Empterdose
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💻🔨👍 Every time I think I have something worth posting, I write it in the wee box, and after I've read it back, my brain says, “no”.
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The “mode” button on the back of my (wife's) Lumie Zest SAD lamp + alarm clock has gotten stuck pushed in. This is the second time this has happened. Hey, fun fact: if your product isn't very good, harping on about how it's designed and made in Britain just makes you look like a gammon.
January 6, 2026 at 1:21 PM
The “mode” button on the back of my (wife's) Lumie Zest SAD lamp + alarm clock has gotten stuck pushed in. This is the second time this has happened. Hey, fun fact: if your product isn't very good, harping on about how it's designed and made in Britain just makes you look like a gammon.
I have an old iPhone (iOS 15.8.5, rootfully jailbroken) that I'd like to use as a webcam (in the classic take-a-photo-every-five-minutes sense) in my office window. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to accomplish this? I am currently stuck on triggering the rear camera from the command line […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I have an old iPhone (iOS 15.8.5, rootfully jailbroken) that I'd like to use as a webcam (in the classic take-a-photo-every-five-minutes sense) in my office window. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to accomplish this? I am currently stuck on triggering the rear camera from the command line […]
First day back at work. When I woke up this morning, I started making a groaning noise like an old MFM hard drive spinning up, and I haven't stopped yet.
January 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
First day back at work. When I woke up this morning, I started making a groaning noise like an old MFM hard drive spinning up, and I haven't stopped yet.
Windows 10 about as frustrated to be running under libvirt as I am to be installing it.
December 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Windows 10 about as frustrated to be running under libvirt as I am to be installing it.
Love it when you buy an indie game on Steam and when you go to install it it's only like four hundred megs. Extremely strong indicator of quality.
December 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Love it when you buy an indie game on Steam and when you go to install it it's only like four hundred megs. Extremely strong indicator of quality.
Reposted by Empterdose
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"
February 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"
The biggest problem passkeys face is divergent interpretations of their purpose and function. In another ongoing thread about passkeys, proponents are simultaneously arguing that they make password managers redundant, and that password managers solve the passkey portability problem.
It doesn't […]
It doesn't […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The biggest problem passkeys face is divergent interpretations of their purpose and function. In another ongoing thread about passkeys, proponents are simultaneously arguing that they make password managers redundant, and that password managers solve the passkey portability problem.
It doesn't […]
It doesn't […]
Git commits should have an “Uptime” header field that records the age of the current user's login session. No more need to use “4 AM commit” as a heuristic for dodgy changes; now the commit made at 09:00 after an all-nighter is clearly distinguishable from one made while bright-eyed and […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Git commits should have an “Uptime” header field that records the age of the current user's login session. No more need to use “4 AM commit” as a heuristic for dodgy changes; now the commit made at 09:00 after an all-nighter is clearly distinguishable from one made while bright-eyed and […]
It is an affront to me, personally, that AliExpress orders no longer take five weeks to arrive. How am I supposed to pretend I'm blocked on this project when the pieces are sitting on my bench mocking me‽
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It is an affront to me, personally, that AliExpress orders no longer take five weeks to arrive. How am I supposed to pretend I'm blocked on this project when the pieces are sitting on my bench mocking me‽
stg ST go out of their way to position UART pins as inconveniently as possible on Nucleos
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
stg ST go out of their way to position UART pins as inconveniently as possible on Nucleos
Every time I drive over to the west coast of Scotland, I get a real kick out of this telephone exchange and adjoining telephone box in the middle of nowhere. (It is on the A86, about half a mile outside of Tulloch.)
September 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Every time I drive over to the west coast of Scotland, I get a real kick out of this telephone exchange and adjoining telephone box in the middle of nowhere. (It is on the A86, about half a mile outside of Tulloch.)
“Huh, I wonder what's taking up all the disk on this old laptop?”
August 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Huh, I wonder what's taking up all the disk on this old laptop?”
who up trixie-ing they debian
August 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
who up trixie-ing they debian
This seems like a problem best solved with a Dremel, so you just know that in about twenty minutes I'll be bemoaning the irreparable accidental damage to my workpiece.
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This seems like a problem best solved with a Dremel, so you just know that in about twenty minutes I'll be bemoaning the irreparable accidental damage to my workpiece.
The “community platform” section on the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey not having any fediverse options is really indicative of the type of developers they think they're surveying, eh?
June 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The “community platform” section on the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey not having any fediverse options is really indicative of the type of developers they think they're surveying, eh?
