ppxl

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I should be able to charge my phone over PoE from my laptop. I don't know why it would have this feature, but it should

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone ...before you can call it a card? /
The answer my friend /
Is blowin' the chip /
The answer is gone with a BRRRRTZTZT 🎶

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

As someone who spends a surprising amount of time at ewaste/junk shops:

non-bluetooth wireless keyboards should be banned for environmental reasons.

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone I feel this toot in my bones. Good obversation

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I extracted all 5000+ frames (with a bunch of duplicates!) of Rambley The Raccoon from Indigo Park: Chapter 1.

https://archive.org/details/rambley-raccoon #rambleytheraccoon #indigopark

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone "download 5000+ frames of a raccoon. Have raccoon fun. You definitely will not regret downloading 5000+ frames if a raccoon."

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Bad idea that could still make a lot of money:
A small desk-size washing machine, with proprietary soap packets, designed to clean keyboard keycaps.

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone I haven't heard it better than this. I think I am printing this on cards for distribution 😅

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Why doesn't microsoft make Recall take pictures with your computer's webcam too?

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone thanks for giving them ideas! /s 😭

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone nooo "ellemennopee" must prevail! 😭

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

when is GCC gonna have support for shock collars?
it might help to shock the programmer whenever the compile fails

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone did you just? Invent a contraption so C is no longer used?

If so: Bravo!

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone that reminds me of that one weird OS built by Christian fundamentalist which actually had good (technically) reviews at the time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone I feel this is what a lot of makers are still doing 😅

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

ppxl , vor einem Monat

@foone maybe collect a couple and scan all of them at once on a flatbed scanner then sort the small side out later to each disk picture set?

foone , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten) an Random Englisch

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

ppxl , vor 2 Monaten

@foone did you mean 'tops'?

The top behind you: grabs blunt weapon

whitequark , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

one of my least favorite things in computing are progress bars that straight up lie to you until getting to the very end

just make it a puck that goes back and forth and grows bigger as you actually receive data or something

stop fucking lying to me you piece of shit

ppxl , vor 2 Monaten

@foone @whitequark whaaaaa for ages I built up scenarios to calculate work load result feedback communication in my head for nuffin? 😭

arstechnica , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Connected devices with awful default passwords now illegal in UK

The law aims to prevent global-scale botnet attacks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/connected-devices-with-awful-default-passwords-now-illegal-in-uk/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ppxl , vor 2 Monaten

@arstechnica will there be a password police?

Members of the Password Police will ask you for your password

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I just got a cold call from another country because someone wanted to buy my minecraft account

the future is weird

ppxl , vor 2 Monaten

@foone weird flex to buy seldom digital goods with no inherent value. But I guess that's also true for many other things 😔

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

ppxl , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Thirty for thirsty, romance for the romans