screaming

find myself thinking a lot about just what an ungodly vast expanse of history human civilization stretches back across, and how very little changed from millennium to millennium, until so very recently. this slice of space and time I was somehow born just in time for is infinitesimal by comparison

This seems like a useful reaction image

use witchsky.app

bruh. what do y'all not understand how webp works

new phone's powerful enough to handle offline translation and speech IO really fucken fast, like just shy of realtime. that alone makes it worth the €500 tbh

fucking insane that the easiest reliable way to copy lots of files from one phone to another is motherfucking socat

oh fuck entirely off with this shit

Vibecoded vaccines will hit the discourse like a nuclear bomb

"nonono see it's actually woke to be against vaccines and mRNA now because AI folded these proteins"

making some wallpapers for the new phone

guess a new SSD is next on my list of things to buy when I have money again

then there's this bullshit. you can't change the color of the lower half of the clock. just ignores system settings

so apparently volla disables Material You and forces their own shitty branding in volla OS??? what the hell! that's the kind of evil bullshit not even fucking Google tries to get away with

my phone's keyboard seems to have accreted quite the word list

oh this is a neat feature

...is that Shavian???

oh my fucking gods

for posterity: rooting the volla "vidofnir" x23 1. download the matching zip from ota.volla.tech 2. unzip the file 3. retrieve boot.img with android-ota-payload-extractor 4. adb push it to your phone 5. patch it with magisk & exfiltrate 6. `adb reboot bootloader` 7. `fastboot flash boot boot.img`

not impressed with volla OS so far hopefully ubtouch will be better, though that apparently has to be installed onto a microSD???? speaking of which the x23 has the most bizarre hybrid sim/SD slots i've ever seen

apparently you can't unlock the volla x23 bootloader on a usb3 port??? like fastboot and adb otherwise appear to work but `flashing unlock` only works if you plug the phone in by a usb2 port (??? i think????) bizarre

what the hell is "fastbootd"

oh what the hell is this shit

I appreciate such hard-knuckled realism in speculative fiction

world remains a fuck but happy "410,757,864,530 dead nazis" day to those who celebrate

wish there was some kind of proxy I could use that would load a page, render everything out once to plain html, and then send the page with all javascript stripped out. kind of like what archive.today does state of the modern web is beyond obscene

You expect Protestants to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Ireland where I might get slapped for being myself.

Horrible geese are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Theosophy

Hope there's room for this example of need-for-DWIM, which always made me laugh

we went through a book era at work, this is my colleague's where each page is a particle so the entire thing is a single draw call, and the text is loaded into a storage buffer (which can go to 128 MB now with webgpu)

dont kinkshame

tired: based and redpilled wired: cringemaxxed and goonstermogged

wait they didn't use a dht??? cursed. cursed!!

blunderbussy

Living in this country is like getting hit in the face with a shovel every morning and then being forced to muck shit with it

baffled why no one's even trying to build lightcraft orbital shuttles. really seems like beamed power propulsion is the only sane way to go, at least for getting off earth and interstellar flight, but we're all still just fucking around with chemical rockets

I should really not be so excited about buying a new phone lol

The Bot With No Qualia

The answer is yes and I do not understand why. Shockingly few people seem to realize that doing this ~= death

there is a fundamental psychological toll that's extracted when everyone in the world seems to be insane

Happy Victory in Europe Day to all! A reminder that fascism can and will be defeated 💪💪

learning to shut up about the inside of my brain: priceless also: really fucking hard

something I've noticed about borderlines is that we tend to have very uneven "TMI" filters. like the default is oversharing and it's something you have to learn intellectually not to do partly to avoid upsetting normies but also to avoid sending out signals of vulnerability

I don't know who needs to hear this, but steve balmer does NOT deserve to be daddy over the rich lands of Mauretania.

are there any CLI utilities for inferring depth masks for an image/video? ones that aren't parseltongue or hypescript abominations?

man I am so tired of the euphemism treadmill

It feels a lot like how people in the photography community rejected digital photography when it started to become widespread, or how film people would disparage CGI in lieu of practical effects, etc.. Almost comes across like a form of gate-keeping or snobbishness.

People’s objections to generative AI is incessantly bizarre.