a.k.a. Odie

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Sometimes doggo. Always engineer. Software, hardware, RF, vacuum tubes, audio. Many interests, such wow. 🏳️‍🌈
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The name “JPEG XL” implies the existence of other next-generation file formats such as:
• Big PDF
• MP3 Pro Max
• SVG Deluxe
• 7Zip 7Furious
• DOCX-treme
• GIF Supreme
Sometimes my brain goes  and I make memes like this
"GMod is like an introduction to site reliability engineering. Shits all fucked and you have to stick broken things together to try and do anything."
The new challenge is writing a thoughtfully crafted email response that doesn't have any suspicious behavior to make the recipient think you used Gemini to do it. It's like taking professional technical writing 101 all over again ...

The ID verification stuff won't stop until people loudly and boldly advocate for sex and kink to be treated like properly protected forms of expression, artist medium, and normal facet of human life.

The "no kink at pride" community is now fascist adjacent.

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity

I've got so many issues going on in my own space at the moment....it might seem selfish but I simply can't pay attention to the world events at this time. Sometimes you have to make an attempt at just taking care of yourself before you can even think about others. :/

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

Easily Replaceable USB-C Port Spawned By EU Laws

The USB-C port has become a defacto connectivity standard for modern devices, largely supplanting the ugly mess of barrel jacks and micro USB connectors that once cursed us. While their reliability…

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