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The PS2 had 3 GTA games and now GTA V has 3 PlayStations 😂
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Dreaming of a better lawn.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/29/a-small-step-to-a-happier-planet/
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was not planning on trying to do electrical engineering with it, but... it would be kinda cool if there was a tutorial similar to buildyourownlisp for doing something like that. I think I used VHDL for a class once but that was back before the dawn of human memory
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Also fun: my fpga gameboy should be arriving today
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
amazing news everyone, I just realized that I had 1 more refill than usual, meaning I have 3 extra months before I have to determine through psychic intuition or brute force repetition when I should call in order to actually speak to someone at the office.
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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Every question on one of those American dialect surveys is like...
What do you call these?
- A crossdog
- A crotchdog
- Ladybug Pie
- Parson's Wages
- Nobody's-fault-but-my-own
- I don't have a name for this
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Just got the good ending in Spirit Hunter: NG. This was a fun little adventure game! Definitely more ambitious than the previous one. The ghosts' backstories were all more fucked up in this one too. The "Screaming Author" chapter was especially nasty.
There is a fast-forward button, so I'm probably gonna go back and get the normal and bad endings too.
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Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social ("Ⓐ Beautiful AnarKitty Ⓐ") wrote:
Anyone who isn't happy for the UPS workers for this win needs to reevaluate their priorities.
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seldo@alpaca.gold ("Laurie Voss") wrote:
The Tennessee GOP wants to make clear that it doesn't think Black people should be allowed to talk. https://nashtodon.com/@PeterRobison/110970030376585233
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is weird for me, but I think B&H just won a lot of my future business. Reasons:
- Not Amazon
- Ridiculously fast delivery
- Totally painless RMA after I described memory incompatibility
Mensches!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
ALLEGEDLY
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fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:
Early in my career, in 2001, I had a chance to see a program called Kia from a company called Reel Two, founded by some researchers from New Zealand who were interested in text compression*. It was a text classifier: you'd 'train' it by manually showing it examples of what you wanted, and then you'd feed it an arbitrary number of other documents, and it would classify them for you. This was before "A Plan For Spam" by the Orange Site guy.
And now here we are.
*See e.g. https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-classification-by-compression/ and https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/; the idea keeps coming around
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The gullibility of the tech press – and the silence of the privacy community – regarding performative, fire-and-motion action by megacorps (vs support for real privacy laws with teeth) tells a truly modern tale of money-bidden woe worthy of Fitzgerald.
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tsturm@toot.site ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:
"Hey boss, we can't figure out why our online readership is low."
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MarcAbrahams@mstdn.science ("Marc Abrahams") wrote:
We live in a golden age of con men. "Ramaswamy said he was the 'only candidate who's not bought and paid for.' That couldn't be further from the truth.... Ramaswamy has reported more than $50 million in holdings in Strive, which to date, is mostly a fund to promote fossil fuel development." https://open.substack.com/pub/heated/p/how-vivek-ramaswamy-makes-money-from?r=2y7i1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Well this is unremittingly grim:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
did you know that 100 years ago there were *electromechanical* radio transmitters?
these things are so crazy, you just have to read this
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silvermoon82@strangeobject.space ("Eddie Roosenmaallen") wrote:
Excuse me?
Google now moderates your synched bookmarks? The hell?
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, TIL they changed the free-throw rules because Wilt Chamberlain could dunk from the free-throw line without a running start. Awesome. 😆
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TFW you should've dunked the basketball more when you had the chance.
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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:
The first five days after the weekend are always the toughest.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
At some point in recent history, somebody somewhere listened to a voicemail on their smartphone, completely unaware they'd be the last person under 50 to ever do that again.
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desafinado ("Joshua H. Pollack") wrote:
Who called it cybersecurity and not Defense Against the Dork Arts?
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I did a search of the source code and this thing shows up exactly once, just to watch William call Cliff a noisy little faggot. It leaves right after.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
William's family stuff was kinda sad but he got upgraded to fun after his little speech about shame and arousal. Thinking about how dirty and disgusting men are is the only thing that gives him a boner.
He conceived his son by thinking about how gross it would be if the butcher at the grocery store rubbed a pork tenderloin under his armpits and then made him eat it
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I strongly suspect that the miner that everyone thinks is a saboteur is going to have a face turn in Nik's next update, but he's not notably fucked up and regardless of motives is kind of abrasive.
Jim is kiiinda fucked up but it's not really the most salient thing about him, since he wasn't aware of his fiance's machinations.
Murdoch's dad is kinda sad but got upgraded to scary because I thought he was gonna try to murder Sam in that basement.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Anyway I did a Smoke Room tier thing. This applies to the characters as of Build 28 #TheSmokeRoom
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
In their porn ban era, the main thing tumblr has going for it, above any other place to do writing, is post discoverability.
except no it doesn't, actually
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I think I'm kinda over tumblr. It's the least bad commercial social media site I use, but writing any significant post on it is misery and as far as I can tell, my posts don't appear in tag searches
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Maybe Hallmark cards has a category for this... :thonking: