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  • Today I learned about meshtastic, a long range off-grid open-source communication platform

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  • I’ve gone down parts of this rabbit hole (reading, not implementation). Wish I could guarantee that I could set anything up (including just setting up Meshtastic nodes in fun places) without getting arrested for setting up what can only look like an espionage infrastructure network to the government.

  • TIL: Wikipedia has this absolute bonkers (as in "cool") 2000s skin called "Cologne Blue".

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  • Difficult explanations of complex subjects that may not be aligned with the statistical word pattern distribution of the corpus of a dead web.

    It’s not impossible that this exact paragraph could be generated. But it was more likely crafted by someone who both understands the subject matter on a comfortable level at the very least, and who understands what parts of it are intuitive enough to create a scaffolding of knowledge that are distinctive to this topic.

    I don’t think I could have come up with anything that doesn’t use the word iota a half dozen times and then falling backwards on myself trying to get across the idea of how energy could not exist in measures that are not multiples of a minimum iota of energy (and explaining that it’s just how it is, no I don’t know how that was measured, etcetera etcetera)

  • TIL: Wikipedia has this absolute bonkers (as in "cool") 2000s skin called "Cologne Blue".

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  • This is what LLMs are taking from us, and I say this without a shred of irony

  • TIL: Wikipedia has this absolute bonkers (as in "cool") 2000s skin called "Cologne Blue".

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  • I do miss having languages listed on the side by default. I felt like it gave some depth to how important or culturally isolated a subject can be. For example, a short article available in 30 major languages, a long article available in 30 major languages, and a long article only available in like 3 languages would all feel just a little different.

    English is not my native language and a lot of subjects I like (or fixations I may have, knowing Wikipedians) just exist in the realm of English. So these long long pages that don’t exist in many languages have a particular vibe to them.

  • "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day

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  • I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.

  • Testing a Raspberry Pi 3B as an internet hotspot - anything I should be concerned about?

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  • Yes. They do make long lifespan SD cards for things like CCTV recording, they cost a bit more but might be worth taking a look at. I know people running more critical systems on Pi 4s and Pi 5s will use something more durable than an SD card nowadays, like an actual SSD.

  • the rizzler has spoken

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  • Yeah it’s a famous Onion style account, local to me. At the risk of having every single one of my comments just be ranting about my country, this checks out. It feels like everyone around me, regardless of how original their thoughts are, sees anything you might input with a keyboard in English as a rough draft that exists only to be “corrected” by a slop filter.

    I am even catching clunkily translated GPT-isms in Arabic-language ads on the radio. I thought it was funny that we had one of the highest ChatGPT users per capita soon after it launched (according to many dubious infographics at least, I can’t find them now so I guess that was overblown), but it’s been shit. Especially as my own writing is a bit mechanical, since my English is much more informed by reading than speaking. I love getting accused of not doing my job when I’m the only one on my team doing it.

    The people behind this page seem to have a refreshingly witty sense of humor but they still felt like they needed to make a few pulls down at the slop machines to make it look good, it even watered down the messaging :(

  • sorry guys i slept in

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  • I was taken aback when I heard someone I expected better from use “matrix”, although it was used in a “some people call it x” context and not the regular one dripping with… let’s call it baggage.

    Outhouse Perilous is an absolutely spectacular username.

  • Lebanon and Syria to form committees on prisoners, missing persons, and border issues

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  • I won’t count on this being particularly productive. Most people in Lebanon are glad to see the old regime finally out of power but I don’t see any optimism about this one.

  • L'Académie Française is fighting the good fight against the Japanese and The Gamers

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  • I was just thinking about this (the real one) a few days ago. I remember reading an article in a French magazine (I think it was SVJ? Sometime around 2011-2012) about this exact thing. I distinctly remember “Ordiphone” for “smartphone” and “biofilm” for “biopic”.

    The concept of language-by-committee is… neat but kind of futile. I don’t hate the idea of analyzing language like one would the classical fine arts and having a “conservatory-style” stylistically consistent prescription element for new terms. But in practice it’s very silly (and kind of elitist).

    I don’t hate the status quo of the Academie giving opinions and people ignoring them lol

  • Guess what came in the mail yesterday?

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  • I’ve been looking at this kind of thing a lot lately and it really only makes me want to get an older iPod and shove a terabyte and a new battery into it

  • cool zone [cw: transphobia]

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  • I somewhat love that regardless how shitty their politics are, the main way they frame having any opinion at all is by pointing to brands. Like beliefs primarily exist in the back and forth between whoever writes the PR statement and whoever points at it and makes caveman noises.

    This obsession with companies’ “opinions” and political expression via public complaints about marketing blurbs is really funny to me.

  • He really said this, look it up!

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  • This is the translation they forced me to memorize at gunpoint at Liberal Arts University of Woke:

  • Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

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  • Oh I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. I wonder how this integrates into something like Jellyfin if I want to host my own personal music streaming for myself.

  • 2025 Financial Goals

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  • Did someone just print out the list from the photo that’s been doing the rounds for a month now and post it to TikTok as a copy-and-paste joke?

    I think reposting jokes is the lifeblood of the internet but being a meme cover artist seems kind of… hm. Sharing a joke reveals a good (or bad!) sense of humor. Copying it beat for beat reveals something a bit different, but I can’t place it.

    The original had an Arabic keyboard in the background. Gotta look out for one of our own.

  • Want to sign up to Facebook/Meta Messenger, how can I mitigate the privacy invasion as much as possible?

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  • I didn’t know about this. That’s kind of disgusting.

  • McDonalds Belgium wants us to know they are really, really, very Belgian. Wonder why?

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  • They’ve been on a very aggressive charm campaign all over the Middle East as well. Still undoing the damage from that time their products were prominently photographed with the modern SS.

  • Liberals and Oriental Racism, Name a More Iconic Duo

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  • I’ve literally never seen the first one in the context of anything positive happening, so for you to wheel it out as an example is pretty funny.

    It’s usually the backdrop of some horrific press conference about our country getting bent over by one of our friendly neighbors and/or the US.

    I appreciate the restraint in the design, when it’s put up against these others, I guess.

  • Shoot the messenger

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  • Frequent references to God are pretty common in the Middle East, even among people who aren’t particularly religious.

    It’s like if I wrote the same thing and ended it with “Jesus fucking Christ man” and your clever contribution was “Jesus fucking Christ man won’t save you”…