Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

New method of rooting LG webOS TVs is now available, this allows you to use YouTube ad-free, use ambient lighting system-wide and access hidden system settings:

https://blog.illixion.com/2024/04/root-lg-webos-tv/

Not to brag, but I remember when you could slam the phone down to hang up on someone.

It was spectacular.

Have you ever tried to measure a cat with a tape measure? It will make you question the solidity of dimensional space.

Pica, small cat
Height: 22 to 47cm
Girth: 33 to ??cm (ouch cm)
Length: 37cm
Length w/ tail: 66cm
Weight: 5.9 pounds/ 2.7 Kg
Max Length (Dangle): 74cm! oh no

she's getting longer.

Rate of Enlonganmentation
dML/dt: 1.2cm / second

No signs of increase stopping. Cat keeps increasing.
All clear! ALL CLEAR!
Soon she will be in all locations.

This was a bad project idea.

me: okay, I can use an arduino for this project
also me: let's write the firmware in rust, like normal people do

gonna take a plunge and read https://sled.rs/perf.html today, it's starting off amazingly ✨

#RustLang

More conduit posting, sorry. But I’m rather proud of the idea I just had that totally worked. I didn’t know where one of the conduits in my house actually terminated and I solved it by dropping an earbud playing at max volume in it and looking for the sound. Totally worked!

@hazelnot @futurebird

Cats exist in-between many different "states".

Famously they are both solid and liquid.
If you put them in a box, they are both alive and dead.
They are starving, but also have just been fed.
They both want belly rubs, and despise belly rubs.

These are just a few examples, but there are countless more, most of which we don't even know.

Usually when you try to measure something that is in-between two different states, it will resolve into one state or the other. But because cats exist in-between so many different states, when measured, instead of all those in-between states resolving to one or the other, it can pull reality into all of those different in-between states!

This can create a kind of "cosmic vibration", that if allowed to reach a harmonic frequency, could tear reality apart!

Cats instinctively know this, which is why they fight tooth and claw any attempts to measure them.

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every time you install an adblocker a techbros dreams dies

@joepie91 This is a good point. Like you say web dev has been caught between being coopted by dishonest tech cos and been seen by outsiders as not worth defending. Then we had the mass layoffs and—honestly—it’s not surprising that there isn’t much of a community-driven field left.

So, it may feel like I’m harping on a bit about JSR—the tech industry’s latest attempt to ‘fix’ the JavaScript ecosystem—but it kind of bugs me how little discussion there is about it

Like, it’s literally a proposal by a VC-funded startup to coopt existing infrastructure and the only comments I’m seeing online are “ooh, they put a lot of work into making it fast.”

There’s no discussion of what it’s for, whether it tells us anything about npm or how that can be improved.

this is why i am involved in politics of other countries aside from my own. you guys are influencing us in ways you do not even begin to examine because you aren't concerned with our existence

oh and by the way. ecocide done by other corporations is finally catching up to my country too. we are having massive floods this spring. a lot of towns or small cities are being in a state of emergency because the rivers are overflowing. the government doesn't give a shit of course, just like when the wildfires happened. we need a revolution

Great news coming from Germany: today, the Bundestag adopted the gender self-determination law, which will allow trans people to change their gender on their official papers with a simple declaration at the civil registry. Gone are the medical requirements. 🏳️‍⚧️

The law isn't perfect (a 3-month delay is to be observed before the change takes effect; minors will have to go through a dispute in court if their parents oppose the change), but it's still a huge step forward.

https://www.dw.com/en/gender-identity-law-passes-in-german-parliament/a-68800054

shower thought: lap is the only part of the body that doesn't really physically exist and appears and disappears based on whether or not the person is sitting down

How did you get your gender?

Money may not be capable of purchasing love, but lack of it sure does cost lots of extra time which could be going towards more useful and/or enjoyable things (such as, e.g., love) -.-