Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

For rainy days we have a treadmill but it's locked into the vendor's subscription service if you want to watch videos.

Except...tap the bottom left 10 times, wait 7 seconds, tap 10 more times, up pops a number, use that as a seed to generate a number with lrand48, reduce modulo 999999 (not 1000000!) and type that number back in, and now you have an Android tablet with web browser and access to YouTube.

Oh yeah, TfW ticket machines have a “Llan” keyboard button!

Excuse me?

man I'm trying to find a website that looks untouched since 2005 and i cant,, can someone help

i don't remember what it's called but it was dedicated to the band Flybanger (aka Jar) and it had lyrics and song meanings and fanart

Linux people, *please* understand this. Sometimes people need to run Windows.

They’re allowed to complain about Windows ads, or tracking, or any other enshittification problems, without you saying “use Linux” every time.

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Update: I regret posting this.

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Update 2: I've addressed the most common comments below. I'm muting this thread now. Lesson learned!

https://rubenerd.com/people-who-need-to-run-windows/

Okay @notjustbikes has done a very good job of convincing me that the Netherlands is utopian when it comes to public transit, but the reality has not been as kind.

1. The amount of CCTV cameras is insane at railway stations
2. We had to wait two times on one intersection for at least 3 minutes to cross it with a bus.
3. Edit: I literally got scammed by a bus driver.
4. Buses here skip stops even when you press stop

Would people be interested in a blog (with RSS feed) where I make short posts about the new projects/libraries I'm working on or have released, going into what they do and why they exist?

Most of them will be small single-purpose JS libraries that solve a specific problem, with sometimes larger projects and 'end-user software' mixed in.

Hello fellow mastopeeps! We found these flowers sprouting up and down a stretch of boulevard grass on our walk in Saint Paul today. It looks like it was probably a garden flower that got loose and it's spreading up and down the entire block. I'm guessing it's probably an invasive species.

Anyone know what kind of flower this might be?

#Minnesota #MNastodon #flower

there are only 2 genders of tv exploits. one is rce in chromium that works because sandbox is turned off. the other is shell expansion

It’s like a burrito for traffic engineers

Tip for women in science:

Don't collaborate with men who are not allies in the fight against sexism (unless you have no choice, which happens often of course).

You may think it is worth it, but really, it never is. You will end up mistreated and your ideas likely erased.

I rarely had a more complicated ticket check :

First, the conductor saw all our D-Ticket cards and was terrified we all only had D-Ticket and nothing but.

Then they saw lots of secure paper. Sadly we had a cursed combination of group tickets for Bas-Rhin, joint single tickets for Moselle and several BahnCard discounts for the German border crossing applied.

After looking for five minutes who of us was on which ticket, they finally decided seeing 13 tickets was enough.

Back in 2020, I systematically compiled a list of all the drugs in the scientific literature where an AI told us the drug was a candidate for repurposing as a treatment for Covid

None of them got an FDA approval for this indication or an emergency use authorization (success rate 0%)

I didn't end up publishing this because right when I was finishing the project off, it was the heyday of non-doctors prescribing horse-dewormer for Covid and I didn't want to pour gasoline on that fire

I visited my Dad today. He's in his mid-80s now, still generally healthy, but some things are getting harder, particularly eyesight. When I visit I usually end up fixing something or other on his computer. Today it was website push notifications that he'd probably accidentally allowed and were pretending to be antivirus software producing scary messages. Also Thunderbird had moved a bunch of its UI around and confused him to the point where he'd felt the only thing to do was to reinstall it.

I'm gonna make a prediction about Threads: they're going to put pressure on the big servers (that are federating with them) to ban sex work and porn "for community safety." And the people who run them will uncritically just accept that's true.

And they'll do it, ineffectually, but they will.