Duck Nebuchadnezzar

There needs to be a word to describe that feeling you get when you realize the content you've been consuming is just slop and you have to re-frame how you think about it.

2026-07-30 21:04:43 UTC

If anyone is concerned about having your bitcoin stolen, send me your seed phrase and I will confirm for you if you have lost all your money or not. (/s)

2026-07-27 21:42:27 UTC

There is no time so utterly wasted as the half hour before you have to leave to go somewhere.

2026-07-16 22:07:33 UTC

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Relays are temporary, jsonl is forever. (assuming they are stored on durable media)

2026-07-16 22:04:31 UTC

Listening to first graders talk about the OG games of Roblox...

2026-07-12 11:40:40 UTC

If I have a bottle of pancakes and bacon whiskey, that's a breakfast drink, right?

2026-07-06 00:30:14 UTC

They just pushed back the restoration of my electricity by another day.

2026-07-04 22:33:44 UTC

One of the downsides of having a homelab is that you're kinda screwed for content while you wait for DTE to restore power.

2026-06-12 21:48:46 UTC

"Close" actually counts in many more than just the two cases but the general expression is so useful that it's close enough without having to list them all out.

2026-06-05 16:32:24 UTC

That Marie Kondo phrase is never truer than when you are trying to curate your pornography collection.

2026-06-05 03:50:12 UTC

That woman that says "well, I never" has now. That's why you don't hear her say that anymore.

2026-06-04 18:00:16 UTC

No matter how much comradery you feel, you will always just be "the user" to Claude.

2026-05-29 19:50:01 UTC

Could Batman lift Mjolnir with enough prep time?

2026-05-22 13:48:03 UTC

A benefit of working from home is that the impact of forgetting that you have a 3-day weekend is greatly lessened.
No, I've never driven all the way to work before realizing that we all had the day off before. Why do you ask?

2026-05-03 03:55:22 UTC

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I need to give it a few days between episodes. I couldn't binge it.
Great show, as always.

2026-05-03 03:52:41 UTC

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Where do you think they get the matter for produce all those yummy replicator foods? You gotta reprocess it.

2026-05-03 03:45:57 UTC

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I think that's starting to touch on "wtf is this kook talking about" but it's an important concept to get across.

2026-05-02 14:30:48 UTC

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Normies need invites.

2026-04-27 20:52:54 UTC

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Dance trends

2026-04-25 14:13:23 UTC

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I'm having a hard time keep coming back to watch the next episode and I can't binge it, but what is there, is great.

2026-04-24 01:30:52 UTC

There we go. Now I'm feeling slightly better.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/b8a1ace3b7a994d1e78378c9f2269f6c55a4e76f5081ae1fa4dcf7ad3d88d83c.webp

2026-04-23 21:35:28 UTC

Does the mirror universe have their own versions of Lore and Thomas Riker?

2026-04-23 13:44:58 UTC

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Currently, Zen browser. Essentially just Firefox with a few enhancements. Works really well with a tiling windows manager.

2026-04-23 13:40:37 UTC

So did they find him or was it a "Finding Bigfoot" type situation where they had a blurry photo of some hairy guy and decided to run with it?

2026-04-21 16:20:11 UTC

I love the look of really cool cars, but I don't think I would enjoy owning them even if I had the means.
I guess no lambo in my future.

2026-04-15 21:11:39 UTC

If anyone was in the market for Usenet providers, (for reasons) Newsdemon has a special going on right now. $0.50/mo for 2 months. $24/year locked in.
https://newsdemon.com/kingsday/

2026-04-15 16:10:51 UTC

As I go through and select my interests in yet another app, it's a shame something like the attention profile markup language never caught on.
https://github.com/apml/spec-0.6

2026-04-15 16:00:21 UTC

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Them being bothered inspires meme. The cycle continues.

2026-04-15 15:55:32 UTC

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I forgot to change my witholdings after my daughter moved out last year so I ended up owing when I wasn't expecting that.

2026-04-15 00:44:31 UTC

I miss when people were demure.

2026-04-14 17:13:45 UTC

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Does carnivore man like particle man?

2026-04-14 03:40:19 UTC

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Back in the day, Tiny Toon Adventures did an episode where they did videos for Constantinople and Particle Man

2026-04-13 17:06:37 UTC

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Imagine losing a beauty like this

2026-04-13 16:07:09 UTC

The latest updates to Hyprland broke my binding where I use the thumb button on the mouse to drag windows around and I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. I'm bumping into it every time I use that system.

2026-04-13 03:45:07 UTC

Things are generally so much nicer without a fake Satoshi stirring up shit.

2026-04-12 18:56:59 UTC

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Ren is so talented

2026-04-12 18:49:10 UTC

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In this case I was trying to update my nixos / home-manger to latest but some change caused my config to break. I was looking into when I discovered that the fix had just been pushed so I could abort my in-progress work-around in favor of just updating my packages again.

