IcedRaktajino

joined 1 year ago
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

A few weeks ago, "horny posting" became the latest bandwagon here, and I got bored of it, so temporarily blocked the handful of accounts posting the bulk of those. Usually these bandwagon themes fizzle out after a while, so I check back every so often to see when it's safe to unblock them.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Would that make her kid a demi-Demi Lovoto or Semi Demi Lovato?

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

"Computers" but same.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

Adding this to my reaction image collection.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 78 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Wait, what? Unless that's an allegory for AI or something, that actually sounds pretty nice.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

Was it because Blanche is a southern belle and said "you all" instead of "y'all"? Cause I had to grumble about that at first.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And Linux, but agreed lol.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah. Lenin, Marx, Betty White, and the Golden Girls.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

I get that it isn't the same but when all you have is a garbage version of a memory, I'm not sure or really matters whether the representation is the original garbage or something that makes you feel less regret over not having something better.

In my experience, the worse the photograph the better my memory of it. Probably because my mind is already used to filling in the blanks in the garbage version, so it's constantly refreshing the memory in my mind to keep it vivid. YMMV obviously. I'm also not much of a shutterbug and prefer to commit moments to memory than try to fight with my phone to snap a photo I'll probably never look at.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Are you able to tag the appliances after you've huffed all the freon out? I've got an old fridge in the basement I need to get rid of but can't until I get someone out to extract the freon and put the evacuation certification tag on it.

DM me if you can help.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I will always use "M as in 'Mancy'"

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was surprised by that, too. When I went looking for a way to decode them with RTL-SDR, I assumed it wouldn't be parsing the audio but a narrowband data stream. TIL also.

Edit: It does kind of make sense with it being AFSK encoded in-band, though, or maybe I'm just so used to it being that way. I always thought the screeches were there to demand attention (and also be something that headend equipment can pick up and respond to). So it's interesting they're doing double duty as both an unmistakable audio cue to pay attention as well as containing the actual alert data.

Plus there are NOAA stations all over the country rather than centralized like the time signal transmitters. It was probably cheaper to do it in band at that scale.

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