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2026-07-31 19:12:36 UTC

I liberated my PlayStation 5:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/liberating-a-playstation-5/

2026-07-18 16:01:37 UTC

Data centers:
I don't like the expansion of AI data centers. I do think it's a bubble, they're not building out for capacity (I doubt current OpenAI/Anthropic/Coreweave/etc. usage even gets to half of current capacity) and I think the people pushing this bubble are lying to us about what it's for (there isn't enough software or 5-titty anime cat girl animation or even mass surveillance software being produced to justify this insane build-out).
There is a lot of anit-data center stuff out there. This is where things get confusing, because I know real people in this field.
I have a buddy who does massive facility contracts. He's been in the new Google buildouts in Georgia/Alabama. They do consume a lot of water, but most of it goes back to the city, and a lot of it is closed loop. He went on about the glycol, air cooling and towers, and he talked about carpet factories he'd planned build-outs for use more water and flush more waste water than the AI data centers.
I did push back on some things that he acknowledged: there is a lot of evaporation even in these "closed loops," and if you evaporate a gigaliter of water, it leaves your watershed. That floats 300 miles away and does devastate farms.
He did acknowledge power and noise were big concerns, but claims the water thing is misrepresented.
Oddly though, he' said the water doesn't run into the racks. I was like, "Yea they do. Supermicro and nvidia make racks that have a column of in/out water ports." He's literally been at a new 2026 Google buildout and said the actual racks were still air cooled.
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Last night I was talking to a friend about this. Two older people at the bars, looked into their 50s, decided to chime in. One was an electrician. His wife said their son worked in building out these data centers and she's been in a Meta data center and how it was completely silent; you could hear a pin drop.
I did get them to acknowledge eminent domain by Georgia Power was an issue. The guy was like "they can still use the land" .. no they can't. Powerlines get sprayed by herbicide. It's not an easement, they take all the land and split your property. The couple acknowledged this wasn't good.
The couple really pushed back on the noise thing, a lot. But I've seen so many videos about the noise; people holding up meters in videos where you can hear the constant drone! .. I've never been in a hyperscaler or Amazon data center ... but I have been in a ton of smaller data centers. They're all loud. I mean, you can still talk over it. It's white noise, but it's not silent. It's kinda nice if you have to work in them for a few hours. Air conditioned and chill. But any more than 4 hours and I'd get cold, agitated and just want the fucking thing to work so I could go back to my desk.
But to their credit, the guy said he had been in the data centers with the water racks. He didn't know they were mostly Supermicro and he didn't know the names of the specific nvidia units, but he claimed he had seen them. He said if one unit goes bad, the remove the entire rack and replace it. Maybe these racks really are quiet?
I also didn't ask the woman what the noise levels were outside the data center. If it's silent inside but horrible a quarter mile out, that's bad for everyone in the community.
The couple actually started by injecting themselves in our conversation, but then paid their tab and moved to a table. I don't know if I challenged their views or they just didn't want to continue. It was weird.
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Now I really want to take a few days off and drive to some of these sites. I want to know if the noise is really as bad as what I've seen on the YouToobs.
Everyone is really heated about this stuff. That couple and other friends I have have a vested interest in protecting data center build-outs because it's a lot of money for them. Another buddy who sells transformers is making a killing on sales commissions.
I wonder what the true reality is over these things.
thank you for listening to my TEDx talk.

2026-07-14 04:03:46 UTC

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I honestly wonder if something like this happened. We don't understand the Pyramids. There are a lot of theories about a comet strike causing the cataclysm at the end of the Younger Dryas.
Göbekli Tepe seems to have drawings of a sky serpent and such legends appear in other cultures like the god Quetzalcoatl. What if a previous civilization used lost technology to move a comet into orbit to mine it? The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson has a section about a rocket with the most powerful AI navigation system known to man went to capture an asteroid and guided it slowly back to be used as the anchor for a space elevator.
What if another civilization had that idea, and the technology, and it was the downfall of the planet? .. all its history lost below epic floods.

