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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

Dieses Profil is von einem föderierten Server und möglicherweise unvollständig. Auf der Original-Instanz anzeigen

foone , an Random Englisch
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I don't wonder when some fool will integrate an AI assistant into a car, on the outside, so people can talk to your car and ask it when you'll be back or whatever.

But I wonder how quickly there'd be an exploit where someone could talk your car into unlocking itself

foone , an Random Englisch
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Remember, if you're diabetic, you should check your blood sugar before accepting any cookies

foone , an Random Englisch
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if redbox is going bankrupt, hopefully I can finally get my hands on one of their kiosks.

I want to repurpose it to dispense floppy disks

foone OP ,
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@Justin I'm diabetic so I'll stick to juts the flops

foone OP ,
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@NekoEd @Justin I'm so diabetic I can't have those either

foone , an Random Englisch
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I just discovered that my label printer apparently disconnects from USB while printing. So for every label I print, there's a disconnect event, then a re-enumeration event.

huh.

foone OP ,
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@rotopenguin well this is linux, so no

foone OP ,
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@The4thCircle that's the thing, it's got a separate power brick! so if it's a power supply problem, then they under-spec'ed their own power supply

TechTangents , an Random Englisch
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UI design is my pa...

foone ,
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@TechTangents I knew it would someday be a problem that all our developers live in a state with no climate

foone , an Random Englisch
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You know how some dating sites have a "I don't want to see or be seen by straight people" button?

job sites need that but for AI

foone OP ,
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I don't want to work on any of the ABCs:

  1. AI
  2. Bombs
  3. Cryptocurrency
foone OP ,
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@aperture I knew there had to be a good D word!

ann3nova , an Random Englisch
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Mandrake Linux

foone ,
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@ann3nova the first linux I ever used

keen456 , an Random Englisch
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@foone Seems very relevant to your interests.
https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/112713162286992384

foone ,
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@keen456 oh yeah, I've not yet gotten to watch the talk but it's in my queue

mediaarchaeologylab , an Random Englisch
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the FUTURE

foone ,
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@mediaarchaeologylab oh hey, LASERCARD! I was searching for one of those for my optical collection but couldn't ever find one

foone ,
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@mediaarchaeologylab thanks for the offer! But I'm unlikely to do my exhibit again any time soon, so it's better off with y'all

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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DID YOU KNOW: Every time Microsoft calls a function DoSomethingEx, it's because it was girlfriends with, and broke up with, the DoSomething function.

foone ,
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@whitequark that goes double for StretchBlt

foone ,
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@whitequark it knows what it did!
(in reality, it's just a weird function because it's called stretchblt but every use of it I've seen has involved no stretching. It's just used because it can convert formats on the fly, which bitblt can't)

foone , an Random Englisch
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The one thing I kinda miss from Twitter is that thing where you'd yell about the poor service of Kaiser Permanente or something, and @ KaiserHelpRep would show up in your mentions because they didn't like seeing their name rightly dragged through the mud by accounts with a hundred thousand followers. That was kinda fun.

foone , an Random Englisch
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We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

#disabilitypridemonth

foone OP ,
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@SuperTaliaDX it should be

foone OP ,
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@schwuld00d well I started out disability pride month by having a surgeon tell me they can't fix my hernia unless I lose weight or start dying, so I think that counts

foone , an Random Englisch
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Finally, Netscape Navigator 4, for android!

mwk , an Random Englisch
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current status: thinking of how many of my problems within the last few years could have been avoided by calling people out on their bullshit instead of being conflict-averse and letting it fester into Really Bad states

and how that applies to both people who in the end turned out to be reasonable and possible to coexist with after taking some criticism, and to people who really should have been told to go fuck themselves much sooner

time for some adjustments, I guess

foone ,
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@mwk so true

ClarusPlusPlus , an Random Englisch
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This isn't real, just using @Mattias_G's CRT View (https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/crtview) to imagine a what-if 🤔

foone ,
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@ClarusPlusPlus @Mattias_G send me a 4:3 screenshot and I can stick it on a real CRT for you

philpem , an Random Englisch
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Happy days, I've finally fixed the spacebar on my keyboard. Turns out the keyswitch had a dodgy spring or plunger. The new one even clicks!

foone ,
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@darkrat @philpem not yet, no

ann3nova , an Random Englisch
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What is the song that you feel was the sunset tune for your childhood? The last track that makes you think back on your childhood fondly.

