MTP, which appears to be the only away to USB-copy files off my phone without rooting it, is *so* slow I'm convinced it will just never finish. Currently looking into network-based backup utilities because Microsoft apparently can't handle "copy a file over usb"
Say I have two devices manufactured in the last four years (by Lenovo and BeagleBoard, if it matters). Each has a physical Ethernet port.
At one time, say 2001, my understanding was there are two types of Ethernet cable: Regular, and "Crossover". "Crossover" cables go device-to-device; regular cables require an intermediary like a hub.
Is my 2001 understanding accurate in 2024? Should I expect I can connect 2 modern devices with a regular cable?
Do you ever do something, and then just kind of look at what you've done and feel frightened of yourself? Okay well this happens for me basically anytime I write code with regular expressions.
I believe there is no God, no "Justice" as an intrinsic property of our universe; there is no one to judge us or our actions, except other living things, and therefore that which happens unseen by another living thing has no moral weight at all. And it is for this reason that I will invoke a regular expression inside the replacement clause of a regular expression.
If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.
If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.
@foone I think your point is good but I want to note one special case: A lot of Japanese artists seem to be jumping to Bluesky right now, and I think the reason they're jumping to Bluesky right now instead of Mastodon is that on Mastodon you can get banned for being Japanese* and this is not true on Bluesky.
* Read: "Banned for being federated with a particular large Japanese server". This was as far as I understand a very real problem at one time, I do not for a fact know whether it still is.
I'm going to create a pool of self-replicating machines each of which is based on the Harvard system architecture, just so that nobody has any idea what to call it
What it seems like we want is for someone, somewhere to invent a standard, reusable design for an ebike that multiple vendors can target manufacture of each individual part and a user could learn to service and substitute the parts of. Possibly a government could do this. Possibly a government could be incentivized to do this by the way in which an ebike and an AK-47 are already similar: It has a component that can erupt in fire and kill people
When the AK-47 is discussed as an object or a "design" what people seem to consider most important is it is a "low-tech technology". The design optimizes, to the exclusion of all else, being cheap and easy to manufacture & easy to service in the field by its user. Modern ebikes are standardizing on the opposite of this. Ebikes seem to usually contain multiple microcontrollers running proprietary code and proprietary connections to batteries—made by startups that will not outlive the ebike itself
Like basically my entire life I've been periodically starting Flashback, bouncing on the controls, and not quite being able to get out of the jungle. I'M DOING IT!! I'M FINALLY GETTING OUT OF THIS JUNGLE
This Sunday at 3 PM EST (noon PST) me, Miguel @spookysquid and @christinelove are going to be streaming "Flashback", Delphine's 1992 attempt to run with the ball Eric Chahi set down when he finished "Out of This World". By the end of last stream we'd pretty much figured out the Amiga-ass controls so I think this stream we're just gonna cut loose and hopefully on this, my third try, I'll finally find out what the plot of this goddamn game is.
- I clone a git repository. - The repository contains many git lfs files. They're all the placeholders - Oops! This computer doesn't have git lfs even installed. - I apt install git-lfs - I run `git lfs install` - I run `git checkout .` - I run `git reset --hard HEAD` - The files are all still placeholders - WTF
To summarize my last few posts: There's something I don't like in current Firefox. I'm being informed that you can customize it by writing some CSS. Writing CSS sounds really hard, so instead I'm trying to figure out if I can write my own web browser from scratch in Rust