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theodric

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meh vivant. alfalfa male. hack(er?). oldcomputerist. lord of the files. cellist. languager. storyfeller. wanderer. the vulnerable Bede.

🔸All posts are 100% serious
🔸Opinions expressed are correct
🔸Retoot = endorsement

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAa

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Presently taking good advantage of the last days of legal 3D printing (before they ban all CNC devices in case somebody uses one to make a gun) to print some ducting adapters for the laser engraver exhaust

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Is it just me or so these both look quite stimulating

Maybe it's just me

Nevermind

Vaguely phallic process flows
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I took a weekend today after pushing myself pretty hard the last 3 and especially yesterday. I now regret that. I slept well, felt fine when I woke up, didn't go do physical labor, and was bored, frustrated, and hungry all day.

People like me don't need breaks, we just need to work until we physically and mentally collapse, then recuperate. High speed, low drag, tailspin, crash, and phoenix.

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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these Hand-painted Yoga Sloth Wooden Earrings. Buddha was actually a sloth, but this was lost in translation. This is why humans never attain enlightenment. Only sloths are capable of doing so.
https://collabs.shop/w86zcw

A pair of small, wooden stud earrings shaped like gray sloths in a cross-legged meditation pose with eyes closed and hands in "om" mudras, set against a blurred background of yellow flowers.
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@lowqualityfacts I'm learning so much from this account <3

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The "GenAI" buzzword has been astroturfed to confuse the uninitiated between generative AI and general AI.

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Crimes on behalf of humanity.

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@Binder cf. HOOD, Robin (1450) et al.

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Gemini can now generate AI music for you, no lyrics required
With a simple prompt, you can generate 30 seconds of something like music.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/gemini-can-now-generate-ai-music-for-you-no-lyrics-required/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica Arse Technica

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I need to put together a biltong box so I can try Jeff's jerky recipe

Recipe: 2 lb of jerky 1/3organic tamari soy sause 3 tablespoon weet soy sauce kecap Manis 2 tblsp ginger 2 tbs lemongrass (fresh cut) Sent from my iPad
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Why do I have a feeling the anti-choice crowd are going to ram immutability down our throats next after they force us all to use shitty Wayland (for our protection and security, ofc)?

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@lfzz I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over my laptop's software loadout

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Chomp Gnomeski

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Gonna start telling people I live "outside London" which is technically true for anyone who doesn't live inside London

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Happy Imbolc! Unfortunately, due to the fine weather St. Brigid saw her shadow, so that's another 12 months of winter here in Hibernia

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The days are getting longer, and today has been a particularly long day.

Junk at sunset
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't be like my former client and pull the CPE down and throw it in a field with standing water "to make it easier to deinstall" and not even inform me.

Waterproof like a raincoat, not waterproof like a submarine...

PCB showing signs of corrosion under the solder mask (obverse)
PCB showing signs of corrosion under the solder mask (reverse)

PCB showing signs of corrosion under the solder mask (reverse)
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Oh God

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The best part of this video was definitely when the guy started disassembling a CPE210 by beating it with a hammer until it fell apart

idem
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Raytheon or Lockheed or Rand should start handing out prizes for peace and diplomacy

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And now for my favorite part of the day: the end of it

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I've found myself with a kilo of awkward chunks of unsliced bacon. I guess I'll slow-cook it and try to pull it, even though it's the wrong texture. Yanked ham, or something.

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Don't use Emacs

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I need everybody to understand that international law isn't real, doesn't exist, and isn't a thing you can read or cite, BECAUSE (most importantly!) it does not effectively constrain sovereign actors. You can piss and moan on Mastodon all you want, but unless YOU PERSONALLY have a military ready to enforce YOUR definition of morality, countries will continue to just do whatever they want as they have for millennia, and you are (as always) just along for the ride, very much in the back seat. Maybe take a lesson from this. Maybe just do whatever you want, too. Or don't, I'm not your mom. But don't pretend like you have any say over it. Democracy is a farce. You'll elect whoever you're given to elect.

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I find it harder and harder to lose myself in the computer like I used to. I used to have a glass of wine and compute until 4AM every night of the week. There's just nothing good on the computer anymore, or maybe it's that I've already experienced most of the stuff my capabilities will allow me to access. I might need a new tangent, or else a new thing.

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I made bigos (Polish cabbage stew with smoked kielbasa) for dinner and as a consequence I'm afraid I have given my true love (and myself) gas for the seventh day of Christmas

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Hana Zara - Dropout Generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Gl44t9MSM

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Fun fact: every five to ten years, an elephant gets loose in Ireland. Besides New Ross, Naas (2003) and Blackpool, Cork (2012) I know of an incident in the vicinity of Allihies, ~2004. We are presently overdue. Be careful out there!

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I made nog again

(DA NOG) -continuing...- - If using raw milk, hell yeah brother. Up to if you if you want to now pasturize the lot of it: hold at 72°C for a couple minutes, then put the whole pan in the freezer and chill, stirring every 30-45 minutes until desired temperature is reached - Optional: beat whites to stiff peaks, then fold through nog to add foamy fluffiness - Add booze to taste. Also perfectly drinkable without alcohol! Serves one, if I have anything to say about it.

