BigHeadMode

BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza

Looking for work! Data scientist who likes to extend the life of technology. <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#tech</a>, <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#politics</a>, <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/furry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#furry</a>. The best time to own a computer was 2005. Let's create the electronics renaissance.

Posts

Post #4475550
Thread of #history comparisons.
Post #3897397
A fascinating tour of CD and CD-R technology, as it pertains to burning PlayStation 1 game backups. #retrocomputing #retrogaming https://alex-free.github.io/psx-cdr/
Post #3897396
hey, me and the buddies were wondering if you wanted to wear these translucent goggles. all they do is filter light. there&#39;s no screen. if there was a screen blocking our entire vision it couldn&#39;t hypnotize us. and even if it could, none of us would be turned on. you in?
Post #3897395
Drag name Paula Treeadeeze
Post #3897394
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike/116920901536083947 #retrocomputing bat signal on repurposing this
Post #3897393
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is weirdly hard to manage and browse on Linux. It&#39;s only a few commands to find and mount each partition, but Proxmox automatically creates like 5 right off the bat, plus one per VM (?). Most disk tools, even Linux ones, won&#39;t let you peek inside. It&#39;s just a big blob of LVM.
Post #2573846
who knows how real this is, but &quot;gay teens&quot; have supposedly picked up Penny Arcade, and one anonymous person claims to have read 27 years of the 3x a week comic strip in 2 weeks. https://www.tumblr.com/pamegacorp/815710387633848320/im-finally-caught-up-with-penny-arcade-wooo-i?source=share
Post #2573844
I need to set up an open NAS share on my network. All my distro hopping gets annoying when I want to save some files before wiping.
Post #2573841
Are you sitting down? This is a big one. They made a gritty reboot of... are you ready? *The Wizard of Oz*. There&#39;s more lurking under the surface than the 1939 movie would have you believe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_City_(TV_series)#Critical_reception
Post #2573838
The best parts of Xanadu (1980) are some of the best sequences ever filmed. Experience the pure joy of Xanadu and Electric Light Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9GdyGD5e4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGOECYAU_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DhJdGNuu8 Sidenote: the worst scenes of Xanadu are unwatchably atrocious.
Post #2573836
TIL you can submit CVEs for anything. CVE for &quot;Online Catering Ordering System in PHP with Source Code ... for educational purposes only&quot; Due to high numbers of CVE submissions, NIST is no longer reviewing all CVEs. https://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1tc57la/nist_is_surrendering_to_the_amount_of_cves_coming/
Post #2573831
Before Rejewski started work on the Enigma, the French had a spy, Hans-Thilo Schmidt, who worked at Germany&#39;s Cipher Office in Berlin and had access to some Enigma documents. Even with the help of those documents, the French did not make progress on breaking the Enigma.
Post #2168692
Ploopy also makes a build-it-yourself headphone kit for $200! https://ploopy.co/headphones/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bjMzrK3FUs
Post #2129447
A "stray" cat just ran into my house within 5 minutes of me opening the door.
Post #1898218
If "An Extremely Goofy Movie" (2000) were made today, Goofy would be obsessed with 50 Cent and Grand Theft Auto 3. He would meet a woman who "collects 2000s memorabilia" and bond over a prop from American Idol. He would dress like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfXfkuhPqo
Post #1858539
#AskFedi I thought someone on this server was working on an automated video compression workflow. I thought it was called Sisyphus. I can't find anything about it on here or Google. Help?
Post #1748939
A smorgasbord of entertainment!
Post #1708896
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge Just a pleasant read.
Post #1703230
woah! https://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/ via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824943
Post #1703229
Sony&#39;s table tennis machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrGq8ltb-_E
Post #1679855
I love looking through decades-old yearbooks. A snapshot or a funhouse mirror of a moment of time -- the time many say was the height of their possible futures. @detondev@social.linux.pizza have you ever done this? Some of them can be funny. A lot of them make me nostalgic. A lot has changed and a lot of them are exactly like what my friends would do in high school. Can be better if it's local, because you can see how your area changed.
Post #1618475
wait, you can observe gravitational effects between two non-planetary bodies here on earth, with the naked eye, using cheap consumer level weights? I don't think I've seen this at any science museum. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/we-still-dont-have-a-more-precise-value-for-big-g/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
Post #1549477
The 4th-gen Kindle Touch (2012) tracks inflation perfectly. It loses value in real dollars over time, but inflation keeps the price steady. It's been $20-$30 for about a decade.
Post #1534448
The state of #Framework funding fascist DHH: - David Heinemeier Hansson is still a fascist. He is annoyingly part of various right-wing tech communities. He created a spin of Arch called Omarchy. Hyprland is the window manager for Omarchy. - Framework probably doesn't support him directly. Previously, they sent him a laptop and praised Omarchy. They also sponsored DHH's sour grapes Ruby on Rails conference last year. He made the conference after his keynote was cancelled at another one....
Post #1511717
Someone just paid $10,000 for a Pokemon Snap Blockbuster kiosk. Says he will display it at his shop, Retro Junk, in Connecticut. #N64 #nintendo #pokemon #retrogaming https://old.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1sqazjg/pok%C3%A9mon_snap_station_kiosk_acquired/
Post #1359894
Woah, parts of this unearthed Robert Johnson master(?) recording are like they rescued him from the bottom of a well. Deep noises especially - check around 1:12. New master: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnNi8oPsrQ
Post #1336109
I know these are necessary steps on the way to a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer, but spending millions of dollars and 15 years to "factor 15... and later, 21" is hilarious.
Post #1119518
almost my dream #ereader. size looks excellent, i'm not sure about the button ergonomics https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2026/04/this-review-is-not-about-paper-the-xteink-x4-ereader/ https://lifehacker.com/tech/xteink-x4-ereader-review
Post #1116395
From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan’s Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/10/from-early-nirvana-to-phish-a-chicago-fans-secret-recordings-of-10000-shows-are-now-online/
Post #1115340
One of my all time favorite review statements: >Gradually during the opening scenes of “Joe Versus the Volcano,” my heart began to quicken, until finally I realized a wondrous thing: I had not seen this movie before. #film https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/joe-versus-the-volcano-1990