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solargroovy

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Sad dad

Hosted a Troubled Loners Boomerang Club dinner group for a few years, but that got nuked by covid.

Love to cook with my sous vide, smoke foods, and fermentation

Programmer and reluctant tech manager

Single dad with adult daughter (full time) and teenage son (part time)

Love the maker hobbies and still on the sane side of the fine line between tinkerer and hoarder

Should really reconsider filling out profile bios late at night

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GottaLaff, to random
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Emptywheel:

Tommy Tuberville says he went to Gotham to help an accused felon threaten a judge's family.

Via David Lurie:

Tuberville is a bad co-conspirator.

Aaron Rupar:

Tommy Tuberville admits on Newsmax that "one of the reasons he went" to NYC yesterday was to "overcome this gag order"

solargroovy,
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@GottaLaff
Tommy is just happy that Trump fixed his contact list so Mike Lee doesn't have to forward all of his criming

nixCraft, to random
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why does counting start at zero in programming? wrong answers only.

solargroovy,
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@nixCraft
It was a conspiracy crafted by "Big 0". You have to understand the role of the zero industrial complex in the early days of BCPL..

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Getting naked on Christmas Eve is a quick way of discovering your future lover!

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/finding-love-85821250

solargroovy,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
But when I do the same thing in the Costco parking lot, I'M the "menace"?

clive, to random
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The theme of the current itch.io game jam is "bullet hell": https://itch.io/jam/bullet-hell-v

I am so happy about this

I love bullet hell games

I never feel more at peace than when I'm frantically and maniacally navigating through outer space, trying to find the tiny, one-pixel-wide-margin-of-error gap between a snowstorm of alien missiles

solargroovy,
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@clive
I got banned from my friends atari with those games because I kept breaking the joystick because I was trying to make the spaceship go faster.

taylorlorenz, to random
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โ€œThe media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,โ€ Piker said. โ€œThey have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they donโ€™t treat these students as an organized entity at all.โ€ https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

solargroovy,
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@taylorlorenz
They know that they can go down the line of students and someone is going to say something that is stupid or fits the narrative they are pursuing

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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NYT says Israel claims not to have seen bombing an Iranian consulate in a third country, killing senior officials, as a provocation.

Uh huh.

The Times story calls this a "miscalculation" by Netanyahu.

Uh huh.

solargroovy,
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@dangillmor
Bibi has always bragged that he could get the US to do anything he wanted. IMO, this is the kind of relationship that Washington warned about in his farewell address

samlitzinger, to random
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NBC News Faces Backlash Over Ronna McDaniel Hire: Chuck Todd Chides Network Over โ€œPoorโ€ Handling, MSNBC President Tries To Assure Staff

https://deadline.com/2024/03/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-paid-contributor-1235866884/

solargroovy,
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@samlitzinger

arstechnica, to random
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Cable ISP fined $10,000 for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband

Small ISP admitted lying to FCC about size of network to block funding to rivals.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/cable-isp-fined-10000-for-lying-to-fcc-about-where-it-offers-broadband/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

solargroovy,
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@arstechnica
Typical.
Broadband would exploded 15 years ago except for Cable interference, lobbying, and straight out corruption that kept digital networks from competing

Small town networks used provisions to keep out iptv because franchise incentives were to provide bare minimums of service until they could cash out when one of the big networks wanted to expand.

It was a status quo encouraged by the majors and enforced by their lobbyists at the state legislatures

ai6yr, (edited ) to TeslaMotors

Video of some guy using Apple Vision Pro headset WHILE IN THE DRIVERS SEAT OF A TESLA CYBERTRUCK is going around. (unsure on original source, but I will geolocate the location -- it's Lehi Utah, see followup).

solargroovy,
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@ai6yr Coming from Alpine, UT direction. Non-zero chance multi-level marketing blood money involved

arstechnica, to random
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Network-connected wrenches in factories can be hacked for sabotage or ransomware

Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/network-connected-wrenches-used-in-factories-can-be-hacked-for-sabotage-or-ransomware/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

solargroovy,
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@phryk @ElSupreme
If that is replacing the integration test, then you have a classic unit test fallacy and objectively worse than the original testing scheme.

What you have here is a discount robot with a meat-based delivery and logistics mechanism.

As mentioned elsewhere, subject to calibration and programming errors--and now network vulnerabilities.

Guaranteed that management is not going to pay 10x the cost for hardware and infrastructure without cutting costs elsewhere

clive, to random
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So, I founded a rock band last year, "Lipstick Driver"

It's loud

REALLY loud

And I was a fool who didn't wear hearing protection, so ...

... I got tinnitus! Wheeee

My essay about it all: https://clivethompson.medium.com/musicians-protect-your-ears-aa782825f9b0

A "friend" link in case you're not a subscriber to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/musicians-protect-your-ears-aa782825f9b0?sk=baf68e0ff7aff0bb737d6afe2e69bd2f

solargroovy,
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@clive
Dead Milkman or Circle Jerks with a summer as a rifle and shotgun range instructor makes it 30+ years for me.

When I was in an open office I liked this site enough to pay https://mynoise.net/ lots of things to play with, but had to remember to stop the gray noise generator when I left my desk or people would complain about the noise from my headphones that was virtually inaudible to me

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