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noodle

@noodle@aus.social

Professional dilettante. Doctor, engineer, scientist. Perpetual 'grass is greener' career swapper, slowly finding a stable state.

Living on unceded Cammeraygal land.

Mostly here to listen and boost.

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noodle, to random
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Considering swapping from one of the big banks to . Anyone have experience with them?

Also happy to take recommendations for other banks divested from fossil fuels.

PearlescentFerret, to random

Announcing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus.

noodle,
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@slothrop @PearlescentFerret The real Torment Nexus was the Discord channels we made along the way

whitequark, to random
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please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

noodle,
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@whitequark I was really proud of this one, but as yet no one has got it without having to explain it.

kit, to music

in an effort to expand my music library and also share cool stuff, fedi, I beseech thee... lend me your ears (and boosts)

if you listen to, make, or have a friend who makes electronic music that fits any of these descriptions:

  • sounds like the early 2000s, especially if it's some kind of dnb, jungle, or ambient
  • nostalgic futurism that isn't dnb or ambient (and especially not synthwave!)
  • sounds like racing game music from back when it was too good
  • vaporwave but original (as in, not sample based) and not synthwave
  • weird and wacky experimental electronica that can work in the background
  • bass heavy but low intensity music that tickles the brain
  • just really pretty and interesting ambient or drone stuff in general

please drop names and links here. by all means, plug yourself and your friends if you want to

bandcamp, mirlo, faircamp, and similar links are preferable, but any link will do if those aren't available. extra bonus points if creative commons or similar

I think these styles of music are amazing and rather underrated, especially since a lot of the people who like these styles are just playing random youtube mixes in the background, so they have no idea what they're actually listening to or who to support

I also find this kind of music annoyingly hard to discover, which isn't helped by those mixes either, because most of them are either drawing from the same small handful of artists, or just playing video game soundtracks

I want to change that, even if only a little bit. for that reason, please boost

aside from just hoping to spread this post around, I'd love to write about what I hear on my website eventually too, play it during livestreams with the titles on screen, and of course share it with all my non-fedi friends

@electronicmusic #music #MusicSharing #MusicShare #FediMusic #recommendation #ElectronicMusic #electronica #dnb #jungle #breakcore #ambient #drone #experimental #vaporwave

noodle,
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@kit @electronicmusic like this kinda thing?

https://darkcat.bandcamp.com/track/eline

jpm, to random
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Anyone need a Big O Ring? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003112900796.html

noodle,
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@jpm Back when I sold plumbing parts we had a manic looking lady come in asking for "an oring about this big", gesturing quite big. I launched into my 'it needs to match exactly' spiel. She cut me off, assured me it didn't matter. Got her a big ~ 25cm diameter one. She put it over her head and left. Anyway, my point is I'm sure there's demand somewhere.

Unixbigot, to random
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Heads up: AusPost have changed their regulations on posting live animals, so if you are in the habit of posting live animals you should WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

(Page 18 https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/prohibited-restricted-item-list-packaging-guide.pdf)

noodle,
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@jpm @Unixbigot it certainly does

noodle, to random
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Reminder: flu jabs have been released. Don't wait until it is surging to get yours.

atomicpoet, to random

It’s hard to fathom that Epic was once a small indie developer, so let me provide further perspective.

In 1994, I went to a dollar store and purchased a 3.5” floppy disc for $1. On it was the first episode of a game called Xargon.

I was blown away. This was not because it was an amazing title with great graphics but because it was $1 and almost (but not quite) as good as a SEGA Genesis game. It had nice VGA effects but skimped on certain details such as the shooting animation: a laser just appeared out of your character’s midsection.

Nevertheless, Xargon offered tremendous value because I couldn’t even rent a SEGA Genesis game for $1. For this reason, I decided to keep an eye on the company that made it – a little indie developer called Epic MegaGames.

A couple months later, I saw another shareware title by Epic MegaGames. The game was called Jazz Jackrabbit, and it was as good as any SEGA Genesis title. And this is probably due to it being a Sonic the Hedgehog clone – the big difference being that Jazz Jackrabbit had a gun whereas Sonic did not.

I didn’t care if Jazz Jackrabbit was original. This was basically Sonic the Hedgehog for $1, with graphics practically on par, so I loved it.

A few years passed and I forgot Epic MegaGames.

Then suddenly, they released a eye-popping FPS called Unreal with its own engine called, appropriately enough, the Unreal Engine. I couldn’t believe it. This was the same company that made Xargon and Jazz Jackrabbit?

