“If you want to test a man's character, give him power" - Robert G. Ingersoll (1894)

Oh. My. God.

The game Menace has taken over my life. I can't stop playing.

So, I just personally discovered CLIAMP. A terminal-based music player with pretty much all the standard features I'd come to expect from a native GUI player. However, this has native Navidrome/Subsonic support. So, I can stream directly from my own music server in the #homelab! So sick!

CLIAMP — Terminal Music Player

A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp 2.x. Play YouTube, Spotify, Qobuz, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, SoundCloud, NetEase, and 30,000+ radio stations from your terminal with a spectrum visualizer ...

cliamp.stream

This is the finest explainer I’ve ever seen

I really dig this type of "additive" upgrade/enhancement tech.

ASUS Oxiis E250G1 Intelligent Bike Booster | ASUS

YouTube video by ASUS

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logging into bluesky

"Fuck you, pay me."

CNBC Make It@cnbcmakeit.cnbc.com · 2mo ago

Add these 4 words to your vocabulary right now, experts say: They can make you more influential at work

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

Starting a new band named 6ft Ropes.

Disco Gnostic@mazov.bsky.social · last wk.

Thought I stumbled into the InfoWars store somehow

Precisely 0.0000323 femtoseconds after starting my 2.5-day fast: "... I'm hungry."

2013 RETVRN

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · last wk.

We need to bring "glasshole" back. It killed Google Glass, it can destroy Meta perv glasses too.

Those yaks aren't going to shave themselves.

Thomas Fuchs 🫯@thomasfuchs.at · last wk.

experience of upgrading to a new phone on the Apple website youtu.be/5W4NFcamRhM

Sounds like something someone who doesn't live in a large city or take public transport every day would say.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

The hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity | Stefan Stern

“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work

Latest episode of Strange New Worlds is 😗👌

Love our annual pilgrimage to the Scenic Rim so much.

👴

Hans Kilian@hans-kilian.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't think any video games were released that year, so we'll have to make do with a board game

"Indie games are not gonna save gaming." True, because they already did. If indie games didn't exist I probably wouldn't be playing games anymore.

evergreen

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2w ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

Palette Swap@paletteswap.site · 3w ago

One shopping mall, soon to be rebranded to “Malltroidvania,” is trying an unorthodox method to stay relevant in a challenging financial climate. paletteswap.site/dif...

A bricked Proxmox backup server after a carefully-guided point release upgrade and reboot wasn't on my bingo card tonight, but here we are. It's an old Intel Skull Canyon NUC that I refuse to part ways with. So annoying; most problematic mini PC I have.

same honestly

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3w ago

Luke: "I'm just not into Souls games, I'm being tested enough as it is" aftermath.site/i-hate-souls-g...

lol... lmfao [ weeps softly into own hands ]

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3w ago

The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit

🫠👌

Dr Neil & Mr Price@drneil.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s really starting to grind me down

The absolutely took me the fuck out. HELLEWWWWW! 👋😬

Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 3w ago

One look at this man tells me his chili game is S-tier. Let him cook ( his chili... in the back row of an imax).

I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Okay now it's getting real