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natevw

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some mix of TMBG's Dr. Worm, Yael Naim's New Soul, and Frank Zappa's Montana perhaps

didn't used to use the extra comma; occasional drama llama; overthinks current events whilst knowledge of prior events is lacking

hobbies have been limited by international treaty to: books/reading, music/making, gardening/animals, electronics/radio, computers/interfaces (in no particular order and perhaps a couple others grandfathered in that I'm forgetting right now (like such as in hoarding business cards))

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natevw, to random
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got the 4 box set (at well below retail price)

futurebird, to random
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When trying to imagine the future this is the kind of story that I write:

"Bolting"
A snapshot of a near future.

https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/721488414873092096/bolting

natevw,
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@futurebird love it! but is the ending supposed to be paywalled?

exchgr, to random
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strunk & white-westinghouse. is that anything

natevw,
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@exchgr I dunno, writing advice from a consumer appliance division of a military-industrial contractor? sounds like something Microsoft would invest billions into before getting rugpulled by its board 🫣

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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But really, has anyone seen a pattern of folks who you thought were reasonable suddenly becoming unhinged? Or is it just me just generally being disgusted with the world? Lol

natevw,
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@passenger @BlackAzizAnansi oh wow, not really a music video watcher so til (after some entertainment gossip googling…) that's where Muse was going their recent stuff?! 😬

[edit/update: probably not exactly? https://www.nme.com/big-reads/muse-cover-interview-2022-will-of-the-people-3243209 this one might be beyond my pay grade, but they seem ± where I've generally imagined them in the first place?]

natevw, to random
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??

natevw,
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@janl did flip through all modes and none of them summoned what the box claims… not sure if to be disappointed or relieved 🧹

glyph, to random
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Debugging some mildly suspicious network activity (almost certainly a false positive, but I just don't know what's going on yet) and I reinstalled LuLu from Objective See, and I have a few thoughts: https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

  1. Each of Patrick Wardle's apps is a tour de force. He makes extremely complex subjects comprehensible, all with a very consistent (if somewhat nerdy) aesthetic and design language.

  2. I really want LuLu to have a social aspect to it.

natevw,
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@glyph Oh nice, I'm a big fan of Little Snitch but looks like an open source alternative to that? I wonder if it could be made compatible with https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch4/lsc-rule-group-subscriptions as a start in that direction?

aeva, to random
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god damn it I'm thinking about programming language design again

Does anyone know of any examples of programming languages of any variety where the language was designed with the specific intention of being easily edited with only a speaker and a microphone? I'm really looking to read about something where visual syntax is a tertiary consideration or missing entirely.

natevw,
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@aeva I mean, AppleScript is all about "telling" apps to do things 😇

[and maybe slightly more relevantly its underlying AEDesc (/"Open Scripting Architecture") foundation might be fairly conducive to other non-traditional programming interfaces!]

danderson, to random
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Lol, discovered another "tool" that I should probably get for working on non shock-protected jewels in watches: a piece of 44 AWG copper wire.

First of all, I didn't know wire gauges went as low as 44awg! That's 0.05mm diameter, aka 50 microns, aka 2 thou. That's ridiculous.

The purpose is to stick said wire into the minuscule capped jewel settings, to act as a capillary conduit for oil to pull itself between the setting and endstone.

natevw,
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@danderson what's the gauge of the individual strands of small stranded e.g. Ethernet or cheap audio cable wire, anywhere close?

aeva, to random
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Install GPL License

natevw,
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@aeva so I was looking for the part where it talks about, like, mailing a physical copy or something

but got totally distracted by the Missile Knows Where It Is vibes of this section instead

natevw, to random
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collected forty peaches off the ground this morning

natevw, to random
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k this is what I'm here for:

https://www.frank.computer/data-navigator/

(via recent @kevinrj boost of @frankelavsky posts)

exchgr, to random
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what’s all this fedi drama i keep seeing allusions and subtweets about

natevw,
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@exchgr I haven't been following super closely and not going to even attempt to re-summarize but I've found @noracodes just recently and @mekkaokereke over the last couple days to have some helpful posts/boosts about what I presume is it.

