Notices by Emilia (lazerwalker@xoxo.zone)

It took three tries, but I finally managed to cobble together a DIY air purifier for VOCs that my home VOC sensor (wildly inaccurate, but directionally useful) claims is sufficient for my space and VOC exposure.

A giant carbon canister, a vacuum HEPA filter, two PC fans (I started with one and upgraded based on sensor data).

This is ONLY for filtering VOCs (smoke/gas), it is NOT useful for COVID.

Parts in next post.

@mekkaokereke I know only half the votes have been counted, but it’s wild to me that the “ban indentured servitude” prop is currently losing

@annika The two seem relatively unrelated to my mind, for my workflow at least. Unprocessed tabs are things that would go in my task tracker if not for ADHD, but my task tracker is not my knowledge base

referring to Twitter as “X”: lame, bootlicking, fascism-supporting

referring to Twitter as “X, the Everything App”: consistently hilarious

Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!

@clarity In Germany, literally every beverage bottle (occasionally plastic, overwhelmingly glass) is returnable to the store, and it’s fully culturally the norm you’ll return your few dozen bottles for the few euros bottle deposit refund

New “sick person computering from bed” tech unlocked: thigh-mounted magnets (via concealed carry holsters, lmao) to mount my low-profile split keyboard in place.

Combines with cheap AR glasses for the 80s/90s dream of a “cyberdeck”

@thomasfuchs May not be helpful for your needs depending on specifics, but whenever I need to run WinXP software (fairly often for a previous work project) I used virtualization via UTM. Never tested out how well it does USB passthrough from a host computer, but it's incredible how well it works. Even works great on an iPad.

@annika @ghost_bird Hah, my Modern Witch deck is lovely, but ironically it’s the deck that’s stuck in storage that I’m trying to find a replacement for until we’re reunited

Okay. I need a new tarot deck. I want it to be extremely queer, and to support indie artists, ideally with an axis of marginalization beyond just “white cis queers”. Dare I ask for recs?

cursed fact: Adobe Podcast's "Enhance AI", a tool for noise removal and voice boosting, firmly believes that any audio you give it *must* have human speech.

If you upload, say, vocal-free chiptunes playing on a Game Boy, it will *find* the speech.

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Hello friends! It’s my birthday week!

In case you didn’t know, I’ve been housebound with chronic illness the last few months. Life is slow, boring, and lonely.

It would make me very happy to get a voice memo/message from you of some sort, even if we’re only mutuals. Something nice going on in your life, a joke, whatever. DM if you need contact info.

Ahahahaha, apparently nobody my age wants to send voice memos. I will also accept pet pictures.

Putting a bumper sticker on my Redis server that reads “this machine fills cache hits”

Old / disabled person post: holy shit blue-light blocking glasses have changed my sleep hygiene. Not F.lux-style software, not scammy blue-light-blocker prescription lenses, bright orange safety goggles that spike my HRV and make me sleepy the moment I put them on

Get yourself a doctor who specifically sends you a link to compression socks with a suitably high compression that are also trans programmer socks

@annika have you considered microwaving it

@thomasfuchs @gameboycamera I can sadly warn that’s unlikely. Unless there’s a novel new technique here, most custom GB Camera carts rely on you desoldering the custom image coprocessor off of an original GB Camera cart, so the most productization you tend to get is “here’s the files to fab your own PCB + case and a parts list”

@thomasfuchs I think about this meme embarrassingly regularly

@Sylvhem The UV-printed shell, buttons, and screen lens are all from a site called Retro Modding (although a lot of people sell plain colored shells, and you can UV print your own designs), it just needs a few screwdrivers. The replacement screen is a RIPS v5 screen from the same site, it needs some soldering to install.