Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@bunnylyn :tinfoil: they do it so you keep scratching the screen and then you have to buy more of them!

@fribbledom I know right?!

Five minutes before I learned about it existing I was all "no, I'm not going to put an internet connected wiretap in my house, that's stupid" but now I'm all "aww... I wanna give cute robot a home!"

@fribbledom 2019: aren't you a cute lil bug, yes you are, yes you are!

https://www.anki.com/en-gb/vector

Fun fact: If you're in the UK, this may be the first year you receive crappy christmas tat that was delivered from china primarily by train!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiwu%E2%80%93London_railway_line

@ElfLord I think it's a big papery thing

@Tobi magic

magic and pixies

@maple "this is popular! I'm going to show how cool and counterculture I am by yelling loudly that popular thing sucks!"

@LaserScheme I don't know but I'm somehow glad you did

Okay, this thing looks pretty cool

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/albertgajsak/makerphone-an-educational-diy-mobile-phone?

Open source DIY mobile phone kit

Runs apps written in arduino-flavoured C++, Python, and Scratch

@arielmt this is another one of those things that's perfectly fine but I wouldn't trust linus within 100 metres of

@InspectorCaracal @noelle no, wait, I was wrong

It was 8 zeroes, far more secure

Still, we had ours secured with bike locks at the time so we can hardly talk

@noelle wasn't that also the US nuclear launch code for like, 20 years?

new favourite mental image: @maple playing with one of these Anki Vector thingies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-rSK5y6EQ

@maple so that explains all the beeping!

sleepy blubs

@natecull

German General Officer: "The reason that the American Army does so well in war time, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis"

Soviet document: "One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine"

Anonymous US Army officer: "If we don't know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can't anticipate our future actions"

Very disappointed that maplestory 2 currently has no @maple related content

That's just false advertising

tiny hedgie!

@maple some other maplebots flying backwards through the air after firing high-calibre rifles and yelling "WHEEEEE!"