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such a horrible pastiche of computerese ... IRC-like chat-log with weird half-Unix, half-Windows paths and Perl-inspired "code"...

such a horrible pastiche of computerese ... IRC-like chat-log with weird half-Unix, half-Windows paths and Perl-inspired "code" ...

Counterpart S02E01 - who knew the anonymous Management engine ran on Perl?

Counterpart S02E01 - who knew the anonymous Management engine ran on Perl?

being far enough from South Melbourne to be merely puzzled by the vague noises coming from the other side of the city before slowly...

being far enough from South Melbourne to be merely puzzled by the vague noises coming from the other side of the city before slowly realising that is the sound of the Grand Prix ...

zappy zappy in Melbournehttps://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,-37.762,144.922,10,m:cB5aj8F

zappy zappy in Melbourne

https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,-37.762,144.922,10,m:cB5aj8F

now, we all like automation, right? https://youtu.be/m7NxnPbOZFE

now, we all like automation, right? https://youtu.be/m7NxnPbOZFE

DOOM: The Gallery Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPcr6O_Smk

DOOM: The Gallery Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPcr6O_Smk

had heard of a communications museum tucked away in the Hawthorn campus of Swinburne for ages, but understood that it was focused on phone...

had heard of a communications museum tucked away in the Hawthorn campus of Swinburne for ages, but understood that it was focused on phone and exchange technology only very niche and open for awkward times but would have liked to visit at some point ...

apparently since September last year they've opened up more generally and are available for visits by the general public, as per the article from The Age ... I mean, "where grandparents get their tech cred back" is a tad on the nose, but still, probably worth a look

375 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia ... although it wasn't in the !@#$!@#! article and took me way too long to find that on the ncm website, you're welcome ...

https://www.theage.com.au/technology/the-museum-where-grandparents-can-get-their-tech-cred-back-20241217-p5kz0u.html

ok, so I want to splice an extra resistor into an audio circuit because I only use the device at the lowest volume setting and there's...

ok, so I want to splice an extra resistor into an audio circuit because I only use the device at the lowest volume setting and there's some weird whine going on whenever it turns on the output stage, however: the speaker is connected to the mainboard with a connector that I might be able to find online and make a smallish lead with said resister and put that inline and crank the volume a bit to compensate and lower the noise floor ... problem is, I have no idea where to source the plug or cable variant of the socket ... it looks like this, pins are at 1/16in pitch to my eyes ... what is this thing called that I might search for it?

@mike merry christmas ...

@mike merry christmas ...

this really needs to be a T-shirt design ...

this really needs to be a T-shirt design ...

it would be nice if nano or the built-in readline editor (I presume this is) would give you an option to replace themselves with your actual...

it would be nice if nano or the built-in readline editor (I presume this is) would give you an option to replace themselves with your actual favourite editor if, heaven forbid, you forgot to set $EDITOR appropriately

you can tell you have a tradie on site because of the radio ... thankfully doesn't appear to be commercial FM ...

you can tell you have a tradie on site because of the radio ... thankfully doesn't appear to be commercial FM ...

pro tip: if you are copying data from one server to another and have a propensity for being afflicted by worm tunes, don't watch the...

pro tip: if you are copying data from one server to another and have a propensity for being afflicted by worm tunes, don't watch the titles of the songs as they pass by ... I now have the horribly repetitive Brimful of Asha in my head ...

with spring here, the 'walk in the joint' bird is back - it has an annoying call because it has the exact same cadence as just this...

with spring here, the 'walk in the joint' bird is back - it has an annoying call because it has the exact same cadence as just this part of the first line of Big Spender and it. is. driving. me. mad.

we have a house rule: no ikea builds after 7:00pm for a very good reason ... about to embark on putting together a couch at 4:30pm ... this...

we have a house rule: no ikea builds after 7:00pm for a very good reason ... about to embark on putting together a couch at 4:30pm ... this could get messy ...

@ewen not so much for the content that Gylfi is talking about here but the stunning drone shots over Iceland that seemed right up your alley...

@ewen not so much for the content that Gylfi is talking about here but the stunning drone shots over Iceland that seemed right up your alley ... https://youtu.be/7NZfFY68wT8

stolen from the bird site

stolen from the bird site

so ... we have a few recycled shopping bags that are probably 5y old now, have holes in them and are approaching unusable ... what should I...

so ... we have a few recycled shopping bags that are probably 5y old now, have holes in them and are approaching unusable ... what should I do with these then? naturally, searching the Internets for an answer to this just tells me that I should be using re-usable shopping bags and tips on how to remember to take them with me ... but what is the official end-of-life for these? In this case they seem to old Baker's Delight bags which look like some coarse material but have a plastic inner liner so I don't think they're meant for the recycling waste stream ...

interesting recreation of a Disney technique similar to chroma-key but with much less artifacting - light the background with a single...

interesting recreation of a Disney technique similar to chroma-key but with much less artifacting - light the background with a single frequency of light (low-pressure sodium in this case) and then use very simple film processing techniques to generate the various mask layers for compositing the final image. In Disney's solution the secret sauce was in the image-splitting prism, which has been lost to time ... here they use modern techniques to generate much the same result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

I would also be interesting in the finding out part, but not if I needed any functioning IT for my day-to-day life ... https://qntm.org/leap

I would also be interesting in the finding out part, but not if I needed any functioning IT for my day-to-day life ... https://qntm.org/leap