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DenOfEarth

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Proponent of #science, #climate, books, music, kindness, acceptance. Ally. Hello #WeirdCarMastodon and the gang.

Profile pic is of a small electric car. Banner pic is a field of tall grasses on the shore of a lake, a contrast of colours that is not a coincidence.

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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

Seeding my dungeon. What could possible go wrong!

C++ code for seeding the dungeon to 666
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Ah crap.

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@slirt@weird.autos avatar slirt , to random

Not only but it's my Valentine's 3rd birthday as well ♥️ Love you, 🐾

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@slirt
I don't know how to tell you this but there is a giant cat in your living room.

@DenOfEarth@mas.to avatar DenOfEarth , to random

Where I toot from

The Krell power station from the movie Forbidden Planet (1956)
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@dan@weird.autos avatar dan , to random

Since I stopped teacher STEM and started teaching wood shop I lost access to the 3D printer I picked out for the old classroom.

We just spent entirely too much money on a 3D printer set up for the house.

Problem Solved.

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@dan
Our municipal library has at least one if not more to use on a sign-up basis, and the shared workspace (also municipal) also has a huge one as well as a water cutter. The latter is a beast and their sign out front was cut with it, from 1/4” steel!

@DenOfEarth@mas.to avatar DenOfEarth , to random

A reminder that it's totally ok to warm your paws on your fuzzy tail if it's cold and you're a Pallas's cat, or any cat, or you have a scarf and dammit why can't I do that too.

Hat tip @pomegranate_stew and @dillyd
https://kind.social/@pomegranate_stew/115633370452830596

A big floofy Pallas's Cat, about the size of a big tabby, Ina wintry scene, warming its front paws by wrapping its tail underneath them. The cat is looking at the camera with a look like, Yaah? What? It's cold!
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@arstechnica
Omnomnomnom

@chrisamaphone@hci.social avatar chrisamaphone , to random

storefront has a neon sign that says Grip, Rip, and Dip

with no further context what are your guesses as to what kind of establishment this is

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@DenOfEarth@mas.to avatar DenOfEarth , to random

@pluralistic , we spoke Saturday about whether the French translation is closer to 'merde' or to 'chier' (pardon).

The way I see it, enshittification is more of a dark alchemy, so it has little to do with the act, and everything to do with the result.

Therefore

➡️ Emmerdification

But soft! French also has

➡️ Démerder

which is to be resourceful!
So there is hope yet!

@DenOfEarth@mas.to avatar DenOfEarth , to random

“The Economics Prize has nestled itself in and is awarded as if it were a Nobel Prize. But it’s a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation,” Nobel’s great great nephew Peter Nobel told AFP in 2005, adding that “It’s most often awarded to stock market speculators .... There is nothing to indicate that [Alfred Nobel] would have wanted such a prize.”

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Hat tip @AliceMarshall

https://www.alternet.org/2012/10/there-no-nobel-prize-economics

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , (edited ) to random

How soon after a smoke detector starts beeping because of a low battery do you get annoyed enough to change it?

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@NanoRaptor
Bought one of those talking ones with a sealed battery - it malfunctioned that same evening, just after the stores closed.

No way to silence it, no way to remove the battery, I had to squash it under a pillow in the basement so we could get some sleep.

The next day at the returns counter BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FIRE! FEU! BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Reason for return? Oh."

@SteveInVentura@sfba.social avatar SteveInVentura , to random

A very opinionated article about the inevitability of , but I didn’t see anything factually incorrect in it. The gasoline car market peaked way back in 2016 while the market set a new record last month (albeit because of US incentives expiring). Legacy manufacturers like GM aimed to transition to solely EVs while lobbying the government to back off pollution restrictions and efficiency requirements. It’s been quite a ride, but the present administration is swimming against the tide of the global market and empowering China, while leaving us isolated and increasingly irrelevant. @ZeKik @sgt1372 @vinc @vwdasher @DenOfEarth @MarkBrigham @richardknott https://www.autoevolution.com/news/at-the-crossroads-between-ice-present-and-ev-future-legacy-carmakers-chose-irrelevance-258245.html

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@ZeKik @SteveInVentura @sgt1372 @vinc @vwdasher @MarkBrigham @richardknott
While this is true, unfortunately some European (and Japanese) makers are scaling back their EV production. Article below about VW, but also Porsche, Toyota and Honda have made similar moves.
https://electrek.co/2025/09/26/volkswagen-cuts-id-4-other-ev-output-as-plant-shutdowns-loom/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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@vwdasher @serichards @ZeKik @SteveInVentura @sgt1372 @vinc @MarkBrigham @richardknott
Surprisingly when we were in Paris last year there were a lot of Mirai hydrogen taxis around, presumably subsidized by the government or the Olympic Games as a contribution to carbon whatnot. I am going to also presume that they had adequate refueling facilities purely on the basis that if they hadn't, French taxi drivers would have been vocal about it.

