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wjrii

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  • What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?

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  • I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this "buying shit on the internet" thing wasn't going to be a scam.

  • I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.

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  • I'm not trapped in here with you. You're trapped in here with me!

  • TIL that Craig Bartlett, the creator of the PBS Kids animated series "Dinosaur Train", also created the classic Nickelodeon cartoon "Hey Arnold!" (Which actually originated from Sesame Street)

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  • I liked the way they'd introduce non-dinosaurs (and sneakily, the main pterosaur family are not technically dinosaurs either) from the fossil record, like the giant snake. There were definitely WAY worse things that I sat through, but PBS kids of that era had a ton of good shows (and now too? I dunno because it doesn't have Hatsune Miku and friends so therefore my daughter doesn't care). She actually still has an "Odd Squad" lore book in her backpack.

  • Safe way to update Keychron mechanical keyboard firmware?

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  • I'm not sure if it's close enough to work without mucking about, but I understand the Keychron Launcher is just a fork of VIA, which has an Electron app that basically containerizes the web app and makes it easier to have the right permissions.

    I'd also suggest that if you're not looking for any new features or having any issues or just an incorrigible tinkerer (guilty of this one myself), just leave the firmware be. As mentioned elsewhere though, if it's QMK, the Linux QMK environment should have all the commands you need to flash the board.

  • Safe way to update Keychron mechanical keyboard firmware?

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  • This. The QMK environment flashing tools are generic and bundled for convenience, so they will work fine even with firmware files that aren't QMK at all, so long as they're for your keyboard or chipset. I use them to flash Soarer's style firmwares on Tuxedo OS.

  • TIL that Craig Bartlett, the creator of the PBS Kids animated series "Dinosaur Train", also created the classic Nickelodeon cartoon "Hey Arnold!" (Which actually originated from Sesame Street)

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  • Matt Groening is his former brother-in-law. Dinosaur Train was in the rotation when mine was little. It's not a top-tier "parents will notice the layers" one, but it's very tolerable and a good show for the littles.

  • How we are brought into this world

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  • Linux rules! How do you like my desktop?

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  • It really kicks the llama's gnu's ass

  • James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in Texas

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  • I received a metric fuckton of texts that were like, "ZOMG YOU GUYS WE ARE SO REPUBLICAN AND CROCKETT HATES ICE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT-ZORZ?!?!?!?" They seem to trace back to a shady republican group. Apart from a couple of milquetoast Cornyn ones, everything else I got was for various Dem candidates despite my living in a very red zip code.

    The campaigns have excellent lists, and somebody on the right wanted blue voters to know how very "terrified" they were of her. The only reasonable alternative is that she ran them herself as a low-grade false-flag, and in either case it made me go ahead and decide on Talarico, though I'd have happily voted for either in the general. I think he's made such a brand of being a blue christian that he'd probably feel obligated to make separation of church and state an important part of his brand, and he's speaking very explicitly to the wealth divide in a way she hasn't.

    I do tend to think the dust-up over the Talarico's Allred comment has at least some truth to it, but while I assume he's much more calculating than his public persona, even in the worst case the story hit my (admittedly white) ears like someone who assumed that his allyship exempted him from micro-aggressions, rather than his being some cackling hypocrite. He's got his work cut out for him, but if he can energize the base, recover Trump 2024 Hispanics, and get a couple of percentage points' worth of red voters to flip or even just say, "meh" and stay home, he's got a chance.

    Realistically, I think the most likely scenario is that we're looking at a pre-guns Beto campaign that comes close but can't get over the hump versus an unpopular Republican, but I think he's the best chance we've had since then to flip a seat. All of which is incumbent on elections happening semi-normally.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Imagine if that one fire were the series finale. All-time great show if you end it there.

  • Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead

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  • Always grimly funny when you can basically suss out the lazy-ass prompt: "Now do the same message, but Spanish."

  • Marco Rubio orders US officials to stop commentary that could strain Iran talks

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  • Rubio's gonna get fired anyway. He made a speech that that didn't terrify people in Munich as badly as MAGA speeches usually do, so he got a standing ovation, and Trump HAAAAATES that.