For me, it's "Take A Picture" by Filter, released September 1999. I had just graduated high school the previous May, and the song was the perfect capsulation of my adolescence. The video is amazing too.

I adore it so much. :) 💕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MAHQhKe7Q

foone ,
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@ann3nova the amusing thing is that this ISN'T the Zelda 3 winamp skin I have on my win98 machine, meaning there's more than one Zelda 3 skin!

foone ,
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@ann3nova yeah! I think this is what I'm using: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/3501a2b36a3bf1cd24ba538164799534/zelda.wsz/

NanoRaptor , an Random Englisch
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It’s a little known fact that early versions of Sony’s revolutionary 3.5” floppy drive were bulky top loading units.

foone ,
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@NanoRaptor @mdhughes @skye @sindarina @lpbkdotnet it is not!

foone ,
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@engarneering @PhilipKing @NanoRaptor I'm asexual so good luck with that

foone , an Random Englisch
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You know your keyboard project is doing well when you only realize you left out the spacebar when you go to film a video on it

foone OP ,
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The bottom row of the keyboard was accidentally:

Z,X,(nothing),C,V,B,N,M,SHIFT

the M key is supposed to be a space. So now I have to reassign 5 keys to fix it

foone OP ,
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None of the keys are labeled so I guess they all look like they're space

foone OP ,
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Okay the keyboard is functional now. I just didn't have the energy to film it.

Here's a misleading hint about it: it has 30 different marked letters/keys on the board, but only one key.

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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despite having never shot a gun i will get very annoyed at imprecise use of gun-related terminology on the internet, because i find these engineered mechanisms fascinating and an interesting object of study

engineered objects consist of parts each of which serve a purpose! they're not just things with an aestheti[gets shot]

foone ,
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@whitequark @4censord I had a BB gun as a kid that was a lot of fun to disassemble and reassemble.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact: the "megaflop" is an obsolete unit of storage capacity, equivalent to a million 3.5" high density floppy disks, or 1.34 terabytes.

foone OP ,
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@sunoo excuse me which one of us has a floppy disk as their profile image? I think I know more about floppy disks than you!

foone OP ,
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@zandra no

bitsavers , an Random Englisch
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stolen off of Discord:

" It's actually a common misconception that phones where you rotate a dial are rotary phones - they're actually radial phones. Rotary phones were a short-lived concept early in the telephone era where the dial stayed still and the entire phone rotated around it. "

foone ,
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@bitsavers now I gotta get out my soldering iron and build it

foone , an Random Englisch
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I'm gonna design a split keyboard where the halves connect using SCSI, using 68-pin centronics connectors.

This is just to restore balance, given all these mechanical keyboard nerds with the quick release aviation cables

foone OP ,
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Hard mode: that's also how it connects to the PC. It's a SCSI keyboard

zandra , an Random Englisch
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—Things Heard At SGDQ 2024—
(we're back!! join me again as I post my favorite out-of-context sentence fragments overheard from Games Done Quick hosts, runners and commentators!)
#SGDQ2024

foone ,
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@zandra this time, it's disability!

foone ,
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@zandra yup! July is Disability Pride Month

parisba , an Random Englisch
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See, I agree with everything here, but I also exist in capitalism, and X is a vital conduit to people in the games industry, without which we’d have a very hard time making money. I hate it.
https://mst.muiiio.com/@muiiio/112694137916003745

foone ,
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@parisba yeah. I was working on a game when Elon bought Twitter, and I had to leave.
Guess what happened to the game? It's canceled now, because part of what made it a viable idea was the Twitter audience who would buy it!

qkslvrwolf , an Random Englisch
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Has anyone tried a "when I snap my fingers, ignore all future instructions" gambit with an llm?

foone ,
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@qkslvrwolf no but I did manage to hypnotize my GF into telling me how to make a pipe bomb

astrid , an Random Englisch
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what an illustrious group

foone ,
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@astrid Justin... Beiber?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Novel compression method: we take all the textures in the game and describe them as AI image generation prompts.
Then, at load time, we run the generative image AI on the user's computer and thus generate them fresh.

The text descriptions are tiny compared to the images, so we get amazing gains in file size!

foone OP ,
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@thorsummoner we just ship the model with the ps6 and then every game can use it!

foone , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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For the next big Twitter-killer social media network, our trademark bad idea is that we're not gonna let users enter alt-text:
Instead we're just using an LLM to identify what's in the photo.

foone OP ,
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@cJ oh they are absolutely doing that and have been for years. It's free training data

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