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catgirl shaped object

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧
✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦
✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶
✷ nothing else matters ✷

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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.

whitequark OP ,
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DID YOU KNOW: Every single Windows API function is gay.

whitequark OP ,
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@foone w-why

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Good, uhhh.. good morning

whitequark ,
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@fasterthanlime KITTY EARS

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]

whitequark OP ,
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i feel the same way about programming languages

whitequark OP ,
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but also have you ever looked into how absurdly difficult it is to make a reliable automatic feeding and extraction mechanism? like when i was a child i didn't care for guns much but i was wondering how you'd design such a thing

many years later i have a much more detailed understanding of how one works, but i still wonder how you'd design such a thing

especially with like, no high speed cameras, no CAM/CAE, nothing but your mind and a sheet of paper

a beautiful form of applied mathematics

whitequark OP ,
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and a lot of trial and error

i wonder if i can read, like, winchester's lab notebook or something, to understand the thought process behind the design

whitequark OP ,
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@4censord I think some of the better airsoft options could be satisfying in the same way

foone , an Random Englisch
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I mean, they make a good argument.

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejacutastic/752960889515294720/

whitequark ,
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@foone the username really ties it together

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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you know what kind of talk i'd go or listen to?

"working on OSS while disabled"

foone , an Random Englisch
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Idea: a USB-controlled gun, but the USB protocol implementation is the most cursed part.
Any ideas? I have a better one, but I'll start with that it's a USB printer class. Every time you tell it to print a page, it fires

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@foone web camera (the cursed part is that someone would actually deploy this)

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One thing that is cool about LLM‘s right now is how there’s actual competition, the likes of which I haven’t seen in other fields lately.

I’ve been enjoying GPT-4o, now Claude Sonnet 3.5 is out and I can just switch to it with one line of config. Until next time.

whitequark ,
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@fasterthanlime "mostly actively harmful" is closer to reality than "completely useless" or "going to replace us all"

whitequark ,
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@fasterthanlime can you post the code as well?

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Someone really needs to develop a lightweight VM container that we can stuff software in. Like, you know how you can buy DOS games on steam, and it just gives you dosbox preconfigured to play the game?

That, but for all software on all OSes

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@foone i'm not sure how useful this is outside of software as art

ime the biggest use case for "i want to run ancient software" is when you have ancient hardware, and virtualization famously does not work very well for that

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Amaranth 0.5.0 has been released! Read the changelog to see what's new (a lot! we've accepted and implemented nineteen RFCs) or jump directly into the playground

whitequark OP ,
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i am now on vacation, everyone 😴

whitequark OP ,
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@asie cuddle girlms

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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OH: "air frier is the "I use Arch btw" of food preparation"

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Bad idea: since there's a mechanical limit to how much you can cool down a CPU, design a motherboard with a rotary barrel.

While one CPU is used, the other five can be cooling down!

whitequark ,
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@foone the different kind of "barrel processor"

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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by the way if you implement a buttplug.io integration for the Glasgow Interface Explorer i don't mind having it upstream

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@foone probably just pwm to whatever protocol it is

maybe multichannel

16 channel buttplug sounds interesting

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we need metacomputers.

one of the big features of computers and how they improved productivity was how they let us automate a lot of things that we had to do by hand before.

well, most of the things I have to do by hand these days involve badly designed software.

whitequark ,
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@foone metaconstructs making metacomputers

yeah this checks out

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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

whitequark ,
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@massa @foone

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@massa @foone spec here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120414204800/http://www.usb.org/developers/expresscard/EC_specifications/ExpressCard_2_0_FINAL.pdf

why on earth it is on usb.org i have no idea

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@foone this is why glasgow has 5V available :3

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@foone @massa terrifying

the spec even says PCMCIA

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Just witnessed someone join a call, stay silent for 30 minutes, and then wave bye.

There were like, 8 people on that call.

whitequark ,
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@fasterthanlime this isn't normal?

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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chat, have you ever eaten cat food? and if yes, how was it?

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asking LLMs to do the lord's work:

it rewrote it to 1 << 24

whitequark ,
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@fasterthanlime huh, i got better at that in 30s

whitequark ,
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@fasterthanlime hm! we could pair and see

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This paper is interesting. It discusses the demographics of those who most frequently engage in disseminating disinformation, and identifies that there are three primary states in which this activity is centered, and that those who engage in that activity skew towards "older republican women who are marginally wealthier than their neighbors" - which suggests summat for me and likely for anyone else who's had to endure small-town politics and the petit aristocracy therein.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl4435

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@foone @munin sounds fun

whitequark ,
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@foone @munin yes

whitequark ,
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@foone @munin it's a fun activity to do with friends!

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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VIS / LWIR

so pretty

image/jpeg

whitequark OP ,
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now that i have both a high resolution thermal camera and a Gen3 image intensifier i have achieved the dream, which i could previously only roleplay in Arma 3

which is to walk around aimlessly with multispectral imaging eqiupment and just look at stuff

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I often think about "computer bad" and similar defeatism — so much is fixable via training, customization + just not buying garbage (which requires money, money solves a lot of problems!).

I'll never understand folks complaining about something they have the means to fix.

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@fasterthanlime yeah

if I notice myself sliding down that path I just wipe my personality and reimage it

extremely destructive but takes care of not becoming scanlime

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One of the smallest floppies.

whitequark ,
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@foone @NanoRaptor hey I have a FlashPath!

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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do you think this is an appropriate amount of spite to put into a reverse engineering project?

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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i did not realize how fragile "sd card plugged into raspberry pi" is. my headmate's 3d printer server just... had an sd card die. it sort of reads except sometimes it spends half a minute reading a single sector

wtf

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i want something like Microsoft's Recall thing and will probably eventually build it for myself, using different tech

whitequark OP ,
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i need assistive technology for dissociative amnesia and what they're going for is kinda the direction i want

whitequark OP ,
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@timotimo i want something like an https-decoding proxy

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

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@foone that will just result in failing every compilation

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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/

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@foone you can still do this today

i worked on a DIY process for PTH metallization

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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reverse-engineering the software for my wireless headset when suddenly, jumpscared by lisp?

whitequark OP ,
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@foone lmfao amazing

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wanna see a page where every single word is cursed? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ifs/support-for-unc-naming-and-mup

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