Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

😅 😂

Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."

So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.

The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.

DO NOT TAKE HOME THE FREE 1U SERVER, YOU DO NOT WANT THAT ANYWHERE. A CLOSET DOOR WILL NOT STOP ITS BANSHEE WAIL TO THE DREAD KING, AN UNHOLY CONDUIT TO DEPTHS OF INSOMNIA BINDING DARKNESS TO EVEN THE DAY

THE EMBRACE OF SLEEP WILL NEVER AGAIN VISIT YOUR MIND; SANITY WILL BE FORGOTTEN LIKE THE FROSTY WHISPS OF AIR ESCAPING A FREEZER DOOR AT NIGHT, ILLUMINATED BY ONLY A FAILING LIGHT INSIDE. THEIR ETHEREAL SCREAMS SUBLIMATING INTO AND DISPLACING THE CLIMATE OF TOES.

AT THE END, I COULD NO LONGER DISTINGUISH BETWEEN SCREAMS OF THE 1U SERVER AND MY OWN. SOON IT WOULD NOT MATTER, FOR WE BECAME THE SAME. A MINDLESS COLLECTION OF MATTER ABANDONED IN THE HOWLING DARK.

@Teri_Kanefield The only problem with them coming here is that I’m not sure there are people here who would shout at them thinking they are the actual Supreme Court and that was my favorite part.

(@guerragames · Dec 21, 2017)

#StarWars #hyperspace
It's been done a million times before but hey... 'tis the season!

function a()add(p,{x=64-rnd(128),y=64-rnd(128),z=4+rnd(9),c=t})end
t=0p={}::_::t+=.05cls()s=cos(t/12)-1
for k,v in pairs(p)do
q=4/v.z
v.z+=s
w=4/v.z
if(v.z>.1)line(64+v.x*q,64+v.y*q,64+v.x*w,64+v.y*w,v.c%.2>.1 and 7or 12)
if(v.z<.1)del(p,v)end
for i=0,-s*22 do a()end
flip()goto _

https://pico-8-edu.com/?c=AHB4YQEYAOkCwKzObYwu7c0NJAwlJYyMDAWOZQ_vx4amRc6NDGD4ghMOGd9-CbfvKe455AbrHNN1V2fP8BrV5U9w_ljWnfMIyWOkVwWXF0E3kF1UHjXwBg_xtZGE1TM0VXvW2lp5VrPyAOlDHPQMa0-RPMNcsvYGUbixUQ3s1f1L7GzODIyNdh6Y6-LmLey4sLPgiiPTpYm5bmg1vHBjYKJ9jAtn1ow0bdQo2nBsEHXd5n3JpmTA4uLEXnOj2oDugJDglUICzcqOtkEsWKRFsjM3PDA7ODIQ5PGm9omv4nZ0be4hsuGi3AY=&g=w-w-w-w1HQHw-w2Xw-w3Xw-w2HQH
#Pico8 #TweetJam #TweetCart

Serious Trouble episode (with a re-recorded section after settlement) about Dominion dropping today. We didn’t talk about:
* No trial result would have had the judge ordering Fox to apologize on air
*No trial result would have resulted in Fox being punished for damage to democracy
*. No trial result could have ”established facts” as true or false for all purposes in America
If your expectations for the legal system are not reality-based you’re going to be consistently disappointed.

oh my god http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

"Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent…"

#disability #dependent #independent

I keep thinking about how we programmers tend to mistake arrogance for confidence.

Arrogance leads to poor decision-making due to a lack of curiosity. Not exploring a technical space.

Confidence is leveraging curiosity, knowing you’ll weigh tradeoffs appropriately.

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

Who do you want to be invaded, conquered, and ruled by:

I mean I've gotten more confident in the course of my career but I am not as confident as some of these attorneys who appear in court by video dressed like they're working on a shrimp boat or waking up from a three-day binge

Some password advice from an infosec professional:

Good password hygiene means choosing a password that is hard to guess.

One that's hard to type. Hard to remember. Hard to think about. Hard to LOOK at.

A password that makes you feel disoriented, uncomfortable.

In short, your password should be a Cthulhu.

#passwords #PasswordHygeine #InfoSec

Every pro-AI example on Twitter is like:

Still not convinced on AI? I spent less than an hour knocking together this rube Goldberg contraption that produces lies and terrible inaccurate results. Jobs that can be replaced by garbage generators are consigned to the dustbin of history!

you know - this absolutely speaks for itself.

NESFab – A fast high-level language to create NES games via @vintageisthenewold https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/nesfab-a-fast-high-level-language-to-create-nes-games #NES #MOS6502 #gamedev #retrogaming #retrodev

The Internet is officially redeemed.

What happens under the hood when plotting a #picotron pixel, in 12 steps. easy peasy lemon squeezy

Unfortunately it is almost unrecognizable from the functionality it is designed to enable, though! Later on I'll make a gif or something to visualize how this ends up as transparency in sprites, shadow rendering, and clipping masks etc.

Did you know Tesla has cameras both on the outside of vehicles and the inside, and everything is uploaded to Tesla? Anyhoo they’ve been exporting the videos, making memes of customers and then posting them on chat rooms. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

hey so did y’all know about the oral part of the CCNA exam?