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screambiogenesis

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Just a 16-bit dude in a 64-bit worŸ¯úTáê5µ90QÆÂœÊ[?x .mÈþ NO CARRIER

Nazi punks fuck off.

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danie10, to linux
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know You Could do With Nano Editor

OK, you probably do know at least one or two of these, but I’ve added the auto backup, line numbers, mouse support, and scroll bar to an alias for every time I start up nano.

See https://itsfoss.com/nano-tips-tricks/

screambiogenesis,
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@danie10 FWIW, you can also set these options and a lot more in the nano config file. There should be a nicely-annotated default version at /etc/nanorc to copy and edit.

TechConnectify, to random
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Assuming enough Americans got the same middle school history classes that I did:

Remember trust busting and muckraking?

I think they're in for a comeback.

screambiogenesis,
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@TechConnectify To fold another middle school history term into the mix: let's have less yellow journalism and more muckraking.

We're definitely overdue for some trust-busting. I was thinking that any political cartoon referring to Standard Oil could be reused today with the names changed. I was struck by how seemingly quaint some of the monopolies of yore were. Still oil, but... Nails? Paper bags and envelopes?

Udo Keppler's "Next!" (1904), a political cartoon featuring an octopus representing Standard Oil with tentacles wrapped around U.S. Congress and steel, copper, and shipping industries, and reaching for the White House. [adapted from Wikipedia] Fun fact: The artist of this cartoon is the son of the artist of the other!

flexghost, to random
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When you were partying, I studied the blade. When you were having premarital sex, I mastered the blockchain. While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity, I cultivated inner strength. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help.

It's a thread!

1/

Video of FIRE BLADE! A blade spewing fire at your enemy and also all over the drapes the carpet the cat and everyone near

screambiogenesis,
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@flexghost The snap transition from "well yes, of course I succeeded, for I am a badass" to "OMG YAY!" is perfect.

GottaLaff, to random
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GOP Fascist Party 2024, ladies and gentlemen:

NEW:

Newly unearthed video of N.C. GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson in 2020: "I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002?hlo

screambiogenesis,
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@GottaLaff In other news, a rabbit seen conspiring with a pack of wolves to help them find local rabbit dens will undoubtedly be considered an honorary wolf afterward, won't be eaten.

🤦

mcc, to random
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screambiogenesis,
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@mcc This really created an urge to build an even more comically sized instrument. Like one where you'd have to stand on a stepladder and have really long arms to play.

Tuned, naturally, with a clip-on seismograph.

straphanger, to random
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Your Moment of Zen.

Toshiba produced this typewriter for offices starting in 1940. It has 1,172 Japanese and Chinese characters (as well as the Latin alphabet) on its horizontal cylinder. ✍️🧵

video/mp4

screambiogenesis,
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@straphanger Great article, thanks for posting. I naïvely assumed it used some sort of romanization system at first, so my jaw dropped when I read how the input actually worked.

I hope I remember to think about Ms. Lew every time I wonder why I can remember a phone number from childhood instead of something useful. At least it isn't literally thousands of four-digit numbers for a decades-abandoned typewriter...

screambiogenesis, to animals
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ぽんち様、はじめまして〜

Meet Ponchi. Ponchi is one of the residents of Cateriam Cat Cafe in Setagaya, Tokyo.

At nearly 16 years old, he is one of Cateriam's eldest cats. Pardon his grumpy appearance, he had just awoken from a nap, and was preparing for another. You see, it's exhausting to be as magnificent as Ponchi.

Ponchi is back in his basket. He has a flattened face like a Persian cat, and whiskers like a crazy old man.
Ponchi is tucked into his newspaper-lined basket now, preparing to go back to sleep.
Cateriam's cast of characters. Most of Cateriam's cats are rescues from throughout Japan. In addition to Ponchi, listed are Marie, Mine, Tera, Dress, Metako, Goma (since passed), Agatha & Holmes, Ran, Tuki, Ren, Dolly (the eldest), and Shiro.

mcc, to random
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I don't know who needs to hear this but man ascii contains a complete table of all ASCII-7 values including their hex, decimal and octal equivalents

screambiogenesis,
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@mcc Me, typing in man unicode immediately after this:

Michael Bluth, from the US sitcom Arrested Development, with an exasperated look on his face, saying "I don't know what I expected. In the show, this was a reaction to opening a bag he found in the refrigerator marked "Dead dove, do not eat," which did indeed contain a dead dove.

