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Apr 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I've been thinking a lot about the precise sequence of these four news stories Like should I just… say it out loud? It looks like Netflix tried to spend a lot of money to build a new audience segment in noxious Rogany shit, it didn't work and they only lost customers, and now because they're losing customers they're cancelling stuff I want to see.
Apr 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I have just noticed that Tidal does not have "Hesitation Marks". On a scan they have every *other* Nine Inch Nails album, including some relative esoterica like Still, but they left off Hesitation Marks.

So on the one hand they were right to do so, on the other hand that's weird I just had this sudden urge to listen to "copy of a copy" is all
Apr 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Okay. So.

- I installed Rust for Windows via the rustup installer on the website.
- When I type "cargo.exe" in a CMD.COM prompt, it appears.
- But WSL Bash doesn't see it.
- Normally WSL can see anything in %PATH%. But Rust doesn't add itself to %PATH by default. - There is an optional install option to add to %PATH%.
- But (see third image above) it turns out there is a *good reason* why Rust doesn't add itself to %PATH%.
- This raises a question: If rust doesn't add itself to %PATH%, *what does it do instead*? CMD finds it *somehow*.
Mar 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Twitter tried to get everybody to switch to Home by enabling list-tab view for everyone and making Home a mandatory tab. Then they backed it out, but I'm seeing multiple people reporting they now see a feed which is *labeled* latest tweets but contains algorithmic/"Home" content Hoping against hope this is a temporary bug
Jan 20, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Today Twitter finally went live, as threatened, with a feature that lets people associate their Twitter avatar with an NFT (see @ TwitterBlue).

This sucks but has a silver lining: You can now *automatically* detect&block NFT users. There are currently 3 apps for this (see below) I'm going to start with the best app I know of for this purpose: The AntsStyle NFT blocker app. All you have to do is give it account access and it will begin blocking NFT/cryptocurrency folk. It works with all versions of Twitter, even the mobile apps. antsstyle.com/nftcryptoblock…
Jan 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just got a phone call about a suspicious transaction on my Coinbase account* and I'm just trying to figure out -which layer- of phishing scam we're on here

* I don't have a Coinbase account. Like, the obvious conclusion is they're hoping I have a Coinbase account and I'll proceed to give the robocaller my Coinbase login info to find out more about the suspicious transaction. But it's POSSIBLE someone set up a sockpuppet Coinbase acct in my name to scam someone ELSE
Nov 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The thing I have to say about the Rittenhouse acquittal is the same thing I had to say about the Zimmerman acquittal in 2013:

This makes it no longer just two murders by Kyle Rittenhouse. This makes this two murders by the state. Me, July 13 2013: Trying to figure out if there's any meaniFox News, today: "Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on The state of Wisconsin empowered Kyle Rittenhouse to arm himself, enter a protest, and execute two protesters for the crime of protesting.
Nov 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Feeling guilty about how I've been spending the last week working really hard on my job instead of the Firefox extension I mentioned on Twitter I was going to write and well that's a weird emotion I have spent the last week in Math Hell
Nov 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So here's CPAC, the engine of the Republican party, running attack advertising against Sesame Street simply because Sesame Street encouraged children to become vaccinated against a deadly disease. It's really important to understand exactly what is happening here and how dangerous and new it is. This is not about mandates or government policy. This is about stigmatizing vaccines and advocating that children receive vaccines. Full stop.
Oct 22, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
So like, when you take a job at a tech company you have to give them a list of every idea you've ever had. Tech companies try to claim your ideas while you're working for them so u have to pre-declare ideas to say "hands off, I had this idea before". It's obnoxious. Anyway something I've been listing the entire 15+ years I've been working in tech is, I thought it would be cool to use a cryptocurrency to represent status within a shared MMO. I imagined a network of graphical MUDs and you could use cryptotokens to move gold or XP between them
Oct 14, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Okay so
There's a 2010 Japanese film, "Confessions"
The score consists mostly or entirely of Boris songs
There is one absolutely incredible Boris song which is, as far as I know, unique to the Confessions soundtrack, and one of the few songs with vocals by Wata (if it's by Boris) Rdio used to have the soundtrack
No current streaming services seem to have it, nor does Boris's Bandcamp page (?)
Wikipedia does not list the soundtrack in their discography for Boris,
and doesn't mention the soundtrack

I am losing my mind here
Oct 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Sound design is absolutely incredible in Metroid Dread. Definitely the best thing about the game

I was listening to Christine play this game for a couple days before I ever saw it in motion and was just constantly thinking… God. Such great noises. So atmospheric I wish it looked as good as it sounded. The game occasionally gives you a stunning visual, esp in the cutscenes, but largely the environments look both noisy and indistinct. I have begun to wonder of late if it is even possible to make a good 2.5d game
Oct 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Why on earth would Windows Terminal print this on startup? It's never done this before, and I don't think I have auto-update on-- in fact I think this is a pretty old version. Did Windows somehow lose a font? Or... maybe I *do* have auto-update on? How would I know? * _ *
Oct 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Hey tweeting this because it's my pinned tweet but: Did you know I'm making a surreal puzzle platformer for VR. And by puzzle platformer I mean it's a platformer but the levels are literally made of puzzle pieces I don't know if you can tell from watching the video but all the level "pieces" are portals into little other worlds, like they have 3D depth on the inside. In VR where you have ~depth perception~ it looks incredibly awesome
Oct 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The last line of Romeo And Juliet sucks… "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." You're basically reading us an ad for the play we just watched. Low confidence loser shit. And what are you accomplishing? It's literally too late for us to walk out Hot take
Sep 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Thinking about Arecibo-style messages and realizing that if you count out the first five primes as unary bits, it comes to exactly 4 bytes. 10111011 11101111 11101111 11111111 . That's sorta neat Wait hold on and if you continue onward with 13 and 17 (11111110 10111111 11111111 11111111) it fills exactly 8 bytes. That's mostly useless but fascinating
Sep 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Twitter gave me a whole ass push notification this morning to tell me about this important Coffee news ImageImage I hate Twitter
Sep 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sep 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Don't link/bring up someone else's opinion just for purposes of disagreeing with it. Don't QRT anything in a way that might bring negative attention. Don't RT anyone who sells NFTs. Don't tweet photos w/unblurred faces or license plates. Don't RT pictures of minors for any reason (Last rule sounds kinda weird when I just write it out like that but my reason is pretty simple: People will often post photos of their kids without thinking that they need to get permission from the kids first, so I assume any photo of kids was posted without their permission.)
Sep 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Whoaaaaaaaaaa This doesn't solve the whole problem with Apple's behavior () but wow it sure does chip away one of the most obviously absurd parts

I wonder if this will be allowed to stand or if the government will get bored and wander away like they did with Netscape/MS
Sep 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
*Scratching head*
Okay so
Unity has this helpful set of "FileUtil" classes for working with files.
But...
They're in the "UnityEditor" assembly?
Does this mean these methods are only available in code that runs in the editor?!
docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReferenc… So it turns out that if you're using Unity on Android, & you wish to access the contents of a unity Asset, literally the only way to do it is to make a WebRequest to a file: URL.
This is claimed by both the docs
docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Streami…
And by Unity Answers
answers.unity.com/answers/166392…