If I use Firefox's developer mode to change the useragent to Kindle Fire, I can still use messenger.com.

Artificial Intelligence can have good uses: Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers Roni Bandini, a maker and developer, has created a Raspberry Pi-powered device that detects and distorts Reggaeton music played by his neighbors. The device, which uses machine learning to identify the music genre, is a fun experiment and its legality varies depending on location. My noisy neighbors are too far away for bluetooth interference, but the project may help other WDTWTFers.

@Kamil-Podlesak said in 10x, 0x, and -10x engineers: I don't know if I'm too much or something, but lots of these points are actually for -10x managers . Where engineers who weren't able to avoid promotion go to die.

@Zerosquare said in Delphi 2024: @Gern_Blaanston said in Delphi 2024: When I was first starting out, all I had access to was BASIC and assembly language. Then I got a copy of Delphi's great-grandfather, Borland Turbo Pascal, which I thought was pretty good. By the time it morphed into Delphi I had already moved on to other stuff. Wait. Are you me? You're both @boomzilla, and boomzillaness is transitive, so yes.

@Zerosquare said in German Humor Orbital Canon: @Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: What if the earth's rotation slowed down and instead of 24 hours it took 29 hours. How would that affect society? Yay! More time to every day! Unlikely. You'd now get 9.67 hours of work per day instead of 8h. If you're on an hourly contract, great. If you're on a fixed contract, you'll be screwed over. Filed under: However, I do want a 54.4 minute lunch break. up from 45 minutes

@Arantor said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread: @remi 16384 columns, you’re welcome. No one should need more than 640 columns. -- Bill Gates

@Gustav said in What, exactly is the basic unit of an api?: @jinpa said in What, exactly is the basic unit of an api?: "buying the result of an action of type X" I fail to see the connection between this and heap paradox. I'm 90% sure I misunderstand what you mean by buying. An example please? Here, "buying" into the argument. That is, agreeing with it.

@BernieTheBernie said in The 'Nobody Overshares Worse Than This!' thread (NSFW, probably): @Tsaukpaetra Sweat? Not my kink. Nah this is the induced-fear type.

@Zecc said in More unified Windows GUI frameworks?: What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app None.

@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 13? And nothing else: curiously no Windows .NET. Not desktop ones, but we did have Windows CE .NET.

@PleegWat said in Different countries are different: He was the youngest. My mom was, too (not counting the younger sister who died in infancy).

@remi said in Could medieval peasants even read the headlines: Official inscriptions on public buildings (typically temples/churches but also e.g. castles or milestones) is also IMO a great indicator of how much of the population was expected to be able to read it. The tradition of barbers having a red-and-white pole, or a pawnbroker having three balls, or an inn having a punny graphic on a signboard...

@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else: @Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 12? And nothing else: @Tsaukpaetra we didn’t know that at the time and, remember, MS Germany itself was telling us to use this sketchy app! Not blaming you by any means. Microsoft always has updated and excitable documentation as always. And staff, too!

Well, in the spirit of the original suggestion, @CPound is the current leader in the clubhouse…

Just so long as someone puts the relevant indicators into the API

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20420986241226566 Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis ... Results: We found the number of myocarditis reports in VAERS after COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 was 223 times higher than the average of all vaccines combined for the past 30 years. This represented a 2500% increase in the absolute number of reports in the first year of the campaign when comparing historical values prior to 2021. Demographic data revealed that myocarditis occurred most in youths (50%) and males (69%). A total of 76% of cases resulted in emergency care and hospitalization. Of the total myocarditis reports, 92 individuals died (3%). Myocarditis was more likely after dose 2 (p < 0.00001) and individuals less than 30 years of age were more likely than individuals older than 30 to acquire myocarditis (p < 0.00001).

Didn't want to pay the thread tax, have a necro! Status: TIL Really Bad Things Happen if the application window showing the screen in VR is between two monitors. I was trying to do some Beat Saber except for some reason one eye was oddly distorted and delayed. Was getting very pissed off until I saw that the window was split in half and I realized what was happening. Apparently having the graphics split into two contexts like that causes issues, who knew?

Thread by @latifnasser on Thread Reader App @latifnasser: Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵....…

@Gustav yes, I've done both.

“Pillow talking means sleep. Who knew?”

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@izzion said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...: @Tsaukpaetra said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...: The plot thickens! The "Names I call my Member TMI thread" is

@boomzilla said in There will be no Windows 11: To address stuff mentioned before in the thread...In general, I think it's rare for ads to directly lead to sales in most cases. It's more about building brand recognition, where you're more likely to trust something you've heard of. Like everyone else, I have no idea how well all that works, but I'm highly skeptical that there's no effect. That's got to be a fine balance though. While I'm sure it works to some degree subconsciously (and one reason I go out of my way to block ads as much as possible is that I don't want it to work), there's also the ads that I recognize consciously and then make an active effort to avoid their crap.

