puppy
duckinator.bsky.social
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@duckinator.bsky.social
a pile of small dogs in a meaty land vessel • KC1QGV • they/them

prone to creating technological cognitohazards

making music again

member of Gem Coop's Project Leadership Committee

#rustlang, #rubylang, #pythonlang, #cprogramming
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December 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Some variant of this has been going on since at least 2023. It'd be lovely if Microsoft stopped actively providing infrastructure to scammers, and PayPal locked down their domain so scammers couldn't send emails claiming to be from "service@paypal<dot>com"
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's super easy to spot this crap, btw.

Your email client will show:
- "From" address of "service@paypal<dot>com"
- "To" address is not you, because you were BCCed.
- looks like a PayPal email, but the footer has a contact email address that's obviously a random person's personal email.
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
(I got the two lego sets off ebay, still sealed, for ~$50 each. There's tons of other listings for still-sealed boxes of those two sets, all around the same price.)
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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(explaining chess) sometimes, if you move your hat to the wrong place, either a horse will jump on it or a building crushes it
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
as an E.M. Dash: rude ;~;
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
it actually came stock with a pair of switches for coil splitting, which is part of what got my attention originally!

i def want to mod it, just not sure what to do. the last time i had a good and fully-functional electric guitar was before i was aware of the concept of guitar mods lol
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
in other words,

i apparently bought a guitar with 10 years of deferred maintenance and then deferred maintenance for another 10 years because using a specific pickup and smacking it occasionally made it work Good Enough™.

(you know, until it didn't.)
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
So, fixing that problem uncovered other problems. We're now at:

1. pickup selector switch was busted
2. 1/4" jack was loose
3. 1/4" jack needed a connection re-soldered
4. 1/4" jack needed to be cleaned
5. ??? one of the coil split switches makes audio cut out entirely ???

1-4 have been fixed.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
alternating between

CoNtEnT-lEnGtH
cOnTeNt-LeNgTh

for every request to amos' website in particular <3
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
but what do i do with my [does some math and promptly dies inside] 20 years of ingrained habitual capitalization, amos?
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM