Nora, Tech Witch
love it when i post a link to a long, in-depth article about how and why, physiologically, weight loss is hard and the weight loss industry, including doctors, are failing in specific ways and my mom responds with:
"Yes, but keeping that weight on is hard on your knees and your feet, and that can keep you from enjoying the outdoors. It can mean you have to go in for knee surgery, with attendant risks. There are at least two sides to every story."
Nora, Tech Witch
I really fucking hate higher education
Like I love maths but I never had a decent maths class until freshman year of college
So despite all my test prep I never really had a shot to get into a real eng school
I could have gone to Cal Poly but I thought Beloit would be better
But I was uh. Wrong.
Nora, Tech Witch
@diodelass oof. All the scopes here are analog except the MakerLab DSO, and it suuuucks. I should have gone to an eng school...
Nora, Tech Witch
@diodelass very apollo 13
"now duct tape the bag to the canister and stuff a sock in the hole, then set the filter mode to AUX"
I used to have a decent analog scope and it pretty much singlehandedly (with some help from Limor Fried) taught us analog electronics
the digital stuff just feels clunky to me now
possibly only because I have a crappy cheap DSO but still
Nora, Tech Witch
nothing in the world feels as viscerally _cool_ to me as casually reaching above my eye level to flip a switch without looking and getting it on the first try
i feel like han solo or something
Nora, Tech Witch
Oof. Lua sure is A Programming Language huh
Nora, Tech Witch
So, cool; ADS-B antenna now moved a bit further into my room, and set up on a systemd unit on my desktop, so I can easily turn it on and off when I'm using the RTLSDR for other stuff. And actually the antenna is OK for other bands too.
Dockers🦄
Hey, so it's looking likely that I'll be kicked off my Masters course if I can't raise the funds for my last tuition fee payment by the end of June. This is over £2000.
I finish in Oct, I can't quit this close but I've also had a change in circumstances which means I can't afford it, even with 2 jobs.
The shame of asking for help is less embarrassing than getting so close, putting so much time and effort into it & not graduating so if you could help I'd appreciate it 🤞
holly! 🎉🧡:sparkles_fiery:​
omg, I just found out that @netkitty did guest vocals on an anamanaguchi track! it’s v good
remmy
Good morning #MagicalMinka!
(she is like 15 cm away from my face, lying on my ribcage)
snackolantern 🎃
lesbians are rreally reallty good
Ghast ✅​
hahaha hell yeah
Nora, Tech Witch
Beloit College students once again demonstrated remarkable solidarity and performed one of the best, most effective protests I've ever seen. It was amazing. As usual, our administration was fucking useless and allowed YAF to attempt to provoke something they could use for propaganda, and they just ended up with one of the funniest stories I may ever have the privilege of experiencing first hand.
Nora, Tech Witch
So, following on to the Beloit College drama: Erik Prince (of Blackwater) visited campus to speak and...
... ended up literally cowering in a bathroom. Not that students were being violent. He was hiding from a drag show and a drum line.
Nora, Tech Witch
@jalcine your facial hair game is on point
Andrew (R.S Admin)
"We need to break up Big Telcoms, Big Tech, and Big Content. This is a ghastly slow-motion train wreck and we can't afford to ignore it."
Nora, Tech Witch
@gewt I believe in you gewt
Jo Jerrica Decker
Yowch, Paramount is releasing an animated movie without a director credit because the actual director was fired for being a perv and the movie was just about complete by then. o.O
Ya favorite tho(ugh)t
I told my patrons a couple of days ago, but I recently started an Invidious instance to the growing set of PV services because using YouTube is awful, but there is still some really great people making some compelling stuff on there.
June
This project to retrofit a house for energy efficiency with pretty low-tech is great. We need more of this at the DIY scale. Getting buildings to regulate themselves and also tackling simple efficiency issues like, you know, insulating walls, using thermal sinks like concrete... so good.
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