too stupid for friends

> "Welcome back; it's a miracle you're alive. You've been in a coma after you were found unconscious in a nuclear waste dump site."
> "Oh... did I get superpowers?"
> "Well, some of your cells got the superpower to maliciously reproduce; I wouldn't get a 'cancer man' leotard just yet though."

2023-09-04 04:35:18

are there figurative defense contractors out there

2023-09-04 04:32:53

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I should migrate my personal emails to a 9front mail server. That would be neat.

2023-09-04 04:29:07

cannot seem to get upas working. sad face.

2023-09-04 02:48:43

> "Would you want to live in a world where the Civil War didn't happen?"
> "What does that look like?"
> "No slavery."
> "There are more people enslaved now around the world than at the time of the civil war; they're just not potentially US citizens or so-called freedmen."
> "Yeah but, no, I mean"
> "I think I know what you mean but I don't know that you know what you mean."
> "It would have been horrible though, we'd still have slavery in this country to this day."
> "Do you genuinely believe that? Do you think that all the advancement of industrialization would have stopped because some agrarian confederalist states withdrew from the Union?"
> "If we lost, we would still have slavery though!"
> "That's not what we know about the state of the Union before the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln didn't free Northern slaves, and had hoped to win the war without freeing slaves. If the North had lost, we would have lost a number of States in the Union and had competition for westward association in the West, but most likely would have abolished slavery in the same milquetoast way they did in our timeline -- you can't enslave citizens but prisoners are fair game."
> "But... they were the evil ones."
> "Perhaps, perhaps."

2023-09-04 01:06:52

> If you catch covid, be sure to spread it to your relatives or members of the community
https://collapse.pub/media/b56d0a9159d098d5b09a8ed760f6a227609e788ba3baa7a01fe0df18a46e91e1.png

2023-09-04 00:38:31

> My enemies cope and seethe, whereas my team cries out in righteous fury
> My enemies are terrorists, whereas my team are freedom fighters
> My enemies malevolently commit crime, whereas my team benevolently or ignorantly make mistakes
> My enemies are slaves to their base desires, whereas my team bases their beliefs on first principles
> My enemies loot, rape, and pillage, whereas my team will be greeted as liberators

2023-09-03 23:51:54

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@npub18xy…c6yw No? You can call your sexuality or whatever, whatever you like, but no one gives a fuck what you think of what you're doing. One man's consensus is another man's judgement of wealthy Greek culture.

2023-09-03 23:40:14

Seems like a distinction without a difference, to me. There are plenty of men who are married to women, who have sex with men in secret; there are plenty that make no secret of it. Culture would say they're straight; none of it is based in anything grounded.

2023-09-03 23:34:45

Burning Man.
> Monsoon season floods the dry lake bed they used as their festival site
> Environmental activists block roads trying to get Burning Man to ban single-use plastics and private jet use
> Those roads are the escape routes in event of flood
> Disease outbreaks force people to "escape" by any means
> Quarantine set up only after NV Rangers run over a few environmentalists to replace those road blocks with their own road blocks
> Doesn't matter, working vehicles found dry-enough terrain to escape to the desert
Why couldn't they test that death-fire laser on Burning Man instead of Lahaina

2023-09-03 21:27:37

> mexican goth
seems redundant

2023-09-03 21:18:03

@npub13x5…mduq @npub1tva…ya04 youtube.com/watch?v=mMJWJ9AtvjU
This guy's a thorough historian. His opinions bleed in a tiny bit but it's clear he's avoiding that for things that can be doubly-confirmed.

2023-09-03 21:15:17

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@npub1f8e…zu5u > dwarves are literally Wales but underground

2023-09-03 21:14:26

drawterm on android.
kinda neat.

2023-09-03 20:19:41

> a nation with $4 trillion GDP is "poor"
Damn, I'd hate to hear what that guy thinks of African nations.

2023-09-03 20:11:01

> :blobcat: "It looks like you've got a twink infestation. Yeah, there's probably a pool of boysmell under your house that they're attracted to, and I found oversized sweaters near your vents."

