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ratkins

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I miss Usenet. Don’t make me miss Twitter too.

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doc, to random
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Cycling in Berlin, I am saddened sometimes when I cycle not on the bumpy, broken “bicycle paths”, but on the buttery smooth car road where I can get much higher speeds much more comfortably. All I need to do is risk my life. 😟

ratkins, (edited )
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@doc In those situations where the bike path is unrideable, I take the middle of the lane. Sure, you can mow me down, but I’m not going to let you tell yourself it was an “accident”.

ratkins,
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@doc No, not “far from the edge”, that’s what I mean, right in the middle. Make it absolutely impossible that they think they could get around you without killing you. And if they tailgate you, slow down.

ratkins,
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@doc (If the road narrows such that it’s not safe to pass—but that’s my call, not the drivers’. I refuse to sacrifice my safety for a driver’s convenience.)

brianbilston, to random
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As if it wasn’t enough for it to be Monday morning, some students are also facing their GSCE English paper today and the terror of the ‘unseen poem’.

Wishing them the very best of luck with it.

ratkins,
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@brianbilston What is the high-falutin’ literary term (possibly French) for a form-vs-content joke? (This is brilliant btw.)

Dr_Bombay, to random
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Et voila! Vienna bread with a dutch crunch topping, hot out of the oven, with a pic of the book responsible. i’m flabbergasted by the oven spring on these! they inflated like balloons!

ratkins,
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@Dr_Bombay In the Netherlands they call that a “tiger” loaf, for relatively obvious reasons.

shawnhymel, to FinalFantasy
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Do you name your computers and if so, what theme do you use? I’ve been naming mine after summons for around 15 years 🤓

Naming your computers

ratkins,
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@shawnhymel Women in Arthur Dent’s life. My laptop is Mella and my phone is Random. I had a disk server named Eccentrica once, but it’s gone now.

Edent, to FIRE
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🆕 blog! “An adult gap year?”

I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/an-adult-gap-year/
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#FIRE #personal

ratkins,
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@Edent I’ve always disguised it as travel—your backpacking around India option. Literally nobody has ever needled me about a “gap on my résumé” and if the idea of me taking a year off makes their brain explode I don’t want to work there anyway.

jsq, to random
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notable culinary news

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ratkins,
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@jsq The first one is about topology isn’t it?

cstross, (edited ) to random
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WHAT—

(The European potato crisp singularity intensifies)

(UPDATE): Aaagh! They taste of egg yolk! This is totally bizarre!

ratkins,
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@KatS @cstross Better, I bought a packet with a picture of a ham and cheese sandwich on the front while in Barcelona and fuck me if they didn’t…

christianselig, to random
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iPhone 15 Pro’s been my best battery performer by a mile, damn. All MagSafe charging too pretty much

ratkins,
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@christianselig I updated from a 14 mini (after previously having a 13 mini)
and man, as much as I hate the size I can’t deny I love the battery life.

anildash, to random

A hearty congratulations and welcome to everyone else boarding the flight I’m on shortly, since very evidently none of them have ever seen an airport or boarded a plane before, and indeed a few have clearly not been proximate to other humans at any prior point in their lives.

ratkins,
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@anildash Jesus fuck.

ratkins, to random
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Hair Fryer

historyofpunkrock, to random
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44 years ago today
In memory of Ian Curtis, who suffered from both epilepsy and depression, took his life on May 18, 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, and just before the release of their second album

#postpunk #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis

ratkins,
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@mpospese @RobertM @historyofpunkrock I have this one: https://everpress.com/unknown-pleasures

ratkins, to random
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May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the genitals of whatever pindick European bureaucrat who decided we weren’t allowed to unscrew the caps totally off bottles anymore.

ratkins, to random
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I continue to be stunned by the bullshit that is Apple Music. I’m on a plane, I want to listen to some music. The only track I can actually play is one I played to a friend an hour before I got on the flight, because nothing else is “authorised”. I will add, this is “my” music that I bought off iTunes.

(I know technically I don’t own it, I license it, Apple sucks, blah blah, please fuck off with your Mastodon neckbeardism that’s not the point.)

ratkins,
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What I want to know is how do I actually get this to work? Is it supposed to be possible to listen to music while in flight mode? What goat do I have to sacrifice? I haven’t been able to play an arbitrary song from my own library (including albums I’ve ripped off CD and synced through iTunes Match) for about a decade now. If nobody else can either why aren’t there mobs in Cupertino with torches and pitchforks?

ratkins, to random
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After wandering around the cute little alleys behind the fancy shopping district in Barcelona for a while, it’s striking how fucking obnoxious the traffic noise is when you get back to the through-streets.

gernot, to random German
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In theory, an M4 iPad with 16GB ram and the Magic Keyboard can completely replace my mac, and it is more versatile because it’s an iPad. It needs to run Xcode with at least all the SwiftUI related components, Instruments, and a terminal for git, and have some means of real filesystem based apps so that something like „Tower for iPad“ is possible. It shouldn’t be overwhelmend with outlandish tasks like „using some program to create graphical assets for use in an Xcode project“.

ratkins,
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@krzyzanowskim @gernot Hahaha no it’s not, try to “import XCTest”
in Xcode Playgrounds and see how far you get. When did it last get an update anyhow?

whitequark, to random
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both telegram and matrix have untrustworthy cryptography, but telegram has gaslit me significantly fewer times and generally not on an ongoing basis, which is really the main thing i care about in a messenger

"it's vulnerable to IND-CCA3" anybody who can pull off that attack on me deserves whatever they get out of it. i just want a messenger that isn't built by americans who have a Single Phone Number and also doesn't gaslight me. is that too much to ask for?

ratkins,
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@whitequark Apparently yes.

ratkins,
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@whitequark Was Wire ever any good?

timd, to random
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Feature request for the next generation of Deutsche Bahn trains:

Quiet coaches fitted with ambient noise level detection for leaky headphones connected to a small, powerful but highly-directional EMP generator

ratkins,
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@timd A boxing glove on an extending scissor mechanism would also be acceptable.

alpha, to random
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Oh hey, that’s me!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rightardia/112441364366600074

ratkins,
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@alpha I had previously read the proportion of people without an inner monologue was much higher, like 30-40%. It’s a fascinating difference in any case.

ratkins, to random
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@Halle Re our conversation about how the Vision Pro could get lighter, Gruber points out that the M4’s display driver was required to run the fancy doubled-up OLED display of the new iPad Pro. What other product needs a doubled-up display driver? 🤔 Seems pretty likely they’ll jump straight to M4 for the next Vision iteration. Maybe it’ll run cool enough?

ratkins, to random
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Airbus 😅

ratkins, to random
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In addition, once again, if you’re trying to wave pedestrians across a) we have to be able to see you (not guaranteed through windscreen reflections) and b) we have to trust you (… not necessarily smart on our part.)
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