Bodger @bodger@computerfairi.es
Joined Jul 2023
I've forgotten the term for the twisted splash of light effect made by bouncing off a flexible mirror (visible in the original Battlestar Galactica intro, and the "edge of the galaxy" effect in unremastered Star Trek:TOS)
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Continuing on the MacOS diskimagesiod vs youtube battle, it occurred to me I could update the plist for diskimagesiod to say the ProcessType is "Background" - the launchd man page says these should not distrupt the user experience. This involved a few reboots and arcane commands to allow me to edit a system file. However, it didn't work.
It turns out that when ComCrap says "at no additional cost", it's like the "free" home security systems scammers sell: there's a monthly charge...
Updated to the latest Sequoia 15.2. Still has the bug where if you're backing up to a NAS, every so often diskimagesiod suddenly eats all the CPUs and causes youtube to stutter and freeze.
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I've started feeling kinda bad for all my knobless old boat anchor equipment being reduced to a place to harvest cool metal knobs for projects. So I've taken matters into my own fingers.
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I keep forgetting this isn't Twitter and external links won't effectively hide this post. So here's a @crowdsupply update where I talk about the rationale behind this.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/architeuthis-flux/jumperless-v5/updates/single-board-computer-fans-rejoice
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@alpenglow As a matter of fact, it does say that.
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I teach my law students that law’s most important purpose to address anger, where possible, in a socially functional way. The social media reaction to a cold blooded first degree murder suggests laws governing health care are not performing that task adequately.
I dreamed my sweetie was showing me a new basically pointless meme that was just pictures of puddles with the text: "WET: The Strong Stay Away". So when I woke up, I made one. Enjoy?
Filled out a survey and was offered a gift card or donation as a reward. When I tried to make a donation, it required an email address! I don't want more requests for money, I'm just trying to do a nice thing!
Saw an ad for a prostate cancer medication, that warned it could have effects on pregnancy. Um wat?
One of my tractor tires was leaking through the valve stem. I didn't have a core removal tool, and the only places that did were a fair drive away. So I just made one.
These advertisers really want me to open their mail. The die cut extension made to look like a post-it note is a little over the top.
I got a spam email claiming a payment problem with Disney. It had a link that redirected to an AWS site that redirected again. I tried to report it to Amazon, but their form has a box for "Complete email header and body", but then rejects it "We have identified that your submission may contain potentially malicious content." It's a waste of time anyway, as Amazon doesn't care if their money comes from scammers, as long as it keeps coming in.
I went to a Star Trek convention where they misspelled Michael Dorn's character name as "Wolf". Eventually he noticed it and pointed it out, so they changed it to one of his non-Star Trek rôles of I. M. Weasel!
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I propose: pw;dr to mean “paywall, didn’t read”
If a credit card reader is unable to read a chip, it defaults to reading the mag stripe. But when it sends the transaction to the payment processor, the processor checks the card number and the fact that it has a chip reader, and denies the transaction because it should have been a chip. At this point, the card reader should say "chip read failed" instead of "see cashier".
I'm used to a few vultures showing up when a deer gets hit, but the yard is full of them, as well as more on the fence, shed, and local trees. Probably a few dozen in all.
Joined Jul 2023
