umbraroze

android.permission.FLASHLIGHT

*long slow stare* ...but WHY THOUGH?

Oh, a user from poa.st. Figures. A year or two ago I spent a while looking at Fediverse block lists and that site was one of those that got frequently blocked/defederated. Because of all of the Nazis, apparently.

(Actually pretty weird that they even attempted to federate with Mastodon in the first place. Most of the Nazi shitholes just install Mastodon without federation, get blocked by the rest of the Fediverse just as a precaution, and then they run out of money and disappear quietly and the admins abscond with the donations and the users pretend nothing ever happened)

You know, back in the day, news from America looked like this:

"A Stupid Horrible New Law That Screws People Over was just somehow passed, and it was the long time dream of Senator Whatshisface".

And next to the article, we saw The Portrait: a dude in slick in front of the flag, nicely lit, wearing a sharp dress and tie, nicely combed, smiling with perfect teeth.

So apparently they stopped doing that now. The Portrait, I mean; the headlines are definitely the same.

Things change but things don't really change.

"No HTML club" is kinda going too far on the Web. If you go there you might as well start a No HTTP Club and serve stuff over Gopher and FTP.

But we definitely need an HTML 2.0 Club.

Ooohh, I liked this game when it was in Game Pass a while ago. Might as well grab the PC version.

...it's already in my Steam library

...must have been on some Humble Bundle forever ago, then

Hmm, maybe just use some variation of DIN connector? It's a circle, but keyed to one position, and fairly effortless to plug in the right way without seeing. Also full size DIN connectors are robust as hell and can be easily replaced and rewired.

Hell, my Commodore 64 IEC bus cables still work after decades, and I can't say the same about many USB cables these days.

If you're working, a holiday is not much of a holiday, now is it?

Also, I don't really trust on Trump knowing what good or bad for business, because we all know he's not as good at it as he implies. Him not being able to make money on holiday sales sounds like a skill issue.

does not feel the law itself is at fault and instead blames Democrats for scaring medical professionals into confusion over their responsibilities

Well, of course this law change doesn't faze a Republican, because they feel like they are able to do whatever the hell they want regardless of what the law says.

Unfortunately, the people who operate in the real world have to actually consider the consequences of their actions and whether they might be breaking the law. So the fact that the laws concerning the doctors' field of endeavour have been fucked around with makes them understandably confused. Not their fault they're confused. In fact, being concerned about the legality is definitely an indication of professionalism.

Dang, I really should write a programming portfolio page about all of the weird hacks I've made over the years. Other people link to their GitHub profiles in job applications and gesture non-specifically. I'd just point to my portfolio of weird hacks about weird problems I tried to solve weirdly. Anyway...

An ancient one I made back in the day:

I was listening to music while trying to sleep. I controlled the music player with infrared remote. Some mystery song starts playing and I have no idea what it's called. Obviously, the monitor was far away and turned off so I couldn't read.

So I was like, dammit, why can't I just push a button on the remote and have the computer say the name of the song?

My previous project actually helped with that - I had previously made an extension for XMMS that allows other programs to read the song information via a named pipe. So I just whipped up a script that reads the song name and feeds it to Festival TTS, and hooked that up to the infrared daemon. And that was at like 3 AM, so I quickly got back to trying to sleep

Some more recent ones:

Long ago, I was using Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer to import my photos from SD cards (etc) to my NAS. It was horrible. It sucked. So much that when I finally snapped and switched over to better software (read: stable version of digiKam for Windows came out), I never trusted the photo organiser to get this thing right. So for a while I used random hacks and a bunch of weird scriptery. Then I decided to turn it into a PowerShell script. That started to kinda suck, so I now have a massive overengineered Python script to import my photos. And it does exactly what I want it to do. And I'm finally happy. (Available here for what it's worth)

Another thingy: I have to set the clocks on some devices manually. Daylight saving time, clock drift, you name it. One of my recent old-lady whinges was "Why the hell doesn't Windows even have an analog clock anymore?" I just prefer to have a clock that has both number display (to set the time) and analog clock face with a second hand so I can time the button press better visually. ...so I made one. Because I've never written an analog clock before. First, I made one in Processing. Then, a second version, because I'm in process of learning Godot.

I, on the other hand, don't keep many tabs open normally, and the groups I use are of temporary convenience if I'm doing a lot of things at the same time.

I can easily spend a few seconds typing the group name in because I already know what the group is used for. I already have a name in mind, I don't need the AI to slowly second-guess me.

...and if you don't know what the group is used for, maybe allowing groups to remain initially unnamed would be a good design choice?

Back in the day, you could slap a math coprocessor on your system so it could do floating point maths real gud.

Now, you slap in some card that does floating point maths even guder, but also in parallel in yuge vectors.

So my proposed name is "It's like an old Cray supercomputer but real tiny"

Boot up my dad's computer and play some shareware off the magazine cover disk I got months ago.

Or go to the library I guess.