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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

1 year

Where you can find me: mastodon: (tech stuff) tumblr: (queer,jokes) everywhere else is linked from my website:

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test. But as I explained then, it wasn't really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game. Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

FUCK

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements. The only problem is: they go all blurry and useless during this

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@Foone

6 years

I found a VHS tape at the junk store that just had the label "A surprise!" I thought I'd check it out, since I have a VCR & TV hooked up after all. Just... Just watch.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

BTW when you start seeing people with the hex avatars, don't reply, don't quote retweet, just ignore or block them. Twitter hasn't missed that a lot of users hate this. Twitter is counting on it.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

How to scam people with NTFS and how the IRS is going to ruin it: a beginners guide

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

I should get me a greenscreen dress.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

I saw a tweet recently that I wanted to confirm. Sadly I can't find it right now, but it was about digital pregnancy tests. So, I went out and grabbed a 2-pack for 7 dollars: let's tear it down!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Dune is such a well loved scifi setting among many techies because it shows a future utopia where we've finally come to our senses and banned computers.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

I'm still playing with my replacement OLED display for the Equate pregnancy tester. I was worried I wouldn't have enough bandwidth to do real time updates, but it turns out that 128x32 at 1bpp doesn't take much bandwidth at all.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME AUCTION Do you see this TV? do you realize why it's special?

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

I swear, every time a storyboarder is like "ok this next scene is just some mechanical stuff to show that they're doing things", every animator starts breathing heavily.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

hey you, you're finally awake. You were trying to get pregnant, right?

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

and it can't yet run doom. That's going to be way tricky, even cheating and having a modern desktop computer connected to it... but I CAN play back a doom video on it, which is kinda close? (Using a different dithering method here so that you can see anything: doom is dark)

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

So I learned of an amusing bug today: Docker for Windows won't run if you have the Razer Synapse driver management tool running. But the reason is the funny part...

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Hey Cloudflare, here's a fun fact: you aren't the only CDN/reverse proxy/DDOS protection service. And when my boss is like "hey which CDN should we set up?" and I look at the options, I don't immediately have a hugely negative opinion of Fastly or Akamai or CacheFly.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

finally we can boot windows 95 inside minecraft

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

5 years

Drinks available: Sprite Diet Coke ＴＨＥＶＯＩＤ

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974. This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

happy holiday to all who celebrate

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

gonna start a new series that's just screencaps of ferengi from ds9 with captions from NFT fans

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Time to celebrate Halloween in the traditional way, with the Haunted House Exterior from Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker (1995)

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

As a former SRE, I'd just like to say: This site isn't going to burn down. That's way too calm and organized a death for a site this big which apparently just fired most of the on-call staff.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

Start the new year by finding a way to create a little joy, no matter how small or fleeting

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

Check out my new keyboard! It's just got 7 switches and a button. You know binary, yeh? Just enter the binary value of the character you want to type, and then push the button. Nothing could be simpler!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

So while I firmly believe we're basically just overgrown biological computers, we're apparently computers programmed by batshit insane drunkards in Visual Basic 5.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

5 years

In TNG, Picard has a flute he sometimes plays. The only problem is that Sir Patrick Stewart cannot play the flute. So they have someone else's hands pretend to play it while he makes silly facial expressions, and they dub in music later. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

I haven't yet started automatically posting it anywhere, but the countdown is begin

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

that's because your freaking visual system just lied to you about HOW LONG TIME IS in order to cover up the physical limitations of those chemical camera orbs you have on the front of your face.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

youtube has literal supercomputers calculating how best to algorithmically get you to watch racism but when you finish watching Control Letsplay Part 4 it's like "hey I know what want to see next..." me: "Control Letsplay part 5?" youtube: NO, CYBERPUNK LETSPLAY EPISODE 72! OBV.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

5 years

If I was setting up curriculum at a university I'd make an entire semester-long class on The Challenger disaster, and make it required for any remotely STEM-oriented major.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

I've been seeing a lot of people makin' jokes about Barret's obvious anti-NachoFloridaTornado stance, so I had to contribute by shopping together something with the death generator.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

I tried zooming in and turning up the in-game gamma a bit, so you can see what's going on slightly better. (It's a 128x32 pixel monochrome display, it's never gonna be great)

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

Sadly, the "C" in the HT48C06 means this is the mask ROM version, so there's no reprogramming this chip to run other programs. We can't run Doom on this pregnancy tester, I'm sorry.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Web 1.0: the web is for sharing information! Web 2.0: but what if we could make money too? Web 3.0: the web is only for making money.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

friendly reminder since this is going around again: DO NOT EAT THE RICH! it's called bio-magnification, people! the rich are at the top of the food chain, so they accumulate toxins from their food at a greatly increased rate. Instead, /compost/ the rich.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

you can see this effect happen if you watch an analog clock with a second hand. Look away (with just your eyes, not your head), then look back to the second hand. It'll seem like it takes longer than a second to move, then resumes moving as normal.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