mcc, to random
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Rubbing eyes I may have just committed myself to rewriting a Haskell program in 6502 assembly.

natevw,
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@mcc @mdiediker reading the Erlang book is the closest I've come to programming in Haskell 😄 so I might be misunderstanding but can't a JS generator function serve ± as an infinite array?

natevw,
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@mcc @mdiediker ah right so instead of like a purely functional const [car, ...cdr] = infiniteArray or some.recurwive pattern thereupon you're sort of stuck with just while (thing = source.next()) patterns?

although I guess you could maybe fake it?

function fakeSplit(iterable) {  
 const head = iterable.next();  
 const rest = iterable; // ~HACK  
 return [head, rest];  
}

(lmk if I'm completely off here, don't mean to brainstorm JS to someone who already knows JS and Haskell! 😌)

natevw, to random
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any browser that doesn't support uBlock Origin is a non-starter for me (and I'm still super scarred by them resetting their dev tools completely back to "barely MVP" state although they've restored many of the critically missing features back in the years since)

https://mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/111031961490319182

natevw,
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@janl nope, there was a version (albeit maintained by someone separately) up until Apple took away the API it needed: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

(Chrome's actually wanting to do similar for years too, see https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338 which is tracking, but they've been pushing the deadline out so far.)

natevw,
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@janl iiuc the "API" is basically you have to give the browser a pre-populated list of URLs you want it to block and so it's not compatible with some of the dynamic/pattern-matching features the main uBO has. but the developer is working on a more limited corporate-direction-compatible version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

natevw,
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@janl to be clear I haven't really studied the APIs myself and this is just from trying to keep up and understand some of the discussions linked above. really I just want to keep using the ad blocker with the best and most trusted reputation, and for now that means keeping on top of Chrome's constant spyware opt-out and maybe someday it will mean dealing w/Firefox's non-native feel and all it's own opt-out Pocket/Pixar(/crypto?/AI?) ads and "features".

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    natevw,
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    @Teri_Kanefield if the RICO charge itself fails or gets bogged down in appeals, do the more specific charges get on pause or thrown out with it? Or could some of the more specific charges go forward to sentencing and such if the jury (and appellate courts) find individual parts of the indictment more simply proven?

    natevw,
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    @Teri_Kanefield What I mean is, if the jury finds everyone innocent of Count 1 or if there's an appeal that that Georgia RICO law is unconstitutional or misapplied or whatever — could Trump still be found guilty and get sentenced on Count 5/9/11… and Giuliani on Counts 2–3, 6–7, … etc etc in the meantime?

    Or do all those subcounts basically get thrown out with the bathwater if the overarching RICO case was a reach too far?

    azonenberg, to random
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    Do I know anyone with a Teledyne LeCroy WaveRunner 8000HD and/or WavePro HD oscilloscope?

    Looking to verify something a FAE told me and the only LeCroy scopes I have handy are WaveSurfer 3000, WaveRunner 8000, WaveRunner 9000, and SDA 8Zi-A series which don't have this specific feature in the acquisition board FPGA.

    natevw,
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    @azonenberg way more fun than ugly workarounds without code comments and only a vague commit message 🤠

    natevw, to random
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    tfw u have no idea whether an internet celebrity is just goofing off back or is genuinely mad at the way you said something but there's like 3–5 more serious things to stave off panic attacks about so 🫣

    whitequark, to random
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    "your needs do not make you a burden" and other lies people tell each other

    natevw,
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    @whitequark they're good lies, bront!

    mcc, to random
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    For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

    https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

    The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

    To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

    natevw,
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    @mcc woah, yeah that's… really good! I mean a pretty decent piece just to hear it, but then to see the whole journey done all one smooth live performance on basically a single synth… 😻

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