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Hi, I'm Danko, 37, from Riga, 🇱🇻 #Latvia Mostly #webdev, mostly #TypeScript, sometimes #Rust. Curly braces, semicolons, tabs. #Linux noob since 2005. Cishet white […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://loud.computer/@virtulis, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

A meerkat stands upright on one of vertically standing logs, looking around, because that's how meerkats do. Another meerkat comes from out of frame on the ground, walks around the log, quickly checks for anything interesting under every stick and stone, then climbs up and rejoins the first meerkat, and they continue looking around together.
A wooden sculpture of a man sitting on a large retro boombox in swimming goggles, diving fins and either a large fin or a mohawk (or both) made of rebar spikes on his head. He seems to be lost in thought. Or music.
Five capybaras of four different sizes peacefully munching on hay under a tiny roof
A photo of a pair of over-ear headphones (Audio-Technica M50xBT2). The headphones are in a "metallic orange" color, except for the earpads and the headband, the latter has now been wrapped in a beautifully and carefully knit orange headband cover. The color doesn't quite match but meshes really nicely with the orange and black. The headphones are laid on a polyester printout of allegedly a Pantone chart showing mostly shades of orange. It's pretty dirty because I use it as a mousepad. I think I might like orange.
Screenshot of the Readme for the above, where "a:b::c:d" is rendered with a 🅱️
Info plāksne no Rīgas Mežiem: ESMU STUMBENIS, joprojam vērtīgs koks! Esmu mājvieta un barības vielu avots, slēptuve, un varu būt arī ligzdas vieta dzīvnieku mazuļiem. Es esmu neaizstājamā dzīvās dabas sastāvdaļa, kas nodrošina bioloģisko daudzveidību. Daudzas augu un dzīvnieku sugas bez manis nevar pastāvēt.
Discord message from me: Time feels broken in the most peculiar way in that it's somehow equally ass to play both for and against
A screenshot of the "Body" section of the article showing how the movement of the embroidery needle is controlled using twenty bits encoding addition and subtraction of powers of 3 (x/y plus/minus 1, 3, 9, 27, 81) The arrangement of the bits makes it obvious it was punched into paper by humans and read by a machine as it went, but why powers of three is less clear.
An aerial view of the Stockholm archipelago somewhere around Vättersö I think. Lots of greenish islands of various sizes and clear deep blue water. It's early Saturday morning and weather is great. A row of three ferries is slowly crawling towards Stockholm proper. In the upper part of the shot there's a wing with a green winglet saying airBaltic.
AirBaltic booking showing "Economy Basic" for €33, and "Economy Classic", i.e. same thing but with luggage and seat selection bundle, on the same flight, for €159.
A pack of baked potato and semolina based snacks that may or may not legally be designated "chips" depending on the local laws (but are branded "Long Chips" anyway). This package proclaims "salami pizza" and has the flag of Italy as the background.
A video of a Hedgehog running across asphalt pavement at night. It's a long boi with a long snout and only its hind legs are visible, making it look like a fuzzy flightless bird. If you squint hard enough.
Where Ina, an eldritch horror, and CJ, a human, meet a "biblically accurate" "pigeon" Ina: hello, self-righteous vermin. "Bob": hello, unworldly abomination.
Your ΔEOK JND 0.0034 Okay this is genuinely impressive. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.
A handwritten notice on the doors of a clothing repair shop reads "due to technical reasons, the workshop...", interrupted by a new notice glued on top "... works 10:00 to 16:00 until the end of February"
Prezentācija "Virtuļa ekonomikas pieeja ilgtspējīgai dekarbonizācijai un iedzīvotāju iesaistīšanai" (no zalabriviba.lv)
The post above, rendered in the Servo's built-in minimal browser with the "experimental features" enabled (denoted by a radiation hazard sign, for some reason). Almost all the of the text is bold and italic, except the part of the post in italics, which is only italic. Some icons are rendered at a wrong size/offset. Otherwise, the layout is mostly okay.
A commit by me titled "Only 47 typeofs in my typeof account" It has 58 changed files with 103952 additions and 46079 deletions.
A frame from a Doctor Who Comic Relief special "The Curse Of Fatal Death". The Master, sporting a pair of shiny brass half-spheres in the chest area, explains: "They're not breasts, okay? They're Dalek bumps. They can detect ion charged emissions and operate as aetheric beam locators at a distance of up to twenty thousand light years."
Furfuryl Furfurate A ridiculously-named molecule, about which I know virtually nothing, although I'm told it's quite smelly and may be used as a vapour phase polymerisation inhibitor. It got its name from the Latin "furfur", meaning "bran" (the source of the compound). A related molecule, furfural alcohol is apparently used in the fabrication process of the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) sections used in the space shuttle.
A TP-Link Wi-Fi range extender, a small white box plugged into an outlet. It has two flat rotating antennas along its sides. When rotated downwards, it looks rather sad.
This item is currently unavailable in my location
Lord of War clip: I would tell you to go to hell, but I think you're already there.
A panel from the Questionable Content comic, a conversation between two antisocial anthropomorphic AI beings: "Lemme guess- she's the first person dumb and/or persistent enough to put up with your shit for more'n 20 minutes, so you imprinted on her like a baby chicken."
A photo from above a large format printer. There is a smeared mess of colors on a film, this was supposed to be a picture. There are repeating vertical bands of blue and orange, and two large, reflective puddles of black ink in the middle. Also some bonus checkers painted in white and orange on the metal clip holding the film.