Today's pickups: the most ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ ever: Licensed Neon Genesis Evangelion floppy disks!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

And for fun, here's wikipedia's example of the blindspot. Stare at L with only your left eye, adjust the distance, and the R will disappear. You don't see "nothing" or "black", you see the background, because you expect to.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

I think about this post every day

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Polyamory? Nah mate, you misread the sign. This is the polyarmory. Here, take a sword and a spear.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

evil idea: stickers that say like "I beat RPGs with 99 potions in my inventory" it's evil because I bet the kind of people who never use their potions "in case they need them later" also can never decide when to use a sticker, so they'll hold onto them forever

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

I think Papers Please is one of the most interesting game to watch letsplays of, because WOW the way people react to this game is telling.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine right up until we try to explain our calendar to them

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

there's some meme going around and all I can say is you guys are bad at tetris ⬛🟪⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟪🟪⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟪🟥🟥⬛🟧🟧🟧⬛🟦 ⬛🟨🟨🟥🟥🟧🟪🟪🟪🟦 ⬛🟨🟨🟫🟫🟫🟫🟪🟦🟦

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

I keep seeing this picture reposted without context and I want to let everyone know: 1. I made it. 2. You are 1000% allowed to repost it. I do not give a fuck, and it's even okay to not credit me. It is not an NTFS, it is an anti-ntfs.

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@Foone

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Fun fact: if you see this sort of disk at a thrift store, you have to buy it

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

7 years

Wow. @sparkfun made an app that searches for nearby bluetooth devices that might be ATM/gas pump skimmers. That's some real cyberpunk shit.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

I can't post the original link because it's been deleted but all the same...

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Once a tape contained a recording of a lost basketball game and it was so hard to get the video back off that the media recovery company that did it made a documentary about it and won a fucking emmy for it.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

So I have some really cool news: I just got approval from Jez San, former CEO of Argonaut Games, to open source the BRender engine. That's the engine used in Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, Argonaut's own Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, and the first two Carmageddon games.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

So, starting in 2010 Fisher Price re-released their Music Box Record Player, in a classic-toy version that doesn't work like the original. I got one, so I'm gonna take it apart

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

here's the gen-z equivalent of rickroll

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Consider this a PSA: Don't pixelate text to hide it.

Spibblez

@spibblez

3 years

I created a tool for recovering passwords from pixelized images:

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

gonna get in line for the vaccine because I've heard all these urban legends about tracking microchips and I think I might be able to root it and install Doom

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

we've known about this effect for over 100 years, it's called "Saccadic masking" and more specifically Chronostasis. Your visual system lies to you about WHEN things happen by up to half a second(!) just to avoid saccades blurring everything.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

I have endless love for the kind of anime artists who loved drawing detailed electronics and showing them working. Like this sweet cassette tape loading animation.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

hey @Microsoft give me the source code to 3D Movie Maker. You released it in 1995 and I want to expand and extend it. my DMs are open, I'll help you open source it.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Hey, unfriendly reminder for the 900th time: Captions shouldn't be censored unless the audio is also censored.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

The one thing I really liked about the 90s is that I never had to lie in bed and say "Velveeta replied to my teeth tweet"

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

So, programmers, you know those systems that have been maintained for TOO LONG? that are just too expensive (in terms of technical debt) to replace, that are just hacks on hacks on hacks at this point, are a never ending maintenance nightmare that can't be killed?

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

It's called the "block" chain because that's what I do to your Twitter account when I see you promoting it

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

oh wow. They used a neural-network style-transferring techniques to make Doom look like the box art of Doom! from

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

it seriously shows you the image at the new point, but time-shifts it backwards so that it seems like you were seeing it the whole time your eyes were moving. And because your brain is not a computer with a consistent clock, this shit works.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Twitter, like most social media, just wants engagement, and getting into a screaming match is just as good if not better than everyone getting along.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Terrible idea for an alternate universe: Covid-97. The disease hits 22 years earlier. We have to work from home over ICQ and NetMeeting. Schools doing virtual classes in Microsoft Comic Chat.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

So the thing about keyboards is that they're fundamentally descended from typewriters, which had specific layout limitations, right? ones we don't have now, with digital keyboards. So I've now set us free, with a physics-designed keyboard!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I live with a professional network engineer

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Hey I know that punk

Standplaats Krakow

@Standplaats_KRK

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

*banging the table* Frogs! Frogs! Frogs!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

people suggested it should show Bad Apple. CAN DO!

