emily, blinkenlight witch

@emily@sparkly.uni.horse
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I make electronics go beep boop and tools go spinny. Also, I pet cats sometimes.

Follow requests require approval because bots and asshats; if you have literally anything to convince me you're neither of those things I will probably accept.

I understand nuance and will not be mad if you respectfully disagree with me on something. (I hate that the state of the internet is such that this isn't a default assumption.)

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Show threademily, blinkenlight witchApr 4
actually I don't need to use USB for this, I have a spare laptop with a broken screen and a NVMe port. I can just use the much cheaper cursed NVMe to PCIe adapter
emily, blinkenlight witchApr 4
is this how they get music into the internet
emily, blinkenlight witchApr 4

what search term do I want for a thing that plugs into a computer's thunderbolt/sufficiently-future-USB port and gives you an external PCIe slot

this seems like it can theoretically exist, since there are USB-to-M.2-NVMe enclosures, and M.2-NVMe is just weird shaped PCIe, but can I do it with only one weird cursed adapter instead of two?

emily, blinkenlight witchApr 4

When it was time for me to be paid, I would send a picture of a watch to the payment chat, and Philippe would say “send that watch to London.” Then he would say “the buyer is happy.”

On March 16, 2025, I smashed my old phone with an axe and put it down the drain at my mother-in-law’s house, as Deel’s lawyer Asif had advised.

just normal opsec things~

Show threademily, blinkenlight witchApr 4
past emily hasn't gotten me that good since the time I fucked up a cloud-to-butt replace rule and spent a comically long time convinced that "cloudon" was suddenly a cringey new slang term for clickable icons
emily, blinkenlight witchApr 4

it has been 0 days since past emily pulled a ridiculous computer prank on me

f12 hasn't been opening the browser dev tools lately and I've had to use ctrl-shift-I instead. finally got annoyed enough to investigate today. first thing I tried was making sure it was actually sending a key event. it was!

the key it was sending? XF86Calculater(*)

F11 was XF86Calculator, but nothing uses F11 for anything so i had not noticed. this was part of my experiment to see if they were actually different

(*) https://sparkly.uni.horse/@emily/114253605720647065

emily, blinkenlight witch (@emily@sparkly.uni.horse)

today's fun cursed keyboard fact: xkb (the thing both X11 and Wayland use for keyboard input) defines keys called XF86Calculator and XF86Calculater they are distinct keysyms and you can bind them to different things

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Show threademily, blinkenlight witchApr 3

"thanks, feedback improves google ads"

the reporting will continue until corporate behavior improves or i accomplish the task that led me to be using this browser

emily, blinkenlight witchApr 3
briefly using a browser with no plugins (including ad blocker) and taking the time to report every single ad i see as "not appropriate"
emily, blinkenlight witchApr 3
typography is my passion
emily, blinkenlight witchApr 3

nearly 7am and i'm still awake, thinking really hard about what kind of trash cans boston uses

(i had a very strong mental image of boston as a place where all buildings are made of red brick, and all trash cans are the sheet metal cylinder kind. looking at pictures of boston i have concluded that the brick thing is accurate but i have absolutely no idea whers i got the trash can association from. i should note that i have never been to boston.)