(DA NOG) -continuing...- - If using raw milk, hell yeah brother. Up to if you if you want to now pasturize the lot of it: hold at 72°C for a couple minutes, then put the whole pan in the freezer and chill, stirring every 30-45 minutes until desired temperature is reached - Optional: beat whites to stiff peaks, then fold through nog to add foamy fluffiness - Add booze to taste. Also perfectly drinkable without alcohol! Serves one, if I have anything to say about it.
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There's so much news in the news that it's leaking past my politics and culture wars firewall :-(

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So when are we going to Rome? tick tock

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Made advocaat, which is now chilling in the refrigerator.

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I've never wanted to be a pig more than I do right now

Patent US3008452A depicting the C. E. BAIRD ANIMAL INSECTICIDE APPLICATOR which offers a hog the opportunity for a nice back-scratch from an abrasive belt which also simultaneously applies insecticide. "It will be appreciated that animals often like to rub or scratch portions of their bodies. Accordingly, the prior art discloses various devices which enables an animal to easily rub its back against a slightly abrasive surface. It has been found desirable to apply insecticide to animals at periodic inteivals. Generally, the application of the insecticide is accomplished manually and therefore is tedious and time consuming. Since it is appreciated that the animals will voluntarily rub or scratch portions of their bodies, apparatus for applying insecticide to the animal by means of the surface against which the animal is rubbing would prove to be advantageous inasmuch as time and labor would be saved. Accordingly, it is the principal object of this invention to provide an animal insecticide applicator which automatically serves to apply insecticide to an animal when the animal engages an abrasive surface to rub or scratch its body...."
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Medium-endian architecture

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Terrance and Phillip but it's Terence McKenna and Philip K. Dick

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I do wonder if the Voynich Manuscript was just some scribe's (or bored elite's) elaborate piece of handwriting practice. When I was trying to learn Carolingian minuscule decades back, I'd cover pages with gibberish like this trying to get transitions between letters to "look right." It didn't need to say anything; it was about nailing the æsthetic.

Voynich gibberish that looks more like somebody trying to write "ottae" or something nicely over and over and over than anything resembling coherent human language
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Reminder that you can respond to just about any statement with either "not with that attitude" or "that's what they want you to think," and if you're pressed on who "they" are you can reply with "don't ask questions when you're not prepared to deal with the answers"

The more you know The weirder it gets
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Funny how of all the injustices and failures of accommodation in the world, Mastodon collectively decided that alt text supremacy was the crusade it would be remembered for

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@GroupNebula563 I've said for literally years now that alt text is a problem that should not have to be fixed by individual users, but could (with significantly less than our current level of technology) be handled on-device or on-server with computer vision to programatically describe images that have not already had alt text written for them, raising adoption to 100% and thereby benefiting people with vision issues maximally. However, since it's used as an in-group marker on Mastodon, there's no will behind that, because then we'd have to find a new signifier. Or am I too cynical?

It's a simple problem that could be fixed by the people who are paid to write the software. Perhaps I could be coerced into building something, but then there will be nobody to run my farm, and who will pay me?

Sometimes I don't post images because I simply don't have the energy/will/sobriety/time to write a description. 100% of users lose out on that content in order to not violate the social expectation to accommodate 2.8% of users. LOL -> funny -> share becomes lol -> funny -> spend a minute processing and then describing the picture in a way that would be meaningful to someone with zero visual context -> share. Let's not pretend this isn't labor-- something we as humans literally invented the idea of machines to avoid.

This is a technology platform. Technology should be at the core of it.

Anyway I have to go fix a broken pipe now, bye

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RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@theodric/114987358388079813

Good news: we have quote toots now.
Also I still need to do this.

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I love when everything I run on my GPU through ROCm segfaults, including a 3x3 matmul that should run on a half a broken KIM-1

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you definitive proof that there is no God. Behold tonight's Low Quality Ad, Beer Can Chicken Pringles. I dove down a rabbit hole of exotic snacks and hit a dead end at this supposedly edible monstrosity.
https://collabs.shop/iggo8y

A Beer Can Chicken flavored Pringles can. It has a chicken and can of Miller Lite on it.
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@lowqualityfacts they're...fine. chicken bouillon flavor mainly.

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A Jurassic Park logo that says "DEBIAN STABLE"
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Controversial opinion: Apollo-Soyuz was more like frottage than docking

The famous handshake
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Peetah Griffin: "One day we'll have a decentralized user-controlled Internet" Lois Griffin: "Peter we had that, you didn't like it” <RSS icon>
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Very grateful for Mastodon's filters

Matches filter "Delete all politics" Show anyway Gift Articles 14 Sep @GiftArticles@tomkahe.com Matches filter "Delete all politics" Show anyway WSJ The Wall Street Journal. 12 Sep @WSJ@flipboard.com Matches filter "Delete all politics" Show anyway
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Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
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@Daojoan these douchebags saw one story about a sole founder/small team sleeping at work through a push to get something to market first and decided to make it their whole corporate identity. I fell asleep twice on conference calls in my career, am I special enough to join the performative dedication club, too?