ooterness 6h ago • 100%
Bicycles are heresy confirmed.
ooterness 2w ago • 100%
Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.
ooterness 2w ago • 100%
WE'Z ZOGGIN' WORKIN' ON IT. WAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
ooterness 2w ago • 100%
We are the Cube Rule. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your food's biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your food categories will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
ooterness 2w ago • 100%
ooterness 2w ago • 100%
I've had great luck running HomeAssistant on an R.Pi with the "HUSBZB-1" USB dongle. Zigbee support is perfect so far. Z-Wave required installation of an additional tool, but also working just fine.
ooterness 2w ago • 100%
Doesn't the ESP32 module this project is using require the same thing?
ooterness 2w ago • 54%
It works for now on x86-64, yes. For now. As always, we are one "think of the children" crisis away from lobbyists taking that option away.
ooterness 2w ago • 61%
It's not for you, it's for them. Secure boot means it only runs their operating system, not yours. Trusted enclave means it secures their DRM-ware from tampering by the user who owns the PC.
ooterness 3w ago • 100%
This is a quote from The Onion's endorsement of Joe Biden for president, which was posted October 3, because it's The Onion.
ooterness 3w ago • 100%
Amateurs. Baguette-based high-explosive squash-head (HESH) warheads are the future of improvised anti-tank munitions.
ooterness 4w ago • 100%
This is the mental equivalent of Saitama's workout from One Punch Man: 100 sit-ups, 100 pushups, 100 squats, and a 10-km run. (Repeat daily until your hair falls out.)
ooterness 4w ago • 100%
I'm speculating, but my guesses are:
- Gathering enough karma to post on subreddits that have a minimum threshold.
- Getting enough post and comment history to pass a casual inspection, either by human moderators or spam filters.
- Maturing the account to the point where it can be sold to another shady company.
- Generally having a lot of bot accounts ready, just in case.
Once mature, it's usually used for spam or astroturfing. There is a noticeable uptick around big elections, wars, etc.
I saw one repost-bot that metastisized into the most vile porn-spam-bot you can imagine, but they're usually more subtle than that.
ooterness 4w ago • 100%
The beard really brings this meme together. Rock and stone!
ooterness 4w ago • 100%
They're indistinguishable because they're copied from top-voted posts that are a few years old (title, text, and image if applicable). It's guaranteed to produce a post that fits the community and gets a lot of engagement, so it's a cheap and effective way to mature a bot account. Once you start looking for it, it's everywhere, and Reddit admins don't care.
ooterness 1mo ago • 100%
I always thought it's because vacuums crave the souls of cats and dogs. TIL.
ooterness 1mo ago • 100%
...facilitate a sale process for the business in order to protect its iconic brand and further advance Tupperware's transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company.
Wait, what?
ooterness 1mo ago • 100%
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
ooterness 1mo ago • 100%
The healer in Tactical Breach Wizards is a necromancer, so she can only fix you up once you're dead. She carries a .45 for medical purposes.
ooterness 1mo ago • 100%
If you don't need the French language pack, you can remove it with "sudo rm -fr /*".
I'm trying to find a sci-fi short story. Unfortunately, I do not remember anything about the author or title. It is at least a decade or two old, available for free online. The entire story is set aboard a starship in deep space, and everyone has advanced technology (nanomachines?) that can repair tissue damage that would normally be deadly. Unfortunately, the ship is hit by a massive radiation burst, nearly killing everyone aboard, causing all kinds of damage, and contaminating much of what's left. Somehow, the worst affected have massive brain damage, and the nanomachines are driving them to instinctively seek raw materials for repairs--which can only be found in the brains of relatively intact survivors. In short, the whole setup is basically an excuse to have space zombies. The nanomachines keep them alive even when their organs are falling out, but they're dumb and slow and they want braaaaains. Other things I remember: * The protagonist is female, and was protected by the initial burst because she was working inside a large water tank. * The protagonist is trying to help her romantic partner, who is comatose, but it's implied they might wake up as a zombie. * The protagonist is trying to avoid killing the zombies when possible, because there is still a chance of curing them. * The protagonist is looking for raw materials that aren't radiation-contaminated, to help her partner and repair the ship.
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/12012321
If you're writing Advent of Code solutions in Rust, then I've [written a crate](https://github.com/ooterness/AdventOfCode/tree/main/aocfetch) that can fetch the user input data directly from the main website. Long story short, you provide it a login token copied from your browser cookies, and it can fetch the input data by year and day. Inputs are cached locally, so it'll only download it once for a given problem. This was heavily inspired by the PyPi [advent-of-code-data](https://pypi.org/project/advent-of-code-data/) package. Unlike other AoC-centric Rust crates, that's all it does. The other crates I've seen all want the code structured in a specific way to add timing benchmarks, unit testing, and other features. I wanted something lightweight where you just call a function to get the input; no more and no less. To use the crate: * Follow the [AoCD instructions](https://pypi.org/project/advent-of-code-data/) to set the AOC_SESSION environment variable.\ This key is used for authentication and should not be shared with anyone. * Add the `aocfetch` crate to your Cargo.toml `[dependencies]` section:\ `aocfetch = { git = "https://github.com/ooterness/AdventOfCode.git" }` * Import the crate and call `aocfetch::get_data(year, day)` to fetch your input data. An example: ``` use aocfetch; fn main() { let input = aocfetch::get_data(2023, 1).unwrap(); println!("My input data: {}", input); println!("Part 1 solution: 42"); // TODO println!("Part 2 solution: 42"); // TODO } ``` If this goes well I will submit it to crates.io, but I wanted to open this up for beta-testing first.
This is an open-source FPGA project I've been working on for several years now. It's an Ethernet switch for FPGAs, but you can mix-and-match the usual RMII/RGMII/SGMII interfaces with unconventional options like a plain old UART. My company uses it internally, but we decided to release it as open source. (Currently LGPLv3 but open to other weak-copyleft suggestions.) Among other things, we've recently incorporated some new technology that allows picosecond-accurate timestamps to be compared across different digital clock domains. You can think of it as a group of NCOs that all track the same best-fit line.
Reddit users will prevail but also be injured so badly they need life support for 10,000 years. (It's a metaphor.)