LÆMEUR @laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org
Cartoonist/illustrator, hobbyist programmer and musician. http://laemeur.com || http://laemeur.sdf.org
tfw you have no idea how in hell browser C is computing a totally wrong width for an element, while browser F is computing it correctly.
@ddelony They use USecureBIOSEFI. After flashing the RAM, the chip, commonly located inside the computer's webcam, loads an HFS-formatted partition from the first 512 bytes of the boot disk into ROM. An a.out executable on this partition, who's location is stored in EPROM settings (defaulted to /sys/class/leds/backlight/BOOTx32.bios), is then executed which proceeds to launch your MS-DOS kernel.
Alternate reality where Dade Murphy, rather than Alex Murphy gets nearly killed and his brain is transplanted into a robot body except because he's a hacker not a police man, instead of becoming RoboCop he just becomes the robot on the 1088 confbridge who goes OH YEAH
connecting to a PDP-10 running Stanford WAITS #vintage #computing #lisp
goddamnit pulseaudio
I love having #Termux / #Emacs on my phone. When I want to draft some writing while I'm out in the world, I just hop into Org-mode, do what needs doing, then scp the text file to my #SDF shell account so that I can grab it from whatever machine I'm on later, without needing a darned USB cable. I would use my stupid phone only about 10% as much as I do if I did't have shell tools on it.
My friend Megaphysics and I are DJing at Ground Kontrol arcade in Portland tonight. Logical Aggression @ GK 2018/06/27 9:00 PM PST until close. It's free play night, so there's a $5 cover.
I'm bringing a bunch of Pyramid Transmissions, a couple of recent purchases (the first Il.Ek.Tro!), and some of what I've played on the radio this month.
Heading out in about 30 minutes. Will report back with a Strikers 1945 score tomorrow.
I use #GIMP for making art, and it does a great job at that, but when it comes time to share it out to the Web I tend to use #ImageMagick to interpolate down to lower resolutions because I prefer their algorithm's processing of line art. Here are some interpolation samples. Which do you prefer?
Best bumper sticker I've seen in ages: "I HELLA ❤️ HOMOS"
Had coffee with a friend and hung out this morning. Realized this morning that I have not hung-out with a friend in 6 years.
For a few weeks in 1941, Flash Gordon donned the uniform of the Power Men of Mongo and bore somewhat more than a passing resemblance to Carmine Infantino's redesigned Flash from 1956.
Well, I didn't get any kid-free time on fathers' day, but I did get a six-pack of one of my old favorite beers from my natal shore, which costs a pretty penny up this side of the border, so that was a very nice gift! Thanks, wife!
As much as I love VCV Rack, it should be noted that the thing is really a pig. Here's more-or-less the same patch in Rack and SynFactory (two concurrent patches in SF, 'cause each is running on a different MIDI channel and that's how you do it) — two oscillators with envelopes and filters for each, a couple drums, some distortion modules — and the SynFactory patch uses about ~20% CPU while the Rack patch uses... a lot more. I know, I know, SynFactory looks pretty, um ...rustic, but come on now.
Subgenii in my 'hood. #slack https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/hPmERyMqJgGHwHO70fc
2018: begging your parents to stop watching so much TV because it rots their brains / not to believe everything they read on the internet
So, Dockers has this line of khakis (which I rather like) branded as ALPH(α), which I think we're all supposed to read as "alpha", but... because they stuck the letter alpha in parens, I can't help but read it as alph-alpha.
