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foone, 4 days ago to random

Silly Doom trivia question for anyone who ISN'T following my tumblr:

So someone implied Doom (1993) rendered triangles. I pointed out that it does not, it's solely rendering line strips for walls and sprites, and weird horizontal strips for floors.
HOWEVER: I was wrong. Doom DOES render triangles. But where does it render them? Because it's only one specific place.

(Outside of level designers making triangular rooms. That doesn't count)

foone, 4 days ago to random

I should be able to charge my phone over PoE from my laptop. I don't know why it would have this feature, but it should

foone, 4 days ago to random

watching the latest Deviant Ollam talk, they mentioned wondering if you can just trigger carbon monoxide sensors with some chemistry.

Turns out you can just buy tester canisters! They're just spray cans of Carbon Monoxide! That sounds... somewhat dangerous.

https://www.amazon.com/Sdi-Carbon-Monoxide-Detector-Tester/dp/B007886ZME

foone, 5 days ago to random

I wonder how hard it is to make a fake USB printer.
Like, a printer that takes any printout and goes "yep, that printed just fine" but nothing ever comes out anywhere

foone, 5 days ago to random

You're never gonna believe this, but it turns out I'm gonna need to build a new keyboard

foone, 5 days ago to random

Shout out to the DoorDash driver on a moped trying to do a mid intersection lane split to get ahead of the waymo self driving cab.
You have WAY more faith in Google's code than I do!

foone, 5 days ago to random

Does anyone know if the US has recently changed the law involving pseudoephedrine or have pharmacies just shrinkflationed their packages to the point where it's no longer possible to actually get enough meds per month to last a full month?

foone, 8 days ago to random

As someone who spends a surprising amount of time at ewaste/junk shops:

non-bluetooth wireless keyboards should be banned for environmental reasons.

foone, 8 days ago to random

The only cyborg I've seen get it right is Inspector Gadget.

Because I can probably name ten people right now who would go for the "motorized screwdriver in the finger" surgery, yet it so rarely shows up in fiction.

But that's the transhumanist future I'm waiting for

foone, 8 days ago to random

Bad idea for a scifi story:
In 1860, a paranormal investigator discovers that there's a sun-worshiping cult that sacrifices a virgin to The Sun every year. It turns out last year, they messed up the ritual, and the victim escaped at the last moment.

Cue the Carrington event. A massive geomagnetic storm that caused auroras as far south as Colombia.

The investigator is then paid to infiltrate the cult and disrupt their ritual every time, as it saves Western Union a lot on electrical costs.

foone, 10 days ago to random

The god damn Nintendo switch doesn't support usb floppy drives? Even in homebrew?

What the hell, Nintendo? I want my money back.

Maybe I can hack this back in. I hate doing usb coding but maybe

foone, 10 days ago to random

I was trying to talk about omegaverse on Tumblr and my phone's autocorrect coined the word "usb gender" which I think is something we should do more with.

foone, 11 days ago to random

One again the lack of USB-C floppy drives has stymied one of my projects

foone, 11 days ago to random

All these websites are always asking if I'll accept cookies but they never specify if they're no-sugar-added cookies. I'm diabetic, I can't be eating all these cookies if they're full of sugar!

foone, 13 days ago to random

Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

foone, 12 days ago to random

Bad idea: a CPU that only executes cryptographically signed memory pages.

foone, 13 days ago to random

I'm gonna see if I can get my raspi to boot from a spinning rust drive. Why not?

foone, 13 days ago to random

Bad idea: you know how sometimes people have a "me but a bot" account? Where they've trained a gpt3 bot on their original posts, and have it regularly generate a fake post by them?

Why stop there? Train another bot on the first bot account's output. And another.

See how many bot accounts it takes until foonebot7 is just posting "floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy" 24/7

foone, 14 days ago to random

I was copying a Totally Legal Game Backup onto my roommate's switch and it confused Windows so much that it told me I had the wrong floppy diskette in the drive.

foone, 14 days ago to random

It's annoying when you get that firefighter instinct "this place is about to collapse" about a website and you're already so fucking busy.

I really don't have time to try to archive this site before it implodes, so I gotta try to ignore all the signs while hoping someone else archives it.

(note that I didn't mention which site I'm talking about: this is on purpose)

foone, 14 days ago to random

With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.

I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.

The Intel 80486.

foone, 14 days ago to random

I wonder if you could clone a FlashPath floppy disk emulator but as a PCB.
Youd need a hole in the middle for the spindle, but if you could keep the height down and do some magnetic coils at the right place, it could work?

foone, 15 days ago to random

Apparently DoorDash has started filling in missing item descriptions by generating them with AI.

I'm sure this'll not cause ANY problems

foone, 15 days ago to random

I somehow managed to break Visual Studio so that it can't render text in source code.

Everything else seems to work fine, but if you click on a .cpp file, it just shows you a blank window.

foone, 15 days ago to random

I'm disappointed in how hacking works in real life. I'd played enough video games to have an idea how it would go, but I've been hacking games and hardware for like a decade now and not even once have I had to solve a pipe maze puzzle