2023-09-03 19:56:05

> in 1980, the Iran Hostage Crisis came to an end just before that year's election, and Khomenei's language led many people to believe that Reagan had spoken with the Iyatollah to delay the release of hostages until the election, which was later proven to have been impossible to have happened by a Congressional hearing and other investigations.
So the first October Surprise was, in fact, a surprise.

2023-09-03 16:10:30

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@npub1y6t…9wl9 "Pee is stored in the balls" -- Jimmy Carter

2023-09-03 16:06:14

> :blobhaj: "Okay. Name a president that wasn't adulterous."
> :blobcatez: "Jimmy Carter."
> :blobhaj: "No, I mean someone who mattered."

2023-09-03 05:08:21

but I've been buried in the code for a while. how is your evening going?

2023-09-03 04:31:22

I also might make a patch for vt, to set colour themes in there. I'd prefer to choose those 16 colours in -x mode

2023-09-03 04:25:27

> burning man
what a strange idiom for chlamydia.

2023-09-03 04:24:40

I've had a little fun working out what I can and can't do, with 9front: I'm comfortable with acme and the parts of sam that bleed into acme enough to have a mess of windows in two columns; I'm comfortable modifying my /lib/ndb/local as necessary; and I'm trying to modify libtheme, to be able to show wallpaper images... but I don't know libdraw near well enough yet.
What I do know is that I need to readimage() the path from my lib/theme ndb file, allocimage it somewhere, and then in rio.c where it normally draws the background colour, check if the background image is not nil and draw the image in place of a colour. What I haven't worked out yet, is precisely how I get the right dimensions for allocimage, and if I can make the image stretch/fill the screen.
But the fact I can so quickly open files, edit them, arrange them, and test them... this is a little heavenly, even if I've not made the progress I'd like. I'll put my version of libtheme up, plus patches, if I get this, though. It definitely won't be tonight >.>
(also, there's the 9grid chat up in that corner there)
https://collapse.pub/media/6cc64cf846b8c48bb9334cbe1c9c471e727ca743109d1a739be96fce91e7a8cf.png

2023-09-03 03:28:42

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@npub1u83…r2s5 Rob Pike and Russ Cox disagreed on the subject of theme in 9wm/rio.

2023-09-03 03:11:31

and thank you again sigrid
git.sr.ht/~ft/snippets/blob/master/gridup
https://collapse.pub/media/cabaef3e84305285e34588fafb97336d838a9c3eb38fbf7984716de5cd986fdc.png

2023-09-03 02:36:41

I like this, so far.
https://collapse.pub/media/e5cbde5a2eabd0b095f06d453c351793e8596071b7d192c1d1baeb10edee76d3.png

2023-09-03 02:30:39

there, now sam is more in-line with things.
libtheme doesn't include sigrid's image background for rio. I can probably work that out, but I'm probably taking a break after the acme scrollbars aren't yellow.
https://collapse.pub/media/3ee86a7b263fbee1886a7ac7df5e7a9119386eb165421af7fd90ce8e7b226760.png

2023-09-03 02:18:04

That's easier on the eyes.
https://collapse.pub/media/b9eb746e6d6237a3af377c62adeaa56336c932af67967e8baf0fb28d2bdc6962.png

2023-09-03 01:28:29

https://collapse.pub/media/a438478a2b3cd043f170413eb7bcfaa7fc6ad173128d3562f8f34a2bbd32e6d1.png

2023-09-03 01:08:53

libtheme in 9front, with no mods to the theme yet.
oh there will be changes made
https://collapse.pub/media/8fcfacd8f8260a3f311ab694132d4bb3c8da5407bb99605f7a6bdf32eb32a640.png

2023-09-02 22:52:14

> emails titled "we're making changes to your account"
https://collapse.pub/media/93131147c1a2bc2aa4896a7a96d0dfa606b3dc14b14470ee9b8f0f6859e3a497.png

2023-09-02 22:26:31

> "Vat? Dis french frau eez just drei raccoons in ein trenchcoat"

2023-09-02 22:23:53

Starting to think french women are just a well-crafted lie by the Euros.

