scanlime

scanlime, 2 days ago to random

today i learned that the moog synthesizers have a literal evil cousin that makes bomb parts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_Inc.

scanlime, 3 days ago to random

if someone pirates youtube's source code i hope they post it with "no copyright infringement intended"

scanlime, 9 days ago to random

to clear up the confusion,

"computing" is when the task you are engaged in is computation

"computering" is when the task you are engaged in is use and maintenance of a computer

hope that helps

scanlime, 12 days ago to random

"All Dogs Go To Heaven" (1989) was on my library's streaming site and i am trying it, the vibe is amazing. i know i have seen this a million times as a kid and parts of it are burned into my memory, yet it also makes no fucking sense especially as a kid's movie

scanlime, 13 days ago to fediverse

#peertube folks be aware Amazon has a video scraper bot that seems capable of extreme bandwidth usage, it was sucking up half a gigabit for 6 hours last night on my server

scanlime, 17 days ago to random

if you aren't sure if something is education or entertainment: are the creators more worried about being wrong or being boring?

scanlime, 1 month ago to random

rust is a way to refinance your technical debt and lock in a new interest rate

scanlime, 1 month ago to random

programmer who writes "unparse", get a thesaurus

scanlime, 1 month ago to random

kinda furious that people just take it at face value when a text generator running from a read only database will "say" that it is "learning"

scanlime, 1 month ago to random

a thousand angry worms upon everyone who would have me hunt for an octocat icon just to download the actual damn computer program in readable form

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

has anyone done a usb port with an eject motor like the old mac floppy drives had

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

how do you meet people irl who dont just want you to join their thing on some website run by a corporation

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

the truman show except he's always shown blurred because he didn't agree to appear on tv

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

this laptop gets faster wifi when the lid is shut

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

chicken

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

mastodon.social should have been mastodon.example.com

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

i would actually use a mastodon client that gives me meaningless points for deleting instead of posting a toot

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

"permacomputing" is such a weird concept to me. like 95% of the message I hella agree with. reusing existing tech, being critical of tech application, yes please.

but permanence just feels like death. permanent computing feels like a desire to stick in the mud forever. we could keep writing programs forever without ever building another transistor but why the fuck?

why not let computers die and be reborn if necessary?

despite history book hagiographies, "invention" is not special.

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

imo the scientific discourse on "how intelligent" various animals are "known" to be is gross, but i boost a scrub jay when i see it

scanlime, 2 months ago to random

free as in to be exploited by google and amazon

scanlime, 3 months ago to random

one of my cat heating pads seemed to have failed, but it's just the sketchy power brick. time to order a high reliability meanwell supply or something.

scanlime, 3 months ago to random

i am going to jump into a lake next time someone pitches me an "open source hardware" project that is just a shopping list of mandatory single source bigcorp semiconductor products

scanlime, 3 months ago to random

whoa. i thought Triangle of Sadness was making up bottled water spray cans but they are real