2026-07-14 03:46:42 UTC

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We'll just grab them and pull them into orbit. I'm sure we won't fuck up at some point and end our species

2026-07-03 01:22:18 UTC

Took care of the bee hive yesterday. It was probably not the best day to go outside in a bee suit. After I got out all the frames and took off the beef suit, my shirt 100% drenched in sweat. I drank two cups of water, laid down on the couch and thought I was going to die 😩 ... Then I finally got up and mowed the lawn.
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2026-06-21 23:17:33 UTC

The Fable of Mythos:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-fable-of-mythos/

2026-06-10 03:09:00 UTC

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huh .. wow, yea this looks pretty bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI

2026-06-10 02:15:46 UTC

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I dunno man. I'm not a fan of the world's largest defense contractor who's dad owned an emerald mind either, but SpaceX had made a lot of money, has an insane launch cadence and has no shortage of companies and governments that want to launch more satellites into orbit. They've also waiting quite a bit to IPO.

2026-05-23 03:36:35 UTC

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aww .. it's way down in Argentina! burgers look good though...

2026-05-17 01:46:38 UTC

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You go hiking?

2026-05-08 10:33:25 UTC

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Not to mention, billionaires have a virtually unlimited amount to spend on accountants and lawyers to get around most taxes. Also their lobbies would prevent anything like this from actually passing (making it more of a feel good, 'we tried' type story for the state senate). Any one of them could pull an Elon too and literally move all their personal assets out of the State if they had to.

2026-05-08 00:31:56 UTC

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oh I had access to a CRT oscilloscope in our embedded systems lab in grad school. We had some LCD ones too, but the analogue ones just felt so much better. You could adjust your sample rate just right and get a perfect straight line from the aliasing from a sine wave generator.
I think TechMoan did a video on people in the demo-scene who get them to make all kinda of insane pictures from frequency input.

2026-05-07 23:35:56 UTC

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I dunno. What was the resolution of that first CRT? Did it just display lines? I've played on one of the original Asteroids units at a museum. CRT with analog circuits and those beautiful, crisp, sharp and haunting white lines .. and that came after decades of work; well past the radio era.
Artisanal CRTs would be a huge leapback for last least a decade.

2026-05-06 23:03:34 UTC

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If people aren't willing to die for your country, what does that say about the war?

2026-04-24 03:58:43 UTC

Do you guys think it will really be 2027 or 2028 before RAM drops back down to <$4 per GB?

2026-03-30 23:19:08 UTC

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It's crazy how Linux was so big on the PC by the early 2000s in universities and nerd settings, but mobile devices are so insanely broken when it comes to any kind of standardization that something similar for Linux-on-mobile world seems impossible; requiring insane crowdfunding like the one for the Ubuntu Edge that failed in 2013.

2026-03-30 02:00:36 UTC

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I see no plausible theory about there being anything nefarious behind this like wanting to be able to do more effective data harvesting.
When has Google ever done anything not evil in the past few years? Data gathering itself is their digital gold.
a bipartisan push
Anything bipartisan is almost always against the good of the American people. Also bipartisanship is a myth. There is only one party. They're actors on a stage and they pretend to squabble when, in the end, they get exactly what their lobbyist want.
What I see happening is a bipartisan push for restricting children's access to various online content, because it's been running rampant for ages
Once again, this is the parents responsibility! There are already tons of commercial available products that can limit children's access to adult websites. Parents can tell their kids porn is bad (if the parent believes that) and can even tell the kid they struggle with porn and instill those values. The kid will grow into a teenager who either accept that morality or reject it.
If the parent doesn't care about porn, well this serves no purpose for them.
I guess we should just agree to disagree. I think you're doing some really weird mental gymnastics to defend governments and corporations who do not deserve any defense, and who are actively working to continually erode all privacy and collect all your data.
You seem to be on a feminist instance and I know some of them are insanely anti-porn (like Louise Perry .. an example of an extreme authoritarian feminist who is for larger government). So maybe that value is so strong for you that you'll defend this. But it doesn't do what you think it will ... and by the time this grows into needing your government ID tied to being able to browse your banking website, well than it will be too late.
I don't want to say I told you so, because then it will be too late for the rest of us too. I want this insanity to stop.

2026-03-29 22:54:08 UTC

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I hate to post a Lunduke link cause he's insufferable (even when I agree with him), but he makes a good point about the potential Meta connections:
https://youtu.be/s6Nu6FMRWrQ
I had some other links I'll have to dig up, but others have done research in this space and it's very likely.

