evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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@rozanski @codinghorror You may also like the barn.megaparsec measuring spoon. A barn is an area roughly covering a Uranium nucleus. A megaparsec is three and a bit million light years. Multiply them and you get a volume, about a third of a teaspoon. My spoon is within ~1%
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It doesn't matter if a refugee turns out to be Albert Einstein or Mo Farah.
Refugees are individually valuable because they are *people*, not because the country could potentially use their talents.
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@glynmoody hmm, BBC censors its non-polictical output because it might upset right-wing viewers.
who are the triggered leftwing liberal snowflakes meant to be again?
those ones causing "cancel-culture" according to those right-wing viewers?
it's Attenburgh, ffs. a nature program.
can those right-wing folks who complain about cancel-culture now actually say something please?
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UK Politics, Wild Isles, RSPB, BBC
@Wildheart_Baby Everything driving me mad atm. I can't bear to read any more news today. I've been driven to drink.
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Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar
Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong
Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more
Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That
Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you
(Oops:
- I did it again)
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I occasionally still pop over to The Other Place.
On the whole it just reiterates why I moved - I have to focus on the few accounts I want to catch up on because the rest is *argh* - but sometimes there is something delightful.
I don't think Ben Cameron is over here, so I just want to point people at this amazing axolotl plushie.
It is SOOOO cute.
@Wildheart_Baby the RSPB would like a word...
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2015 musk: AI is the biggest potential threat to human life, we must be very careful with it
2023 musk: it is important that we let the AI become racist
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Mal wieder einen Porzellanladen zerdeppert? Grund genug, ein Versteck zu suchen! Ich hätte da ein paar gute Ideen. Und ein paar schlechte.
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It's astonishing (i.e., not credible) that they only just noticed. Where have they have been? The man's been a clamorous, thundering bucket of clanging narcissism and incompetence for two decades at least. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/hes-gone-full-trump-tories-turn-on-boris-johnson-over-partygate?CMP=share_btn_tw
#borisJohnson #Trump #partygate
@briankrebs see also: magnetic-attach usb charging cables for smartwatches. they do love finding nice conductive chunks of metal to short out on while dangling idle :(
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New guide to "Finding Undocumented APIs" by @Leonyin at @themarkup – looks useful for internet studies researchers as well as digital reporters!
https://inspectelement.org/apis
Just added to this resource for our data journalism students at @kingsdh: https://github.com/jwyg/awesome-data-journalism/
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You didn't ask for this, but let me tell you that Quake 1 runs at over 2000 fps these days.
#quake #retrogaming
@niconiconi it's the way :)
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Computer problems are recursive. As soon as you gain knowledge that is sufficient to solve your previous problem, you'll start using computers in more obscure ways and start getting even more obscure problems as a result.
@demoparty_no :-D complaining about my location, not yours
@aldroid hmm, maybe some remote call to provoke *every* wifi-connected device containing a speaker withing earshot to Rickroll them for 30s then an anmouncement naming them as the cause, and that it doubles each time.
best case for them, they live alone in the woods and just get annoyed. worst case, they are on the bus...
@stavvers but how do you brew two pints of lapsang souchong?
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
