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oxoniaon “I just chose words carefully”

Ye gods! The fact that this was done by hand... I have no words.

oxoniaon Encoding Mod Files Optically on Paper, as Amiga's Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks

MOD is Music Tracker MODule file format, not the UK Ministry of Defence.

oxoniaon Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)

Looks good - is there a way to play back?

oxoniaon Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father (2024)

Now that's writing.

oxoniaon I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)

Oy vey.

oxoniaon Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made

Windows only? :-(

oxoniaon Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them

Yup - pretty obvious.

oxoniaon Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

* Backfired * :-D

oxoniaon The AirPods Effect

They are useful for blocking the obnoxious sounds that modern life impose upon us. The largest consumer hardware chain in Australia, 'Bunnings', plays a notice over the store loudspeakers regularly (perhaps every 15-30 minutes) warning that violence against staff will not be tolerated.

I'm not in any way an anxious person, but for some reason, the constant suggestion that I'm in a place where violence is a risk makes me feel upset so much that I don't visit my local store without my noise-cancelling AirPods.

oxoniaon Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

I typed my boss' name in and it returned:

"No stable person found"...

oxoniaon The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination

Is this where Smurfs (Smurves?) came from?

oxoniaon An AI robot in my home

Why design a website with the box on the bottom left covering the text you want us to read? Crazy.

oxoniaon Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other

Yet "tc" does?

oxoniaon Font Rendering from First Principles

Too long an article (about type!) to be in white monospace text on a black background.

oxoniaon User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

I think packetlost knows that. I think the argument being put forward was that "if you are the kind of person that thinks that speech is violence, then you would believe that allowing someone a platform..."

oxoniaon Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear Words

Tell us more.

oxoniaon US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

Not a good document. Needs a faded picture of a dragon on every page.

oxoniaon What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)

https://archive.is/MHzBO

oxoniaon Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

"At the end of its operations, Blue Ghost will stay put, destined to remain on the moon’s surface indefinitely."

Is that a euphemism for "Humans are leaving rubbish to pollute another part of the universe?"

oxoniaon Regex Crossword

Edited - never mind, this is obviously random strings of characters.

oxoniaon The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside

What kind of activities could they do that would appeal to you (and other young people like you)?

oxoniaon The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside

I've moved across the world 4 times in my adult life. Every time I have made deeper and faster community connections by joining a local church than through any other means.

oxoniaon Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

This is disappointing. Anything similar available for Intel Macs?

oxoniaon Bluesky has launched RSS feeds

That was my experience with Mastodon. Discussions tended to turn shrill and regularly be dominated by extremes.

oxoniaon Apostrophe Protection Society

Have you ever read ‘The Monkey Wrench’, by Gordon Dickson?

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v47n06_1951-08_MadMax...

oxoniaon The cottage industry of YouTube obituary pirates

"Dead end"

oxoniaon macOS Sonoma is available today

Yes, the Homebrew message does seem unnecessarily hostile. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new computer every year.