2026-03-29 19:22:05 UTC

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Yea I agree. Sorry @nprofile…6e53 I don't think you remotely comprehend how bad this is, what a massive overstep it is and how it is literally the first step in something much worse. You don't think California will adjust those privacy laws (that honestly don't do much anyway) to make the way for digital ID?
This is not just paranoia. It's literally what everyone has been warning about for years.

2026-03-29 15:44:50 UTC

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No third party verification of any kind? What even is the problem? THIS IS GOOD.
No. It's useless. It's also the first step. You're foolish to think this has anything at all to do with age verification. It absolutely 100% does not. This is the first step in transmitting your personal information to every website. That's the end goal. This is the first step.
It's useless, so that's why you and everyone else needs to oppose it. If you don't see the real purpose, I'm sorry there's nothing I can do to help you.
Parents already have all the tools to stop Timmy from viewing stuff they don't want. They can already install parental blocks on their router and TV. They can already add parental controls to most eyeProducts. If the parent is concerned, it is the PARENT'S responsibility.
Can Timmy view the same bad content from another computer? Sure, but the parents have instilled the value in the child that it was wrong. That's all you can really do.

2026-03-26 00:08:59 UTC

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2026-03-25 19:05:23 UTC

Starting to look a little desperate...
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2026-03-24 03:24:51 UTC

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Are you using real Gapps, microG or going entirely G-services free? (I don't know what the options are on Graphene. I know it does sandboxing. I just use Lineage these days without gapps or microG).

2026-03-23 02:24:13 UTC

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Obama and Biden weren't 1946

2026-03-22 19:25:22 UTC

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I include all kinds of links, even links to theories or analysis that brings me to certain conclusions:
https://battlepenguin.com/politics/
I think it makes a pretty massive difference when writing news summaries. Not only can others easily see exactly how you've drawn your conclusions, but I've often found I had thinks incorrect, or found only misleading sources when I try to drill down certain stories or narratives. It does improve the quality of the analysis. James Corbett has been doing it for decades.

2026-03-22 15:57:59 UTC

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eh .. they're no sources, for anything.

2026-03-19 02:24:15 UTC

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You can't watch something like that out of season! ☃️ 🎅 Last Christmas I watched the Charlie Brown special (I've got a Charlie Brown Christmas Original Airing.m4v made from a VHS with commercials). Next year might be Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. I haven't seen that in a while.

2026-03-19 02:05:30 UTC

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No. I think it's been over 30 years since I've seen that .. I barely remember anything about it.
I think it would have been cooler if the car controlled the remote, but the remote could also control the car .. like they were both remotes and both vehicles :blobcatshrug:

2026-03-19 02:03:06 UTC

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Exactly. Thanks I hate it!

2026-03-10 04:12:51 UTC

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lady spawn?

2026-03-10 01:25:52 UTC

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He's got a late start and some big shoes to fill, but Orange Man too can be as bad as Dubba.
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/
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2026-03-04 04:21:57 UTC

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Dragon? Dude that took me like ~2 minutes to get where I could see it.. and I can see all the layers, but .. it looks random .. like clouds or something. I can see the 3D layers but I can't tell what ti is.
Is the Dragon thing a Mallrats reference or something?

2026-03-03 19:46:19 UTC

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creeeepy .. is Trevor Henderson like H. R. Giger?

2026-03-02 02:46:26 UTC

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I think these women are extremely talented. Best of the best. They deserve to be on the front lines. First wave, paratroopered in once "boots on the ground" happens./

2026-03-02 00:13:24 UTC

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How does such a tiny nation exert such dominance on every State on the planet?

2026-03-02 00:09:43 UTC

This 32GB kit I bought in September, for $86 ... is now $370
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2026-02-27 16:57:54 UTC

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It really started way before his time with the combination of The Balfour Declaration and the McMahon-Hussein correspondence

2026-02-24 03:02:19 UTC

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> Sonichu medallion
Dude that thing is FUCKING CURSED! Nothing scares me more than the image of that thing. Don't make one. Don't even print one out. Having the rough outlines of a drawing of it around you is probably enough to unleash the demons of hell and totally destroy your life

2026-02-22 03:08:23 UTC

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It's pretty shocking people keep using Cloudflare, AWS, Crowdstrike, etc. despite all their massive fuckups.

