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

how to do tables in matrix

I understand why animals chase their own tail now 😅

I was on VRchat last night and noticed something out of the corner of my eye. When I turned around, it wasn't there. So I kept turning until I realized that I was chasing the tail on my avatar. 🤣

never trust someone who hates furries

Growing #Garlic? It's time to check if you have any garlic scapes, because if you don't take them off, you'll end up with small bulbs in the ground.

Short blogpost with detailed pictures on what to do. https://www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2019/06/garlic-scapes.html

FYI: you can eat scapes - cut them up and use them in anything from omelettes to curries.

#Garlic #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

(Edited to add the point you can also eat them)

I kinda wish all papers had a one-paragraph section, similar in size and style to the Acknowledgement, on origin of the project. I think it'd make a lot more of the process of science more transparent, esp to newcomers.

#academia #openscience #research

What's the best way to render high-detailed @openstreetmap tiles in vector format for large format printing?

the term 'biological pronouns' really shows how anglocentric a lot of the loudest transphobes are because like...there are so many languages without gendered pronouns at all.

hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking

"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.

Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.

Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104300

nintendo's really having a blast telling everyone to pirate their games! so far in the past couple of months, nintendo has:

- shut down the eshop for wii u/3ds
- issued a DMCA to lockpickRCM, preventing switch owners from legally obtaining keys needed for emulation (and it caused a switch emulator to shut down due to fears they'd be DMCA'd too)
- sent a new 3DS update that blocked all free methods of homebrewing the console
- and just recently, they told steam to take down the dolphin emulator

remember: pirating nintendo games is good.
(edit: fix'd some info!)

A computer can never be held accountable

therefore a computer must never make a management decision

For most of my life, when I found something like this, I assumed that it was an Anomaly.

I would think to myself: Surely no other organization has flaws this fundamental being papered over by human labor.

But I spent the last five years jumping from Fundamental Flaw to Fundamental Flaw at a 20+ Billion dollar company, filling gaps like this while "automation" was built.

In *every* case, the automation solves ~95 or so percent of the problem, and leaves a rare but possible set of circumstances that will require a human to clean up.

In most cases so far, the only humans with the experience to clean things up have left, have been pushed out, or will leave soon.

And things will bubble up. And things will break. And 10+ engineers will have to waste 3 - 5 days investigating the problem, because every corporation is built on the backs of the knowledge of employees they do not value.