Cassandra is only carbon now

Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7cx8kwh4

YouTube also runs ICE recruitment ads (along with ivermectin ads, ads for makeup designed to hide DV bruises, and any number of other terrible things).

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/post/3m4bzccqpcc2z

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

....and another article rendered completely uninteresting by virtue of a genAI header image. Seriously, just either don't include a picture, or if you ~*really*~ want to show your disdain for artistic labor, just have a header that says "fuck you if you create things and participate in culture." […]

Odo: Worf I'm gonna ask you to be respectful here.

Worf: I will politely decline.

Odo: Worf I'm gonna ask you to be respectful here.
Worf: I will politely decline.

@glyph Touché'. And, given that there are individual cards and keyboards that are roughly the same in price........ um. Yeah. I guess the keyboards win. Oops.

@glyph We do. But then again, some nerds have too many keyboards, others have too many laptops, some have too many minifigs or gunpla or....

It's a hobby, as pursued by two people that understand "fun" and "optimal" as being synonyms.

@moira How do you even get *fourteen* innings, holy shit.

@moira I don't even follow baseball and that toot gives me anxiety.

A 2x4 Kallax can hold about 20k single-sleeved cards that way, which is pretty respectable for even a large collection.

It's all a bit spendy (about $1k for the drawers and Kallax alone!), but still pretty cheap compared to the cards unless your *average* MtG card is worth 5¢ or less. The nice […]

One BCW cube holds ~24 commander decks in Boulder or Bastion boxes, too, so it's also a great way of keeping inactive decks together.

(Thank you so much to @outsidercomics for getting me hooked on Bastions, they're just superior to Boulders in every way.)

6 Drawer Card Catalog - Black Heavy duty, sturdy, and stackable! Our BCW Six Drawer Card Catalog is an attractive solution to bulk storage—ideal for your growing collection of sports or gaming cards.

The ideal MtG storage BoM:

• An IKEA Kallax with one cube per ~4k cards.
• A BCW card catalog for each cube (https://www.bcwsupplies.com/6-drawer-card-catalog-black)
• InfiniTokens to label the drawer fronts.

Installing missing fonts brought this draft down from 25 pages to 15. Goodness.

It's all why I keep harping on needing a shared vocabulary for custodianship and censorship. I do not consent for my personal work and communication to be sent to Microsoft, Google, or Apple. But I'm also under no misconception that that consent will be respected unless I move off the grid and […]

I'm clearly having feelings and posting through them in ways that are unfair to the OP, but *also*, I think that hits on a more general and urgent moral point — Windows vs macOS vs Linux isn't a chocolate v vanilla kind of thing, it's a set of moral choices that you make about how to navigate […]

In complete fairness to the OP, yeah, there are plenty of folks who cannot choose something other than Windows. It's why "just use Linux" is shitty advice — it's just not actionable in a lot of cases.

But "I don't *want* to use Linux" is a very different beast when you're responsible for the […]

Normally, I try to reserve QBs for "yes, and," but here I want to disagree vehemently in a way that's broader and thus partially unfair to the OP.

But no, actually, I don't think it's morally neutral to just whinge about Copilot and the like. You're not making computing choices for yourself […]

All shitposting aside, it's absurd that the web has gotten to the point that each individual post needs to ship not only its own presentation, but its own presentation *engine* in the form of JavaScript frameworks du jour.

Those engines are even really useful sometimes, for more dynamic stuff […]

Me, trying to explaining the modern web to a time traveller from 1999: "See, it's like every single news article, fanfic, and MIDI file was its own *.jar."

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115442242631777452

I always love the absurdity of video game reviews of the form "I played this for 300 hours and I hate it."

Adventure Time lore is wild, y'all.

Life hack: I intentionally omit the word "Sincerely" from my e--mail signature so that I have to type it out every time for every e-mail that I send. If I can't bring myself to do that, the e-mail probably isn't actually sincere, and I should probably reconsider sending it in the first place.

It's always fascinating what Bsky PBLLC can't moderate because ATProto is "decentralized," and that which they have no trouble taking down on sight.

"The audio and video are still available on Bluesky."

https://aoir.social/@aram/115438019038669222

God *damn*, but it's windy out there.

#Seattle

[minor ranma 1/2 remake]

Ranma in catgirl form wearing a femme-cut swimsuit with the word "boy" on it is very gender.

@dalias Yeah, sadly each of the SBC and touchscreen run at 2.5 to 3A 5VDC, which is kind of absurd to me. Thanks for the rec on that 10A buck, I appreciate it! ♥

4-way Fast Charge Buck Module (Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B & Jetson Nano) 4-way fast charge buck module for Raspberry Pi 4B & Jetson Nano. 4 USB ports, multiple protocols, 6-32V input.

Ooooo, this looks perfect, other than being 24W instead of 30W. I wonder if I can bring my power budget down just enough?

https://vetco.net/products/vupn2353_4-way_fast_charge_buck_module_compatible_with_raspberry_pi_4b__jetson_nano

Maybe even more specific, this Adafruit part seems to have an embedded PCB with the right capacitor / resistor network for selecting 5V output from an MP2307, rated for 3A typical output (5A peak)... would a pair of those be appropriate for this application, then? […]

Maybe being a bit more specific, would a pair of LM2596s work, with each one providing 15W? That looks like it'd have about 75% efficiency, which seems a lot better than a linear regulator, but still means about 10W of excess heat?

(I should add that, due to some ancient wiring being involved […]

Normally, I'd use a buck converter or a linear regulator, but that'd waste at least another 30 W of energy, and I'd like to avoid doing so *and* avoid building a big enough heatsink for all that. My next go-to would be a switching power supply, but I have 12V DC incoming, not 120V AC, and an […]