josef

https://mastodon.social/@jk

i made that mastodon boop sound

music: https://josefkenny.com/
blog: https://josef.one/

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npub1rnuz6hjqwvalw4y0ue9chvpmcfrd9sxva4wnwze0pw74zd3flrhqwct8lx

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jk_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

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2026-02-20 10:05:55 UTC

ive noticed a subtle decline in people using emojis in the last year or two. like, its very subtle, probably at or under the statistical noise floor, but i think they're on the way out culturally. in one-to-one communication they come across as "facebook aunt" these days, and in one-to-many media, the vibe they communicate is often just "AI smell"

2025-09-10 13:03:29 UTC

thinking about how when i was younger, i knew this drummer that idolized stewart copeland and his elegant, minimal approach to rhythm textures. a few years later i read something about how actually sting was making him play it like that and he hated it and they had arguments because he actually wanted to play more complicated and/or louder and thats maybe why the band broke up

2025-09-05 09:29:55 UTC

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I ask this every 2 years and I never get a good answer but maybe this time it’ll work
Dropbox alternative? Must fulfill:
- 4TB for $15-20 per month
- Doesn’t require me to administer my own fucking hetzner box and/or run a storage arbitrage trading business
- GUI app for Windows, Linux and iPhone. Should be able to browse all my files on my phone
- Selective sync etc. All the useful features
- Public file links
- Doesn’t consist of a million lines of python

2025-08-11 10:56:28 UTC

the proposed design is modern, vibrant, and inspiring
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/009/763/387/434/691/original/e988832409f2073b.png

2025-06-27 16:19:26 UTC

facebook: hi. its Facebook! we've turned your conversations --- into Apps!
you: i deleted facebook
facebook: You may have deleted Facebook. But we didn't! And now, using AI, we've turned your conversations, from 2008 to the present day... into Apps!
you: actually i never had a facebook. i was never on facebook
facebook: Sadly, you didn't have a Facebook account. But now, using AI ... you do! And we've turned ALL your memories ... into Apps!

2025-06-20 16:24:53 UTC

refusing to use floating-point numbers on moral grounds because their imprecision makes them technically a form of gambling

2025-05-02 17:47:20 UTC

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Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver

2025-05-01 11:56:43 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/432/447/975/335/916/original/e1ce5d3edae93e89.png

2025-04-06 09:21:23 UTC

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it's very difficult to explain to linux people that, i have a folder called "Software" with loads of nested subfolders containing programs, tools, games, etc, many of which are more than 20 years old. occasionally i need one of these programs, maybe once every few years, and i go in there and click on the .exe and it works instantly. next to the .exe are dlls, which are also 20 years old. no package manager needed. the whole thing works great - on Windows, and of course, on WINE

2025-03-10 21:48:51 UTC

béla bartók in 1899 proving that hairstyles have a 100-year cycle
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/140/330/817/360/124/original/18b246664fa2f44c.jpg

2025-03-10 14:51:10 UTC

manual: the power LED should produce a solid light
me: *after being on hold with technical support for 3 hours* the LED isn't producing anything solid, from what i can see, it's only producing photons. are photons solid?
support : uh
me: they can't be a gas. or plasma, right? they're not charged? no ions
support: ...
me: it's been a while since high school but i don't think photons are matter
support: what color is the light
me: it's about five hundred and .. hang on .. let me get my..

2025-03-03 14:44:15 UTC

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popular internet rumors that there is a secret so-called "13th branch" of the armed forces, staffed entirely with nonhuman servicepeople described as 'machine elves' are as yet unsubstantiated, and have been dismissed as "fanciful" by the director of the CIA

2025-03-03 14:40:15 UTC

in addition to an executive role in implementing domestic policy, he is the commander in chief of the army, navy, air force, space force, fifth dimension operations, information strike group, time force, dream command, mole warriors, mantle crackers, and the gnome battalion, as well as the rapidly-expanding squadron of autonomous glider guns fielded by the binary operations group under the command of general tegmark

2025-03-01 12:59:00 UTC

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it's a really interesting thing when a product, or an entire industry even, is oriented at about a 45° from the direction you're going. you'll be interested, enthusiastic, but frequently confused by the choices that are made. things you consider essential will be entirely absent, and nobody will even know about or discuss them. i've seen this all the time with like, music tech, cameras, creative software, programming languages and frameworks, it's kind of a universal experience (for me at least)

2025-03-01 12:51:04 UTC

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functionally also, i find it orthogonal to what i often want. i think the platonic eurorack ideal is a kind of generative art. you configure a dense cyclic graph of multiple interdependent closed-loop control systems. this incidentally produces music. but your job is not to produce music, your job is to play factorio with sound. this is very cool and i enjoy doing it as much as anyone. but mostly i just have musical ideas in my head and i want to use the synthesiser to actually play them

2025-03-01 12:34:58 UTC

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like i dunno i've just never got it aesthetically. you have all these rows of knobs and sliders you can reach out and manipulate, all mounted to the front panels of these beautiful little rectilinear units which are all screwed together into a holistic, bespoke system. and then the way you actually USE them? involves covering the whole thing with fucking noodles all over the place. you keep catching your hand on them. theyre all different colours. just very stressful

2025-02-21 18:49:03 UTC

what a cover
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/043/355/959/859/676/original/0216493cae901d61.png

2025-02-21 09:32:03 UTC

everything healthcare-related is really like. calling an automated service to get the phone number of someone so i can leave them a message because they're out of office, and the message is just me telling them my email address, and the first email i get from them is like "here's the email address you should be using" and i email that address to ask about an appointment and they reply trying to arrange a call to discuss the important issue of when that appointment will be

2025-02-18 10:53:03 UTC

i think lunchtime is at the wrong time

2025-02-06 10:22:30 UTC

for years i've been writing scripts to "open up these programs' windows in these positions with these files/directories loaded" and also "suspend the current state of the desktop and close all the apps on it then resume where i left off with another set of programs in the exact state they were a week ago as if nothing ever happened" and still, in 2025, on windows, mac, and linux, the only way i've found to achieve both of these Reliably is just "make an entire VM for each workspace and pause it"

2024-11-28 21:50:20 UTC

the problem is i think. if a linux distro was actually good enough, it would annihilate all the other distros. and that would go against the whole point of there being distros. so theyre not allowed to make a distro thats good. they're not allowed to be like "look we're actually gonna do it this time, we're gonna make the one true linux", they'd get tomatoes thrown at them. they can only make a distro thats "okay, but then in 5 years it Goes Wrong and everybody hops to the next popular distro"

2024-11-25 15:17:07 UTC

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what the actual fuck they made my idea a reality in less than a week
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/544/243/653/081/290/original/c38e623af2800492.jpg

2024-11-14 13:27:56 UTC

in the future we'll eat a kind of starchy, molecule-scale graphene-based spaghetti called 'nanopasta'. it will have a flavor best described as 'curly dust' and a texture that varies from 'slimy yet dry' all the way to 'what if regolith was cotton-candy'

2024-11-09 15:18:20 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/453/661/264/349/209/original/3c5e41d0be724df6.mp4