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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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Saw this online (unsure of source) and I think this might be a way to really let off some stress with model trains.
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I've written a post outlining what I want to do with my paid newsletter. It's called Jenny's Bench, I'll aim for a post every weekday, and after the first month only one daily post a week and a Sunday summary will be free. Starting next week.
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Tired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.
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If anyone has a passion for collecting #gaming music (the soundtracks), I found an archive link to so, so many of them:
https://archive.org/details/folksoundomy_gamesoundtracks
Enjoy!
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I’m always pleased when Slack appears in the logs. Again, it’s a walled garden and I have no more context than that. But it’s still nice to know that somewhere, somehow, I’m wasting some company’s time.
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Let's see if Late Payer shells out today, shall we.
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Back when the web was just the web, I would occasionally make unexpectedly popular Content, and it was fun to look through the referrer logs, see where people were coming from, browse around in those communities and so on. With the youtube stuff, 'external' is only ever a few percent, and within that it's basically 'discord' which could be anything. But it's still quite fun seeing little clusters of comments from people with the same angle on it, and trying to work out their thing.
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@4censord @sophie I remember talking to someone in the late 90s, early 00s that told me a colleague had tied in a sound generator to their company’s smtp servers, and it would play forest sounds in the background all day in the sysadmin office. I seem to recall that the amount of rain was tied to the load, and different bird calls represented different types and sizes of mail.
It was done in such a way as to be a pleasant background sound, but at the same time, when something went wrong, the sysops would hear it long before monitoring flagged it.
I suspect this system eventually died a death due to moving to a cloud provider, but it does show that monitoring can be something other than visual…
Edit: it seems I was misremembering this as a company rather than a university. It was called Peep (The Network Auralizer). The entire design and architecture was written up for USENIX: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/lisa2000/gilfix/gilfix_html/
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Kash Patel is reportedly furious and threatening to sue anyone who calls him “J. Edgar Boozer.”
It would be a real shame if this went viral.
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This may be the start of something big, I'm starting my own content channel.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Starting-Something-I-Control-Myself-A0A71YHD17
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
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Leekspin came out 20 years ago today. Happy birthday!
https://leekspin.co/
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Right, last #Hackster round-up of the week and then I'm off to enjoy the rare sunshine I can see out of the shed window.
First up is... well, nothing short of incredible. A working Game Boy Color... in a smartwatch form factor.
"That's easy," you cry, "emulate it on a microcontroller." Nope: this uses the original CPU and RAM, it's an honest-to-goodness clone. And has swappable carts. Physical carts. Yeah.
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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