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@richardknott @vwdasher @serichards @ZeKik @SteveInVentura @sgt1372 @vinc @MarkBrigham
And while I think many people think hydrogen is still made by cleanly splitting water using hydrolysis, much of it is actually made using natural gas, so it's another form of greenwashing.

Not surprisingly, hydrogen converted back and forth to ammonia is gaining popularity in the ocean shipping world, for similar reasons.
https://maritime-executive.com/magazine/ship-fuels-ammonia-is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze

@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/

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Image: Bastique (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Panels_on_Church_Roof_full.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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@pluralistic
For another clear hint that has already begun to affect EVs, look no further than the charging station conundrum.

Wanna buy gas? You're good with cash, credit, bank card, Apple pay, you name it.

Wanna charge your EV? Welcome to any number of mutually incompatible charging networks, each requiring you create an account and pre-load it with funds, load the app on your phone, order a card in the mail...

Who do you wanna bet is behind this turnpike cluster fuck?

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@willie1foot @pluralistic
This has been my experience in Canada... The Tesla/Supercharger experience is probably more efficient, but for the rest of us, it's a pain. The saving grace is charging at home.

@gregly@retro.pizza avatar gregly , to random

Driving an hour north today to pick up an enormous CRT television (and stand) that we definitely do not have the room for. Meanwhile our hot water heater, refrigerator, dishwasher, and stove/oven seriously need to be replaced.

I am very good at being a human adult 🫠

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@gregly
Hang on to it another 20 years until it's the only known surviving and operational specimen, then you can sell it for a fortune and replace your stove, fridge, dishwasher and heater, and also finally dispose of the twenty years of Chinese takeout containers in the yard.

Follow me for more life tips.

@scruss@xoxo.zone avatar scruss , to random

are there any masto android mobile apps that respect my account-wide "hide boosts" settings?

official app and Subway Tooter don't

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@mcc @scruss @adr
I'm using Tusky and I'm pretty sure my per-account boost mutes are working.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

You cannot vote with your wallet. Or rather, you can, but you will lose that vote. Wallet-votes always go to the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that is not you.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/#marginal-benefits

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"A 1930s scene of a man and woman casting ballots in a cardboard box labeles "BALLOT BOX." Superimposed is a man holding aloft a fan-fold wallet that has unfurled to reveal numerous cards. The man's head has been replaced with Uncle Sam's. The ballot the woman is casting bas been replaced with a US$100 bill.
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@elfburgerman @pluralistic
On Mastodon you can filter out all the thread bits and view just the first post which has a convenient link to Cory's blog where you can read it all in one nice article with no adverts.

@jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

I rather like the pic I took of my grandkid Onix here.

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Ping @Sardonicus (re the above)

@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

Laser printer carcasses at the Burbank Recycle Center

A shrink-wrapped shipping pallet of dead laser-printers.

A shrink-wrapped shipping pallet of dead laser-printers.
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@fringd @wb2ifs @pluralistic
What was I thinking bringing my LaserJet III to e-waste?? It was still working! And I could still find toner for it!

And let's be honest, it was never going to give me grief about being out of cyan.

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@psa @98Percent @fringd @wb2ifs @pluralistic
It took me a while, but I found it:

Swole doge meme. Left side, weight-lifter dog Right side, wimpy dog Left side superimposed with a Hewlett Packard laboratory frequency generator Right side superimposed with a recent HP home office printer Captions: Left side: HP THEN I can generate a 1MHz square wave with a rise time of less than 0.02 microseconds. Right side: HP NOW You don't have magenta.
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    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again

    Two emails, with subject lines “Message Blocked” and (all caps) “[Message blocked due to policy]”
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    @molly0xfff
    It's become so common as a mild exclamation or adjective that I don't think I'm alone in feeling that some adjustment might be in order.

    Also related:
    https://mastodon.ie/@stancarey/114397990084740103

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

    Who misses the old Linux Ethernet names? Remember when your network interfaces were just eth0 and eth1? Now we have long names like enp0s25. Let's see where you stand.

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    @nixCraft
    Never mind the interface names, I miss ifconfig which I recently heard had been deprecated!! WTF!