2023-09-02 17:47:47

a lot of european opinions this morning. Y'all got a license for that opinion?

2023-09-02 16:48:20

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@npub1k9a…m3yh Nice. Now let's see Lionsgate Films' canon.

2023-09-02 16:42:06

So... the end of American Psycho isn't actually a big mystery? American Psycho 2 confirms he actually was killing all those people but he got killed by a 9 year old Mila Kunis.
https://collapse.pub/media/dfe3634629e3588cfcf6c9613fe12ed1fe35c72ac1a266703a44b217782d09dc.png

2023-09-02 15:36:27

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The way I understand it, a certificate of deposit is a very simple, variable-term investment directly in a bank; its yields are relatively low but it's something you can have quite a lot of confidence in... in a legitimate system. The problem arises with a fraudulent system; it is impossible to gauge your risk when the bank in which you wish to invest is just as overleveraged as it is unaware -- at least until the point they become aware and try to sell off everything to cover up their mistakes.
Those CDs, which would be as golden as bonds in a legitimate system, instead are the alarm that something is very wrong, to me.

2023-09-02 15:32:21

:blobcatbusiness: “You should buy Certificates of Deposit. So hot right now.” :blobhaj: “Weren’t CDs hot in 2007 and 2008, too? Coulda sworn that was WaMu’s big product right before they bit the big one.” :blobcatsweat:

2023-09-02 08:53:38

I don’t like the install notes that are out there for 9front. Or rather, I love them but gods they’re a mess. So here’s some fucking org-mode.
#+title: Setting up 9front with HJFS
* Installation
** default bootargs, user
** vesa display at 1920x1080x32, ps2intellimouse
** ~inst/start~
*** configfs: hjfs
*** partdisk: delete all partitions, use defaults (efi, single plan9 fs)
*** prepdisk: delete all subdivisions, use hjfs defaults (9fat, nvram, fs)
*** mountfs: 1024MB RAM for cache
*** configdist: local
*** confignet
*** mountdist: all defaults
*** copydist
*** ndbsetup
*** tzsetup
*** bootsetup: yes to EFI
*** finish
** restart
** create user
*** ~echo newuser sev >> /srv/hjfs.cmd~
*** ~echo newuser sys +sev >> /srv/hjfs.cmd~
*** ~echo newuser adm +sev >> /srv/hjfs.cmd~
*** ~echo newuser upas +sev >> /srv/hjfs.cmd~
** edit plan9.ini
*** ~bind -b '#S' /dev~
*** ~9fs 9fat~
*** ~acme /n/9fat/plan9.ini~
**** add ~service=cpu~
** reboot: ~fshalt -r~
** auth setup 1: automatic
*** on reboot, you'll be asked to recreate the auth nvram
*** use the user created in the create-user step above
** edit /lib/ndb/local
#+begin_src plan9
auth=katrina authdom=turtlerock.sevvie.ltd
ipnet=turtlerock.sevvie.ltd ip=192.168.1.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
ipgw=192.168.1.1
dns=192.168.1.1
auth=katrina
dnsdom=turtlerock.sevvie.ltd
cpu=katrina
fs=katrina
sys=katrina ether=...
#+end_src
** auth setup 2: ~auth/changeuser~
*** set the user password the same as before
** reboot: ~fshalt -r~
** connect via drawterm
turtlerock.sevvie.ltd isn’t a real domain or net, it’s just what I’m calling the home network. I need to spin up another machine to be an auth server, so this can just be fs/cpu.

2023-09-02 08:10:30

> "Wait, do you think that male strippers dance on poles?"
> "..."
> "The male strippers bring their own poles to the dance."

2023-09-02 01:09:50

And now I'm starting to see why people like void linux.
It's that feeling of installing debian linux in 2008, without a lot of the legacy and systemd bullshit that came after that and in their place sane alternatives. It's very quick to set up.

