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tekhedd

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Maker of music and software and some other things. Player of games. Student of irony.

I'm probably not likely to exactly parrot the exact opinion you have without asking difficult questions, making observations out loud, and maybe going on a few tangents. So, maybe it's better if you just block me now for not being exactly like you, instead of doing it later when you're having a bad day.

"'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that’s all.'"

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The good news is we found a backup earth, but the bad news is we've already somehow filled it with microplastics 😔

tekhedd,
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@nyquildotorg Oh so many cynical things come to mind. "And 90% of the non-water surface has already been sold to developers to make mondo condos and strip malls, with the other 10% reserved for multi-billion dollar estates".... "and Republic waste management has an exclusive deal to ship our garbage there", "and the first Starbucks is opening there Wednesday"...

Variations on a theme

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@nyquildotorg Earth2 only supports IPv6

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Losing my mind at people upset that the move from search engines to answer engines is "making SEO work pointless."

SEO work's point was always to manipulate Google's algorithm to get content that isn't a good relevant search result to look enough like a good relevant search result to appear there. Good riddance.

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@nyquildotorg The one and only thing I've ever done for SEO is to make sure my sites are available as static prerendered HTML. I have always had good ranking.

I assume this is because I'm not making useless garbage web sites. SEO is zero-sum competitive ad-revenue arbitrage, that depends on cloning and wrecking the search results for the most common / useful searches in the world.

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@nyquildotorg Oh come on, I don't think you're biased! :)

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it's important to calculate one's "plastic footprint," which can be done quickly and easily:

Go outside and take two steps in any direction. Look at the prints your feet make in the thick layer of translucent grey powder coating every surface you can see, measure their depths. That's your plastic footprint.

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@nyquildotorg Last night, I 3D printed a nice little funnel for the espresso machine, out of conveniently "food-safe" PETG. While I was waiting for it, and breathing micro-plastic dust that hadn't got picked up by the giant air filter, I wondered how much of that plastic would end up in my coffee.

It really came out quite nice though.

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Finally starting to see some posts linking to that study that found microplastics in every single testicle tested.

One of my great joys is wondering what the hell people are on about and then later seeing a headline and going "ohhhhh."

My posts yesterday about microplastics in testicles were intended to provide that experience to others.

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@nyquildotorg I'd like to state for the record that I would prefer not to have my testicles tested, if at all possible. Thank you.

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Mom: Christians are a minority that is constantly under attack and must constantly defend their freedom.

Also Mom: Why do you care so much about privacy? Stop whining about civil liberties!

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"A web browser that's truly yours!" shouts the welcome page on a Firefox update that set my menu bar to "hidden" without asking.

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How to make Google more usable with this One Weird Trick

By @ernie: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

tekhedd,
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@clive @ernie Google's at the monopoly phase where they can add semi-hidden features like this to placate people who are on the verge of paying for Kagi or other paid-search options. I'd expect these sorts of features to come and go as paid competitors rise and fall.

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My advice: enjoy the new "web" search option on Google while you can. No way that's sticking around.

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@nyquildotorg Forget my web site, there must be a configuration to make uBlock do this...I need this everywhere.

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@nyquildotorg Rendered as SVG they should be quite tiny... :}

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Sometime in the last 5 years, I watched The Fifth Element (1997) while high on THC.

I distinctly recall seeing it in the theater with a bunch of guys, one of whom vehemently hated it.

THC often makes it harder for me to "suspend belief," and amplifies my noticing of individual filmmaking choices.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure my friend in 1997 was just high, because that movie is a mess and I never noticed it until seeing it high.

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@nyquildotorg I usually think of THC as the drug that lets you overlook the flaws in music, but you're right. I recall at least 3 movies in the last 5 years that I've seen on THC and thought "Wait, this movie is really broken and/or inconsistent to the point that it's very distracting" that I had always just glossed over before. Fifth Element is definitely one of those movies, although now I see it as more a set of comedy setpieces and less a "movie".

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By 2030, half of the products Apple sells will inexplicably be Pencils that only support small subsets of the variety of different iPads that make up the other half of the products they sell.

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@nyquildotorg I wish this was funny, but satire needs to be more than just literal truth

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In which time zone does the Unicode Technical Committee record their meeting minutes?

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@nyquildotorg GMT sounds like the logical choice... Or... All of them at once?

The other question: are their meeting notes utf8 or utf16?

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I'm not sure what the "we need to hard fork Mastodon" proponents are expecting, but Mastodon's problems far exceed politics.

Talk to anyone working on any other ActivityPub based platform how much of their time is spent dealing with Mastodon's actual technical brokenness, and then evaluate whether forking Mastodon is really the right approach.

If you want to make a better Mastodon, please don't start by inheriting all of Mastodon's poor decisions on day 1.

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@nyquildotorg Really, all you need is to see that it's built on Rails, and you can save a lot of time and move on to "well how shall we start on the rewrite" IMO. :D

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@scribe @nyquildotorg Well, I like C# a lot, or I used to before it started trying to be every other language and Microsoft started really making it unpleasant to do dev on non-windows platforms. So... again it comes down to whether they have the discipline not to use all the "kewl" features right?

For end users managing a deployment, almost anything is better than Rails really. Even, maybe, Javascript.

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@scribe @nyquildotorg In the sentence "almost anything is better than Rails", I'm thinking "OK so what about Python". Speaking of things that start out fun to develop and then turn into a nightmare upon deployment... :D

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A clarification: 20% of grocery store milk has not tested positive for avian flu. 20% of the small amount of grocery store milk that has been tested has tested positive.

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@nyquildotorg I hate to tell you this, but that still isn't reassuring 😁

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@nyquildotorg 😦 I believe summarizes perfectly

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Switch 2 reportedly replaces slide-in Joy-Cons with magnetic attachment

Ok, but will they have d-pads so I don't have to buy janky 3rd-party garbage? (Wait... I bet the magnetic attachment system is specifically to prevent janky 3rd party garbage.)

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@nyquildotorg It's tempting to say "but I like the slide-in joycon attachment"! But that's because Nintendo makes things I like, so you can say that about most of the things they've ever done and eventually discontinued, so I should probably relax. :)

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Coworker: I need some fresh ideas. Do you have a moment to talk?

Me: Fresh ideas! OK... um... Sandals that are also a wifi hotspot! Five-wheeled cars! Pet food cans that are also edible pet treats!

Coworker: Just call OK

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I love how the switch will have an update ready, and it won't let you back into your suspended game, instead force-quitting and rebooting to install. Hope you saved! Of course it'll still let you into the STORE because that's more important than an update.

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I'm the guy who still masks in public and continues to be bothered by humanity's response to COVID. But I am not upset about redefining the term "airborne transmission" to be more accurate.

Also, Pluto isn't a "planet," a tomato is a "fruit," and we don't have a clear enough definition of "sandwich" to determine whether a hot dog is one or not.

Maybe someday that will be resolved once and for all — by redefining the definition of "sandwich."

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@nyquildotorg what the heck are ladyfingers even? I thought they were a cookie

tekhedd,
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@nyquildotorg ah! For a second I thought there was a kind of maybe a sandwich called a ladyfinger and now I feel like there should be

tekhedd,
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@nyquildotorg sandwich cookies, definitely. The argument being, I suppose, whether sandwich cookie is a subset of sandwich. Which I have no stake in so 😄... Just look yummy though (I believe that is the word) and now I want cookies

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