chris

@[email protected]
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Introvert but curious guy, tech, ecology, left politics, lgbt-friendly, bike, master of none, alternative lifestyle appreciation.

Engineer building stuff for oceanography : electronics that can't avoid sea water, C code on 20+ years-old mcu, 1.5-ton buoy deployment on low budget.

pronounshe/him
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3365-5313
work@CNRS_INSU
chrisApr 26
⛧-440729 [sophie raven]Apr 25

tip: web requests should not be measured in Hz [hertz] as that is only used for periodic frequencies, which random events (like requests hitting a web server) are not!

measure them in Bq [becquerel] instead

chrisApr 19
rar64Apr 19
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RenMar 31

Found this today, and I must share it.

The person who made the site has been relaying Bulbapedia descriptions of Pokemon to their mother, who has been drawing them entirely based on those descriptions.

The results are wonderful.

https://pokemum5.wordpress.com/

PokéMum

My mum knows nothing about Pokémon, but loves to draw. These are her renderings of Pokémon based on descriptions from Bulbapedia.

PokéMum
chrisApr 14
Show threadBaa 🐑Apr 12
@mica
chrisApr 12
Jonah Aragon Apr 11
Do big tech companies understand consent?
Yes
0.8%
Remind me in 5 days
99.2%
Poll ended at .
chrisApr 8
dmi 💽 Apr 7

\o/ VLC in space

@videolan

chrisApr 7
I found a working PC/104 board with a VGA output at work. It has msdos but I need to find a PS/2 keyboard now.
Idling, the thing is gobbling 0.5A at 5v 
chrisApr 4
Show threadChris BohnApr 4
@az I think it's time to update this comic.
chrisApr 4
Aure Free Press Apr 4

"Trump Killing Middle America As Quickly As He Can!"
— Aure

Trump's CDC Announces Discontinuation of Testing for 31 Diseases, Including Rabies
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

More News at @Free_Press
https://share.newsbreak.com/hzohfcue

CDC Announces Discontinuation of Testing for 31 Diseases, Including Rabies - NewsBreak

The CDC released a statement saying that the agency would pause testing for rabies and other infectious diseases, likely due to downsizing.

NewsBreak
chrisMar 31
Stephen JudkinsMar 30
That's right
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wyattFeb 10
Oh yeah windows vista had an RSS feed reader

Never forget what they took from you
Show threadtidyFeb 10
@wyatt most browsers did
and like, feed autodiscovery too... sighs

i recall a time when most every site had a feed, oh geez and google reader too ;-;
might've been the killing of google reader that killed rss for normal users...
Show threadwyattFeb 10
@tidest I knew seamonkey did because it still does
and I remember when firefox removed them
Didn't remember even internet exploder having them
Show threadReid Feb 10
@wyatt @tidest how could you? Who actually used Internet Explorer by that point, especially on Windows Vista which never broke past 30% market share.
Show threadavatastic  Feb 10
@wyatt desktop widgets! they had such potential, it's a shame they had to be so obnoxiously over-sized.
Show threaddiffie :3 (bindiff)Feb 10
@wyatt RSS reader was a standard functionality of a web browser, for some time. Even Firefox had one.
Show threadwyattFeb 10
@jwo seamonkey still does
But I didn't remember IE ever doing it because to me IE usually means 6 and lower
Show threaddiffie :3 (bindiff)Feb 10
@wyatt They also experimented with “accelerators” or IDK how it was called. It was some integration of webpages with (IIRC) text selection and maybe some widgets too. I tried to use it then, but I don't remember that well.
Show thread Mima-samaFeb 10
@[email protected] Still here in the IE11 hidden in Windows 11 ​​
Show threadwyattFeb 10
@mima nice but i'll ignore that because windows 11 is aids