It's not until your scroll wheel stops working that you realise how important they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream#/media/File:Edvard_Munch,_1893,_The_Scream,_oil,_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard,_91_x_73_cm,_National_Gallery_of_Norway.jpg

I've got "I'm still standing" stuck in my head again. 😩

2024 is the gift that keeps on giving Cancer rears it's ugly head again. Close friend not family this time, but fuck me.

2025 better start with a lottery win. Even though I don't actually play it.

It can be that's not quick enough, do even better again. It could be that and you could sleep at night.

How can you respond to this with anything other than "Good" and still sleep at night. It shows a lack of strategic vision? Ends justify the means? I can't believe we even Freed them in the first place. People keep telling me they know good tories. No you do not, if you did they wouldn't be Tories anymore. I'm glad to see the race to the bottom continues. Great idea, keep on digging till you hit magma.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-chagos-islands-us-military-base-mauritius-indepedence-keir-starmer/

Since there are no more analog TV stations on the air in this country, I have no way of testing sets I find it thrift stores anymore.

So, I finally decided to try the code that Charles Lohr developed for tricking an ESP8266 into transmitting analog TV signals over the air with its RX pin.

This is actually someone else's version of his code because he wrote his code to be compiled in the esp8266 SDK environment and I don't know how to use that. This code compiles in the Arduino IDE and it does work!

This is being transmitted over the air. This is not a composite video signal.

@MLE_online this is freaking cool.

Or more accurately I suppose, phreaking cool!

Updated for the new millennium.

Is it not also to do with the repeated lying and regular demonstrations that he was as thick as pigshit? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9580dx1y2o

@JessicaS thought so to yet here I am.

Is there is more irritating day than password change day?

I feel like I should care about this, and yet I do not. Hooboy 2024 got me ground down.

@oj_gstrein I had exactly this discussion with some Microsoft engineers. For them big data was fast moving fast changing lots of small bits of data. We were trying to process five gigabyte images. My hacky solution (or the one I had the power to implement) for doing it on Azure appears to be the official solution now. Sorry everyone.

@rooster@chaosfem.tw if you find yourself in London the post office museum has them for you to try. I regret to inform you it was actually quite satisfying.

@neil not to be confused with hash brownies. Or worse corned beef hash brownies.

Feeeeeeeeeeeeeels

Had an old guy point at me and say "Lion" today. I';m pretty sure he was english as a second language hence not a lot of context. As far as things I've had shouted at me in a street go that's just about the best.

Also yes it might be time to have bit of a shave.

@david (it's a terrible idea I fully agree)

@david it's the us though, isn't the current system this:

def benefits_decider():
return "No"

My brother's new #horror #book is out today. This one is a bit less ghosty than his last one and a bit more folk horror (it gets weird out on the #somerset levels). I'm dead proud and also think they're great. He's also had excellent reviews from people who actually know shit about horror and aren't related. Check it out:
https://amzn.eu/d/7j0rL3q