FRANK.MCCONNEL
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adjectives are cis male straight vanilla boring; into 16-bit stack machines
Maybe the rich won't explode into loot like a video game character when they die, but we won't know for sure until we do some empirical testing.
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"pet blob of mercury" but wash your hands before sticking them in your mouth
December 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"pet blob of mercury" but wash your hands before sticking them in your mouth
you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
Cannot figure out the guy who keeps using ship names on his spacecraft that come from a series of SF&F novels where the humanoids live for something like 400 years, nor the guys who name their companies for things from a world where the Gift of Ilúvatar is *mortality*
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Cannot figure out the guy who keeps using ship names on his spacecraft that come from a series of SF&F novels where the humanoids live for something like 400 years, nor the guys who name their companies for things from a world where the Gift of Ilúvatar is *mortality*
I live in a neighborhood where the only choice for high-speed Internet access is, well, Comcast.
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I live in a neighborhood where the only choice for high-speed Internet access is, well, Comcast.
I do think it'd be fun for someone to dig into and report on the wide variety of broadband internet service providers serving this location.
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I do think it'd be fun for someone to dig into and report on the wide variety of broadband internet service providers serving this location.
Now thinking about the refractory period of browsers that hit themselves in the dick with a hammer
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Now thinking about the refractory period of browsers that hit themselves in the dick with a hammer
Waterfox is a fork of Firefox which has explicitly stated that they will not be putting LLM bullshit in their browser: www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. Waterfox won't include them. The browser's job is to serve you, not think for you.
www.waterfox.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
using diagonal cutters to clip diodes from a card that's a 2-d array of 'em
December 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
using diagonal cutters to clip diodes from a card that's a 2-d array of 'em
Diahann Carroll. (She's in there too.)
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Diahann Carroll. (She's in there too.)
expecting that the person(s) who got the AI to vomit up this video have really got an inspiration for getting people to buy such a product and subscribe to cookie dough packaged for the product (yup, totally cursed)
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
expecting that the person(s) who got the AI to vomit up this video have really got an inspiration for getting people to buy such a product and subscribe to cookie dough packaged for the product (yup, totally cursed)
You can rent a truck.
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
You can rent a truck.
Srsly I think that's his real goal: getting enrolled into the congressional health care system!
December 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Srsly I think that's his real goal: getting enrolled into the congressional health care system!
Honestly surprised I haven't yet read of this being blamed on the conversion of roads to bike lanes and sidewalks (that's what the contractor was about)
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Honestly surprised I haven't yet read of this being blamed on the conversion of roads to bike lanes and sidewalks (that's what the contractor was about)
Yup, the center of my system is a Pioneer SX-680 that I've had for 45 years; thinking I need to re-cap at least the FM section though (yes I listen to the radio)
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Yup, the center of my system is a Pioneer SX-680 that I've had for 45 years; thinking I need to re-cap at least the FM section though (yes I listen to the radio)
Shared this with some of FOPAL's record folks an hour or so ago, it's a subthread bsky.app/profile/ali1...
a few years ago I got rid of my (tbf somewhat broken) teenage stereo system thinking I’d be streaming stuff forever. I’ve just rebuilt a hifi out of hand-me-downs from my old man and will be listening to vinyl again before the end of the week
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Shared this with some of FOPAL's record folks an hour or so ago, it's a subthread bsky.app/profile/ali1...
A component DVD player often works as a CD player too
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A component DVD player often works as a CD player too
Lady friend who knows my moods got this as "DAMMIT BRING BACK DASHBOARD" which is my actual position on this
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Lady friend who knows my moods got this as "DAMMIT BRING BACK DASHBOARD" which is my actual position on this
Wasn't me, was my grandfather, 50 or so years ago. I, living in a place with municipal water service, merely saw and asked questions to understand the why of it.
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Wasn't me, was my grandfather, 50 or so years ago. I, living in a place with municipal water service, merely saw and asked questions to understand the why of it.
When it's a spring piped from uphill which pipe comes in above ground level, you just let it flow out the drain to the chicken pen out back, they need water too.
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
When it's a spring piped from uphill which pipe comes in above ground level, you just let it flow out the drain to the chicken pen out back, they need water too.
Idly curious, where'd your water come from, and did you leave a tap open to a drain in winter so the supply pipe wouldn't freeze and break?
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Idly curious, where'd your water come from, and did you leave a tap open to a drain in winter so the supply pipe wouldn't freeze and break?