    @LibrarianRA@worldkey.io avatar LibrarianRA , to random

    Goodnight from Lake Ontario.
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    Car ferry, Ontario number One by moonlight, port of Rochester NY postcard
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    You see an old style steamship with two stacks sailing through the water. In the sky the moon breaks through partly clouded dark skies very good the lights of the steamer light up the surrounding water The boat is moving from right to left. At the bottom there is some text. The text states "car ferry, Ontario number 1, by Moonlight. Port of Rochester NY. "
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    @LibrarianRA
    I love those old plumb-line bows but they fell out of favour over their tendency to cleave fatally into other ships. Snip from the Wikipedia entry on the Empress of Ireland:

    Legacy The sinking of Empress of Ireland proved that the reverse slanting, inverted or "tumblehome" prow so common at the time, was deadly in the event of a ship-to-ship collision because it caused massive damage below the waterline, effectively acting as a ram which would smash through an unarmoured hull without difficulty (especially if the ship was steaming at some speed). The bow of Storstad struck Empress of Ireland like a "chisel into tin". As a result of the disaster, naval designers began to employ the raked bow with the top of the prow forward. This ensured that the energy of any collision would be minimised beneath the surface and only the parts of the bow above the waterline would be affected.
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    • @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

    Studies have found the most logical and fastest keyboard layout is not between key orders like qwerty and dvorak, but one that prioritises the size of keys depending on the frequency of those letters in the language being typed, regardless of the ordering.

    This Apple keyboard has an English layout. More frequently used letters in english are larger and slightly taller, less used letters are smaller and lower, which conveniently prevents tyops.,

    A photo of an Apple keyboard with the alphabet keys changed depending on the frequency of letters in English in this case. the E, A, D, T, I, O, L and N keys are quite large, while Q, X, Z, K, and V are quite small.
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    @NanoRaptor

    1. The backspace key is mislabeled
    2. It should also be the biggest key on the board
    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents
    Proposed datacenter would demand 5x Wyoming's current power use at full deployment.
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/ai-in-wyoming-may-soon-use-more-electricity-than-states-human-residents/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    They say the cover up is always worse than the crime.

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    @georgetakei
    That's not his ball.
    How do you know?
    I'm standing on it.

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc.

    Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?

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    @gerrymcgovern
    I remember reading a story I can no longer find from someone who was looking for an Apple cable while traveling, and the ones they found were surprisingly cheap but all of them said you needed to have Bluetooth on, which made no sense for a cable.

    Well.

    It turns out the Apple licensing fee for their proprietary connector costs more than a Bluetooth chip, so these cables all had USB at one end and a Bluetooth chip embedded in the wire, with a dummy Apple plug that wasn't wired!

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    as someone who likes to collect cool or new words, you would not believe my delight just now when i discovered my e-reader saves a list of all the words i look up while i’m reading

    Vocabulary builder: iconoclast patrician denouement gantry encomiastic scrofulous sepulchre vicissitudes samovar eyrie verisimilitude cockaded fulminate euphony physiognomy labile moraine scrivener Diadem privation perdition epigram encomium torpor synecdoche taciturn balalaikas
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    @molly0xfff
    In case you or anyone else uses dictionary.com, see this unfortunate news. I went back to look for this and am reassured to see that you save your words on your e-reader instead.
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/dictionary-com-devastated-paid-users-by-abruptly-deleting-saved-words-lists/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social avatar dosnostalgic , to random

    Scanned my favorite children's book from the Soviet times - "a House in Snow" by Alexander Dorofeyev ("Дом в Снегу". Александр Дорофеев, 1989).
    It's a collection of funny autobiographical stories from author's childhood, not really targeted at kids, and therefore not talking down at them.

    The text was already out there, but I wanted to preserve the unique and surreal illustrations that make no sense out of context.
    https://archive.org/details/dom-v-snegu-1989/mode/2up

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    @dosnostalgic
    The style, particularly the people, remind me a bit of Captain Star, a joint Canada/UK tv show from the naughts. Similarly, the show was for children but was entertaining for grown-ups.

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    True Heroes (by u/[Deleted user])
    (AI Alt-Text)

    A six-panel comic shows a father and two children at a table with bowls of food. 1. The father is blue with a stressed expression, hands on his cheeks. The text reads, "I want this moment to end." 2. Now red with anger, he holds a bowl tightly. The text reads, "I bet they would stop if I smashed this bowl against the wall." 3. The father, still red, looks at the bowl. The text reads, "I could totally do it." 4. He turns blue again, raising his head. The text reads, "But then I would be the kind of dad that throws bowls." 5. With determination, he thinks, "And I'll never be that dad." 6. The father smiles at the children. They all seem happy and relaxed. In the bottom right corner, the URL "www.lunarbaboon.com" is visible.
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    @wholesomememes
    The AI AltText misses the main point completely, in that instead of throwing the bowl, he gently puts it upside down over his head and amuses his children

    @nocontexttrek@mastodon.social avatar nocontexttrek , to random

    Star Trek Voyager scene. We're in a CONFERENCE ROOM! Pictured is Tuvix, an alien who kind of looks like Neelix, and also a little bit like Tuvok. Oddly enough his uniform is a weird bit like both Tuvok's'es and Neelixe's'es, as if both were combined somehow in a hilarious transporter malfunction. It's a Black and gold uniform, but the gold is patterned like a groovy handbag at a secondhand store your aunt really wants to buy. Tuvix is sitting all classy like with his hands clasped but pointer fingers together like he's making some kind of intellectual point in a discussion. Closed caption reads, "Sex."
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    @nocontexttrek
    If your aunt wants to buy a second-hand store full of handbags that look like that, I say let her.

