Surely a direct stream from the internet straight onto host hardware can’t be exploited in any way. All you gotta do is put the stream in a file. How hard could it be? (/s)

I feel this. My car has a super straightforward drivetrain (2003 Miata) and pretty simple electronics that I can follow and understand.

Looking under the hood of modern cars, half the time it’s so enclosed, you just see plastic and once you get past that, it’s an intertwined rats nest of complicated components.

On top of that, modern interiors are just loaded with features I don’t need. Give me driving, climate and radio controls. I don’t need anything more.

Don’t even get me started on all the assist features. I’m driving. I’ll handle the wheel, thanks.

I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.

Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.

Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.

You can take a look at Mero.chat. It’s a chat-with-strangers service. You earn more features the more you use it.

I’m a Tarantino fan. He doesn’t have a massive collection of movies, but you could teach an entire college course on just the few movies he’s put out with all the interesting things he does.

There’s something with his approach to directing that just makes me believe the story so well, even if it’s outrageous.

Kill Bill is my personal favorite.

Something something something dark side. Something something something complete.

I feel like if I’m pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, there’s some tongue-in-cheek “um, actually” trap hidden just around the corner for some self-righteous geek to correct you with a big smirk on their face because they get to feel smarter, which I used to be guilty of, but try to cut back on as much as I can these days.

It’s a fun joke at first, but I kind of got tired of it after a while, and just decided that politely educating in context and ignoring it otherwise feels way nicer.

Maybe we’ll find out it was microplastics all along.

A short film known as Spin, made in 2004.

It’s about a physicist who is bicycling down a hill and a car is in his path. The driver turns to see him and hits his brakes in the last moment. He skids over the hood, mostly unharmed and begins to ponder this.

If the driver hadn’t had the single neuron in his brain fire and trigger him to look again, he wouldn’t have hit his brakes and he would have collided with the flat side of the car, likely killing him.

He applies this idea to quantum physics and realizes that this is happening with every decision made by any living creature at every waking moment, creating countless split possibilities for all moments in time.

The final scene is very striking, showing a car approach an intersection. The view splits to show the car turning both left and right. The camera splits multiple more times to show the concept that you can always choose any path at any moment. Some are just more likely than others.

It showed on IFC back in 2005 or so, and I’ve tracked down some limited information on it, but it was shot on 35mm and I’ve found no real leads on watching it anywhere.

This is the very limited IMDB page for it.

The opposite of love is not hate but apathy. If you give something your attention, it’s getting something out of you, whether you want it to or not, whether they’re aware of it or not.

If you want to truly hurt someone in a way that doesn’t hurt yourself, just cut them out of your life and move on.

I personally use Blender to sketch things out. It has the Grease Pencil for 2d work and it has pretty decent systems for measuring. There’s even an add-on called MeasureIt, which allows you to add notations to dimensions.

When my ad blocker is doing what it’s supposed, not nearly as much, but yeah, especially on mobile news sites. They’ll just aggressively blast you with constant shit loading in.

Yeah, I figured all the parts talking about losing files were jokes. All the new guys know about unrm. Also useful is ssh root@[remote] unshutdown

Same. Mint was at the start too, though.

I used awk for the first time today to find all the MD5 sums that matched an old file I had to get rid of. Still have no idea what awk was needed for. 😅 All my programming skill is in Python. Linux syntax is a weak point of mine.

I work with customer art for my job. And every time someone brings in AI art for their project, it just tells me they don’t respect artists. I usually put a lot less effort into their orders.

It also usually doesn’t have any personality.

I dunno. I feel like the fact that it’s able to reliably simulate 10^[1] particles in realtime since the beginning of time, I’d guess it’s not running on Windows at least. But I also have a hard time it’s Linux because someone would always be messing with things and it would have needed to reboot for some reason or another about 6 or 7 times. Maybe the 7 days God spent building Earth was just time spent on building the server config lol.

I just don’t see the effort paying off here in taking what was already antiquated hardware when it was produced and making it work now just because it exists.

I take it you don’t know the Linux community very well. One of the most common uses I see is getting use out of outdated hardware.

Done. Am now resisting arrest in the Wendy’s diner.