2026-02-17 05:24:56 UTC

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They're not hallucinations ... the random code generator has no intent. It can't "lie" or "hallucinate." It's randomly guessing the wrong next token.
I hate this human personification bullshit to the weighted random code machine. If you treat them as "not all that great," you might get something useful from them. If you're in the "I haven't written code in 3 months and pass all my code reviews" camp, your co-workers are incompetent and your job will be replaced in 5 years by someone who has to clean up everything.

2026-02-17 05:00:50 UTC

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So what's interesting is that if you tell an LLM to "show its work," you sometimes get a more accurate result:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XNBZPbxyYhmoqD87F/llms-and-computation-complexity
The comments are probably not so much for verification as they are a required part of the emergent process .. and it still makes up function names that don't exist anyway 😩

2026-02-17 04:24:09 UTC

LLM generated comments:
# Create connection to i3
i3 = i3ipc.Connection()
...makes me think of this ancient blogpost from the 2000s about not writing useless comments that's probably disappeared from the Internet by now:
/*****************************
* Adds 1 to x *
******************************/
x = x + 1

2026-02-10 04:20:41 UTC

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I wish I had finished that series. I played Myst and Riven. I found Exile CDs in a used bookstore for like $10, but never played more than ~20 minutes of it. Not sure if I'd want to play any of them to be honest.

2026-02-08 02:56:43 UTC

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Yea there are still a lot of people I've watched for years who still put up interesting stuff. Repair videos from Adrian's Digital Basement are just great to have up on a side monitor while I'm coding. It's sad that there's basically only one big network where everyone posts their videos. It's quite a mono-culture and makes for a very unhealthy Internet.

2026-02-02 04:05:22 UTC

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what is this?

2026-02-01 08:44:08 UTC

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I was gonna go to the park and walk in the snow, but it was waaaay too windy. 🥶

2026-02-01 07:53:49 UTC

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Alright, well I might as well give this a shot. I wonder if I can get my agent banned with the right system prompt. ... I haven't used Ollama in forever. What local models are people using these days? I've got 32GB of vram.
oh god ... well Openclaw looks terrifying ... and no Ollama support ... not sure if it supports local models at all! Don't want it blowing through my Github tokens that I get from work either ... :bunthinking:
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2026-02-01 07:08:21 UTC

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Wow, his political theory is even worse than his terrible writing and books.

2026-02-01 03:42:13 UTC

Name.com's prices have nearly doubled. They do a slow bait and switch with renewal prices over time.
I moved to them sometime around 2010. I was on names4ever, but their web UI was ancient and was barely maintained since they got bought by APlus, with no migration path to their new owner.
This year I'll be slowly transferring domains over to Spaceship (owned by Namecheap). This will be the 2nd major registrar move I've made since I bought my first domain in 2002.
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2026-02-01 01:20:42 UTC

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Daily updates. I restart individual services, or update containers, not restart the whole server. I haven't seen any kernel level remote code execution vulnerabilities in a long time.

2026-01-31 19:54:18 UTC

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I'd watch this :agummypopcorn:

2026-01-31 18:52:31 UTC

Sorry lil VM. You made it a good long while...
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2026-01-31 07:19:58 UTC

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> Aqua Teen Hunger Force : Colon Movie film for theaters kinda sucked
YOU FUCKING TAKE THAT BACK!
It might have not been the best .... it might have been a LOT better in theaters with other fans ... but .. it was played without an info so you didn't realize the opening was a gag and then Mastodon started playing .. and Time Lincoln! "The Plantation is safe! The salves are yours!" .. I dunno man ... it was short and funny and I enjoyed it. :blobcatgooglyshrug:

2026-01-31 03:51:39 UTC

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oh wow ... that's kinda hilariously insane and awesome

2026-01-31 03:47:12 UTC

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so ... monochrome

2026-01-30 04:59:58 UTC

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What movie is that from? (the last movie I saw about the IRA was ... The Crying Game :blobcatgrimacing: )

2026-01-30 04:54:16 UTC

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https://enclose.horse/ ?

2026-01-30 04:49:02 UTC

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huh ... Gene Roddenberry had three children ... and one is still "Executive Producer" on all the recently green-lit atrocities like Discovery, Picard and Academy.

2026-01-30 03:53:09 UTC

Why was Beverly Crusher the only bridge crew member who had children? (single mom, though no one's fault as Jack died an honorable red-shirt death on an away mission). Picard hated children, Worf didn't know he had one, though when he did, he attempted fatherhood, failed at it and sent the child to live with his grandparents.
In DS9, once again, only two of the bridge crew have families, with the Commander in the same single parents due to Picard situation. Worf does have an episode with his son, where Worf's absence shows his son's challenges in learning to be a Klingon.

