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Eugen Rochko
Karl Dandleton 🖋
10 July at 14:43

Omnibus Theory is that every city bus is actually one and the same vehicle that travels back and forth across every line simultaneously

10 July at 14:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
mos_8502 :verified:
10 July at 4:13

Nobody hates computers as much as someone who loves computers.

10 July at 11:26 | Open on mastodon.social
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TunafishTiger

@mos_8502 @marioguzman Nobody hates Mac OS design as much as someone who loves Mac OS design.

10 July at 20:26 | Open on mastodon.online
Rob Carlson

@mos_8502 If you love your printer, you know nothing about computers. If you hate your printer, you know a little about computers. If you fear your printer, you work in tech.

10 July at 20:35 | Open on epistolary.org
ferricoxide

@mos_8502@studio8502.ca

I'm 25+ years into a very diverse IT career. If there's one thing I've figured out, it's that, like the organizations that use them, all IT technologies are broken in one way or another. It's best to look at computing tech as any other tool you might pull out of a toolbox and try to find the one that works best for your situation: there's no point in computing religion.

11 July at 3:14 | Open on evil.social
Eugen Rochko
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Ibex Capricorn
ingolftopf :vivaldi_gray:

@Gargron
He or she? ;-)

:tony_smirking: :tony_laughing:

10 July at 15:42 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
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@Gargron @Sibshops This is mildly uncanny to me just because there is no face mask made for trunks

10 July at 22:27 | Open on mstdn.social
Eugen Rochko
Xavier
9 July at 8:31

Just watched Lindsay Ellis's video "Yoko and The Beatles", which I highly recommend. Especially if, like me, you have plenty of leftover Beatles fan brainrot from when you were a teenager. But regardless it's just a great essay.

youtube.com/watch?v=SMOABV_zgr

10 July at 4:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
Simon Willison
9 July at 17:54

It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:

chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);

More notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/h

It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:

chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);

9 July at 19:01 | Open on mastodon.social
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mirabilos

@simon @Shamar did you really have to point out that you used a theft machine (“AI”) to write that short JS snippet?

Ah. From your profile, you’re a promoter of these theft machines. Byebye…

11 July at 23:55 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
Tann

@simon friendly reminder that you need root access to fully remove Google from many android phones and tablets and that root access generally voids your warranty. That said, most warranties don't last longer than a couple years so if you've had your phone for 2 or more years then you likely have little to lose by ripping your *.google.com applications out and replacing them with much more secure applications.

If you don't want to do that, the paid version of #netguard can at least lock down your phone's network traffic app by app and web address by web address.

@simon friendly reminder that you need root access to fully remove Google from many android phones and tablets and that root access generally voids your warranty. That said, most warranties don't last longer than a couple years so if you've had your phone for 2 or more years then you likely have little to lose by ripping your *.google.com applications out and replacing them with much more secure applications.

13 July at 23:34 | Open on techhub.social
Mitex Leo
Eugen Rochko
Dan Gillmor
8 July at 23:59

As @mmasnick points out, so-called "age verification" laws to participate in online activities amount to creating a license to read, and to speak. Anonymity would effectively be banned.

It's also a license for other people to know, in a granular way, what you are reading and saying -- and your personal information would be held by people who cannot be trusted in any way.

techdirt.com/2024/07/08/didnt-

Maybe the worst part of this is that some alleged liberals are all in for this evil plan.

As @mmasnick points out, so-called "age verification" laws to participate in online activities amount to creating a license to read, and to speak. Anonymity would effectively be banned.

It's also a license for other people to know, in a granular way, what you are reading and saying -- and your personal information would be held by people who cannot be trusted in any way.

9 July at 0:04 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
Melissa Techman
8 July at 21:05

Jefferson's ground sloth has arrived at my local library!
#sloths #libraries

A very tall fur-covered reconstruction of a prehistoric giant sloth, about 9 feet tall, standing up and holding a leafy branch. Reference Librarian said they named him Claude.
8 July at 22:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
Eugen Rochko

@Sarahp I see fediverse:creator support is finally live at @TechCrunch, that's excellent 🙂

9 July at 0:28 | Open on mastodon.social
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Eugen Rochko
TJ

@Sheril Thats a Bristlecone pine right? I was going to boost the pic, but I'm not sure it's alive.

7 July at 15:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
sam henri gold
6 July at 21:31

with in rem cases, it’s fun to imagine a federal prosecutor at one table and an absolute heap of boxes stacked behind another table with a public defender.

“your honor, it’s obvious that these clacker balls are just waiting to cause serious injuries to innocent children.”
“Objection, speculation.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S

6 July at 21:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Mike Beasley

@samhenrigold A weary bailiff with a hand truck is asked by the judge to move the boxes to the witness stand.

6 July at 21:57 | Open on mas.to
petes_bread_eqn_xls

@samhenrigold keeping in mind that #StephenKing set Christine in Pennsylvania, I’ve always been fond of the SCOTUS case One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania

6 July at 22:08 | Open on mastodo.neoliber.al
phryk 🏴

@samhenrigold Wait, is this why clacker balls in my generation were connected via plastic struts instead of strings? 🤨

7 July at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
Billthoo
6 July at 21:37

Shirakawago
Catlabs X 320
Leica R8 + 35/2.8

Film backlog (November 2023)

#BelieveInFilm
#Photography

Black and white film photo of a small canal between two houses in Shirakawago village with hills backlit by the sun in the background.
Black and white film photo of a traditional village house seen between two large trees in Shirakawago village.
Black and white film photo of stone lanterns and rocks in Shirakawago village.
Black and white film photo of Shirakawago village.
6 July at 21:42 | Open on mastodon.social
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Eugen Rochko
6 July at 1:05

I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm

eugenrochko.com/

6 July at 6:55 | Open on mastodon.social
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Eugen Rochko

I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm

eugenrochko.com/

6 July at 1:05 | Open on mastodon.social
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Francisco Tolmasky
5 July at 19:43

I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.

5 July at 20:10 | Open on mastodon.social
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Adam Bell :catPOWER:

@tolmasky huge +1 lol, especially since this term came from android command line dev tools

5 July at 19:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
Douglas Spencer
5 July at 15:41 on post The world is more bizarre than you ever imagined. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/science/hippo-airbo...

@mwl the hippo can run faster than you can; the hippo can swim faster than you can. Your only chance to outpace the hippo is during the bicycle stage of the triathlon.

5 July at 17:23 | Open on mastodon.social
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