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ChaoticNeutralCzech

@ ChaoticNeutralCzech @feddit.org

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  • Magic Hat ⛄

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  • I can't believe they still made Hot Frosty after this comic came out. At all, really. Even kept the obviously working title.

    Edit: Never seen the movie, just the Pitch Meeting video

  • FlushMe app - Bizarro

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  • Thanks but it will take a while before I get my hands on a Raspberry Pi or another computer to install HA on. The bulb may have been fully reverse-engineered or not at all, I have no idea yet. It's a Tapo device from TP-Link.

  • FlushMe app - Bizarro

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  • Yup, that's what it's called

  • FlushMe app - Bizarro

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  • I found a "smart" Wi-Fi bulb in the trash and used a throwaway phone to pair it through its app. It was adjustable white and RGB, so I put it in the bathroom and thought I'd trigger it to be dim red (cicardian rhythm, you know) whenever it was night (using a built-in RTC, NTP or light sensor, whatever it was capable of). Well, nope! It only connects to Wi-Fi when powered on (understandable) and only takes orders from an external server god-knows-where, with limited local functionality (party-light cycling, WB matching, optionally remembering the last setting). It does not notify the server when its power turns on (only when switched via app or smart button) so it cannot be configured as a "smart event". The closest I could do would be to create a time event every minute:

    22:00 turn on 25% red22:01 turn on 25% red22:02 turn on 25% red•••04:29 turn on 25% red04:30 turn on 100% warm white04:31 turn on 100% warm white•••21:59 turn on 100% warm white

    I'm pretty sure there is a limit to timed actions so I can't just do it this way. I guess I know why it got trashed while still working as intended.

    I'll be looking into Home Automation *Assistant and see if there is a compatible firmware to flash on this piece of shit. Or I'll just use my electrical engineering skills to combine red and orange LEDs into another bulb and give it a separate switch. *(Edit)

  • TIL if you google 'Comic Sans', the search results webpage will change font to Comic Sans

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  • I heard they had to make it freeware to put into web standards. So they didn't and still made it annoyingly ubiquitous? Bastards.

  • TIL if you google 'Comic Sans', the search results webpage will change font to Comic Sans

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  • Comic Sans is freeware. Also, they can use CSS to force Comic Sans if installed.

  • Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart.

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  • Home inspections would trigger lots of backlash. This will just regulate physical stores because the lawmakers are boomers. Also you can't have a massively-multi-dildo display at home if you expect snitches to come over.

    Maybe they'll use this as an excuse to monitor people's online activity and/or mail. What if you're buying dildos? Also lathes and 3D printers might become popular among sex shops for on-demand production. Invest!

  • Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators | Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC

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  • They did paste it correctly but in Markdown, you have to type three. The first one escapes the second, and the third one escapes the underscore and prevents the pair from becoming an italics flag.

    1: ¯(ツ)/¯2: ¯(ツ)/¯3: ¯(ツ)/¯

    The examples above are slightly fake: the unescaped right underscores in lines 1 and 3 would mark the start and end of another italics segment, so I escaped them to imitate what happens in a comment with no underscores except this kaomoji.

  • Google gets an error-corrected quantum bit to be stable for an hour

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  • "Let's use deuterium (stable) instead of tritium (t½ = 12.3y) so our nukes don't expire in a few years."

    "Will it work?"

    "No but it will be stable."

    "I can't believe you haven't been fired earlier"

  • Google gets an error-corrected quantum bit to be stable for an hour

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  • it only lasts for an hour

    "Only"? The "industry standard" is less than a millisecond.

    Show the academic world how many computational tasks the physical structure of that coin has solved in the 15 years.

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • We're not suggesting moving away from the HTTPS protocol. Gmail and other web email apps, as well as Word Online etc. still use HTTPS to communicate with their backend infrastructure. They are just registered in your browser as apps that can handle the mailto:// or ms-word:// URL schema. This registering most likely happens automatically when you have visited a page that supports the schema so fediverse:// links would continue working for Fediverse users - they'd see a prompt to open the link with their home instance's web app (its web interface like the default web UI) or a dedicated web app they are already using like Voyager. What would need to change is just a minor thing: browsers would need to offer the default web UI of target instance as fallback: for example, even if you haven't visited any Fediverse site yet, the link fediverse://lemmy.example.com/post/1337 will show "lemmy.example.com web interface" in the "Open with..." option list, redirecting to https://lemmy.example.com/post/1337.

  • Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000

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  • And then internet trolls briefly pumped the coin again so the kid will always feel like he missed out on $3M.

  • It's time for "The Talk"

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  • The small text for accessibility:

    the daddy gives the mommy a very special gift. The gift of a brother. Daddy has a penis, and Mommy has a vagina. He sticks his penis into her vagina, and Mommy has an egg. Sperm comes out of Daddy's penis and that comes into contact with the egg. When this happens, the sperm enters the egg and it causes over time for something to develop inside Mommy. Nine months later, the gift is delivered. Timmy, this is where you came from eight years ago. Lorem ipsum [...]

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • The disadvantage is, Reddit and other platforms will never add support for [fediverse hyperlink](fediverse://example.com/post/1337) Markdown syntax, or even start blocking it (they can already block known Fediverse domains but there would be backlash if they did).

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • You wouldn't need browser extensions to open links on your instance

    App maintainers wouldn't need to maintain lists of instances to correctly signal "I can open this" to the OS

    So if your Mastodon instance just sprung up, you can just give someone a link like fediverse://masto.darkthough.ts/post/1337 and it will auto-open using the app and instance account of their choosing.

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • Look up what a URL schema is. Examples include https (obviously handled by your browser), ftp, mailto, ms-word etc. The mailto one is most well-known for letting you choose between in-browser (Gmail etc.) and native (Thunderbird, Outlook etc.) options on desktop and mobile. There does not need to be a formal protocol and port, it's just a way to signal support for a kind of content via URL.

  • What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse?

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  • It could continue running on HTTP(S). Did you know browsers and OSs can handle different URL schemas than the ones they natively open (http, https, file, data)? Ever saw a mailto, magnet, ms-word etc. URL schema? They can be opened with an in-browser or native app of your choice, and this has worked for years. Yes, clients would need to be patched for support but that's easy. I would only add "instance's native UI" as a fallback for people coming from outside the fediverse.

  • LET ME OUT

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  • It's a pretty chaotic way to say

    If you need a toilet, go in and to the left...HOWEVER, keep the doors closed because cats are not allowed in. They are not able to get out and have [passed] here.

    Just kidding with the last part

  • Donald Trump announces plan to change elections

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  • In elections where there needs to be a single winner so proportional representation does not work, how about this (already works in several EU countries):

    Round 1: Anyone can participate if they have enough signatures. If anyone gets the majority vote, they automatically win and there is no round 2.

    Round 2, 1 or 2 weeks later: Top 2 candidates from Round 1. No votes are carried over. Popular vote wins.