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swelljoe

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Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on Open Source software. Other times I work on robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him.

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swelljoe, to random
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Young Shelly in the early seasons never did it for me, but she's getting better with age. The dress isn't hurting.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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So what are y'all thoughts about the Philip hue lightbulbs? I'm thinking about picking up a few but not connecting them to the Internet because I'm paranoid lol.

swelljoe,
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@BlackAzizAnansi I think mine are only using Bluetooth (I didn't configure WiFi, and I can only connect when I'm kinda near them, so I guess they must be) and they work fine. The app wants location info, but nothing else. It's plausible I could've also disabled that and it would still work, I dunno. Anyway, so far I've got no complaints, they do everything I want them to do, which is just variable mood lighting and the ability to turn them all off/on easily.

swelljoe, to random
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This fucking guy, again. If I hadn't cancelled my Spotify years ago, and if I hadn't cancelled it the dozen other times Spotify has shown zero regard for musicians, I'd cancel it now. Tidal is the streaming service that paid artists the most last I checked, and the one I use, but buying an album or merch directly from the artist is worth thousands of streams. https://www.loudersound.com/news/spotify-ceo-sparks-backlash-after-social-media-post-that-claimed-the-cost-of-making-content-is-close-to-zero

mattwilcox, to random
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Waking up because the alarm went off and you swear it's saturday (not Friday) so hard you check two devices thinking there must be a bug in iOS.

Nope, it's Friday today.

To be fair, I thought all of yesterday was Friday, so I'm just being consistent.

swelljoe,
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@mattwilcox I, too, have been on Friday all week. And not a good Friday feeling...like a too tired to make it even one more day, I need a break, kind of Friday. I should take a vacation.

swelljoe, to random
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When someone says the suburbs are "safer" than cities, they aren't including car-related death and injury. Do you have a long commute? If you're going to die violently, that's probably how it'll happen, it probably won't be from crime.

vga256, to movies
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the first 3 minutes of Waterworld, presented on a 4:3 9-inch sony trinitron CRT, exactly as the director of photography intended

A white sony trinitron television shows the first few minutes of Waterworld. An empty VHS tape box sits beside the tv.

swelljoe,
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@vga256 unironically a masterpiece, I don't care what anyone says.

swelljoe,
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@vga256 the 90s were a grim time of sullen self-involved seriousness. The same people panned The Fifth Element (a perfect film), and for a lot of the same reasons, though the critical response to The Fifth Element was more mixed.

swelljoe,
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@vga256 people are fine with the same ridiculous fucking superhero story being told every month, but a genuinely novel story with amazing world-building is a bridge too far. (Though, I think the rep of both films has improved through the years, they were just ahead of their time.)

RickiTarr, to random
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Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

swelljoe,
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@RickiTarr so mad it's fake. I want to hear what he was really playing (it's definitely not what we're hearing).

swelljoe, to random
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There's a huge opportunity for a good search engine that isn't poisoned by AI lies...but, the technical challenge of keeping out the poison is maybe insurmountable without the resources of a Google or Microsoft, who seem to have no interest in removing the poison from their search results. So, the internet just sucks now, I guess, and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future, while they fight over who can shovel the most shit onto the pile.

swelljoe,
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@shanecelis it seems obvious they can't control for quality; 52% of coding answers from Copilot are wrong. Google serves up decade-old shitposts as serious answers to questions. They've decided that keeping you on their site is worth more than getting you to useful information, so they'll serve up copyright-laundered "answers" that may or may not be at all true, all derived from the pages they would have linked you to in the past, and sometimes copied verbatim. I dunno who thinks this is good.

swelljoe, to random
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If you like , you probably care about helmets and whether the more expensive ones make a difference in safety. This video is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKbYaOiz5U4

pixel, to random
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Anyone have recommendations for a good laser level?

swelljoe,
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@pixel I settled on a Bosch after reading/watching a bunch of reviews, though I don't recall what model. Works well, seems to be popular among pros. Pricey, but seems likely to last forever.

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Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing America's Finest News Source. https://www.readtpa.com/p/googles-ai-generated-search-results-9e1

swelljoe, to linux
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I know people love hating on but there are so many things that are great about it. The journal is among the best (and the one that people seem to hate the most for reasons I find hard to relate to). Building a service with good logging is literally free, no code required, STDOUT/STDERR goes to the journal, you're done. Ingesting those logs into something like Loki is also free.

swelljoe,
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@lewiscowles1986 a few hundred lines of shell scripts spread across multiple files that are different across every distribution vs. one tiny declarative ini boi, choose your fighter.

swelljoe,
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@grimmy yeah, I mean, I get that. The docs are pretty dense and aimed at people who already understand systemd and the journal, which is a big leap for people new to it. But, the journal does a lot of things much more easily than you can do it with traditional UNIX tools. I can figure out how to find a specific time range in files (assuming the file has timestamps), but I sure prefer the one-liner with the journal (--since and --until) to the several commands needed on a plain text log.

nyquildotorg, to random
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I refuse to pay for Office365 when all I really need is Office260.

swelljoe,
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@nyquildotorg you're in luck, that's about how much LibreOffice provides.

swelljoe, to random
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As someone who's bought a lot of expensive equipment over the years, both for professional purposes and hobbies, here's some advice: if there are companies that specialize in the thing you are buying, buy from them rather than Amazon or another big box store, even if it costs a little more. This isn't about ethics, though the ethics of Amazon are certainly worthy of discussion. It's about the value of your time and your odds of getting screwed by unscrupulous Amazon sellers.

mcc, to random
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This sticker from Dundas is flawless. No notes

swelljoe,
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@mcc consummate v's.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Brilliant Song and Video From Willow Smith: “symptom of life” https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/53657_Brilliant_Song_and_Video_From_Willow_Smith-_symptom_of_life

swelljoe,
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@Green_Footballs it's wild how much she's matured as a musician/songwriter. I hadn't heard anything from her since her pop song a few years back...completely different artist as an adult. Good for her. I'm usually uninterested in nepo babies "art", but she's fantastic.

mcc, (edited ) to random
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If a program says it wants CUDA 10 can I get away with installing CUDA 12 or does CUDA 10 mean "CUDA 10 exactly"

It's specifically asking for "cudart64_101.dll"

swelljoe,
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@mcc they also cause Linux crashes pretty regularly. I've come to regret switching my main desktop to an nVidia card, just because I wanted to tinker with 3D stuff every now and then and everyone said nVidia was much better supported.

swelljoe, to random
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If there's one thing about me, I'm gonna type that old command name, no matter how long I've known about better newer alternatives. wget, tcpdump, iwconfig, screen, ls, grep. I finally started typing ip instead of ifconfig and route habitually a year or two ago, because it's shorter and does everything.

swelljoe,
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curl is only one year newer than wget. And, yet, here we are with me still typing wget out of habit. Likewise, tmux is new. Been 16 years, but it's the new one.

jacqueline, to random
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achievement unlocked: ordered enough of something from mouser that they just sent me the manufacturer's package

swelljoe,
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