8800 GTX on Marketplace for £150. My dude, that card is over 18 years old. Closest I've ever come to messaging a seller just to ask wtf.
(Also, how is the 8800 old enough to drink?)
(Also, how is the 8800 old enough to drink?)
June 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
8800 GTX on Marketplace for £150. My dude, that card is over 18 years old. Closest I've ever come to messaging a seller just to ask wtf.
(Also, how is the 8800 old enough to drink?)
(Also, how is the 8800 old enough to drink?)
love 2 have 2 read a project's CI workflow to understand how to build it because the documentation covers usage but not compilation or installation.
June 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
love 2 have 2 read a project's CI workflow to understand how to build it because the documentation covers usage but not compilation or installation.
My friend @alisterscriven wrote a story about a skeleton who isn't dead and I think it's pretty good: https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last-train-from-deadwall/
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Last Train from Deadwall by André Geleynse
The train reached Deadwall only fifteen minutes behind schedule. Knucklebone thought he deserved some praise for that—maybe even a raise—but was unsurprised when he was shuffled off with the rest of the mechanical revenants and told to sign in at the company offices before his shift started the next day. He nodded along dutifully, but when his cohorts tromped off to the offices, he slipped off unnoticed.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My friend @alisterscriven wrote a story about a skeleton who isn't dead and I think it's pretty good: https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last-train-from-deadwall/
I use an ad blocker, so of course it makes sense for this retailer (Wayfair) to block me from browsing (and potentially spending money on) their online store.
Like I get it, they're not actually trying to block ad blockers; their concern is really scrapers, and […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Like I get it, they're not actually trying to block ad blockers; their concern is really scrapers, and […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
May 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I use an ad blocker, so of course it makes sense for this retailer (Wayfair) to block me from browsing (and potentially spending money on) their online store.
Like I get it, they're not actually trying to block ad blockers; their concern is really scrapers, and […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Like I get it, they're not actually trying to block ad blockers; their concern is really scrapers, and […]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
RIP #pocket: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket. The integration with my Kobo e-reader was wonderful, and I'll miss it sorely. Anyone know of a similarly-integrated replacement? Willing to switch to install Quill, etc. if that helps.
May 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
RIP #pocket: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket. The integration with my Kobo e-reader was wonderful, and I'll miss it sorely. Anyone know of a similarly-integrated replacement? Willing to switch to install Quill, etc. if that helps.
Reposted by Empterdose
My friends drew my attention to this paper which was written by computer scientists so pure, so theoretical, so far above the sins of the empirical plane, that they ran a benchmark comparing common serialization formats in their *mind palace* and came to a conclusion which is faster […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
May 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My friends drew my attention to this paper which was written by computer scientists so pure, so theoretical, so far above the sins of the empirical plane, that they ran a benchmark comparing common serialization formats in their *mind palace* and came to a conclusion which is faster […]
My boss's boss brought a J-Link into the office for us to play with today and hours later I'm still upset at how fast it is. I'm ruined for my ST-Link now.
May 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My boss's boss brought a J-Link into the office for us to play with today and hours later I'm still upset at how fast it is. I'm ruined for my ST-Link now.
Pizza parties $200k
Data $150k
Rent $800k
0Ω resistors stuffed onto DNP pads to swap RX and TX $3.6mm
Salaries $150k
someone who is good at EE please help me budget this. my startup is dying
Data $150k
Rent $800k
0Ω resistors stuffed onto DNP pads to swap RX and TX $3.6mm
Salaries $150k
someone who is good at EE please help me budget this. my startup is dying
May 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Pizza parties $200k
Data $150k
Rent $800k
0Ω resistors stuffed onto DNP pads to swap RX and TX $3.6mm
Salaries $150k
someone who is good at EE please help me budget this. my startup is dying
Data $150k
Rent $800k
0Ω resistors stuffed onto DNP pads to swap RX and TX $3.6mm
Salaries $150k
someone who is good at EE please help me budget this. my startup is dying
Tacos tacos tacos. Made fish tacos last night, including from-scratch corn tortillas. They're so easy to make (compared to flour tortillas), but it's been half a decade since I did because masa harina is just hard enough to get in Scotland (mail-order only, basically) that I've never bothered […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
May 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Tacos tacos tacos. Made fish tacos last night, including from-scratch corn tortillas. They're so easy to make (compared to flour tortillas), but it's been half a decade since I did because masa harina is just hard enough to get in Scotland (mail-order only, basically) that I've never bothered […]