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You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

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moshboy, to random
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eliza, trs-80 (1978) https://www.mobygames.com/game/23505/eliza/covers/

text: hours of stimulating "conversation" at your fingertips! eliza was "born" in 1966 when dr. joseph weizenbaum created an algorithm that enables a computer to analyze and respond to conversational english. converse with eliza just as you do with an old friend. it's almost easy to forget that it's a com- puter you're talking to. have a long chat with eliza-you may be surprised at the number of interests the two of you have in common. * eliza wants to be your friend-she's a very receptive confidante and an eager counselor * eliza is curious. sometimes, she will continually question you to find out everything she possibly can * eliza responds differently to each person she meets, so she's always fresh and fascinating * eliza loves to talk about almost anything, but her favorite topics include friends, dreams and family * eliza, like everyone else, is likely to get bored with a conversation once in awhile * eliza can recognize several foreign languages, though she speaks only english

glyph,
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@moshboy if only they still had the decency to put "conversation" in scare quotes

mcc, to random
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Gonna upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 24.04… expecting that, like everything else I have done on this laptop involving Ubuntu, I am going to regret this

glyph,
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@mcc my kid's "kid-friendly" iPad case adds giant chunky half-inch bezels all the way around and I am honestly kind of jealous

glyph,
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@mcc when I think about buying a Kindle occasionally, even though I already have an iPhone and an iPad, 95% of the consideration is the big non-screen part of the device where the designers had the radical insight that humans might want to actually hold the device with their weird, gangly hands (and thus the only models I ever look at are the Oasis and Scribe) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F7TLZF4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BSRTHL7/

glyph,
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@mcc I see these posts and I desperately want to explain why this happens and what can be done about it. But ranting in your mentions is probably not a particularly helpful or efficacious place to do that. Do you already personally know what is going on here? If I wrote a blog post that tried to explain how to use the Python package CLI ecosystem as a user, would that be helpful for future reference?

simon, to random
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I got a good quote in this story about that dumb Zoom Idea to have "digital twins" attend meetings in your place https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-ceo-envisions-ai-deepfakes-attending-meetings-in-your-place/

glyph,
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@simon ooh, the end of that paragraph really lands with a satisfying "thunk"

tek, to random
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A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

glyph,
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@tek I have had this exact thought many times, but for some reason, I've never managed to get all the way from being distracted by the thought to actually writing it down and doing something about it. I wonder why.

foone, to random
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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

glyph,
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@foone @NireBryce "Instantly Fatal Poison™ Inside! WARNING: PROCESSED IN A FACILITY THAT ALSO PROCESSES PEANUTS. MAY CONTAIN TRACE AMOUNTS OF GLUTEN"

Bediko, to random
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glyph,
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@jnfrd @StephanSchulz @Bediko a “sensible middle ground” between NASA’s budget and the average software company’s budget is functionally just still NASA’s budget. They are operating at different orders of magnitude. Conservatively, NASA spends 2000% more per line of code than the rest of the industry and I believe this is still a huge undercount: https://www.nasa.gov/history/sts1/pages/computer.html#:~:text=In%20an%20industry%20where%20the,development%20and%20support%20of%20PASS.

glyph, to random
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For OPSEC reasons I cannot disclose whether I recently had, or may soon have, a birthday, but I probably was born at some point. In honor of that fact and inspired by @mcc's excellent #Glitch4Andi hashtag, if you are so inclined, please post a story about or picture of a time (ideally in the last ~year) that a computer did something cool and fun and improved your life in some way, using the hashtag #FunTech4Glyph .

(Bonus points if it looks cool and/or uses Python, but very much not necessary.)

NanoRaptor, to random
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1989's Macintosh SE/30L is remembered as one of Apple's biggest flops. MacWorld criticised its rotated L display as "...bringing all of the issues and none of the benefits of a true L display", while MacWeek called it "Some kind of deranged P display nobody asked for".

glyph,
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@NanoRaptor @Phyxis what on earth is a “true L display”

offby1, to random
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tl;dr, the developer of Bartender quietly sold the app to parties unknown about 2 months ago. v5.0.52 should, theoretically, still be fine, but consider turning off auto-updates.
https://mastodon.social/@webology/112561271072786435

glyph,
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@offby1 I kinda hate that this is a threat vector we need to worry about now. But after reading about the Opera horror show recently it seems one can’t be too careful

tinstargames, to random
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glyph,
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@tinstargames @jwz as someone with substantial experience of VtM LARP, let me tell you that:

