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gaudystead··on Restroom Archive
Cool project! I wanted to make something similar, but for archiving bathroom graffiti! Yours is a better implementation than I would've accomplished though, so I'm glad you did it!

What was your original goal(s) for the effort?

gaudystead··on Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
I was going to comment this same thing until I saw yours. I miss degaussing... Especially after holding a magnet to the CRT to get it to display fun colors it wasn't meant to and crossing your fingers that the degauss would fix the damage you'd wrought.
gaudystead··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
Regarding the honeypot allegations, I'm guessing they're referring to the connections between 4chan's founder, Christopher Poole, aka "moot", and Jeffrey Epstein:

https://www.ms.now/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-4chan-chris-poole

gaudystead··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Hell hath no fury like an inconvenienced power user.
gaudystead··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Your username betrays you, because this is indeed a good idea. Thank you for sharing! I'd never heard of this, but now have some cool gift ideas for family & friends. :)
gaudystead··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
The operators of the phone system are consenting to the call being recorded by informing you that the call is being recorded. You are consenting to the call being recorded by continuing with the call.

How is that not two party consent?

gaudystead··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
I'm sure some businesses are considering moving back to on-prem, but for many, I suspect the cost to find onboard, and pay the SMEs to keep those systems running well enough to not fail due to one reason or another isn't as appetizing to them as the ability to offload that work, along with the legal responsibility.

When something goes wrong, pointing the finger at someone else is far easier for most than pointing it at yourself.

gaudystead··on The lost joy of music piracy
Can I offer you a SomaFM[0] in these trying times?

They're entirely listener supported and the music they play is - to my knowledge - entirely human curated. I've found many tracks and artists new to me, with some artists not even having a presence (or a very small one) on Spotify.

Their curation is so good that they've become a significant resource I go to when seeking out new music. It feels like a warm hug from people who probably were also users of what.cd back in the day. Some of the humans who make up their team are the ones who play the music at DEF CON each year, so I take that as a good endorsement that they are well equipped to have good taste and be fellow music nerds - a compliment of the highest regard.

They're worth your time (and money, should you choose to donate).

[0] https://somafm.com/

gaudystead··on Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church
Can confirm... Was flying back home and during a layover in Mumbai I grabbed some food from the food court. It was only after having sat down and eaten most of my food when I noticed that there were pigeons roosting directly above where my meal was purchased from, with their poop stains dribbling down the raised walls directly above the food. That was a particularly rough set of flights back home, but I lucked out and had a fairly empty flight for one leg of it that offered a full row of empty seats for me to lay down in and disassociate from the pain on.

(for anyone who is unaware, the airports - the ones I passed through, at least - in India are fairly open air, so birds were a common sight within them)

gaudystead··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
Minimum Vibeable Product
gaudystead··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
For anyone reading the above comment and wanting to see what the commenter might be referring to, here is the first YT video I found on that channel that is relatively brief but has an example of the techniques involved:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G_QZIGVYX_4

gaudystead··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
I recently discovered openevidence.com, and it's apparently what many doctors have started using for diagnosing patients (with or without their consent). It could be worth looking into for trying to find an explanation of symptoms that might not have a clear diagnosis. It may also just be the new WebMD once it gains more popularity (or even already), but may be another tool in your arsenal all the same.
gaudystead··on Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
That's assuming the attacker informs Creative of the attack. A malicious actor could go to the showroom, update the firmware on all devices, and simply let them continue on as normal, waiting for a future opportunity to strike.

Let's hope Creative patches things before something like this happens.

gaudystead··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
Any chance you'd be willing to share a template of your spreadsheet?
gaudystead··on Leave Me Behind
Curse you for this ear worm of a song, but also my brain keeps wanting to interpret this as "duck... You're bad at your job and will never amount to anything. Your mother is ashamed of you and you're the reason your father is an alcoholic." hahaha
gaudystead··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
Might as well go for the limit and replace the comma with " &" (space ampersand)
gaudystead··on Cartoon Network Flash Games
From someone who likely played your work in my younger years, thank you for it!
gaudystead··on The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
I haven't trusted that disable switch for a while now... I'd always had it disabled, but there was one conversation in particular where it referenced a past conversation - despite memory being disabled - and when I asked it why it responded the way it did, it pretended I was mistaken and told me it has no memory of past conversations, even though I could scroll up and see it in the response.

Just because you flip a switch doesn't mean the switch is _actually_ flipped. Same thing goes for turning off wifi/Bluetooth on iOS.

If it's a software switch, it's closer to a promise than a guarantee.

gaudystead··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
It's not "_cease_ all motor functions"?
gaudystead··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Every day feels like a day closer to, if not already at, a day where discerning customers are the minority.
gaudystead··on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Are you willing to elaborate on the _why_ or is this a challenge comment, similar to the reddit comment that spurred this project? ;)
gaudystead··on Fermented foods shaped human biology
Interesting... I've never heard of vodka being used in fermentation, but also I'm unfamiliar with Chinese styles of fermentation.

Are there any resources you can recommend to help speed up the education of someone wanting to learn more about this?

gaudystead··on Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
I'm guessing they mean punctuation in general?
gaudystead··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
To add to this, I suspect the data broker industry also has an interest in increasing the legitimacy of the data they sell about anyone they can get their hands on.
gaudystead··on Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)
I'm not sure how much more work is currently being done on a project I'd heard about in the past, but you might be interested in seeing if you can collaborate/learn from Open Source Ecology:

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

gaudystead··on 27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
I'm in a similar boat and am wondering... Is there much that can be done with these iPads beside turn them into e-waste?
gaudystead··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
I don't think it'd need Balatro playthroughs to be in text form though. Google owns YouTube and has been doing automatic transcriptions of vocalized content on most videos these days, so it'd make sense that they used those subtitles, at the very least, as training data.
gaudystead··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
I only recently discovered Reticulum, only to then learn that the developer has retired from working on it. Do you know if there's still any community members carrying the torch?
gaudystead··on Proof of Corn
What I got from this comment is that John Deere could be a competitor with Tesla for FSD. (/s, but only slightly)
gaudystead··on Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
I just happened to recently learn about Reticulum from another part of the internet and find it fascinating. Am I correct in thinking that it can basically run on anything that can run arbitrary code and the ability to talk to another device? (seems like it'd even work over serial if one had the determination to make it work)
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