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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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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My magnum opus, my masterwork... I dedicate this one to you, my community.
@babe are those cheeks now canon? :D
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@neotoy Something that might help that comes from the uBlock Origin devs on Reddit is this. Apparently YT is using Javascript fuckery to slow down the browser. If you're using UO, try adding this to your filters list:
! 2024-01-20 https://youtube.com block javascript slowing fuckery from youtube
www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)
www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.ab_pl_man, false)
www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_enable_ab_rsp_cl, false)
||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com
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Sometimes I find wee spots in the trees that look like the best spots to sit and have a cuppa and watch the world go by. I love this miniature lichen-tree.
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I have walked across this space many times before, but it was only in the blanket of snow that I noticed this tiny wee tree with its own little arrow pointing at it.
The post is the remains of an old fence, the tree an opportunistic growth through cracked asphalt, but the result is an accidental work of art (to me, anyhow).
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The mighty borb was unimpressed.
#sillyScribbles #photography #boop #bird #borb #robin #silly
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RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.
@35millimetre for all the obvious efficiencies of packaging, transportation, etc you're really unselling cuboid foodstuffs to me ;)
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Austrian actress & inventor Hedy Lamarr died #OTD in 2000.
Most of her inventions were not widely used, but in the 1940s she wanted to create something that would help Allied forces fight the Nazis as part of the II WW. She worked with composer George Antheil to develop a new way to steer torpedoes. She had already discovered that radio-signals used to control torpedoes could be jammed by the Nazis, making them miss their targets, & wanted to come up with an unjammable alternative.
#science
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WHY???
WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS??
Tell us! Tell us! We've wondered for so long! Please, just...tell us WHY.
@35millimetre I'm now suspicious about the oat ingot. would that be an oaty weetabix? is oatabix a thing? does it have the structural concrete properties of weetabix too?
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If engaging in booping activity it is preferable to get to comfy with the boopee first, even if it does mean getting a cold bum.
@eclectech 10/10 full borb!
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Here’s a short rhyme to help you remember how many days there are in each month.
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All tuckered out. Goodnight & sweet dreams all.
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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