2026-04-12 17:50:27 UTC

When the newly-introduced bug you're hitting is at the top of the recently closed issues list. You just have to pull again.

2026-04-12 17:48:10 UTC

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unfortunately, that other chair doesn't roll quite as well.

2026-04-12 17:24:19 UTC

Clicking a link should never open up a browser that then asks itself if it can be made the default. Just use what I have set as the default.

2026-04-12 17:21:27 UTC

Mealie needs nostr integration.

2026-04-12 17:06:05 UTC

I keep running into issues trying to get it to do what I want with this netgear router. (currently it keeps sending dns queries meant for pihole to the ipv6 provider and it's being troublesome)
Can anyone recommend a good router that can easily be flashed with custom firmware? Should I just bite the bullet and scale up to include more robust networking software?
#homelab #asknostr

2026-04-11 16:39:04 UTC

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The way I heard it that makes sense is that you should be polite to your agents because you don't want to get in that habit and end up being rude to the humans you encounter.

2026-04-11 01:11:41 UTC

The worst part about trying to play Starfield again now that they had a new update.
I was in the middle of a big long zero gravity dungeon that I don't want to play right now.

2026-04-11 00:35:04 UTC

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That almost makes it more impressive. How many thousands of setting the whole thing up again because you totally failed on the last attempt did this take?
Makes it a bit less about skill and more about perseverance.

2026-04-10 21:25:53 UTC

I wonder how effective an LLM would be if you taught it to only think and respond in #lojban
Then you would just need someone that could communicate with it...

2026-04-06 15:00:19 UTC

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I'm glad I bought a UGreen NAS last year but I wish I had filled it with larger drives from the start. Now I'm running low on free space and really not liking the current price of larger drives.

2026-04-04 21:38:56 UTC

I'm surprised that more work hasn't been done on teaching Ai how to generate and animate Unity models as a way to have more reliable agentic filmmaking.

2026-04-04 21:36:07 UTC

Nostr marketplace once voice and video calling and geographic filtering are firmly established will be crazy.

2026-04-02 04:26:32 UTC

Stop trying to ship Morgan with people she works with. Let's just not have it be about that.
#HighPotential

2026-03-22 18:55:46 UTC

I installed pihole today and my kid and I were having fun by opening up games and browsing sketchy anime sites and watching the blocked requests counter climb

2026-03-21 23:15:46 UTC

If anyone was wondering where I hid that copy of my private keys all those years ago... It was behind Birds of Prey S1E05.

2026-03-21 23:11:44 UTC

It's a bit sad going through an old cd case and throwing out all the old cd-r's you burnt of TV shows that you now have as much higher quality on your plex server

2026-03-21 18:50:15 UTC

Wisp (and others) needs an exclusion list for extended feed inclusion. I don't want to go as far as to block you, but I don't want you in my feed.

2026-03-21 18:44:08 UTC

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Joke aside, is this actually possible that a key could be the public key to itself? Basically e of PKI.
Good luck finding it if the solution isn't trivial though.

2026-03-21 18:33:57 UTC

Kubernetes node status makes no sense. If everything is good, you should expect to see 3 reds and 1 green.

2026-03-20 18:16:00 UTC

It really sucks to feel the need to expand your homelab considering the exchange rate between bitcoin and ram right now.

2026-03-20 17:59:11 UTC

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It didn't say exactly, but it was doing it on the GPU, so probably.

2026-03-20 17:51:07 UTC

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/an-experimental-ai-agent-broke-out-of-its-testing-environment-and-mined-crypto-without-permission

2026-03-20 16:14:57 UTC

I may not use this Ember mug much because I don't really like it, but it's charged and it will bring this old coffee up to temp when I can't heat it any other way or brew more

2026-03-20 16:05:59 UTC

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It was one - nothing, Nothing won.

2026-03-20 15:57:25 UTC

Just had my new UPS give me enough time to properly shut down my servers now that my power is out.
https://media.tenor.com/NYroTD8gVMEAAAAC/80s-a-team-plan.gif

2026-03-19 23:47:30 UTC

Agentic AI has rendered Technologic by Daft Punk largely obsolete.

2026-03-19 14:50:56 UTC

Which Rock Opera would make the craziest movie?
Currently listening to Joe's Garage.

2026-03-19 14:47:38 UTC

A lot of AI haters will happily hit the middle suggestion on their keyboard to type out their message.

2026-03-19 02:43:04 UTC

In Invincible S3E03, there's a point where one of the identical clones with the exact same voice (The Mauler Twins) says something from off screen and the subtitles made sure to clarify that that was, in fact, the second twin that said it.
Just thought you should know.

2026-03-14 19:59:07 UTC

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They haven't announced exactly what it means yet, but they have been teasing something coming

2026-03-14 19:06:18 UTC

Of all the forms a Firefly reboot could take, I think a Telltale-style choose your own adventure narrative game could be pretty cool.

