me: mum, can we get multi-class racing? mum: we already have multi-class racing at home the multi-class racing at home: every 3 minutes or so, please overtake the container trucks struggling to climb up this hill on a dual carriageway carefully

> dig up PSP > try to connect to wifi > literally all wifi networks cannot be connected because the WPA protocol is too new welp.flac

if you thought AI was bad because it uses one trillion liters of water every 69 seconds, I've got even worse news for you They can be used to create French-language learning programmes

there will come a day where the developer for ublock origin stop working on the project. Even if they worked on it forever, there will come a day where ublock origin has to die, and this thought is terrifying.

David tennant implies the existence of David landlord

"the Japanese language has the inconvenience of Chinese characters AND Korean grammar rules"

[Doctor Who series 2 episode 6 spoilers] In Doctor Who series 2 episode 6, the Doctor defeats the Cyberthem by giving all of them gender dysphoria

[Doctor who series 2 episode 5 spoilers] In Doctor Who series 2 episode 5, the TARDIS just decides to fucking die

[Doctor who series 2 episode 4 spoilers] In Doctor Who series 2 episode 4, the Doctor defeats his enemies by disabling the means of escape for the alien robots who have infiltrated France. This is because no one would want to be stuck in France, not even extraterritorial aliens. Indeed, the ali […]

damn son (firefox 141.0 changelog)

@riley my favourite genre of accidental comedy post: redditors proudly getting kanji wrong while explaining it

> 2005 > me, sitting in front of the computer desk, organising my downloaded mp3s of linkin park > 2025 > me, sitting in front of the computer desk, organising my downloaded flacs of linkin park

summer is when you have to cap your game FPS

imagine if they made the minecraft nearby player hotbar irl

ffmpreg

[Doctor Who series 1 spoilers] In doctor who series 1 season finale, Rose Tyler defeats the Daleks by learning how to t-pose from the TARDIS (seriously, check the frames). Unfortunately, because she T posed next to the doctor, Christopher Eccleston was quite visibly upset and had to be promptly […]

[Doctor who series 1 and neon genesis evangelion spoilers] In Doctor Who series 1 episode 9 and 10, the doctor helps a young male child using alien technology to get over his mummy issues and avert the destruction of the world In other words, series 1 is the BBC’s British adaptation of neon ge […]

just finished migrating from spotify to having local music libraries again (mostly, some stuff seem to be spotify only, but id say most of the important albums are in my local library now)

who knew curating your own music collection is such a pain

thinking about the alternate timeline where we got the "good" kind of AI where we do "computer, simulate ride time for every bus departing in 20 minutes within 200m, and return travel time in ascending order", instead of the "generate butchered summary for War and Peace"

they need to add more keyboard navigation and shortcuts to apps, not just because it's better design and better accessibility, but also because I dont want to take my hands off my mechanical keyboard that I sold a kidney to afford and feels too nice to type and take my hands away from

"a good mechanical keyboard is better than sex" - Freud

They should invent an open sauce app for securely and privately sharing your location with people u know (you can see everyone u know on a mini map 🔥)

windows 10 is 10 years old fuck

today I learned the "progressive" in "progressive rock" means something like "avant garde", and not "making steady progress"

I’m really a sucker for hearing detail and nuances in recorded music If I can hear the nuances of the strings in an acoustic guitar, or if I could hear the crispiness of the percussion, holy hell

I need to make a IEM/headphone testing playlist

@riley (For those who don’t know, something being Turing complete roughly means that something can be used to compute any and all kinds of problems that can be computed) (Yes, there are problems that cannot be computed)

had this thought while I was at the used CD shops (the one where I found sealed copies of Herbie Hancock's albums from the 80s): imagining the utopia where used music and CD are ripped by shops like these and uploaded to some archival repository

is ciscord finally imploding

@ fedi, what kind of software license/license in general do you use for your works? Curious to see people's thoughts on licenses

it's my turn with the spreadsheet autism I need to make a spreadsheet to compare the tracklists from different CD releases from an artist

> looks up the etymology of a place name “The origins of the place name is obscure” > looks up the origins of a music genre “The origins of the music genre as it is now known today is poorly documented” Come on

spending my rest day watching videos on fallout 4 is this a good use of my time

When was the last time you realised you saw something you’re familiar with for the last time?

finally decide to check out the newest technology connections video that other people are talking about since ive been busy these comments man

Me: Evangelion’s battle motif was stolen from *From Russia with Love*, and reused all the way from the 90s into the 2020s; are there even any other composers who pulled this off? John Williams, in Star Wars: hello The Doctor Who theme: hello

Cyberthem

really interesting how setting up a proper backup configuration isn't just about deciding what to save, but also what to explicitly condemn to a fate of decay and being forgotten because just as some things are worth making extra redundant copies, some things are better off forgotten and […]

I love modular miniaturisation a 70W USB-C power supply used to be like 10cm x 10cm, now it's just 6cm x 6cm I love modular miniaturisation

[Doctor Who series 1 spoilers] In Doctor Who series 1 episode 6, the Doctor's companion inadvertently forcefem a Dalek, causing them to question its own identity; the Dalek then learns to girlboss by walking up a flight of stairs despite not having legs, before leaving in a pile of balls

In Doctor Who series 1 episode 4, the UN and its security council is shown taking decisive action during a global crisis; this is a reference to the fact that Doctor Who is a work of fiction, and that any resemblance to any real entities is entirely coincidental

the amount of times i've missed banger songs in the tracklist because sp*tify suggests *songs* and not *albums* is alarming

Me watching lain and her computer growing increasingly comically oversized with a ton of wires: man what a great science fiction anime me, noticing that my table is swarming with more and more USB C cables and my computer is growing with more components: oh god oh fuck

guess who accidentally deleted their doctor who watch history spreadsheet sigh

new graphics card discourse is so spicy (me looking to upgrade eventually)

how the fuck do we generate so much data, this is actually a problem

heartbreaking: I may have to reinstall w*ndows to use my camera/edit photos (wine doesn't support all the features)

@riley : yeah I believe `cowsay` comes with every linux distro me: gets `Command 'cowsay' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install cowsay` unfortunately, turns out I am not using linux after all 😔 😩

feels funny that I am upgrading my linux distro properly for the first time (backing up my data and taking a system snapshot properly)