Notices by mallaidh (dork aspect) (mallaidh@witches.town)

my ideal world only has one law: if you want a pen to have bright-colored plastic, it can't be different from the ink color

looking at you, blue and white pen with black ink

When the moon hits your eye like that Caddyshack guy, that's Bill Murray

when you're listening to some jazz on youtube and just slightly start hearing the little bits of compression on the cymbals and you just close the tab out

when you tune into a college radio station and remember what FM with dynamic range sounds like

it's terrible that nobody uses trivial file transport protocol any more, just wasting the opportunity to utilize port 69

who needs blockchain when you just write stuff to a git repo and assume nobody can actually figure out how to remove it

Alright, I've got one last #openbsd question for now: When I close the lid it'll go into ACPI sleep/suspend mode, and when I open the lid the fans spin up etc., but the screen remains turned off and the indicator lights on the lid and power button only go into the slow blink mode. I've tried the following inputs, and none of them worked:
- all Fn-function key combos
- all Fn-number combos
- power button for normal duration
- keybind to close X11
Only thing I can do is to hard shutdown. How can I either fix this behavior or disable the "suspend on lid close" functionality?

Thinkpad T440p,

🤔 https://witches.town/media/CJwcWXmPQJgoiHA9-Fw

:blobpats:? at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely on the top of your head?

what's cooler than being cool?
:blobpats:
alright alright alright alright

sudden github outage, if only there were an alternative version control system that was decentralized :thaenkin:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912
this hackernews thread about a slack downtime is both a riot and aggravating because of how helpless almost everyone acts in response to centralized services failing. there's just no conceivable way that management could change over to internal IRC, or that any alternative to slack exists. only one person suggests using talk(1) to solve the problem, while others make claims such as ircd setup requiring "rare expertise"

just cracks me up that the vaunted capitalist enterprises and venture capital "hackers" are so terrified of setting up an irc daemon for a local network

how many punchcards would it take to give someone a physical copy of blobpats

non-cpu hardware opinion: i'll take a good physical volume knob over a software control any day of the week

#nowplaying
"Mrs. Parker of K.C. (Bird's Mother)" by Eric Dolphy with Booker Little. This album, Far Cry, was recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ on December 21, 1960 but went without a proper full release until 1989.

what's type punning, you ask? well, instead of annotations you let the compiler figure it out after you've given it a few ints

@djsundog yeah, it always sucks to hear about stuff like this. a little over fifty AM stations with three-letter callsigns still left, dwindling every once in a while.

sad day for radio history today, one of the oldest stations in america goes dark on january 1st. callsign KQV, one of the few stations east of the mississippi with a K prefix.
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/one-of-oldest-us-radio-stations-to-go-dark

i feel like mastodon supporting svg upload would be a good feature

cat jethro > /dev/tull