2026-03-12 21:07:47 UTC

I'm not sure if I've ever seen someone actually beg a question. At least I've never seen it properly called out. Mostly just a bunch of "this logically follows from that"s.

2026-03-12 15:53:46 UTC

When you need to replace your copy of "Beverley fucks the ghost candle"
https://cdn.satellite.earth/1ef70855711391a6235ebf4c0c8411c8c946e00418555919d71a00245079681c.jpg

2026-03-12 03:17:00 UTC

There's a special place in hell for people that include their Discord notification sounds in their YouTube videos.

2026-03-06 16:25:40 UTC

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(sigh) *fires up The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*

2026-03-06 15:58:59 UTC

I'm tired of being made to feel lesser for not liking early Pink Floyd.

2026-02-22 11:19:36 UTC

Last night I was messing around with an app that was supposed to health check and transcode all of my media files. I was trying to clear out the list of failed files so I would have a clean slate after fixing something. Instead of sending those files back to the queue, I just straight-up deleted them.
Looks like I have some downloading to do again. Good thing I'm paying for unlimited internet. I .have a backup, but most of these are files that I just recently acquired, so they wouldn't have been backed up yet anyway.

2026-02-21 13:46:07 UTC

If I bring a Mogwai to the ISS, when can I feed him?

2026-02-06 19:28:24 UTC

People who were not yet born when The Simpsons made their episode about how the show had been going on forever and will never die, are able to drink now.

2026-02-05 16:19:57 UTC

Strike: Hey! Just so you know, sats are cheap RN.
Me: OK. Well, can I buy some then?
Strike: No

2026-01-29 04:24:38 UTC

It might take a few more go rounds till we get there, but hear me out: Jason Statham as Alfred.

2026-01-09 20:03:24 UTC

Are Oscar the Grouch and the Grinch related in any way?

2026-01-04 22:17:28 UTC

A sad victim of the move away from pennies.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/06afa37a281442b2a5b98fc666cb5dfa5133bcb721dbf2f712c4e762165ae359.jpg

2025-11-26 17:38:32 UTC

I love when that thing you have to type just happens to flow really well with the opening of "Chop Suey!"

2025-10-20 18:16:31 UTC

Looks like I'll be visiting Chicago once again next may. Just snagged a ticket to #ElectricCallboy

2025-10-18 14:38:11 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSpvvCK609c
#tunestr #NoMoreKings

2025-10-16 20:01:42 UTC

In "My Adventures with Superman" Season 1 Episode 5, Clark rolls out a "murder board" with 3 sets of criminals that he's labeled.
- Livewire (labeled 'Livewire')
- Dr. Ivo (labeled 'Dr. Ivo')
- Intergang (labeled 'Dr. Ivo')
https://media1.tenor.com/m/GbuJWAb57QIAAAAd/boy-i-really-hope-somebody-got-fired-for-that-under-nerd.gif

2025-10-12 21:51:11 UTC

In Back to the Future: Part II, Doc Brown stresses out that they might not be able to fly their time machine across town in time to prevent Jennifer from hearing a big exposition dump.

2025-10-11 16:19:58 UTC

I want a cbr reader that can use on-device AI to do that fancy zoom in on each of the sections of a comic intelligently for comics not bought through kindle and similar.

2025-10-09 01:17:44 UTC

Granted it may be "through a different lens", but does Duckman occupy the same universe as Bojack Horseman?

2025-10-08 19:06:45 UTC

Non-monogamous Klingons never invoke a OPP.

2025-10-08 12:37:02 UTC

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I really want someone to implement Legend of the Red Dragon (or other doors games) as a nostr app.

2025-10-04 22:47:54 UTC

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I'll periodically go down the list and unsubscribe from anyone that has emailed me in the past few months unless I actually enjoyed and found the email useful.
Not perfect, but it does cut it down a bit.

2025-10-04 22:44:29 UTC

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https://youtu.be/4RMNZTuEtJw
#tunestr #LordsOfAcid

2025-10-04 17:07:42 UTC

When you're listening to an old Henry Rollins spoken word album (part of my recently recovered mp3 collection) where he's talking about getting older and you realize he was 2 years younger than you are now.

2025-10-03 02:02:16 UTC

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I really liked npub.pro, but unfortunately something broke with their code and it no longer works.

2025-09-29 22:41:56 UTC

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I liked that one when I tried it. I should get another bottle.

2025-09-29 13:54:14 UTC

You know, if I just so happened to discover a substance that would allow me to literally eat ghosts, I'd bet the ghosts would be pretty keen to stop me as well.

2025-09-27 17:52:25 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/3-qc2kC0vGkAAAAC/gregg.gif

2025-09-26 18:44:09 UTC

I wonder how many women chose the bear because they thought that porridge might be involved? While it can't be that many, surely it's more than 0.

2025-09-25 22:41:15 UTC

My torrent of all the Loony Tunes has finally finished, so now I'm watching shorts from 1943. The first one I put on was an all-blackface version of Snow White.