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nyquildotorg, 5 days ago to random

Yet another Beeper rewrite, lol. This will be the third time in three years that they've built a new iOS app. Sounds like the desktop version might not be a super janky fork of Element in a pile of Electron, though.

nyquildotorg, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

"In 2015 [the number of Costco hit dogs sold] hit a staggering 128 million, which is said to be four times as many hot dogs sold in all the major league baseball stadiums combined

That's a neat stat, but I just did a little research. There are 30 MLB stadiums in the US, but there are 600 Costcos.

This means 600 Costco locations sold 128 million, while 30 MLB stadiums sold 32 million.

nyquildotorg, 5 days ago to random

Seeing the photo of Nigel Farage taking a milkshake to the face reminds me of the time that, while searching for a replacement for Wes Borland when he left Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst got a pie to the face at a Portland Guitar Center.

Sadly there's no footage of that one. (That I know of?)

nyquildotorg, 5 days ago to random

Those hilarious "Lightning" earbuds that are really just Bluetooth devices tethered to the cable for power remind me of a device I was seriously considering making at one point: a battery pack with a USB cable for power that would snap into the bottom of an Apple Magic Mouse to make it into a "wired" mouse, but the USB cable only provided power.

nyquildotorg, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Microsoft: takes screenshots of the screen, OCRs them and places the data in an unprotected sqlite file for later recall.

Apple: creates new NPU architecture designed to save PDFs of the screen and OCR them, storing the data in CoreData for later recall by authenticated users.

Ubuntu: every time the computer sleeps, it wakes up slightly slower than the last time, until you reboot it.

nyquildotorg, 5 days ago to random

Jamie Kennedy rips off his mask and he's been Ashton Kutcher all along.

nyquildotorg, 8 days ago to random

I wield my steel blade, forged in jet fuel from the twisted remains of the World Trade Center

nyquildotorg, 8 days ago to random

I assume Apple's newly resigned settings app will continue to have the stuff you need to use scattered randomly around to the point where you have to give up and search for them every damned time.

nyquildotorg, 11 days ago to random

"a de-orbit burn might not be possible in the event of multiple thruster failures. To handle this admittedly very unlikely failure scenario, a new de-orbit procedure has been developed."

I was wondering if it'd be possible to tell which parts Boeing worked on. Guess so...

nyquildotorg, 12 days ago to random

My earliest memory of Superman was assuming that the cape must enable his ability to fly, because otherwise why the heck would he wear such a stupid looking thing.

nyquildotorg, 14 days ago to random

Came across a @docpop sighting in the wild

nyquildotorg, 14 days ago to random

"Shoving AI into everything" has been reminding me of something that I just couldn't put my finger on, but I think I just figured it out.

It's like if Gretchen Weiners actually succeeded in making "fetch" happen.

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

More studies are starting to show harmful links between fluoride levels in water and mental health conditions, which is one of those things that just feels accurate. But as soon as you start talking about health effects from fluoridation you sound like a crackpot, and if you suggest maybe not putting shit in the drinking water you sound like a malicious crackpot.

So here's a compromise. Instead of removing fluoride from our drinking water, we can just add maple syrup to it in addition to the fluoride. Then the cavity levels will go back up, and when the cavity levels go up the mental health issues must go down, right? 🙄

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

I like to think I was pissed off about search engines pivoting to answer engines pretty early in the game, likening the resultant slurry of not-real info to the "grey goo" that doomers predicted would be covering earth as a result of nanobots indiscriminately consuming materials to turn them into other things.

So here we are now with screenshots of all-knowing answer engines confidently spitting out fake shit that they learned by reading fake shit that other answer engines confidently spat out. Cue me thinking how easy it would be to just make fake screenshots of even more unhinged shit, which made me wonder how many of the viral ones have been fake, which once again gets us to fake news about the fake news about the fake news.

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

Ok, this one feels like it's probably fake, however it also seems to be fulfilling my prophecy from 8 months ago.

RE: fedia.social/notes/9k8wbwdjnawy0860

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

I've heard a couple small rumblings of people realizing that Substack email lists apparently don't have a necessary approval mechanism, meaning that you can sign 'victims' up as subscribers.

This reminds me of the time I was experimenting with jwz's dadadodo Markov chainer, using it off-label as a poetry generator.

I thought it'd be interesting to use an email inbox as a dataset, which then made me want to start filling that mailbox with weird data. That's when I discovered that Yahoo! Groups lists could be signed up for without authenticating.

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

The good news is we found a backup earth, but the bad news is we've already somehow filled it with microplastics 😔

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

I once read that the show Baywatch (1989 - 2001) was greenlit via a video montage of girls in swimsuits on a beach while Don Henley's hit "Boys of Summer" played.

I don't really have anything to say about that other than that I think it makes perfect sense.

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

Finally got around to watching Summoning Salt's History of Tetris World Records and it did not disappoint. I've always enjoyed this series, even when covering games in which I have no interest, but Tetris is a whole other thing for me.

There's a lot worse ways you could spend 2 hours than watching Summoning Salt cover some incredible Tetris players.

nyquildotorg, 16 days ago to random

Today I ran into one of my unhoused neighbors for the first time in a couple weeks. I'd been talking to him quite a bit every few days for a while, because he was in really bad shape.

Anyway, today he was dressed up nice and told me he took my advice about trying to get copies of the ID documents that'd been stolen from him, and that now he has an apartment and would like to invite me over sometime.

nyquildotorg, 17 days ago to random

Maybe in the grand tradition of Kenny Rogers' Roasters, and Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, Tyler Perry can buy Red Lobster on the cheap and turn it into a Tyler Perry's Black Lobster.

nyquildotorg, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

Lol at Dave Winer discovering "a whole industry revolving around 1/6 scale Scarlett Johansson heads and bodies to stick them on."

(1/6 scale is "Barbie-sized," and people have been doing custom "head-sculpts" of celebrities for decades and decades.)

nyquildotorg, 17 days ago to random

Losing my mind at people upset that the move from search engines to answer engines is "making SEO work pointless."

SEO work's point was always to manipulate Google's algorithm to get content that isn't a good relevant search result to look enough like a good relevant search result to appear there. Good riddance.

nyquildotorg, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

Our favorite local pizza place, Thirsty Sasquatch (it's also a pub), makes really great pizza. However, they insist on putting the toppings on after the cheese, which means every goddamn topping falls off the pizza on its way to your mouth.

I don't condone putting Elmer's glue on pizza, but if you move the cheese to above the toppings it will "glue" them in place quite effectively.

nyquildotorg, 18 days ago to random

Laughing out loud at people considering moving from PC to Mac because of vendor overreach