(A) Gen Z isn't alone, this is exactly the lens our millennial cohort viewed the game through in 2005
(B) if anything it's a "cozy game" in modern parlance, if you manage your stats right you don't even need to kill anybody! Agency!
(C) once you get nerdy with the lore, the metaphor extends very far. the social & gameplay mechanics of Amaranth in particular get uncomfortable when you examine it closely

glyph, to random
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This is … just amazing. The pace drags a bit and is repetitive in places but it is worth bearing with it when that happens because (a) this is a very important thing that western audiences should know about absolutely wildly extreme racism in our media, and (b) the ‘orientalist’ composition of “William Wallace music” had me laughing until I cried https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU

glyph, to random
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glue pizza with left rock

AlSweigart, to random
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If you could lay out bad statistics end to end, they would stretch across the Milky Way Galaxy over a million times.

glyph,
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@AlSweigart hang on. As an American I am not sure I understand. How many football fields is that

glyph,
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@dabeaz @AlSweigart “laid end to end”

glyph, to random
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You are about to sit down at a computer to work for about 4 hours, to accomplish something. You don't know exactly what you are about to do; you'll need to look at your to-do list for that. But you know you're going to spend about 4 hours doing it.

What is a noun or noun phrase that describes that 4-hour period of time?

glyph, to random
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I seem to have accidentally discovered a new Fucking Guy that the leftist podcast/blog/youtube-o-sphere has not yet found, who writes and streams and podcasts about the usual garbage ("IQ", race science, misogyny) it is very frustrating, because he has a tiny audience and I don't want to give him more attention, but the fact that only his grifting victims have discovered his books on Amazon means that his reviews are all 4-5 stars.

grimalkina, to random
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I guess "burnout" is the new "imposter syndrome" because apparently it explains absolutely everything (and nothing at the same time)

glyph,
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@danilo @grimalkina just tell me how to individually erase my burnout so I can get back on my grindset and maximize productivity. fix adhd too pls. then I can make a vlog telling other people how to do the same thing, and then we all do it, that's "collective action"

hotdogsladies, to Futurology
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This morning, I have utilized Prompt, Homebrew, Python, and the mighty Plex API to do many things with my movie collection.

Basically, the monkey has just been handed an even more deadly chainsaw.

glyph,
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@hotdogsladies watching a lumberjack juggle chainsaws… like, sure, maybe it's fun, but you fundamentally know how it's going to go in advance. No stakes, really. But give those same chainsaws to a monkey… there's a real possibility of something unexpected happening, and thus I am immediately emotionally invested. I need to know what happens next. More risk, and a way bigger payoff when the monkey improbably, somehow, nails the landing.

glyph,
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@hotdogsladies there are days when I wonder "why don't they just show you all the processes in the 'Force Quit' window, I know which one is causing the problem and it's not an 'app'", but sometimes I remember the answer

mcc, to random
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So taking a very long shot but I guess the retrocomputing folks are all here

Does anyone know what library-able .xm (FastTracker2) file playback implementation is the most efficient I can get?

Bonus question: Are there any library-able .xm players that don't use the FPU?

I'm in Rust (but should be able to call into C), I tried xmrsplayer and it was a little beyond this tiny 80mhz CPU, gonna try libxm next but even that uses floats and I don't entirely trust this FPU

glyph,
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@mcc I really hope you have some luck finding the answer to this question. If I had this question the people I would ask would be you and probably like 2 of your mutuals and then I’d be out of ideas

glyph, to random
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Nothing has ever given me a "the simulation is breaking down" feeling more than learning, only last year, that a guy I mostly knew when I was 9 as "Mrs. Freudenberger's husband", a member of the community where I grew up and whose house I spent many hours at as a child, is literally the guy who invented burnout <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Freudenberger#Burnout>.

He was a pretty cool guy and his family helped mine during some tough times and more people should know about him, though.

glyph,
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@rstevens I thought his main contribution was study of health care workers, psychologists and psychiatrists? Most of what I know of his contribution was that he was working with people with substance-abuse problems in the 1970s, and he experienced a breakdown himself, then thought that would be worthwhile to study. If you've got a link to the relevant ATC study I'd be interested though

glyph, to random
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This is really bugging me now that I'm thinking about it. Screenshot-don't-link is common "don't boost bad people" advice… on Fedi it's less of an issue, because screenshot-with-caption is … fine, I think … but in general, how does one make Discourse About Crappy People accessible? If we can't figure out a way to accessibly talk about line-steppers without boosting their engagement, we leave potentially extra-vulnerable people out of crucial warnings about bad actors. https://toot.cafe/@matt/112549564106609279

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