    @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social avatar dosnostalgic , to random

    I honestly never once found any videogames particularly scary, EXCEPT Thief games and System Shock 2. Those have been terrifying at times.

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    @dosnostalgic
    I was playing Halo in the first half of the game where it's just a fun and predictable shooter against aliens with pop guns, and then I wandered into what looked like an abandoned bunker and was tackled, in the dark, by what briefly looked like a mummy. The flood. It took me a month to get back into the game and continue.

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    They say it's probably safe to keep orbiting for a while, but if it stays on or starts flashing we might have to call someone.
    https://xkcd.com/3096/

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    @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

    Quit your bitching about my tag. It's Saturday in New Zealand. Come join me in the future.

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    @grumpygamer
    We are now arriving at Tokyo international airport. It's a lovely 23 degrees, and the local time is... tomorrow.

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    Sunset. Croatia.

    📷 Pentax KX
    🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
    🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
    ⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

    A village on the coast illuminated by golden sunlight. A mountain behind the village is partially in shadow of another mountain. The moon is right behind the mountain.
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    @Gargron
    The caramel colour, along with the timeless architecture and absence of cars, give this shot a distinctly 1970s feel.

    @thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar thejapantimes , to random

    Honda Motor plans to increase production of hybrid vehicles in the United States amid strong demand for hybrid models in contrast to sluggish electric vehicle sales. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/24/companies/honda-hybrids-us-increase-production/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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    A more accurate photo of the CERN tunnel

    @golgaloth@writing.exchange avatar golgaloth , to bookstodon group

    Recommend me some SciFi with a good, female lead.

    @bookstodon

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    @golgaloth bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group
    William Gibson, The Peripheral. Also an incredible first season series on cough Amazon, until they canned the second season out of spite during the writers' and actors' strike.

    @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon group

    Tom Gauld offers the solution to the mechanisation of publishing.... robot readers; of course!

    bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

    An inventor tells a visitor: 'Our start-up have innovated the human winter out of the publishing process. This machine writes 65 books per hour'; The visitor responds: 'But will people actually want to read this stuff?' Showing the visitor another part of the process, the inventor responds: 'The real beauty of our integrated system is that it also free companies from the tyranny of human readers' - as he show the visitor a line of robots reading books.
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    @ChrisMayLA6 bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group
    Wonderfully captured, and also parallel evolution to this earlier comic by Tom Fishburne:
    https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth/111241203721782466

    Previous post by me linking to and showing a comic by Tom Fishburne in two panels: Man shows co-worker something on his computer and says "A.I. turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote." In the second panel, a woman shows her colleague her computer screen and says "A.I. makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read."
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    • @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    It's worth a try!

    A social post from @youngtiddy on Threads that says: putting a blanket over my boss so he thinks it's night time and goes to sleep
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    @georgetakei
    Boss here, happy to partake in this experiment

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    CSS finally adds vertical centering. Minimum required version are: Chrome: v123, Firefox: v125, and Safari: v17.4. Give it a try and we can now forget about that CSS meme about vertical centering :P https://build-your-own.org/blog/20240813_css_vertical_center/

    align-content works in the default layout in 2024, allowing vertical centering with 1 CSS property. <div style="align-content: center; height: 100px;"> <code>align-content</code> just works! </div>
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    Mandatory

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    perfect function doesn’t exis- 👇

    This image shows descriptions and usage for a computer programming language that reads as: int32 18_computer_on () ; Returns 1 if the computer is on. If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.
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    int32 is_computer_on ();
    {
    return 1;
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    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    This is so accurate 😂

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    @georgetakei
    Same vibe, man trying to rescue a wild rabbit from the side of the road while escaping an encroaching forest fire, a few years ago

    @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

    I am growing tried of my Apple Watch. I haven't worn it since I got to NZ due to getting a new phone. It's overly complex in a way only Apple can do. I want a watch that does 3 things and only 3 things:

    1. Tells time
    2. Setting timers/alarms
    3. Echos notifications from my phone.
    4. Bonus: Is round.
      I had a Samsung watch for a while but Apple cripples #3 and it was far from simple.
      P.S I am not seeking alternatives, just complaining.
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    @grumpygamer
    A few years back I got a Skagen hybrid watches. There is no digital display, only mechanical hands. But the inset dial can be programmed to do various things such as count steps or show which of four possible sources a notification just came in, etc. And it has alarms. Unfortunately it's not rechargeable and relies on pill batteries which I got fed up changing every 4 months or so. But I liked the elegant design.