Notices by Eli the Bearded (elithebearded@fed.qaz.red)

@zwol

Quirky one I would have never thought of had I not encountered it: can the electricity stay on while you are out of the room? So you can charge things, eg.

Place I stayed at this year had the key card act as a switch for the power. You came in, put the key card in the slot, and you could turn things (including lights) on. Remove the card, it all shuts down.

Perhaps needless to say, there was no in-room fridge.

@patrickcmiller

I have a 2600 magazine shirt that has the back filled with reproduced press clippings about "advanced persistent teenagers" from well before that phrase was coined.

Nothing new here but opportunities.

@rgb
It's like Twitter was a giant spearphishing campaign and then it totally hooked the one guy with the pocket change to buy the company and mainline that bait.

@thomasfuchs
My system had this card in the 80s. It was definitely one of the lesser used accessories. Three floppy drives? Used all the time. Two printers? Yup, dot matrix one used for draft and the Brother daisy wheel with rs232 controlled used for higher quality output. Speech synthesizer used for games and gimmicks. Extra RAM used as extra RAM always is.

Tape drive used rarely. P-Code card used hardly ever.

Or maybe 483 wide x 1040 tall x 1920 frames?

It occurred to me recently that a video is a three dimensional array of pixels that we view in slices along one axis.

And what if we viewed it along a different axis?

Like a well-known 1920 wide x 1040 tall x 483 frames film opener as 1920 wide x 483 tall x 1040 frames?

"Looks like the spicy guacamole. The Japanese one."

He meant wasabi.

@redmp

AI we have: generate "photos" with the wrong number of fingers or teeth

AI we need: edit Drake memes to use a less problematic person

@aliss
I'd like this more if it didn't abuse Unicode to simulate formatting.

@HEX Do people with sites like that buy fonts for their sites?

@HauntedOwlbear I haven't put it on yet, but this Mother's Day I selected my Wikipedia "Free Knowledge" shirt.

Can't find a link for the non "women's" one, but this print:
https://store.wikimedia.org/products/wikipedia-free-knowledge-t-shirt-women-v-neck

I almost always wear tee-shirts, very few for bands.

@thomasfuchs I'm still thinking of that "how to tell heat exhaustion from heat stroke" thing you retooted and thinking "maybe not for me"

Tired: using a prong collar to make your dog look vicious

Wired: using Halloween "heavy" chain to make your dog look threatening

@NanoRaptor I already have a roll of "For rectal use only" stickers, do you really want me to get a new set?

@NanoRaptor I have imagined "Camera is for research purposes only" to be one with potential. Particularly near the toilets with proximity sensors for self-flushing.

@thomasfuchs I like that keyboard.

@thomasfuchs That looks like @6502B 's miniature.

https://www.miniatua.com/work/wopr/

@trevorflowers Last year @thomasfuchs was trying to sell his rifle handle 35mm. I think it was a Photo Sniper.

@BurgersMcSlopshot @thomasfuchs A guy at work is using Edge on Mac so...

Fun connections.

"Stereotype" is a printer's term. Moveable type is expensive. You don't want to keep it tied up longer than needed, so you make a mould from the set type and cast a plate from that.

The "stereotype" is the mould.

A "cliché" is what the French called plate made from that mould, it's onomatopoeia from the sound of removing the plate from the mould.

"Boilerplate" is widely repeated text from the round stereotype castings of newspaper columns ready to throw on a drum press.