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he/him

You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

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foone , an Random Englisch
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I turned on my phone's mobile hotspot and couldn't remember what SSID I gave it.

but I checked the list from my laptop and found "FCC Party Van" so I'm pretty sure that's it

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@foone I feel like these never commit to the bit quite enough. I would want to lend it some verisimilitude with like “FBI Mobile AP B-8286” or somesuch.

foone , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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Anyone bought the Riven remake yet? Can you check the credits and tell me if I'm in it?

(I'm supposed to be but I haven't heard anything since, and I don't have the cash to grab a copy yet)

Edit: it has been confirmed: I am!

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@foone TIL there’s a Riven remake, going to need to get a copy of that

foone , an Random Englisch
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guys I know you want to show off how stretchable your product is but could you please, please, not do it like this?

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@foone some days I really think I would let Elon Musk put a microchip in my brain if it could guarantee that I'd no longer get this joke

foone , an Random Englisch
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I love mid-80s Sony consumer AV tech design language.

A grey metallic Sony remote. Close up in on the buttons, which to 2-13, muting, sleep, power, picture +/-, volume +/-, channel +/-
A grey metallic Sony remote. It's flipped facing the camera at an angle, so you can see the two tone metallic grey/dark grey plastic case, and the dark red (almost black) IR window

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@foone it's like you have your own personal RoboCop to change your channels

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watching the latest Deviant Ollam talk, they mentioned wondering if you can just trigger carbon monoxide sensors with some chemistry.

Turns out you can just buy tester canisters! They're just spray cans of Carbon Monoxide! That sounds... somewhat dangerous.

https://www.amazon.com/Sdi-Carbon-Monoxide-Detector-Tester/dp/B007886ZME

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@foone @NireBryce "Instantly Fatal Poison™ Inside! WARNING: PROCESSED IN A FACILITY THAT ALSO PROCESSES PEANUTS. MAY CONTAIN TRACE AMOUNTS OF GLUTEN"

18+ foone , an Random Englisch
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I finally figured out what's wrong with my dryer!
There's no drum to put the clothes in. This is a rookie mistake, Samsung.

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@foone feels like this might be a little too high latency for an input device for DOOM

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@foone 8 years old?!! Is it in an industrial laundry facility in continuous 24/7 use? Are your clothes made exclusively of tungsten ring mail? What HAPPENED to this thing?

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@foone “What did we do with the dryer? What dryer? Oh! You mean the wrench tumbler?”

foone , an Random Englisch
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Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

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@foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.

jwz , an Random Englisch
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Is there any recourse -- besides bolt cutters -- to these scooter companies coming by in their truck and locking their commercial product to every slot in every bike rack so that nobody with a bike can use the rack at all?

Is there anyone at the city who will do something about these assholes?

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@jwz dang are they at this again? I thought they all went bankrupt after people started throwing the scooters in the nearest body of water

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The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus, respectively

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It's a pity that the technology never aligned such that we could get an e-ink pda

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@foone not quite what you are looking for here, but have you seen https://shop.boox.com/collections/all/products/palma ?

TechConnectify , an Random Englisch
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Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

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@TechConnectify When I read a Hot Take™ like this, I feel like it says more about the mental state of the speaker than it does about the world. When did people live up to their ideals? Pick a decade, then look at the history for that decade through a "were they hypocrites" lens and you will feel just as bad about then as you do now. Is there an actual fact pattern that you are reacting to, or do you just feel generally bad and hopeless and attempting to pattern-match a reason for it?

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@TechConnectify Sorry that my comment was unhelpful, I appreciate your reply nonetheless. I do think you're on to something with popular media being more reluctant to clearly take a stand on right & wrong; although there are counterexamples from both time periods, listing them in a litany would be even less helpful; so instead I'll share my favorite video about the systemic forces which create "no politics" media (where "caring about right & wrong" is shown as naïve) https://www.polygon.com/videos/23059933/call-of-duty-military-entertainment

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@TechConnectify @franktaber FWIW, I feel like your work does speak to this sort of purposeful earnestness and that is one of the reasons I love it.

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I just have to say: Mastodon is better than twitter or X or bluesky or whatever.

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@foone kinda have to agree and I gotta say as a long time twitter user it feels a bit weird to be on social media saying nice things about social media rather than complaining about it

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Here's an interesting "keyboard" for sale on aliexpress: It's a deconstructed keyboard matrix!
You can just plug in arcade buttons or whatever to each pair of pins.

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@foone and they color coded WASD? I am not a hardware project person but I confess this is sorely tempting

foone , an Random Englisch
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the real reason we moved away from them is that IBM never managed to invent an RW variant of the punchcard. They were only Punchcard-Rs

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@foone @TechConnectify I have actually wondered about this before: how come Scantron never got used in this way? It would seem like a pretty big cost reduction and time saver if you had an error in your deck. Did the tech not temporally overlap?

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