2023-09-02 00:35:06

so, something that made void linux interesting to me is that they maintain plan9port as a mainline package. This indicates a little more care and patching than most distros have, and with hope... maybe I'll have a 9ferno box.

2023-09-02 00:09:57

This post is judging you.

2023-09-01 23:42:32

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@npub1wwt…ljy2 youtube.com/watch?v=Lj_NNMUPZvs

2023-09-01 23:42:05

The leadership crisis is compounded by a liar crisis; without good liars to dissuade the public from caring, it's apparent how bad the leadership is.

2023-09-01 23:39:40

> listening to a podcast about the mismanagement of Disney Star Wars properties
I do wonder why people think the government can handle a real state, when Hollywood can't even create fake lore well

2023-09-01 21:35:35

fraud trends upward, risk makes what seems stable in a normal market, if not as productive, more interesting, and you end up with people pushing certificates of deposit and t-bills as the "hot thing".
Even if we're not in what people would call a recession, the bullish thing to do right now is buy what even the bears thought to provide too small of a yield last year.

2023-09-01 18:43:51

🎶 bye, bye miss Canadian pie
drove my Daewoo to Tim Hortons
but the coffee pot's dry
them good ol' boys were apologizing in rhyme
singing, "soarry, friend, now I will go die"
"soarry, friend, now I will go die..." 🎶

2023-09-01 18:38:24

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@npub1sac…apc0 female orgasm of the gaps theory

2023-09-01 18:01:55

> "If you're wrong about the economy, then [those who foresee economic collapse] are right about jobs and inflation. If they're right, Trump wins."
> "Yeah, but what if we're _not_ in a recession? Who wins then?"

2023-09-01 16:47:32

woke up to thunderstorms and heavy rain, but it's now already gone and the clouds are parting.

2023-09-01 16:46:18

> a career criminal got a gold casket, 3 televised funerals, riots, murals, statues, and his family got 27 million dollars
Sounds like it was a good career.

2023-09-01 16:28:25

> peerical coke 'n' dine

2023-09-01 16:28:05

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@npub1wah…xc8t Visit sunny Plerorma!

2023-09-01 16:06:27

> It's not an everything bagel if it doesn't have opium seeds on it.

2023-09-01 15:50:00

> wake up
> find a bad joke about using single-factor anova to determine whether something is mayo or not way too hilarious

2023-09-01 05:12:05

Just saw a Harley that looked like a slot machine going off
Why

2023-09-01 04:29:46

A White Mercurial is Absinthe, Kahlua, and cream.

2023-09-01 04:15:17

> "Blood has been spilled tonight."
Blood is spilled every night, ya fuckin' elf.

2023-09-01 03:39:43

So, how's The Elder Scrolls: Starrim?

2023-09-01 03:37:39

n etherin,out,err
number of packets sent and received per second,
and total number of errors, displayed as sepa-
rate graphs.
number of packets. Does this mean I should multiply the number displayed in stats by 65536?

2023-09-01 03:26:22

https://collapse.pub/media/ec09585d90e7ef0be97ea33c8464b4794d12c67ee62a10b3a379e0d67d58570b.png

2023-09-01 03:21:22

https://collapse.pub/media/950043779dfa03a2f111fd76701b0d59fd893632c8a4ba349aaf5c8e25ff96cc.jpg

2023-09-01 03:20:05

> "mostly men"

2023-09-01 03:17:01

Two BeOS mentions on the TWKN in as many days; I think that represents a large jump in activity for BeOS on the internet.

2023-09-01 03:12:44

https://collapse.pub/media/6cfca6b5fb02fe4d655a8f928a53c7a2975faa1b06f3ff1fbe2ddeedf386764d.png

2023-09-01 02:59:23

> posts per day
danger zone.

2023-09-01 00:26:04

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@npub1ey8…tjld hanging in there, baby

2023-09-01 00:23:05

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2023-08-31 22:57:28

> If there's one thing that can break MKULTRA mind conditioning, it's pussy

2023-08-31 22:48:07

a second plane shot JFK from the Gulf of Tonkin. NEVER FORGET.

