IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 4 hours ago

Mine is also from the "Born to be a Bureaucrat" song but it's the "born to be all obsessive and snotty. I made my friends and relations fill long applications to get into my tenth birthday party" part.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Exactly. I've got so many half-finished ESP-32 projects laying around, but at least they're mine and work for me.

 
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 22 points 10 hours ago

Same energy:

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

(Cries in Rich Hall)

Explaining the jokeRich Hall made frequent appearances on QI and one of the questions they always prepare for him is "How many moons does Earth have?". Since we're always discovering quasi moons and transient bodies, the answer is always different despite him learning from his previous appearance.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I loved AoS even when it started to get weird after season 5 or so. Should re-watch that soon-ish.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It was, and I remember that too. Was just being farcical...

Spoiler...to balance out the downer ending.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They actually did follow up, and the episode was one of the better ones:

Spoiler: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Course:_Oblivion_(episode)

Though between "Demon" and "Course Oblivion" that's a good question. We don't see Voyager itself getting duplicated, so I guess they spent the time building it out of rocks and then forgetting they were duplicates.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

15 posts for a 3hr old account. Slow your roll, Louna.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yep.

Most of them are phishing test emails (where the org sends out fake "phishing" emails which have a UUID link tied to your email address) so they KNOW who clicks on these and who reports them. Until I stopped giving a fuck, I had reported 100% of them and clicked on 0. But since that doesn't let you "test out" of the 45 minute quarterly security awareness training, I stopped wasting my time and just delete them

 

Was watching an old episode of Mama's Family the other day and this was mentioned. I had no idea what it was, so I landed here. Probably gonna give this a try sometime this week because it looks amazing. I also don't see casseroles very often anymore.

 

Solved. Thank you @sandbo00@feddit.org . It's an MHF4 connector. Will leave the post up for future people with the same question.

I've been playing around with an Orange Pi Zero 2W the last week. When I finally got the point of putting a case together, I was going to replace the little whip with a U.FL->SMA cable for an external antenna. However, the U.FL connector is too large for this.

This connector is the same form factor as U.FL but about half the size.

Is micro U.FL a thing? My Google-fu is failing me, the acronym stew is thick here, and I'd really like to wrap up this project with a nice external antenna. OrangePi hasn't been helpful - they just call it "Wifi + BT Antenna connector" like that explains it all lol

 

 

You give it a weigh, give it a weigh, give it a weigh now.

 

The DVD screensaver was perfect: unobtrusive and did what it was supposed to do: prevent your CRT screen from burning-in an image. On top of that, it gave you something to look forward to when it would perfectly hit a corner (which some people thought was a myth; sadly the GIF version does not).

Now, any screen in your home is fair game for intrusive ads. Why make something simple, elegant, functional, and unobtrusive when that otherwise idle (or even in-use!) screen can be crammed with ads.

 

In case you thought I was joking...

mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully. This is playing anything by STP in any subfolder of my main "Music" directory. I use wildcards between words because it's lazier than escaping the spaces.

Raktajino@laptop:~$ ssh rak@media-pc

rak@media-pc:~$ mplayer -shuffle /media/Music/*/Stone*Temple*Pilots*
MPlayer 1.5+svn38446-1build5 (Debian)
Playing Acoustics/Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Acoustic).mp3.
Clip info:
 Title: Plush
 Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
 Album: Simply Acoustic
 Track: 10
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 233.8 (03:53.7) of 234.0 (03:54.0)  4.5% 

Playing Rock/Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated.mp3.
Clip info:
 Title: Dead & Bloated
 Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
 Album: The Best Of Stone Temple Pilot
 Track: 7
 Genre: Grunge
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A:   9.1 (09.1) of 310.0 (05:10.0)  4.5% 
 

Once controversial and now greatly influential, 'Battle Royale' is now in theaters to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Before there was The Hunger Games and the popular video game genre, the term “battle royale” applied to the popular 2000 film. Director Kinji Fukusaku’s dystopian thriller casts a wide shadow over media these days, and in honor of its 25th birthday in December, it’s coming back to the big screen again.

Based on Koushun Takami’s 1999 novel of the same name, Battle Royale centers on a group of Japanese high school students living under a totalitarian government that’s enacted a yearly game where students fight each other to the death over three days, and anyone who refuses gets their head blown off. At the time, it was controversial enough to get banned or excluded from distribution in some countries, and couldn’t be sold to American distributors for over a decade out of concern for lawsuits. (It eventually did in 2010, albeit as direct-to-video.)

 

This year is a boom time for comets. Not only did we have the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS gracing our skies (and Mars’) earlier this year, but now we have another brand new comet to look out for.

Expected to be at its brightest on October 21, this month you might have the chance to spot the comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) blazing across the night sky—no telescope or binoculars required.

 

Source Joke from 30 Rock

 

This has lived rent-free in my head since this episode originally aired back in the stone ages.

Congratulations, the bank gave you a credit card. That doesn't make you better than me. But, you see, nobody gives me credit because I'm a bad risk and I don't pay my bills on time. SO I HAVE TO WORK FOR WHAT I HAVE!

 

Psilocybin is so nice, mushrooms evolved it twice.

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways.

Researchers in Germany and Austria examined two different types of magic mushrooms. They showed that while both kinds make psilocybin, the biochemistry each relied on to produce the natural compound were entirely distinct. The findings suggest psilocybin may be an example of convergent evolution, in which two, unrelated forms of life nevertheless evolve to develop similar traits or features.

“Mushrooms have learned twice independently how to make the iconic magic mushroom natural product psilocybin,” the authors wrote in the paper, published last month in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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