon this particular cutie refuses to sit in my lap when I'm at my desk, but she'll sit in a box on my lap

morix, 7 months ago to shitposting

I've asked this question in other places but I feel like the fedi may have some good answers:

If a strawman argument is arguing by constructing a false and over simplified representation to knock down - whats a "Wicker Man" argument?

#Shitposting #Question

morix, 7 months ago to Wikipedia

Maia Arson Crimew delivering once more (holy bingle!) #Wikipedia #Shitposting

morix, 6 months ago to DOOM

John Romero (the man, the myth, the legend) is once more returning to Doom level creation.

His first large return was Sigil I, released 2018 for Dooms 25th anniversary, and now freely available https://romero.com/sigil - and now he's following it up with Sigil II for Doom's 30th.

It's getting released on 2023-12-10, a little after midnight, and costs €6.66 for the digital edition, including soundtracks by THORR and James Paddock.

https://romero.com/shop/games

#Doom #Gaming

cstross, 4 months ago to random

Welp, looks like I blew up my mentions and replies for the rest of the week!

Been nice talking to you, see you on the other side.

(Mutes entire Fediverse for the next few days.)

smitten, 4 months ago to random

can you write a macro that runs vim inside of emacs?

morix, 3 months ago to shitposting

Based on the famous XKCD "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/) I am now proposing the inverse idea - every day there are also an unlucky 10,000 - those people who find out about something absolutely fucking cursed that day and their brains are made immeasurably worse by having the knowledge they now possess.

#Shitposting #XKCD