MissingThePt, to random
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Donald Trump asks New York appeals court if it will accept Don Jr. and Eric in satisfaction of $453.5 million appeal bond; court responds that it only accepts assets, not liabilities.

screambiogenesis,
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@MissingThePt He actually said "dumbass and the other one", but for once, we all knew what he meant.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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🔥 1/...

via Pagliery!

Breaking news, first
@thedailybeast

Donald Trump has been hit with a massive one-two punch in his bank fraud case.

He owes $372 million for lying—and he can't borrow money from any New York bank, frustrating his ability to appeal the judgment.

screambiogenesis,
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@GottaLaff In my dreams, his desperate, strapped-for-cash organization is forced to auction off 721 Fifth Avenue for pennies on the dollar...

Only Spirit Halloween shows up on auction day.

They end up getting a screaming, spooky deal.

Alice, to random
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I’m an adult and that means I can put a tent on my bed and nobody can stop me.

screambiogenesis,
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@AdaraAstin @Alice Not only in wedding dresses, but trapped in a giant, old-timey TV.

flexghost, to random
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Seize Starlink.

Investigate Twitter for proliferating child abuse content.

End all subsidies to Musk properties.

screambiogenesis,
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@flexghost Dear Herr Plugs,

With all of what little respect you're due:

Daojoan, to random
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Never told anyone this but if I’d been born just 100 years earlier, and been in England, and had a reason to go to New York, and had enough money for a ticket, and selected that particular ship, and not made it onto the lifeboat, I would have died on the Titanic.

Crazy close call.

Someone up there looking out for me.

Blessed.

screambiogenesis,
@screambiogenesis@mastodon.social avatar

@Daojoan I recently learned from 23andMe that I'm part iceberg, so I would like to formally apologize for the trauma my family put you through in this alternate world-line that you've proposed.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Canada vows to ban Flipper Zero device in crackdown on car theft

How do you ban a device built with open source hardware and software anyway?

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/canada-vows-to-ban-flipper-zero-device-in-crackdown-on-car-theft/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

screambiogenesis,
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@arstechnica I've never heard of this thing, but it sounds fun as shit. Thanks for the Streisand Effect boost, Canada!

And the screen makes me all nostalgic for gas-plasma screens.

Everyone, don't click this link to read about it, or you'll make Canada sad: https://flipperzero.one/

mcc, to random
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Just got the worst targeted ad of my entire life. Pulled up YouTube and got an ad for my ISP. Specifically my ISP's fiber service, talking about how much better it is than cable. I have the fiber service. It should be the easiest thing in the world to microtarget this one. The one single piece of information you know about me for absolute certain is I am requesting the ad from an IP vended from this ISP's fiber block

screambiogenesis,
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@mcc Excuse me, can I interest you in more fibers? We're having a 2 for the price of 2 special right now!

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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RIP iTunes (2001-2024)
"Apple Officially Splits iTunes for Windows into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps" - MacRumors

screambiogenesis,
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@BasicAppleGuy The reanimated corpse of SoundJam MP is finally allowed to rest.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Ca. 1994, there was an older fella in the Tallahassee Mac user group who could be a good resource for troubleshooting newbie problems that weren't tackled by the BBS.

He was nice enough, but he was definitely a weird, crotchety old guy.

Point is, at meetings, he would often make a rather belligerent point of reminding everyone to never call him before noon.

Because "that's when I do my downloading."

I still think about this, and it's a phrase I often consider adding to my own vernacular.

screambiogenesis,
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@hotdogsladies 1994 was a wild time. Nothing felt as frats and futuristic as logging on to our cash register and downloading at 28.8.8.

"600 MI8 MPS?" We'd laugh incredulously. "Impossible. Never."

jeffowski, to random
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screambiogenesis,
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@jeffowski Not just that they control 90% of the wealth, but it's not enough and they demand that you and I suffer and grind ourselves into the grave to make sure they can pump those numbers up.