2026-01-30 03:33:41 UTC

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I feel like I missed a lot of this stuff. I didn't use my GNUSocial instance very much and my Mastodon instance in 2018 was banned from everywhere within a year or two .. the feidverse is split weirdly:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-broken-fediverse/
I wish I had bought one of Thor's maps of Fedi he drew. I did get one of his t-shirt designs. Hope he's doing alright out there.

2026-01-29 04:04:17 UTC

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Hey, I package my (python) shit! For Fedora, Debian and Gentoo mo-fo!
https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/mpvbuddy/
https://nexus.sumit.im/#browse/browse

2026-01-29 04:02:25 UTC

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huh ... I've only seen really huge breakage between like 3.12 and 3.13 .. that was one of the annoying one for package maintainers. Maybe I just got lucky.

2026-01-29 03:57:50 UTC

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I like the term "Load-bearing shell scripts." If it starts getting past 20 lines and you're using it for CI/deployment/tests/etc. you should replace bash/sh/zsh with something else.
Why the Python hate? Python3 is pretty stable, and even has type hinting. Virtual environments and uv are your friends. Although at that point it's no longer a simple shell script, but if you really don't want to use a venv, almost every linux distro has the major libraries you need (requests and such) in the package manager.

2026-01-29 03:53:35 UTC

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My British co-worker had one of those. She let me use it for my driving test (my US license had expired and Washington wouldn't convert my New Zealand one 😡).

2026-01-29 03:45:41 UTC

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I lived in Chicago for three years and Cincinnati for two ... and one year it snowed so much in Cincinnati the city ran out of road salt for two weeks .. AWD was really nice .. well for me .. the stuck civics and such I drove around spinning their tired probably wanted to murder me.

2026-01-29 03:42:45 UTC

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Jellyfin + wireguard? (or I guess tailscale if you want something that sets up wireguard for you?)
I haven't actually used Jellyfin. I don't really watch anything on my phone or on the go.

2026-01-29 03:39:36 UTC

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My dad had the last of the Maxima wagons (with the 300Z engine in it, but turned the wrong direction for FWD), best friend's mom had the last of the Accord wagons and I still have my WRX but Subaru also killed their wagon line 😩

2026-01-29 03:34:37 UTC

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Hey now, now all of us own a Crosstrek. The WRX is a machine.
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2026-01-29 03:31:44 UTC

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The fed cops don't dance though ... looks like a job for someone with an expensive AI account.

2026-01-28 03:12:47 UTC

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Digital editions should be less than 10% of the market and their dominance shows how much I fucking hate the average consumer.

2026-01-28 03:11:39 UTC

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Hawaii or LA space laser attack?

2026-01-28 03:10:54 UTC

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oh was that the RV that blew up in Nashville? .... man everybody forgot about that one.

2026-01-28 03:06:39 UTC

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The supermarket is a sacred temple

2026-01-27 02:06:00 UTC

What if it's not the big-silicon bubble that's next? What if Hollywood collapses and come begging for a government bailout? :agummythink:

2026-01-27 00:25:05 UTC

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I like how everything still works without Javascript

2026-01-26 04:40:05 UTC

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2020 was a psychological operation. It was the largest psychological operation of all known human history. It was also largely successful. Some countries had 60% ~ 90% of people take the least tested drug ever developed. There still many people who think it was a completely real thing that happened and not mass hysteria.

2026-01-26 04:34:30 UTC

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Today someone will say that's AI. I remember. I remember seeing this when it came out, the girl in Melbourne who was put in a choke hold for not wearing a mask, the people locked in hotel rooms in Brisbane for weeks .. I remember May 1st, when the mask mandate came to Chicago, and I drove to Indiana for nearly a year for groceries and never once wore a fucking mask. It was dead silent in that city for months, and then I watched the rioters burn down police cruisers and the trains stop because someone died of a fentanyl overdose.
I still see the fucking faded 6-foot apart stickers in abandoned soccer fields. They're like a Joe Camel poster, worn and faded, a reminder of an era everyone has already forgotten.

