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3 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Alright… busy day ahead of me… lots of important stuff to do
I rescued Alice, assholes. From fuckin MALIFICENT. Yeah, that's right. What have YOU done today
OMG I'm so ready to set out on my most adventuresome quest yet
Fonts that literally no one would ever use except a European developer in the 80s
Whoaaa sweet
After going to really very a lot of trouble over a period of years to play Solstice on the original hardware, I have decided that this is an excellent game... to play with save states

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2 Jul
I am trying to use my webcam.
Somehow, no app is recognizing it.
If I open Camera it says it's in use already,
but if I look under camera app permissions in Settings it doesn't list any app as using the camera.

What gives?
It's just fricking wild to me that Windows has concepts of exclusive mode for both microphone and camera devices and yet no way to query which app is holding the exclusive token. (Come to think of it, same with Windows' many "file in use, can't delete/rename " bottlenecks)
Beginning to worry that my webcam might actually be broken (it did get dropped yesterday). No Windows app can talk to it and a restart did not help. If I plug it into my mac, the mac can see it as a microphone but not as a camera device (?).
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29 Jun
Let me be completely clear about this: Continuing to post on this site if the timeline is algorithmic, not chronological, is *unpaid labor*. It would mean rather than communicating with people, I'd be providing "content" which Twitter posts as they believe they can monetize. Image
I'm not interested in contributing to a site like that and I'm not interested in reading it.
"Algorithms" like Facebook uses and @Twitter— judging by the RT curve on my tweets about the A/B test/rollout this weekend— is moving us to with no announcement, are an accelerant for our worst impulses. They're why Facebook is dominated by Tucker Carlson/white supremacist shit.
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8 Jun
So here's a weird question: I'm writing a piece of software that sometimes identifies "addresses" as strings of dense unicode, like
Qme79uUuZfrBCdpVzstgwUBtcbekko71sdHkMfKsNFZjp9

অʭ൮ॿဖÐވѤІ၄ੳࡡਠګ૬Ȥഺශෆuऽωഷ1

爒㨗迓ꈀ镒涀葟磹袅❓珏✭䴠瑲ᯒ抴䃌ʟ
or
馗鑏𢕋䆶蛞揈𥣿𤪙孊ꋎ𡹸𦋔𠨓㶃褼丵
The base58 versions are unlikely to ever accidentally be anything other than random characters; English is high-entropy.

But the version that produces strings of Chinese characters. That worries me.

Is there a good way to scan a string to tell if it is "offensive" in Chinese?
That is, I'm worried that an identifier which could contain random adjacent chinese characters which a Chinese reader would read meaning into, and find it scatological. In testing I've already had it randomly generate a swastika once (inevitable, it shows up at 4 codepoints).
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8 Jun
This is the one piece of pride month pandering I will endorse because doing this with cereal rules
Like whenever my parents would get those mini-paks when I was a kid
Someday corporations will realize that there's a backdoor in millennial anti-consumerism the exact size and shape of things we loved when we were 7
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8 Jun
Well THIS sure looks like a branch point for an alt history novel
The structure of tech companies puts SO much power in the hands of single, individual men accountable to no one else that the death of one of those men, hypothetically speaking, has the potential to change history & culture in a way akin to, in centuries past, the death of a king
Except maybe more so because a lot of kings were fairly apathetic, hands-off rulers and only really engaged with government insofar as it meant raiding tax revenue to build palaces. Tech CEOs have a tendency toward micromanagement. (Although they also build palaces.)
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6 Jun
*Mind wandering* I wonder what RFC 69 is.

*looks it up*

Holy shit. It is LITERALLY a "please remove me from this mailing list" email

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc69
Okay. What about RFC 420?

"IT IS A VERY NICE NETWORK DEMO SINCE IT REALLY
CAN/DOES RUN ON TWO MACHINES".

later in the RFC:

" 'ALASKA' GOT LOST SOMEHOW. DON'T BOTHER ASKING FOR IT. "

Seems pitch perfect yeah

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc420
RFC 666 is just kinda boring. It's a follow-on to what appears to be an unsuccessful early attempt to define a common command language that would be shared by telnet-based protocols like POP3, FTP etc. I can't think of anything funny to say about it at all datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc666
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