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

749K people without power in California right now per @PowerOutageUS

screambiogenesis,
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@SVChucko @ai6yr @PowerOutageUS Been without power for a little over nine hours here in East SJ. I couldn't see a single wifi network this afternoon so I figured it was a pretty big chunk, but 2+ million, damn...

sdw, to random
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Absolutely incredible: somebody managed to make one of these cars look even worse.

screambiogenesis,
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@sdw Before: "It'll look better if we paint it black to hide the everything, and put stupid wheels on it to distract from everything else."

After: "Ope, guess not."

sdw, to random
@sdw@mastodon.social avatar

Please choose from the two contemporary design styles for your wifi hardware: “rounded soft box with white light” or “satanic death cult blood sacrifice altar”

screambiogenesis,
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@sdw The second type always look like dead bugs to me. But like, unnecessarily aggressive dead bugs.

I went for the third style myself. Dinner Plates Glued To The Ceiling.

TheConversationUS, to history
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If history had taken another path, bar codes would look dramatically different today. Pictured: Here’s some of the options that were being considered, and the bull’s-eye was a favorite ⬇️

“Even in their wildest dreams, [the committee members] could not have imagined how consequential their decision ended up being,” writes Jordan Frith of Clemson University.
https://theconversation.com/how-we-almost-ended-up-with-a-bulls-eye-bar-code-219194
@histodons

screambiogenesis,
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@TheConversationUS @histodons Dunno how a scanner would, er, scan a Scanner bar code, but I love the typeface.

lauren, to random
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By the way, the one time in my career that I've ever pressed "The big red button that shall never be pressed!" was at RAND.

It is standard for computer room facilities to have a way to kill all power to the equipment quickly in cases of emergency. Traditionally this is a very large red button that can be pressed for this purpose, often just inside an entry door. Typically it's under some sort of plastic shield or such to avoid it being pressed accidentally.

This button is never to be used in the course of normal events. Because it abruptly terminates all power to associated equipment, the risk of data loss and even equipment damage is very significant.

So one day, I walk down the stairs to my basement computer room at RAND where the PDP-11s and ARPANET interfaces lived. I open the door ... and there's nothing there but a wall of white.

When faced with something like that, it takes a couple of seconds to figure out what the hell is going on -- it's not in your brain's expected scenarios for opening that door.

The room was full of white smoke.

Within a few seconds I reached up under the shield just inside the door and slammed down the "never to be pressed" red button.

Instantly power was cut to the UNIX PDP-11s, the ARPANET equipment, a bunch of peripherals, and even a number of disk drives that were in an adjacent room that serviced the big IBM mainframe on the ground floor above.

As it turned out, the Halon fire suppression system was within a few seconds of firing when I killed the power -- management was pretty happy about that since recharging the Halon was expensive.

I got a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) CE (Customer Engineer) out to RAND within a couple of hours. He quickly found the source of the problem.

A PDP-11/70 power supply had dramatically failed. It was partly molten slag. Very impressive. I tried to get the RAND photographer down to take a photo of it (this was long before cell phone cameras or even cell phones), but the CE grabbed the power supply, hid it under his coat, and ran out to his car with it.

Apparently he wasn't thrilled with the prospect of photographic evidence of the failure.

Interesting day.

screambiogenesis,
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@lauren Crazy to think that a PDP11's power supply has enough magic smoke in it to fill a room, yet is still small enough to be whisked out under one person's coat.

Love the blinkenlichten und flippenswitchen on those things, though.

eniko, to pixelart
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was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after checks watch 9 years

A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

screambiogenesis,
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@eniko Well shit, 2am wasn't a great time to be reminded of Sim City 2000...

christianselig, to random
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I will never understand this phenomenon

screambiogenesis,
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@christianselig I used a 23" Apple Cinema HD until about a month ago (RIP, 19 years young) partially because the awful glossy screens were so trendy there for a while that manufacturers didn't even mention the finish anymore. Thankfully it's much easier to find normal matte screens now!

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