AirBaltic checkout upsell: Starting in 2025, Europe will mandate adding SAF to jet fuel, beginning with 2% in 2025 and increasing to 70% by 2050. To accelerate this transition, you can opt to add more SAF voluntarily. We commit to using the fuel you contribute within 12 months. Options range from 88 cents for "approx 2%" to 44 for 100%, presumably referring to the average amount of fuel required to carry an average passenger, which my fat ass certainly exceeds.
— Датские военные с крылатым единорогом на шевроне покупают полную тележку монстеров. — Это промпт или ты в очереди — Я в очереди
Photo of me trying to press Ctrl+Z on a GPD MicroPC 2, which I can only reliably do by twisting the hand and holding Ctrl with the thumb. That or using the right Ctrl, which I always forget exists. Sticky keys so far have been very easy to adjust to, except for the problem complained about in above post. (this text was written on this keeb. it's not as terrible as it seems)
Freshly unboxed GPD MicroPC 2, with a pair of scissors and a 5kg dumbbell for scale (both larger)
A thumbnail on bbc.com showing a woman visibly exhaling (whether it's smoke or condensation is not clear). Captioned "Only from the BBC: The simple test to check how old your lungs are."
Barbora: Amerikāņu dienas drīz beigsies...
A 500g package of Rūjiena barberry and marshmallow flavored ice cream, displaying a golden unicorn with a rainbow mane and a rainbow behind it.
A screenshot of the Wikipedia article about "Dauphin (rocket)" which is "a French sounding rocket, flown six times between 1967 and 1979."
An Ipega "phone-hugging" one-sided gamepad put around a Xiaomi Poco X3, effectively extending it on the bottom to have a physical joystick, d-pad and extra two side buttons. The screen shows AntiMicroX, used to rebind the joystick to be a "scroll wheel" and d-pad to be arrows. Bindings are rotated since the whole setup is supposed to be horizontal. But it looks way more cyberpunk like that, and is also surprisingly usable. Yes, those are CDs on my ceiling. No, you don't want to know.
Latvijas Pasta jaunais logo.
A Līgo bonfire, arranged in about 2x2 meter rectangular shape.
An image with a color fill going linearly from orange on the left to dark blue on the right.
Screenshot of Marinetraffic info on the container ship NCL Salten, currently stuck in someone's garden. Navigational status: Aground.
45Wh Battery, 9 Hours of Video Playback Battery optimization for ultra-long battery life, reducing the need for frequent charging. Provides stable and reliable power support, providing you longevity for creative work and entertainment.
Google's stupid LLM burning a tree to helpfully explain to me a common culinary statement I just made up right now. The phrase "three forks are better than four spoons" is a common culinary and cultural statement. It suggests that forks are more versatile and useful than spoons, especially when it comes to eating solid foods. Spoons are primarily for liquids and slurping, while forks allow you to cut, pick up, and manipulate food more effectively.
A recording of the last round of a recent Balatro game with a ridiculous joker build: - Two "Hanging Chad" (common), which retriggers the first played card two additonal times. - "Showman" (uncommon, negative) which allows buying multiple of the same joker. - Two "Photograph" (common) which doubles the multiplier when the first played card is triggered. - Two "Brainstorm" (rare, one negative) which retrigger the leftmost joker. I play a Two Pair (multiplier 8) with a Queen going first. It's triggered nine times, quadrupling the multiplier every time. The round ends with one billion scored out of 400 thousand required. It's 11 am on Monday, it's all downhill from here.
A screenshot of a portion of an email rendered in the Gmail web UI, where sections of the text have instead become vertical columns of varying widths.
A four step how-to on changing the firmware on Western Digital HDD controllers. Step one is an image of a "Hot air rework station", helpfully clarified to be the "firmware transfer tool" we are going to need.
A tiny wooden tower-like structure painted white with red ornaments and a wind vane made of metal bowls on top. From behind it peeks out a lizard-like creature made out of a huge log.
Commit message input: Filter by Italy 🤌
A spam email (proxied through a vulnerable form?) from a "security researcher" inquiring about "paid bug bounty program", waiting for the details to be shared to yaseen17money@hotmail.com
@virtulis Hi, I'm Nicole! ...
A page on the English "version" of the Stockholm local transport authority. Full content follows below. There are no links. Timetables Use the online planning tools or pick up a timetable. Timetable booklets are free of charge and you can pick them up at the SL Centers. SL Center are our travel information and customer service centers that are located around town. You can download a timetable at the Swedish section, but that service is not available in English. The timetables are in Swedish, but should be fairly easy to understand if you have a slight command of Swedish. Plan online The easiest way to plan your journey, however, is to use the planning tools here on the homepage. Choose between real time departures if you are on the go now, or scheduled departures if you want to plan ahead.
Steam dialog, covering another unknown dialog underneath: Authorize Device Enter the 4 digit authorization code showing on false to allow it to connect and play games.
A code screenshot of a Rust test named "silly", showing my first attempt at using Cranelift JIT (and Cranelift in general). It uses around 30 lines of code to define, compile and call a function that takes two 32-bit integers and returns their product. The code is mostly copied over from their JIT demo, omitting any actual logic. The test ends with an assertion that calling it with 6 and 7 produces 42, which may or may not be correct, but currently matches my observations.
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