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Rose

@ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

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  • What product or service do you use less as a result of their marketing?

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  • I've heard a lot of stuff on grapevine about various online services and how cool they are.

    And then I visit the home page and it says "Powered by AI. You can be more productive with us. Because we have AI. Did we mention we have AI?"

    And I'm, like, well, this service may or may not use AI in a meaningful way, but one thing is certain - they're probably hiking the price, if not now, then soon. Sorry guys, I'm sitting this tech hype cycle out.

  • Can you see magic eye pictures?

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  • I wasn't able to see this on my phone. Almost gave up hope. But. HOLY CRAP. Re-watching the LGR video on my desktop monitor and I can see the stuff again! So.... thanks, I guess!

  • Can you see magic eye pictures?

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  • Tried various distances, that didn't help too much. I'm afraid I have to hold to the theory that I'm officially old now and need bifocals.

  • Can you see magic eye pictures?

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  • I can see them.

    Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.

  • "Source code file"

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  • Legends say that if you put your source code file in Grok, it'll print out the code and it'll land on Elon's desk.

    Elon will browse through it and pretend to understand it, then tweet out insults and emojis and says you're fired. Even though you were never employed by him anyway.

  • eldritch horror within comprehension rule

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  • Wide Ape, the long awaited sequel to House of Leaves

  • Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?

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  • I thought you guys don't celebrate it that much any more? Heard it got replaced with a Trump Birthday Military Parade Day or someshit. And it sucked so much that nobody is doing holidays anymore. Sorry, I'm in Europe, the news are coming in slowly from the US these days

  • What's a really popular game franchise you just can't get into?

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  • For me, soulslikes are pretty weird. I've loved the art direction and gameplay of Dark Souls and especially Elden Ring, and I get why people like them and I appreciate what they're trying to do, but something in them doesn't click the addiction button. It's not even the core gameplay that is the problem - I get flattened by some enemy and I'm like "oh I'll get you one day". But I booted up Elden Ring last time months ago. I'll be done with the game in 10 years I guess. It'll happen though!

  • NANOWAR OF STEEL - HelloWorld.java (Source Code Video) | Napalm Records

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  • Yet another unrealistic music video. It's a relatively short song and Eclipse will not start fast enough.

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    What are some "toy programs" you've created?

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  • Dang, I really should write a programming portfolio page about all of the weird hacks I've made over the years. Other people link to their GitHub profiles in job applications and gesture non-specifically. I'd just point to my portfolio of weird hacks about weird problems I tried to solve weirdly. Anyway...

    An ancient one I made back in the day:

    I was listening to music while trying to sleep. I controlled the music player with infrared remote. Some mystery song starts playing and I have no idea what it's called. Obviously, the monitor was far away and turned off so I couldn't read.

    So I was like, dammit, why can't I just push a button on the remote and have the computer say the name of the song?

    My previous project actually helped with that - I had previously made an extension for XMMS that allows other programs to read the song information via a named pipe. So I just whipped up a script that reads the song name and feeds it to Festival TTS, and hooked that up to the infrared daemon. And that was at like 3 AM, so I quickly got back to trying to sleep

    Some more recent ones:

    Long ago, I was using Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer to import my photos from SD cards (etc) to my NAS. It was horrible. It sucked. So much that when I finally snapped and switched over to better software (read: stable version of digiKam for Windows came out), I never trusted the photo organiser to get this thing right. So for a while I used random hacks and a bunch of weird scriptery. Then I decided to turn it into a PowerShell script. That started to kinda suck, so I now have a massive overengineered Python script to import my photos. And it does exactly what I want it to do. And I'm finally happy. (Available here for what it's worth)

    Another thingy: I have to set the clocks on some devices manually. Daylight saving time, clock drift, you name it. One of my recent old-lady whinges was "Why the hell doesn't Windows even have an analog clock anymore?" I just prefer to have a clock that has both number display (to set the time) and analog clock face with a second hand so I can time the button press better visually. ...so I made one. Because I've never written an analog clock before. First, I made one in Processing. Then, a second version, because I'm in process of learning Godot.

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    Why do so many women write fantasy novels?

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  • I'm not exactly opposed to romantasy as a concept. I like that it has brought a lot of women to fantasy genre as readers and authors. Also, maybe this would lead to more interesting takes on romance and sexuality in fantasy literature, because, suffice to say, that could use some improvements.

    But I'm kinda worried about the current situation where romantasy is basically just the marketing hype thing. The Popular Thing Right Now. A lot of the stuff doesn't get written because the authors like to enrich fantasy literature, it gets written because they realised can make money off of the TikTok crowd.

    ...I mean, I guess it's not a new problem, the same thing happened with horror when Twilight was big.

  • Whats a better name for 'graphics cards' that describes the kind of computational work it does

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  • Back in the day, you could slap a math coprocessor on your system so it could do floating point maths real gud.

    Now, you slap in some card that does floating point maths even guder, but also in parallel in yuge vectors.

    So my proposed name is "It's like an old Cray supercomputer but real tiny"

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • I'm only on Lemmy (and other Fediverse sites). And I guess I ramble and post photos on Tumblr (but I think they're working on ActivityPub support too?)

    I only occasionally pick up random Reddit threads on web searches (and even those seem few and far between these days), and I'm definitely not posting there anymore.

  • Hannah Montana Linux

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  • You either use Debian, or Debian With Extra Steps, so I went with Debian

  • What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?

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  • "systemd is the worst implementation of init, except all those other inits that have been tried from time to time" -Churchill, if he had been a nerd

  • What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

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  • Games, mostly.

    Also, I wrote the 2024 NaNoWriMo novel with it (and did the same in 2017). Can easily fit a daily sprint's worth of text in memory at once, heh.

    I use a few modern add-ons: an SD2IEC drive (lets you use floppy images straight off an SD card) and EasyFlash3 (lets you use cartridge images, including the ability to pack random programs into utility carts).

  • What is the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

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  • Everyday tools? Scissors and knives I've had at least since 2000. (Fiskars stuff is indestructible)

    Computer stuff? My Commodore 64. (Don't use it daily but pretty regularly, sits in a box in my living room for easy access)

  • Can anyone confirm accuracy?

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  • Can someone still developing tell me what I should use for the backend today?

    I recommend checking out Python (Django) and Ruby (Ruby on Rails) if you want nice and easy modern Web frameworks that also aren't that weird if you have PHP experience.

    Also I can never understand GIT as a single developer. The fuck is that? I've tried everything to understand.

    Versioning your code with Git makes it much easier to experiment with new ideas. Cocked up a file? Pull it from the previous version. Create new branches for experiments, merge them in if they work, toss them if they don't, or keep them around just in case, without them ever getting in your way in the "real" version.

    And if you keep the code in a server (GitHub etc), that gives you a backup location and makes it easier to work on code on multiple systems.

  • the beautiful code

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  • Reminds me of how in some old Unix system, /bin/true was a shell script.

    ...well, if it needs to just be a program that returns 0, that's a reasonable thing to do. An empty shell script returns 0.

    Of course, since this was an old proprietary Unix system, the shell script had a giant header comment that said this is proprietary information and if you disclose this the lawyers will come at ya like a ton of bricks. ...never mind that this was a program that literally does nothing.

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  • "Cubist", or as the old-timers call it, "the Management insisted that this thing must work on MSIE 6, and we didn't have the budget to make it work on anything else"