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i made that mastodon boop sound

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whats the human equivalent of when a cat's snake detection gets tripped by a cucumber

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if you want a vision of the future, imagine this guy hitting Print Screen on your keyboard, forever

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classic linux thing that happened a couple of weeks ago, is i was looking up what music players had good visualisations, like the milkdrop kind we all remember. one was a standalone app that could respond to any audio on the computer. cool! so i hit up my package manager. but i noticed something. the installation seemed to require the removal of a few packages and replacement with some other ones. it wanted to remove the audio subsystem on my computer?? and change it to a different one? Linux

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video/mp4

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me, hearing about a new game that takes up 300 GB of disk space finally, a video game that’s 7 million times better than the original super mario bros

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the guitar is a pretty good user interface. quite limited affordances for discovery, physically painful for beginners. but the tactility, auditory feedback, immediacy of interaction, and latitude of technique is about as good as you can get. it's definitely one of those "UIs for experts" which require a lot of training to get use out of. as a result it will never catch on or become culturally popular, leaving the instrument as a niche device which few have ever heard of, let alone used

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@ethanjstark i personally think i wasted at least ten years of my life trying to get good at playing acoustic guitars and cheap-to-midrange electrics, and made really slow progress. what i really needed was an expensive, well-built electric guitar, with thin-gauge strings, which i set up with really low action, and then also tuned down a halfstep. everything instantly became effortless and i got way better in a couple of years than in the previous ten. the struggle was fake!!

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the dreamcast was released worldwide by the end of 1999, but less than a decade later it was already looking old, haggard. "they tell me it's the bromine," said presidential hopeful barack obama, "an additive in the plastic. That's what makes it go yellow," he explained. "There's ways of dealing with it. Good Americans are working on it, but right now, they just don't have the funding." Others were dubious, skeptical of the proposed halogenic origin, and warning of peroxide-related embrittlement

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according to the local news The Teens are running wild, smashing up shops and kicking passersby in the shins. everyone seems to be treating it as a problem of its own, rather than a symptom of a society that is hostile to them, gives them no power or stake in anything of material value, and continually dashes their extremely basic hopes of even achieving normal things their parents had. addressing that isn't allowed, so some "put them in the army" shit is always presented as the big-brain take

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imagine what it'd be like if even 10% of the effort put into developing technology was instead diverted toward the difficult problem of actually using it correctly

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computers are little devices that make people wait

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@mntmn the real phase-locked-loop is our society

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its fucked up how whenever a labour government is about to get in, they have to quickly purge all the left wingers or the Global Economic Consensus (GEC) will hire some giant American satellite to send 650 graphene god rods into Westminster, the Canadian pension funds that own the buses will start crashing them into pensioners, and the private equity-operated sewage centrifuges will stuxnet themselves up to high performance server RPMs and create a poo tornado

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probably the new thing in 2025 is going to be something like "eating vintage film stock"

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its cool how music can make you happy

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in america all the traditional foods are called like hogbread and eggcorn. in america i imagine when youre a kid youre always standing around waiting for the blue angels to do a live-fire display with real bunker-busters and your american-style dad is like like "slup your eggcorn billy" and someones selling hot hogbread out the engine block of a 1938 chrysler

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do you reckon i could get @frameworkcomputer to put trackpoint on their laptops by sending them a helpful reminder on here once a day, every day? maybe twice a day? what times would be good

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framework? more like Not Gonna Work unless it has a Trackpoint. MNT? more like.. Might Need Trackpoint

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in england “twink” means cigarette

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"In England and Wales, courts consider computers, as a matter of law, to have been working correctly unless there is evidence to the contrary. Therefore, evidence produced by computers is treated as reliable unless other evidence suggests otherwise. [...] A court will treat a computer as if it is working perfectly unless someone can show why that is not the case. This presumption poses a challenge to those who dispute evidence produced by a computer system"

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i had an app on my iphone which my phone's operating system randomly decided to delete off my phone. thankfully, they replaced the icon with a shortcut to re-download the app from the app store. when i tapped it, it said "sorry this app no longer exists on the app store so it's gone forever". so they deleted my app! not the developer's app, sure the developer made the app but the app was mine, it was on my phone! and they deleted it!

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everything is so ephemeral now that i don't develop any kind of memory of, or attachment to, anything technology-related anymore. no brand can do any specific thing for long enough to exist in brain

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consumer choice nowadays is like a kind of "two guys with sawn-off shotguns, circling each other very slowly, while one attempts to hand the other a fistful of bottle caps in exchange for a rotten onion"

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i think when the usa collapses the process will look a lot less like rome and more like what happened with blockbuster video

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"in general, we have not seen a significant uptick in rock-eating or pizza-gluing," the spokesperson said, "only a few hundred thousand cases in the past week, so the vast majority of our users remain unaffected by any relevant gastrointestinal issues."

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440 Hz: normal tuning
432 Hz: mystical tuning
400 Hz: for recording in an airplane

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