Willow

y'all are saying my timeblind ass has to go into an extremely comfy and warm room with no clocks and perform a satisfying task every morning to stay clean, but if i spend more than 20 minutes in there i'm "wasting water"? that's some bullshit fr

#adhd

programming language where the compiler auto-updates itself to the latest revision every time you compile anything and its git repo automatically merges every pr

on the one hand: linguistic descriptivism means that my ideas of how language *should* be don't hold any weight on their own

on the other hand: if i get my friends to start using the same weird language that I use, they're now undeniably Real Language

#linguistics

maybe even add it to the bluetooth spec, it would try to pair with older headphones regardless but newer ones could have a switch for listening to ambient music

that way autistic people would be spared from the neurotypical menace of "unnecessarily loud music at every public place", headphones are much better at creating sound than removing it

i wonder if you could make an appliance that watches for headphone-like bluetooth devices and tries to automatically pair with them

gun safety tip: don't fuckin do that

you know the 21st century has got me bad when i'm pining for the rustic charm of printing out an article and putting it on a bulletin board instead of bookmarking it in my web browser

most american measurement systems suck but i think fahrenheit can stay

the 0°-100° range is important because it's the least awkward to write and talk about, and in celsius half of that range is taken up by temperatures that will kill you if you go outside for too long

social media site where you can't post text or images of text (enforced by ocr). you don't get a username, just a profile picture. the app is already localized to every language because it doesn't contain any text

it would either be the worst or best place on the internet

i wonder how cost-effective it would be to use a ton of blu-ray disks in a cd changer as archival storage

#sysadmin

you would think that making 50 anime girls with high quality vtuber-level face rigging would be expensive, but this is a gacha game so all you need is one face with 50 costumes and hairstyles

of course, everyone would want to play as the mafia don because he clashes with the tone and art style and is therefore the funniest option, but he doesn't have any tracking to show your tells so he's also the mechanically optimal pick

#gaming

the gambling is pvp, the game opens your webcam and does face tracking locally so your anime girl copies all of your tells at the poker table

running that would be computationally expensive but what else is your cpu doing when you're playing a poker game

game with all the typical gacha aesthetics but it doesn't actually have a paid gacha, you go to the casino and gamble with currency you earned in-game to afford progression

the cast of characters is 50 anime girls and a real life jpeg of an offensively italian mafia don

curious that elon still loves the letter x when he has so many of them ;)

would be funny to take a real picture of myself and rig it as a vtuber avatar

imagining a kvm switch in a 5.25" bay, so you can feed your graphics card outputs and monitor usb hub through a hole in the back and plug your laptop or phone into the front of your desktop's case, then the outputs go out the back again

#computer #pcbuilding

my youtube algorithm seems to have decided that my entire timeline should be kasane teto

wild idea: model a physical computer as a socket-activated systemd unit, wake-on-lan to start, ssh suspend to stop, in theory it could save a lot of money for homelabs with old, power-hungry servers since they would be off most of the time

#homelab

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure”

Keep fucking calling.

idea: keyboard where every key is a trackpoint mouse

#computer

mnemonic for remembering the difference between pronouns and proper nouns (one of them purrs)

Nya, uwu, mrrp. I'm a person, place or thing!

discord is trying so hard to make ai chatbots a thing when a much easier and more useful application of ai would be for channels to keep vector embeddings of the images i've sent there so my client can warn me when i try to post a meme from my camera roll that i already sent yesterday

#discord

types of keysmash:

* ja;fgjfldksjflsd;kajfdslkjfla - learned to type on the home row
* mcmxkjzxchucfkgfcgjk - didn't
* wwwwwwwwwwadsasdwwadsdasd - alt-tabbed by accident

to the left, a horse girl character from "uma musume: pretty derby" whose name i don't know, labelled with hearts and the text "awesome lesbian". to the right, the same character labelled with the text "evil and intimidating horse".

i don't know what an uma musume is but i made this meme with the first character that came up when i searched "uma musume lesbian" on duckduckgo images

#umamusume

i wonder how much weight a DKIM signature would hold in court, in theory if someone saved an incriminating email from their employer as an eml file it would still be cryptographically signed by their mailserver and it would be impossible for them to destroy or discredit it

#technology #legal

A: damn software is getting so complicated these days that it's impossible for any one human to understand the whole system
B: you know what we should use to solve that? randomly generated code that even teams of experts can't read
A: wait no
B: don't blame me, it's the future

#programming

very tempted to be the change i wish to see in the world but i do not want to get even more distracted from working on my game than i already am