Notices by brennen (brennen@mastodon.social), page 11

@hfrazey @earthtopus where does the flamethrower i have been contemplating assembling fit into this hierarchy of needs?

@acasajus these are the notes i wrote last time i was really thinking about something like this:

https://p1k3.com/2018/4/19/

...probably not super useful, but maybe slightly relevant.

some of the debian packaging tooling might be of interest?

@acasajus hmm - manage how? i know that, like, python setuptools can pull versions out of git tags. there are probably other things that do that. or are you looking for something that generates the version numbers themselves?

me too, buddy.

@vfrmedia @craigmaloney @djsundog @jk it's kind of a shame someone isn't collating all the little fragments of retrocomputing knowledge that flow through the fediverse into some kind of reference volume, because i see more fascinating random shit here...

hoodie weather has arrived.

i've just finished an entire bag of lays salt & vinegar chips and the thing about these is that they are neither a good salt & vinegar chip _nor_ a good lays potato chip.

2/10, hope not to regret eating again.

@envgen @jk i really miss the lolcat era when various expressive animals spoke to us in a set of sorta funny but actually quite rigorously constructed dialects.

@jk well you wouldn't think an entire clucker would fit, so it probably has to be eggs

@hfrazey i remember a lot more of this behavior in rural nebraska, where everybody with a big garden has tons of stuff to unload this time of year, but i don't encounter it near as often in the mountain west, where growing vegetables is borderline impossible half the time...

@sporks way better than the religious tract or town gov't notice i was expecting, to be sure.

i heard the front gate close and opened the door to investigate, found this:

@Murkrow for sure.

@Murkrow (...but as a child of the 80s & 90s, i sure do grant a lot of your basic premise. connecting things to other things used to be a nightmare in a way that it's very hard for anyone under the age of like 30 to remember.)

@Murkrow i think the practical utility of this situation actually peaked a few years ago. we're hurtling fast into an era of dongles, vendor-specific "usb c" implementations, and weirdo DRM bullshit embedded in everything while other legacy mechanisms with actual universality (basic serial, headphone jacks) get buried as fast as the industry can manage it.

@brainblasted if you don't follow @garbados yet, you might want to. :)

@hellojed i don't miss much about gmail these days, but i do kinda miss the theme where it would change according to the local weather. one of these days i'm going to try to replicate that but for my desktop environment and using local sensors.

@Shufei @cypnk mid 80s space lego set has been my aesthetic since roughly https://brickset.com/sets/6804-1/Surface-Rover

@Cat oof. uh, maybe a really old tomsrtbt?