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

BTW @hierarchon reminded me of a neat trick with saccadic masking: go look in a hand mirror. no matter how close you bring it to your eyes, and how much you look around, you will never see your eyes move. You're blind during those moments. But you still think you are seeing.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

This thing is probably faster at number crunching and basic I/O than the CPU used in the original IBM PC, and this one is in something you pee on and throw away.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

You know I'm seeing a lot of people mocking the cybertruck without realizing the major ecological efficiencies the design provides. By using a flat-shaded low-polygon mesh, it can be quickly rendered on even a fast 486 or low-end pentium.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

7 years

The losing screen of the game Balance of Power is stuck in my head recently.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

BTW, I am intentionally misspelling the name of the non tungable fokens. There are bots and people who keyword search, and I also want to pay them all due respect, specifically, none.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

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and why does it do that? so it can detect the lines on the paper! In other words, the whole point of the digital part, the battery, IC, LEDs, and photodiodes... is to read the lines and tell you "PREGNANT" and "NOT PREGNANT" instead of "||" or "|+"

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Bad idea for a game: you're exploring an ancient tomb, full of traps and treasure... But the traps are mostly disarmed or destroyed now. The treasure? Gone. You're not here for it anyway. You're here for evidence.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

4 years

I should mod this into a flash drive. I wanna hand someone some Important Work Files on a 128gb USB Pregnancy Test.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Your mechanical keyboard may be neat, but does it have a POWER SPACE button?

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

and you might think "hey wait, wouldn't my vision 'pausing' for half a second have all kinds of weird effects on moving objects? why don't they appear to stutter when moving?" and the answer is simple! your brain has EVEN MORE UGLY HACKS on top of this to avoid you seeing that

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

6 years

It's tempting to think of your eyes and visual system as a camera just dumping a video feed into your conscious brain but that's so very, very not the case. What you think you see and what your eyes can actually see are two exceptionally different things.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

This is an old type of scam, usually called a "gold brick scam", where the mark is sold something they think is valuable, but turns out not to be. Often you have someone pretending to be an expert, who helps convince the mark that it's valuable

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Proud to be someone

Ars Technica

@arstechnica

2 years

Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995’s 3D Movie Maker because someone asked by @AndrewWrites

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Sometimes you get the idea of a shitpost in your head and the only way to get it out is to pull over the car and post it

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

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first, it basically puts your visual system on "pause". You're not seeing blackness or even nothing, you're just not seeing period. then when you finish your saccade, it shows you what you now see at the new position. and then it pretends it can time travel.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Good news for everyone and especially me! I don't have to finish my project to steal all the NTFS: someone else did it first, and probably better.

geoff

@GeoffreyHuntley

3 years

💀OMG WHO RIGHT CLICKED ALL OF THE #NFTs ?☠️ 🛳🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️🛳 👀

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

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which just goes to show, like I said, your vision is not a camera. perfect accuracy is not one of its goals. it does not give any shits about "objective reality", that's not important.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

And here is how the IRS is going to hopefully stop this: They're going to require reporting of these transactions. They're going to de-anonymize the big cash transactions, and what's worse, they're going to consider these things investments and tax you on them.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

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So how'd that happen? Well, it turns out we can tell EXACTLY how that happened. Because the answer is... STACK OVERFLOW

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

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having your vision turn into a blurry mess every time you move your eyes is obviously not a good idea, so our brains hide it from us. Now, imagine you're an engineer and you have this problem.

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

so @rphsoftware alerted me that PHP has a "Gender" class which has constants for all 109 genders, which are and I quote: FEMALE MOSTLY FEMALE MALE MOSTLY MALE UNISEX COUPLE NOT FOUND ERROR ANY BRITAIN IRELAND USA SPAIN PORTUGAL ITALY MALTA

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

Opening up modern TVs is weird. They're so fucking EMPTY inside

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

2 years

FUN FACT: so tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for their iOS app, and now won't let you see posts with certain tags in the app. They of course keep this blacklist secret, but tumblr users have been figuring out the list. Here's the funny part:

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Foone

3 years

Did you ever notice that the theater in level 1 of Duke Nukem 3D has a big hallway off the lobby, and when you go through there, it's a bathroom? Just the one. It's a doorless unisex public bathroom with urinals. Weird.

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@Foone

2 years

I was gonna hack my 3DS but I ran into an impassible barrier

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@Foone

6 years

what's important to the evolution of the visual system is any trick that helps you survive, no matter how "dumb" or "weird" it is. So if you want an accurate visual representation of what things look like? Use a camera. Not your eyes.

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@Foone

3 years

Crytypocurrentseas just provided a new way to run old scams, one that wasn't yet under the eyes of regulatory authorities to keep you from running these scams and laundering money

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@Foone

3 years

Do you ever worry that technology is primarily good at solving problems we don't have?

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