https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwSXJOKugw

unfortunately, Fiend Mode has been enabled. i am no longer able to engage in charisma checks and my alignment has changed to Chaotic Evil until Fiend Mode is disabled in 14 days

Rechost if #melon is big.

wait can I actually at least post short 128 kbps mp3s here

I’ll TAKE IT

last night I was like “I gOTTa make Stepfile Music” and also “I wanna synthesize a decent organ to have on hand” so I googled and saw the scary in the screenshot but then I just traced over the lower harmonics of an ehhh-sounding SpectraVoice “organ” H.type and adjusted them to taste and it sounded good so I layered up some Groovy Tunage and was then like “y’know, this needs some THROAT” and I’m not really a throat user but I’ve been trying to figure something out in that regard so I continued trying to figure something out through this

it might be making me feel a weird impulse to actually continue working on a thing?????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rW4-286wA

PSA: nasty vulnerability in firefox found and fixed, update asap (UAF w/ possible code exec in web animations API, for the techies in the crowd). fixed versions include:

• 131.0.2
• ESR 115.16.1
• ESR 128.3.1

to check your currently installed version:

1. open the 3 bars menu in the top right of the firefox window
2. open Help -> About Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/

#VulnPSA #firefox

about to test something, I apologize in advance for what might happen to some of your timelines

don’t think i got around to posting this one while cohost was still up. little treat for the league.

• Fujifilm X-T30
• XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS

• 1/56 | f/4 | ISO 320 | 37.4mm

#photography #eggbug

🐅 i have a strong preference for cyberpunk that doesn’t use the orientalist neon urban density aesthetic, number one because that shit rules and is more apt for like a future fantasy, and number two because there’s so much more you could say about gentrification. like where’s the suburban #cyberpunk

@froggebip same here, yeah, I tend to follow everyone on sight around here

RE: https://lilypad.frogge.cafe/@froggebip/statuses/01J9MSNP9BH6A85HDSJC9P3QG5

something i love a lot about old steam ships is the telegraph system they have for the engine throttles. there's no big digital computer system running commands to the engines, it's just people taking simple commands from a system of wires and pulleys. it makes me wonder how such a system could possibly exist in the microcosm...

the oldest superfreighter in the Syndication logistics fleet, the Guidestar (though enthusiasts like to call it "Big Boy"), houses a gigantic pressurised water reactor in its stern that's tapped to generate electricity and boil water for its equally enormous drive engines. it takes a lot of people to keep it running - a third of the crew, maybe more like two fifths! - and as one can imagine, it's hard to coordinate all those people without some simple way to give orders

the Guidestar resolves this with a set of electromechanical throttle telegraphs that signal how much thrust they want on the main drives to the engineering crew. it's hooked up via a triple-redundant electronic relay since running mechanical cables down the length of a kilometre-long ship could cause problems for some reason.

since its construction, the Guidestar's received many upgrades, including an autonomous reactor management system - but it only touches the critical components, control rods, water flow pumps, fuel channels, a lot of stuff that was already motorised. it'll keep it from melting, but it won't operate the main drive - that's left to the valve jockeys.

valve jockeys, as they're sometimes affectionately called, are skilled operators with decades of experience working with nuclear reactors, mostly aboard the Guidestar where they live and work. some say it's the radiation that compels them into their lives of service; others, that it's the superfreighter itself. rumours abound of whispers in the corridors, odd dreams about steam and steel... but they're only rumours, of course. everyone knows ships can't talk.

#themicrocosm

https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106

Ancient Roman concrete self-heals via quicklime chemical reactions in the stuff once its set.

reminder for everyone in the league: computers are an artform. don’t ever forget this. the programs we write are snapshots of our thought processes as applied to a given domain. your repository’s git log is a record of your development, your learnings, your growth as you work through all the intricacies of the problem space you choose to set your mind to - treat it with the respect it deserves, and it will treat you well too. there is no wrong way to implement anything, only differences in how we approach implementation.

#computers #art #programming

can someone reply to this? I think I fixed my notification size (they previously sometimes covered half of the screen) and I wanna test

let’s go on a date!

*proceeds to install Linux to the internal HDD of your PS4*

@rawks that’s funny, you can open 2 editors at once

RE: https://channel.coolstation.space/objects/e399d954-1934-467e-9d1a-0d8352e1372b

@rawks oh no, nested quotes

RE: https://channel.coolstation.space/objects/3adb0d21-9198-4261-8dcf-3bb3293228c7

test

RE: https://league.adamski2003.lol/objects/fa228da3-dae8-447b-a1d3-080429763602