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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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The youngster was having none of it.
It moved on too, finding a new nearby spot with its own sack. WIN!
Many shenanigans with the sack ensued, not all of them successful.
The adult watched.
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Going to finish the zoo thread with a mini orangutan photo story.
There was a young ape who clambered up to an adult one, despite slight vibes of "I am up here for some peace and quiet".
The adult grabbed its sack (not a euphemism) & moved on, found a new spot & pulled the sack on as a cape.
21 /n
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Remember when the web used to be fun?
In the spirit of that age I made a little website that does a lot of fancy maths and thinking stuff to tell you if you're alive or not.
Enjoy!
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New blog post: Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment
Did you know your speakers can play (and your microphone can record) audio at frequencies beyond what most people can hear? They can! And you can use that fact to secretly transmit data!
edit: oops, that had something weird going on with the youtube embed. fixed.
https://halcy.de/blog/2025/06/27/transmitting-data-via-ultrasound-without-any-special-equipment/
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I can't believe we're still having to say this in 2025, but would people *please* scroll back to the top of a website when they're finished reading, so it's ready for the next person. We've even got buttons at the bottom to do it all in one go, it's not 1994 any more.
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And here we have the noble capybara - the guinea big, if you will - doing a quick under the chin buttercup check to find out if they like butter 
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Ahh. Friday evening. Drinking gin. Sorting through photos. Trying to work out, in an increasingly exasperated manner, what kind of chameleon is looking at me very suspiciously, when they look different in EVERY SINGLE ONLINE PHOTO 🤷♀️
My information says it's possibly a Parson's Chameleon but if they had others it could be one of them. A funky creature, whatever. If you definitely know what type it is, please let us know in the replies.
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Everything in the reptile house was looking at me a little suspiciously. I have no idea why.
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Have I mentioned how great the orangutans were? I might have mentioned how great the orangutans were.
But still. ORANGUTAN! 🦧
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(I am being serious, someone needs to tell them to change that name right fucking now, and I will go do it. point me at the right people.)
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ok someone please point me at the Opera people responsible for calling their stupid LLM chatbot "Aria", thus name colliding it with the incredibly important web accessibility standards system.
I have some choice words for them.
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segmentation faults per Kelvin
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I am now going to channel the serenity of this orangutan, think peaceful thoughts, and head off to sleep. Sweet dreams all 💤
6 /n (to be continued)
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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
