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4.5.7
Accidentally responsible
When you leave your laptop on the floor and the robot vacuum sees it as a challenge
That feeling when you read "clever" code you wrote years ago and realise it could be radically simpler
Occasionally people accuse me of doing the things I do for personal benefit, and let me assure you, the cost is orders of magnitude higher
Rewrote the EMF scheduler expecting a 2-3x performance improvement. Actually got 150-800x.
We are now rescheduling the festival every second. Keep up.
RE: @fridgehead@infosec.exchange
So who wants a DECTalk hexpansion for their @emf@social.emfcamp.org badge
Nothing better than getting a quote and the supplier saying "but we have money on account to apply" for a large deposit you sent two years ago and totally forgot about
@lexinova@cyberplace.social @nosville22@wehavecookies.social You are so totally right, I'll just go plug this USB-C cable into my device with a microusb port
"We have been offered a moon", "are there safe places to burn effigies", "your payphone has been collected", "our researchers were surprised to find they did it on the toilet" and other such conversations I have had today
This is a reversible USB-A to reversible micro-usb cable.
Where is your god now.
Can't stop giggling at someone reviewing a toilet cistern connector and thinking the "customer image" upload was for a selfie
First day off to work on my side projects for months, so obviously I am doing none of that and coordinating installation of solar panels on a listed building instead
After a relatively normal couple of weeks I just had a morning that sounds like I am cosplaying an early cory doctorow novel
Sources say he's planning nonsense with payphones again
Today a bunch of my open-source projects got slammed by incorrect AI-written vulnerability reports demanding $299 for disclosure
RE: @metabrainz@mastodon.social
FUCK. Rob was incredible, thanklessly struggling against the major labels for the last 26 years to curate one of the most important databases of our age.
My partner: Are you doing something useful
Me [emailing the creators of bonzibuddy]: ...yes
So distracted I just attempted to wash my hands with toothpaste
[narrator voice] While likes never became florps, Twitter did become X. The timeline never moved. It was society going sideways.
Earlier I stopped my bike to retrieve a ping-pong ball from the road for a small child who insisted on giving me a fist-bump and declared I was "a saint". I've had worse days.
Five years ago I pointed out nearly all NFT's were going to break when the startup who minted them goes bust, causing people to get *extremely* mad at me until everyone concluded that I was correct.
Thought I'd check in on the two examples I used and well
