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Looks like I’ll be putting away my Daring Fireball and Accidental Tech Podcast shirts for a while. It’s a pity, they were comfy shirts and I thought I was supporting good people with them. https://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=496
Me a few days ago: Clock pin? Data pin? I understand that. 5 volts, ground, two button pins, I can speak to digital gamepads now!
Me, today: Okay that's every power and ground pin hooked up, and all four digital buttons, but fine, I'll hook up the four analog lines as well, apparently those are also required. Would not be surprised at this point to find some chucklefuck made a joystick that uses the MIDI TX/RX pins, too.
The yellow wires? Oh, that's the trigger rail. don't ask.
@timixretroplays those solder joints looking a lot happier today!
@dirtycommo I maintain a Gemini page about Gemini crawlers to publish their meta information in one place:
gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/gemini-crawlers-meta-info.gmi
It seems you copied everything from geminispace.info, including names, contact details, IP addresses, news, and project history, and launched it on a new domain. Looks like the old maintainer launched it again. You may want to correct this info in your cloned repo and redeploy.
Do you keep your own repo?
@mnordmeyer i'm going to take care of it soon, i do not keep my own repo.
i am going to edit the .gmi files in place with all the relevant information.
My kid just pointed out that the leftovers from making chokecherry jam really looks like a bowl of bear poo sitting on the kitchen counter. Yum!
MCKINLEY IS OUT NOW!
McKinley is a Mac app for making SF Symbols, combining a vector editor, tools that understand symbol weights, smart preview, an export that skips the tedium of converting strokes to paths, and automatic Xcode asset catalog sync.
Normally $60 (one-off purchase), but there's a 15% launch week discount (to $51) until Sept 14th!
And for those asking, it's named for McKinley Square in San Francisco.
@jpm It might be all it needs tbh, there's a lot of oven grease around the thing.
Will refresh the Auspost app for a few more days in case the parcel magically shows up in WA or something, and then start down the clean and lubricate path...
@projectgus it’s an idle-hour task for sure, and if you’re already waiting…
US capitalists executed the leaders of the May 1 1886 strike for an 8 hr work day. In 1889 socialists declared May 1 Int'l Workers Day to honor them, creating a beloved holiday worldwide, but not in the US, where Labor Day was moved to September to erase workers' struggle from the public mind.
https://apwu.org/news/labor-history-may-day-fighting-eight-hour-day/
Me a few days ago: Clock pin? Data pin? I understand that. 5 volts, ground, two button pins, I can speak to digital gamepads now!
Me, today: Okay that's every power and ground pin hooked up, and all four digital buttons, but fine, I'll hook up the four analog lines as well, apparently those are also required. Would not be surprised at this point to find some chucklefuck made a joystick that uses the MIDI TX/RX pins, too.
The yellow wires? Oh, that's the trigger rail. don't ask.
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Born in the Wrong Generation" Pin. Ah, to be born 500 million years ago. Filter feeding with my trilobite friends. Feeling the sun on my exoskeleton. Doing all the other things trilobites did. That's the life.
https://collabs.shop/1cauo6
I realised today that when I see a photo of an attractive woman, I now habitually count her fingers and examine her hands for weirdness. I hate what AI slop has done to me.
RE: https://mastodon.art/@JenJen/117230747027590084
There is no "just" about running your own systems or controlling your own online identity.
This is my standing offer to any reasonable antifa/nsfw/queer-adjacent creatures who need help (planning, tech roadmap, ..) to migrate away from YouTube, Discord, Twitch, and other US-based entities.
I've done most things from datacenter ops to PCI-DSS and served as a CISO in critical infrastructure. Slide into the DMs to set up a Signal call in the coming weeks.
"Like a number of recent AI breakthroughs, it pasted together ideas from the mathematical literature to build a new theorem. Once again, the LLM’s trick is its superhuman patience for assembling puzzle pieces, not the ability to make some profound intellectual leap."
"“there is the big PR machine that wants to sound as impressive as possible and does not care about being 100 percent accurate,” he says."
@timnitGebru That visible lack of care for accuracy amounts to accepting "Some shit leaves the shop every time", which is what LLMs deliver by design. The PR is effective because a lot of people think that's fine. It's a pity they take it personally if you hold standards like "No shit leaves the shop."
@projectgus (yes I know, WD-40 is not a lubricant. It does displace the crap that’s built up in there, follow with the WD-40 brand orange degreaser, then the 3-in-1 light machine oil worked into the bearings)
@jpm It might be all it needs tbh, there's a lot of oven grease around the thing.
Will refresh the Auspost app for a few more days in case the parcel magically shows up in WA or something, and then start down the clean and lubricate path...
Feels extremely weird that my wife had to mod our TV so it would stop exfiltrating all our data. At least it's possible...
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