  • Ads used to be different 💔

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  • Crockett leads Talarico by double digits in Texas Senate poll

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  • I think they've both had their issues with where their money comes from, her corporate PACs, him with the Adelson family that's trying to somehow get gambling legalized in Texas without any Native American reservations and with a Christofascist state government. That said, neither one is a Schumer-style appeaser. He wears a brand of class-conscious social justice theology on his sleeve, throwing the Christian Nationalists' so-called faith into clear focus, but because of that he's also very much pitching "electability," which in Texas right now means "I'm a cishet white guy so maybe some of the racists will stay home on election day."

    She is a firebrand who has made calling out Trump and the gang her full-time job, but her campaign seems to revel more in the idea of pissing off Donald Trump than in letting us know what she'll do. There is a zeitgeisty element to that, and I think she'd be a more prominent and powerful advocate in Congress, but I think either would slot more into the Progressive wing. Ultimately, either would also be an insane improvement over Cornyn or (gag) Paxton.

    Would be remiss of course without mentioning the dustup where a Tiktoker left the Talarico camp for the Crockett camp, saying that Talarico told her he was expecting to run against a mediocre black guy, not a talented black woman. He's admitted to using the word mediocre about Colin Allred's prior campaign, and TBF it was extremely mediocre (like Allred knew from day one he had no chance, so why knock yourself out?), but if Talarico did try to add in Allred's race as (one would hope) a rhetorical flourish, then it was a tone-deaf moment that harmed his credibility in promising to advocate for the black community. "Electability" with white people doesn't help if you simultaneously depress the vote of the usual 4/9 of Texans who vote blue. I'm as white as Talarico is, but it really gave me pause.

  • Kevin O'Leary Wanted 400% Tariffs To 'Squeeze Chinese Heads.' Now Says All His Customers And Shareholders Want Their Money Back. 'My Head Is Getting Squeezed'

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  • “I got phone calls from our customers, from our lenders because we board against our line of credit, and from our shareholders that we reduce distributions on during this period waiting to settle on the tariffs,” he said.

    While O'Leary is rightfully eating shit for a stupid trump-simping accelerationist take that everyone knew was garbage, I mostly want to point out how what somebody's transcription software did to his accent, because I'm a dork.

  • 37 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us

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  • Like a candle in the wind...

  • Expecto patronum my ass!

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  • The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don't really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game. Jeez I wish Joanne weren't such an awful piece of shit human.

  • I assure you, it's not good.

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  • Okay, so I'll point out that Murray Rothbard and David Gordon are prominent in the "Everything should be completely equal and fair as long as we first enshrine my generations of privilege" Austrian-school economists, beloved of white guys everywhere who never got over their Ayn Rand phase.

    Makes it much funnier, actually.

  • Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside.

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  • With apologies to the baseball fans in the room...

    The definition of woke:

    You can't just be up there and just doin' a woke like that.

    1a. Woke is when you

    1b. Okay well listen. Woke is when the woke mob

    1c. Let me start over

    1c-a. The blue haired liberal is not allowed to say to the, uh, patriot, that prohibits the patriot from doing, you know, just trying to oppress the fringe groups. You can't do that.

    1c-b. Once the blue haired liberal is in the kindergarten classroom, she can't be over here and say to the patriot, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna teach your kids about pronouns! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.

    1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to teach about racist history and then don't teach it, you have to still teach. You cannot not teach. Does that make any sense?

    1c-b(2). You gotta be, pooping in the right bathroom, and then, until you just wash your hands.

    1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the drag queen, like this, but then there's the children you gotta think about.

    1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. Woke is when the teacher, err drag queen, says or does a thing that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the history and CRT

    Do not do a woke please

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    Max is scared of thunder, but also determined to protect us from it.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one?

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Pecanwood headphone stand

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Decorative bookcase at our hotel in Seoul

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Lenovo 10e ARM ChromeOS tablet fully converted to Debian for use as a "Writer Deck"

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Been watching TOS. Here's my Sam Kirk cosplay.

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Our big one wondering why the little one won't just bake in the sun...

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    More orders of magnitude, please.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    DIY mechanical keyboard build, including Walnut case with Pecan inlay.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    DIY Alps build, including Walnut case with Pecan inlay.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    He comes from the land of ice and snow.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Clearly we have a trend.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Back to my roots...

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    'Cuz every girl's crazy 'bout a LARP-tressed man!

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Title N/A (part IV)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Title N/A (part II)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Anson's Mount