2023-08-31 20:32:44

That is a good question; where are the Bar Associations? Shouldn't amicus briefs be out there about charging the President's legal counsel?

2023-08-31 20:28:18

It's kind of amazing how closely the brinksmanship has brought us to a real constitutional crisis, without ever confirmably crossing that line.

2023-08-31 19:41:30

> :blobcat: "I do not like the sentence I just wrote; I can write a better sentence."
> 🧠 "I will backspace all but one word from that sentence, so everyone knows I edited the sentence."

2023-08-31 19:39:49

dear zoomers: if you keep going with the two-word acronyms, ywn sm w/o nb

2023-08-31 19:34:45

> In other news, Trump has started a riot in his cell block, with all the inmates chanting, "BUILD THE STILL! BUILD THE STILL!" The ADL is reporting that this is, in fact, a white nationalist dog-whistle.

2023-08-31 18:27:32

Doug Walker is the Donald Trump of Youtube film review.

2023-08-31 16:39:26

Tucker's interview with Orban is interesting. He's unabashed about how he sees things; he takes note that Hungarians who live on historically Hungarian land but now Ukrainian land, were dying for Ukraine.

2023-08-31 16:15:59

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@npub13x5…mduq Aye, all cleaned up. Just had to use a temporary while the dogs' food was still over the fire.

2023-08-31 16:11:01

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@npub13x5…mduq I'm alright, it was a very clean slice. I keep my knives very sharp.

2023-08-31 16:09:49

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@npub1zj2…tm6w I got myself a nice bag to fill with first aid supplies, but for whatever reason I decided to keep it on the far side of the house from the kitchen, y'know, where I cut myself the most.

2023-08-31 16:02:44

> In operational intelligence, the first report is _always wrong._

2023-08-31 15:42:15

tfw you notice your box of bandages is empty and you need to either find the stored first aid kit or the duck tape and paper towels

2023-08-31 15:21:54

> Masters of Science in Wind Energy
Universities gonna start offering courses in "Earthbending" and "Waterbending" to attract students

2023-08-31 14:51:55

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@npub1f8e…zu5u Mars isn't realistic enough.

2023-08-31 14:46:20

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 kaia letting boys see her cakes in trade for labour

2023-08-31 14:38:17

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From the code itself; it uses clip-interrogator to reverse engineer a prompt from an image, and then semantically evaluates that prompt to identify any matching terms for underage -- "tween", "preteen", "child", "toddler", etc. -- as well as terms for lewdness. But it's written to catch lolicon too, yet shotacon is a control variable? What else is it going to catch; legal pornography?

2023-08-31 14:31:13

Okay, so here's a problem I see with any script that advertises itself as a CSAM checker: how the hell do I verify it does what it says on the tin without possessing said material? I don't, I am left to only trust the engineer who had an idea that sounded good.
But the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was an idea that sounded good too.

2023-08-31 14:07:09

terms for removing a piece of text from a larger body of text, within a text editor, and storing it in memory to paste elsewhere:
> copy: :blobcat:
> yank: :blobcat3c:
> kill: :blobcatknife:
> snarf: :blobcatcookienom:

2023-08-31 13:59:25

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 Ye Olde Maccas

2023-08-31 05:46:40

Heh. "Federal Overreach Memorial Dog Park"

2023-08-31 03:14:12

> dianne feinstein gave her power of attorney to her daughter
wait hol' up what the fuck how the fuck can you hold office when you've already signed the rest of your legal responsibilities on to their next holder?

2023-08-31 02:47:45

> someone: "man fuck autists"
> literally all of non-mastodon fedi: "wait, what did I do this time"

2023-08-31 02:41:30

> level the ATF building and replace it with a dog park

2023-08-30 23:45:24

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 One-up him, get a tattoo of yourself in a tattoo parlour getting the tattoo from the tattoo artist giving you the tattoo

2023-08-30 23:18:31

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@npub1q8n…kct8 Take a butterknife and give the cap of a stuck jar a good tap before trying to twist it off.