Yes, it was. And ever since then, Epic has been not only been a AAA developer, but the makers of one of the most popular game engines on the planet – the Unreal engine.

Epic is definitely not the only indie developer making cheap PC games to transform into a AAA studio. In the PC gaming world, it happens quite often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noUv-8a5Wc

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/e47057a7-6489-41e4-85bb-00e4a3e2f7f0

noodle,
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@atomicpoet I love Xargon. The buy item menu was, for my young mind at the time, absolutely mindblowing in a platform game.

mcc, to random
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Municipal summoning

noodle,
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@jason @mcc

rbreich, to random
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Whether it’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Bernie Madoff, or Elizabeth Holmes, it seems like super-rich con artists only get prison time when their victims also include the super rich.

noodle,
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@jmsdnns @rbreich Prion diseases have entered chat. Probably safer to use as pet food.

luciedigitalni, to Canberra
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Drink driving is endemic in Canberra and this is not the first time an AFP officer has driven into a tree with a high-range blood alcohol reading


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-24/afp-commander-danielle-woodward-charge-drink-driving-after-crash/103625206

noodle,
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@allrite @luciedigitalni RBT: RoundAbout Test

br00t4c, to random
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Queensland to become first state to introduce permanent pill-testing clinics

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/20/queensland-pill-testing-clinics-rabbits-eat-lettuce-festival-drug-checking-bown-hills

noodle,
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@br00t4c this is great. I'm really curious to see their cocaine numbers particularly (the ACT's data on cocaine suggests the Australian cocaine market is a lemon market)

jpm, to random
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Get you someone who suggests cooking breakfast quesadillas for dinner

noodle,
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@jpm :akko_excited:

NanoRaptor, (edited ) to random
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Cleaning under my desk today I find a dried up musk stick.

Did I

a) jam it in my mouth without thinking, momentarily disgust myself, then shrug and enjoy it?

b) discard it with all the other bits of under-desk Stuff.

noodle,
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@NanoRaptor As a child I'd 'ferment' them. Very deliberately store them for a few months in my school bag before consuming. To this day I prefer 'old' musk sticks aged to perfection. I hope you savored it.

noodle, to Facebook
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has A/Bed me out of using web messenger on my phone (without getting hacky). So now I'm proselytizing again, but with ultimatum undertones. Purpose of a system is what it does etc etc.

cmconseils, to random French
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And you wont change my mind.

noodle,
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@hassmeister @cmconseils I've found it doesn't work consistently in Win 7, 10 or 11.

noodle, to random
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Watership up up down down left right left right B A

Alice, to random
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My husband just got up to go to the restroom and he said "I gotta go drain the snail" and I don’t think I'll ever stop laughing.

noodle,
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@wa7iut @Alice

TIL: Geoduck. Absolutely cursed clam.

Geoduck college mascot. It is cursed.
Geoduck being held in the air. It is squirting water.
Geoduck burried in sand, opening into the World of Man like the sarlacc from Starwars.

noodle,
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@msquebanh @wa7iut @Alice Yeh, a friend gave me a lecture on how totally normal they are as food after I was all "have you heard of this".

noodle, to Windows11
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Windows 11 is trash. Copy-paste has been broken for years, and remains thus. I want copy to work consistently and I want unformatted paste to work consistently. Libre Office does these things better than Word or Notepad 11.

In other news, my move to and has been a huge success.

decryption, to random
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    noodle,
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    @decryption @mattdarveniza Young enough not to know what quantum means.

    markmccaughrean, to random
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    “If you’ve ever been blown away by an image of outer space, it’s a pretty safe bet it was taken by a spacecraft.”

    Not the best opening for an article on modern astronomy 🙄

    Amateur & professional ground-based astronomy continues to generate spectacular imagery & scientifically, cutting-edge ground-based telescopes will play a vital role well into the future, as the construction of the wide-field Rubin Observatory & the 39-m diameter European ELT demonstrate.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/11/space-telescopes-hubble-james-webb-nasa-astronomy

    noodle,
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    @markmccaughrean don't neglect subterranean telescopes either

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory

    SecurityWriter, to random

    All I’m saying is don’t image search ‘French Telephone Plug’ on DuckDuckGo during a presentation with safe search turned OFF.

    noodle,
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    @SecurityWriter also, weirdly, region needs to not be 'Australia'

    codinghorror, to random

    When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

    noodle,
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    @meejah @codinghorror Firefox truely loves you q.e.d

    pluralistic, to random
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    Eighties kids will understand

    noodle,
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    @pluralistic Honk if you love Eukaryotic ribosomes

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