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rakslice

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quantization machine inputs artisan. he/him. being wrong on the internet practitioner. 50.3° N, 119.3° W (approx.) 68kΩ (Rɪᴅ_ʙ) pull-down. ε_𝑣 in Twitch chat. Boosts are sometimes followed by relevant snark

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LB: I mean, I think the complaints are about appropriation; if I had a distro I would give the releases names like "globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil" and the douglas adams appreciators could fairly get up in my grill about it (if they were the type of person into that sort of thing which odds are they probably aren't)

whitequark, to random
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Never touch the catgirl.
Please don't. Cause of failure
This may be the cause

rakslice,
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@whitequark "It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time. It is not possible."

vga256, (edited ) to random
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those with extensive CRT repair experience (edit: please, for the love of sweet jebus, don't reply if you are just guessing and haven't worked on a tube)

i picked up this Sony KV-8AD11 a while ago and it has been sitting on the repair pile. while i've recapped and restored a couple of dozen arcade & tube tv's, diagnosis isn't my strong suit.

what's causing the green hue running along the left side? it remains there even after the chassis has warmed up, and switching between RF and composite input makes no difference.

interestingly, the green hue does not show up on snow/static screens. is this something adjustable via the internal potentiometers, or will it require some PCB work?

my thanks 🙏

rakslice,
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@vga256 can you show what the snow/static screens without the hue look like up close?

textfiles, to random
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The village is saved

rakslice,
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@textfiles is.... is it... at an actual Best Buy?

rakslice, to random
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LB: My last dealing with an American carmaker was a very strange runaround where their maintenance folks refused to do some work without an insurance evaluation, so I got one, then refused to do the work because they didn't like the insurance quote, then after I had had the work done elsewhere they immediately proposed redoing part of it, without any apparent awareness I had originally brought it to them to do in the first place, weeks before by that point.

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

rakslice, (edited )
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@mcc I love the real vivid purples and yellow-greens you see in photos of uranium glass blacklight displays

rakslice, to random
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Re Parkland: I can never keep the Edmonton-area towns/cities starting with 'S' straight; Stony Plain is the one on the far left

rakslice, to random
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LB: ' As the WSJ Magazine reports: “Benioff and Weiss, who have been friends since grad school, weren’t crazy about HBO’s then-owners, AT&T, whose executives once asked whether ‘Game of Thrones’ could be shot vertically so it would fit on your phone. '

... I don't even know what to say, that is breathtakingly stupid.

rakslice, to random
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LB: the desire for genuine reviews is great; a lot of the details are silly or at least misguided, but there are a lot of conversation starters here

rakslice,
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"the Tesla of air purifiers" (derogatory)

rakslice,
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it's like calling your software product "Enterprise-grade", are you sure you know what overtones that has in the target market

mcc, to random
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Me: How long can sharks live

Google: I need to customize this result to your current location

Me: That's clearly wrong and if it's right then it's terrifying

rakslice,
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@mcc
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👈 1 ᴍɪʟᴇ

kcarruthers, to random
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Ok I did not have 'Zombie Fires' burning at an alarming rate in Canada on my 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68228943

rakslice,
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@kcarruthers 'a professor and fire management expert at Thompson Rivers University in Kelowna, BC' oops whoops

rakslice, to random
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The irony of even Japan's toy machine architecture for academic courses being some kind of national standard b/c MITI https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/02/cap-x-and-comp-x-how-tandy-pocket.html

rakslice, to random
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LB: I still remember the warning from whatever assignment in a first course in whatever language with a preprocessor along the lines of "please don't use macros to turn the language into <intro programming course language>" -- it's funny, but it's also the only way they're going to communicate that they're effectively only teaching a specific subset of the thing

danluu, (edited ) to random
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Are there fundamental reasons that a company the size of FB can't provide much better support than they do?

The most common explanation I've heard is that support is impossible due to cost, but I don't find this plausible based the profit FB-sized companies make per user. If you just naively look at how many support people they could pay, it's quite a lot, not including things like diverting money from the ~$50B that's allegedly been spent on the metaverse

A somewhat more plausible argument is

rakslice,
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@danluu it would not be absurd if they were otherwise doing an excellent job safeguarding ordinary accounts against account takeover, but let's say that does not appear to be the case

cstross, to random
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Snapchat instant messaging is insecure, apparently monitored in real time by state security services (possibly in several countries):

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109036

rakslice,
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@cstross I don't understand that story's noodling about a "theory" of "how the message got out"... either it was presented as evidence, surely with a chain of custody, or else how did the accusation come about and come to result in a trial?

rakslice, to random
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LB: real kid rolls up to the red light and their beater loses a hubcap and it keeps on rolling clear across the intersection energy

rakslice, to random
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LB: oh wow... somehow i thought he passed years ago

rakslice, to random
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LB: utter lack of ui 101 level traditional ui affordances and ui guidelines stuff is so commonplace now. Look at the print dialog in Chrome if you want to see what "programmer ui" means in 2024

rakslice,
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You would be forgiven for thinking that whatever ui has hot water bottle and dentists' chair there is trying to be inscrutable on purpose like OG snapchat

rakslice, to random
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Anybody know what the situation is with usb gadget drivers with the rise of type-c? I have an mt81xx device where I'm trying to figure out how you would convince the mtu3 to provide udc (or is that even relevant in type-c land?)

rakslice,
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I'm at the point where I have the devicetree stuff to get it to try to init what would lead to the gadget mode udc appearing but there's some kind of clock check failing which prevents it from getting to that

https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/issues/188

rakslice, to random
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The revolution will be communicated through this kind of glitch, but you're not in the matrix, it's just society being consumed by terminal phoning-it-in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPy2ODqIgg

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

rakslice,
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@mcc a different copy on youtube from somebody posting old mp3.com content has a link to an archive of the artist's mp3.com page from 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20000229092735/http://artists.mp3s.com:80/artists/72/dr_mario.html

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