Hercules will contribute to the reptile park's antivenom program. Safely captured spiders handed in by the public undergo "milking" to extract venom, essential for producing life-saving antivenom. For once, something that ends well.

@Mason_Wheeler said in Exit the cloud: @Arantor It's managers all the way down! That's what I call enterprise!

First Juno images of Io from December 30th fly-by Bigger originals linked at the link.

@dcon Neither did I know that. But reading the news at heise.de, I stumbled upon that. It's so aw(s)ful.

@PleegWat one that’s longer than the extended edition of LOTR, too…

@topspin said in What's happening with VMWare?: @Gustav how long have you been in the US now? I would have beaten you by more but I had to tune the first attempt on account of this thread being out of the garage

@izzion said in Care to explain your avatar?: Sadly, my Google-fu is not succeeding for "Suicune in Santa Hat" Alright @izzion, I've done my best to satisfy your implied request. Please see here the options I have selected from approximately 523 attempts. @Tsaukpaetra said in Care to explain your avatar?: Behold, bug-horse Suicune wearing a hat and weird hiney? @Tsaukpaetra said in Care to explain your avatar?: what a Suicune is? @Tsaukpaetra said in Care to explain your avatar?: another model... And some more options I think may also work: If there are any you want me to attempt another go at I kept (most of) the generation parameters to try spinning off another round.

@kazitor said in Care to explain your avatar?: The forum’s been tainted. No, it's that the scraper tool that found that link discovered it had no <title> tag and therefore has no title. This is in no way surprising because it's one of those fucking horrific pages that is one line of text (sorry, you need JS) and just a shedload of JS in the body to actually populate the site with anything because Pantone are a bunch of hipsters who give no fucks about usability.

Years ago, when Steve Martin was primarily known as a standup comedian, he told a joke that went something like: I guess I can tell you this now, my real name is Gern Blanston. You might be familiar with some of the books I've written. There's my financial series, Earn With Gern, and my educational series, Learn With Gern. Or something like that. It was a very long time ago and the only thing I remember clearly is the name.

@_deathcollege said in 🎤 Song of the day 👂: @loopback0 saw the original band live. got my glasses punched off my face in the pit immediately after this song stopped. 10/10 punk show experience. I've seen the Vandals a few times, always a brillant show.

Status: Hey, you have two types of account! Wanna tell us which one you want to set up first? Oh, wait, nevermind, no choice for you!

@izzion

@remi

@HardwareGeek So you were active enough not to be rated an "inactive account" which are now to be purged...

@Tsaukpaetra said in If cold-pressed juice isn't for you, try some "raw" water: What about when you drink where some bird poops? Even better! All natural cleansing purge from all those toxic chemicals in Big Water

This year for Thanksgiving, I brought a cold. My immediate family is all sick. Not the best year. And it looks like I'm going to miss the Black Friday Game Day (slogan: "fuck shopping") and also the Geek Craft Fair on Saturday, where I'd otherwise browse for Christmas presents. It is not a good year.

@PleegWat Interesting. I read about the Holocaust on my own when I was in grammar school, and it certainly affected me.

@topspin said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore: @Applied-Mediocrity said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore: @Arantor said in CSS doesn't make much sense anymore: Bring back Amiga Workbench, all is forgiven. Does the name imply that I'd have to do work? It implies the bench does the work. It does, and does so with Intuition.

@DogsB said in Why do pedants pedant?: What the hell is going on here? Photoshop. @DogsB said in Why do pedants pedant?: Why am I angry? @DogsB said in Why do pedants pedant?: Why am I sure it has something to do with the weebs? It's always the weebs.

@DogsB said in John McAfee: @Arantor said in John McAfee: @DogsB His Twitter did say something like 'if I'm dead next month, you know it wasn't me' and surprise, he was dead. He also kindled in many, a love of whales... That goes some way to explain the orca attacks.

Btw, you have Lounge access, haven't you? So you nay read that short anecdote which I posted there, and, well, was not wrong.... @BernieTheBernie said in How Soon Is Now:

@boomzilla said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...: A better summary of this thread I cannot imagine: Australian state media says Twitter is "worthless" under Elon Musk. Then they posted it on Twitter. A new level of irony was reached this week by the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian equivalent of the BBC, when they posted THIS to Twitter: "no longer safe for activists" Good.

Sadly, the project seems dead and site sold out. Anyways, have a funny? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/951769818774794260/1166533728294682634/FB_IMG_1698104553082.jpg