Taking my son to school this morning I said how it felt spring had arrived. Sorry everyone.
@thomasfuchs @yatil Having said that, I wonder if I could hack something together which pulls in content from other instance’s timelines and highlights ones that might be of interest.
@yatil @thomasfuchs I’m on a single user instance, and because of that following hashtags doesn’t really work, because the only people on the federated timeline here are also people I follow anyway. I’d love a way to follow a topic globally, but that’s not even slightly how ActivityPub works.
Been seeing trucks here and there from a company called Gamer Logistics and I want to believe they deliver freight via glitch-assisted speed runs. Like, maybe if you reverse into a bridge pillar on I-10 as soon as you cross into El Paso and hold it for precisely 39 minutes and 7 seconds, if you then shift into neutral you warp to Beaumont and can skip the entire state of Texas
I’ve just been reminded of The Queue. That glorious few days in which the country was obsessed by a bunch of people lining up to look at a box that may or may not have contained a dead monarch.
@isaacfreeman That has to be watched in conjunction with the TNG episode in which he gets pulled out of a transporter to tell Geordie he should be padding his estimates.
@solderandchaos I keep nearly watching it, it’s such a beautifully shot film, but I just don’t know that I could handle it.
The year is 2187 and nobody is sure why people greet each other by saying “Can you hear me?”, with the expected reply “Yes, can you hear me?”
@codinghorror I mean mine took five days to be born (not even joking, I think I’m the only person I know who had to ask whether paternity leave starts at time of birth or onset of labour), but otherwise a solid take.
I have no memory of doing so, and yet there it was, waiting for me to hit play. For the curious, it’s Ganglion by Saltillo. Pretty sure I’d never heard of it before today.
Nothing has made me feel older than realising I may have flagged this album for download I randomly found on my phone when I had no signal anything up to 17 years ago.
Six months out from leaving my old job and I can finally feel the fog of burnout lifting, I’m able to find joy in stretching myself again. Now all I need is another 12 hours a day to fit in all the different new/resumed hobbies.
Digital Graffiti and hyperlocal e-zines.
I bought a ton of tiny micro-controllers, in part because I want to work on some automated farming projects and they were a steal at $6/board.
Then I had another idea.
These micro-controllers can run tiny web servers and WiFi access points. They also require extremely low power, can be powered on an outlet or a small solar panel and battery, and can be hidden very easily, either in a 3D printed waterproof container, a rescued piece of litter, or more.
Inspired by @hydroponictrash 's posts on hosting and hiding banned libraries, I decided to start working on a similar project: spreading tiny micro-servers across town in hidden locations hosting zines, propaganda and links to banned books and such.
Now, these are microcontrollers here... we're not talking about high-powered computers. I'm not going to be able to handle hundreds of requests at once... likely, less than half a dozen. I'm not going to be hosting beautiful looking web apps in ReactJS, more likely just raw HTML/CSS (maybe JQuery? we will see) and I'm not planning on this just spreading like wildfire.
That said, I think the concept of e-graffiti (think hosting one of these with anti-police or anti-gov messaging right outside of city hall, hidden where they can't find it) and hyperlocal e-zines really neat.
I'm going to test this idea out and get back to you on it. The next iteration I think would be cool is finding a way to do this on recycled e-waste: think old phones, broken laptops, etc. Things that have a higher processing power can also do bigger tasks like hosting banned books for download, serving as wifi-repeaters to serve... "liberated" wifi connections, etc.
@Edent Example 8 of the Activity Streams spec shows one possible way to attach location to a post. I'm not sure there's any agreed upon standard for this yet, but it's definitely possible: ://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-
I just got Maybe Latered by the train ticket app asking if I want to see bike spaces on trains. I have taken a bike on a train a grand total of 1 time in my 39 years on this Earth.
I am once again begging application developers to have the guts to put a "no, I don't want that button" on dialogues rather than "not now, maybe later" and then haranguing me until I cave and click the yes button.
Unreal Engine 5 is astonishing. Entire landscapes built out of 3D scanned objects stacked on top of each other, with real-time lighting, running at 60fps on five year old hardware.
There are too many things in this world that I would like to learn, and not enough hours in the day, can someone please hire me to just mess about with various interests?
@requiem My hope is that we’ll see things settle down in the near future with people not blindly trusting LLMs so much. There’s a space for them being used to automate boilerplate, but I’ve seen way too many stupid errors and imagined APIs from Copilot to trust it.
I was definitely a bit cynical going in after the trailer with its grim-dark version of the theme tune. Thankfully it had none of that energy, leaning into being a kids movie, rather than a super serious reimagining for the adults.
Mario movie was great. You can see the love of the series that everyone involved had shining through, utterly joyful, particularly with a nine year old who’s grown up with the games.
Deeply amused by the choice to set this series of Race Across the World in Canada. Firstly, it’s called Race Across the World, not Race Across Canada. Secondly, there’s no public transport, so the whole thing is just people at gas stations trying to hitchhike or hiring cars. Occasionally you’ll get another scene of people establishing the one bus a week left yesterday.
Valheim update: We have defeated our first trolls, and are now wearing some fetching troll trousers.
Bwahahaha. This conspiracy theorist just delivered the line “if he heard anything he didn’t like he simply ignored it” with a completely straight face.