2026-01-26 03:54:27 UTC

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because Pacific Northwest culture has spread to the midwest like a cancer

2026-01-26 03:27:12 UTC

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Does the leaked-signal chain lead all the way back to the CIA?

2026-01-26 03:19:39 UTC

Maybe ... maybe ... we're just not vibe coding hard enough?

2026-01-26 02:46:39 UTC

Do hoaxers want to get caught?

2026-01-25 22:14:51 UTC

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I ended up ordering the one in the picture off of Reverb. The listing didn't say it had been serviced or had photos of the case opened up. I'm a bit weary of vintage stuff like this, but it's less than half the price of the new Onkyo M-80.
I'll test it to make sure it works, but after that I'm going to open it up and make sure there's no corrosion and no leaky caps. The glue on these can get conductive if it gets corroded by leaky caps, so you have to clean it really well after you de-solder them.
Hopefully it's been in use and not in storage, which can keep caps from breaking. If not, well, it will be my first recapping project. 😅
I'll be using this Douk to switch between amps, and a Douk D5 as the pre-amp from my DAC to both amps. The switch has good reviews, but there is nothing on the D5, so hopefully it doesn't suck.
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2026-01-25 21:32:09 UTC

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Do you slice off bacon strips to fry, or are you gonna smoke it?

2026-01-25 21:07:20 UTC

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Yea timing belts should be done around 100,000. If they snap, on most cars you'll bend valves and need an engine tear-down to check for damage. But timing belts also don't sequel. If they start slipping, you're already fucked. If you have a timing chain, they never need to be changed.
Drive belts are the ones you see clearly outside on the engine block. Timing belts/chains are internal and go from the engine crank to the cams/valves.

2026-01-25 20:52:30 UTC

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🤷 That's just what it sounds like to me. I don't know what else would cause that sequel. It sounds like a belt, and burning clutch is what a belt smells like right before they snap.
I try not to go to shops, unless it's something really difficult like the timing belt. I've had dealerships completely fuck up simple things like drive belts. They're so easy to do I might as well do it myself and do it right.

2026-01-25 20:47:20 UTC

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Replace your drive belts. They're about to snap. If you pop the hood and look at the belts you can probably see them physically warping. The squealing can happen on new belts too if they're over/under tightened.

2026-01-25 20:42:41 UTC

I'm still on this old Chicago mailing list for some reason. I guess even Chicago got a bit too much snow.
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2026-01-25 19:38:32 UTC

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Have you read any of Helen Andrew's stuff? I think she makes some interesting points along the same lines, about how women in institutions and law have greatly changed the way society deals with things. Here's an interview: https://youtu.be/pfbilhs5dt4

2026-01-25 19:33:10 UTC

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aww shit @nprofile…l7gx shots fired!

2026-01-25 19:31:09 UTC

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The Sun is racist.

2026-01-25 18:09:05 UTC

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He's a seal of approval!

2026-01-25 17:39:39 UTC

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sea dog

2026-01-25 17:20:51 UTC

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That sucks ass. I've only had their home theater receivers. I only learned about their hi-fi amps recently. They release a 2-channel power amp last year. It's not too expensive by hi-fi standards, but still up there.
I have a Willsenton R8 tube amp, but I sorta used it for everything and tubes/repair can get expensive. So I'm working on building out a setup with a Douk Audio speaker/amplifier switch so I can easily switch between two amps, and then only turn on the tube amp when I really want to crank some music.

2026-01-25 05:04:50 UTC

This is why we can't have nice things
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2026-01-25 00:44:26 UTC

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Here, I fixed it for you
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2026-01-25 00:42:40 UTC

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Feed that info to an LLM. It will make it "smarter"

2026-01-25 00:41:38 UTC

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You monster

2026-01-25 00:40:31 UTC

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oh wow, more complete and total bullshit that never happened as conservatives suddenly clamor in favor or regime change like it's 2003 all over again.

2026-01-25 00:34:52 UTC

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I knew that 3rd one was going to be a chatbot before even clicking on it.
Great way to crack your oil pan and destroy your engine 😩

2026-01-24 23:21:00 UTC

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oh wow. Yes, that's from Encounters at the End of the World ! It's really good. Didn't know it was making the rounds almost a decade later. I think it's from the same funding grand that led to March of the Penguins, but Encounters is really focused more on the individual researcher and support laborers who applied for those jobs in that last frontier of our planet. The absolutely most insane place to live. Antarctica.