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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:40:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   the problem with being a hacker that's figured out you can do things with brute force and ignorance is that computers are very good at both, so you start using this option for far too many things

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:42:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I needed to adjust the focus on a video capture device and 10 was too close and 250 was too far and well, why not just try them all for one second each and generate a bunch of MKV files I can review later like I'm at an optometrist?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:43:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     (I couldn't just dynamically adjust the focus in a GUI or anything, it's a remote connection to a headless box, so it made more sense to just write 4 lines of python that just change the focus and output a video file)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:48:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I actually was SLIGHTLY nicer than this: I just generated every 10th focus value, then once I determined the correct value was somewhere between 20-40, I generated all of those.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 11:50:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but honestly I should have just done them all. why not?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 15:07:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Peaceful Assembly Robot

     @StompyRobot but I'm non-binary!

   • Peaceful Assembly Robot (stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 15:07:54 JST Peaceful Assembly Robot

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     @foone binary search?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:05:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Lars Karlslund :verified:

     @lkarlslund nope! Just me doing terrible things to computers.

   • Lars Karlslund :verified: (lkarlslund@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:05:59 JST Lars Karlslund :verified:

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     @foone this is machine learning you're talking about, innit?