marimo @a@asentientbot.ca
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Bitches call me Electron cause I'm based on the web
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Expert agencies are often all that stands between us and extreme misadventure, even death. The modern world is full of modern questions, the kinds of questions that require a high degree of expert knowledge to answer, but also the kinds of questions whose answers you'd better get right.
You're not stupid, nor are you foolish. You could go and learn everything you need to know to evaluate the firmware on your antilock brakes and decide whether to trust them.
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why did we invent a new kind of battery that can burst into flames when punctured or bent and then started GLUING it into everything?
read this please it's cool https://www.peow.studio/shop/stages-of-rot
took me a couple times to really understand what happened but im not complaining because it means i got to look at it a couple times
bird flu
surely this will finally lead to mainstream reckoning with western animal industries as unethical and under-regulated, as covid did with the chinese wildlife trade. we aren't just racist and unwilling to introspect. right?
(i eat eggs and dairy. im not pointing fingers or being smug here)
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ranicule (n)
a small frog
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happy birthday to Spin by Sasha Cay!
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[poll. boosts encouraged. answer in base-2.]
what is your favorite number from 1 to 31?
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oh, to be made of an abstract elastic material that can stretch, bend, and pass through itself, but which cannot be ripped or punctured without destroying me, and which cannot be creased, or bent sharply
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apparently Scavengers Reign is on american netflix now so any american-netflix-havers who haven't watched it yet should go remedy that immediately; it's incredibly cool and beautiful
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why is everyone posting the OSX Leopard wallpaper?
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Beautiful women texting me named Disk Not Ejected Properly
"fixed" (read: removed a capacitor and replaced the display) an 11" macbook air, used for a couple days, now every other laptop feels huge and cumbersome wtf
this is too old for meaningful work (4gb ram, haswell), but if i find an 8gb broadwell one...
was this the perfect form factor all along??
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Delta — the app that started it all — is available NOW in the App Store!
Yes, you read that right: our long-rejected game emulator has been approved by Apple themselves 🍎
If you live outside the EU, download now from the App Store — no DMA required https://apps.apple.com/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688
😲 when the computer refers to me in the way i specifically configured it to
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Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates - but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch
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alright it took the better part of my weekend but I finally back-ported Mastodon to iOS 4
ended up being a broken connection between an 8.6v line and this resistor connecting to a chip which (i think) makes some of the cpu voltages. the water/corrosion probably shorted it to ground (e.g. right side of the capacitor directly below) and burned the trace?
not completely sure, but it was lifeless until i soldered the wire, and now works perfectly!
