kepstin

@kepstin@tenforward.social
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I'm kepstin, but trekkier. (recently moved from @kepstin)

I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend.

I contribute to the BigBlueButton open source conferencing software (while working for Blindside Networks), I'm a developer on the Exherbo Linux distro, and I sometimes poke information into MusicBrainz.

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beverageflavoured rooibos, i'm cutting out caffeine. (this used to be a Star Trek joke)
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Websitehttps://www.kepstin.ca/
kepstin4d ago

So I've been thinking for a while that the reason oral-b has come out with a new, incompatible, electric toothbrush system is that they had some patents which were about to expire.

Anyways, I was in the store the other day and they had store brand toothbrush heads compatible with oral-b brushes, at about 2/3 the price.

kepstinJun 16

Rather impressed with the software preservation for the love live school idol festival games.

All the game assets were saved and are on a cdn, or you can mirror them locally. Reverse engineered game servers have been written. A modified app is available which connects to localhost, letting you run the server on the same device.

Amusingly, the cdn is faster than the one the game used in live service. Combined with the server on localhost, the preserved game performs a lot better than the original did.

kepstinJun 12
I wonder if the Lego company still does all of their injection mold tooling in house. I know they used to be really protective of their tooling - requiring overseas factories to return worn tools, etc. But nowadays the design patents have expired, they have factories all over the place, and so much of the tool and die expertise is in China.
Show threadkepstinJun 12
I turned it on and the air inside was anything but frigid. So I guess that's good news for using it as an oven, but seems a bit like there's some false advertising going on here.
kepstinJun 12
I'm slightly concerned by the fact that my oven says "Frigid aire" on the front of it. How is it supposed to bake anything like that?
Show threadkepstinJun 6
With the reduced bandwidth you get on super long play VHS I think you're lucky if you can get a dozen distinct colours across the width of the picture
kepstinJun 5
4:1:1 chroma subsampling, also known as "well, at least it's not as bad as VHS"
kepstinMay 25
Normally you expect band merch orders to be delivered in the mail, but every once in a while for local indie bands someone from the band might drive over and deliver it personally. Kinda fun when that happens.
kepstinMay 22
Kinda sad when you order something direct from a manufacturer in order to avoid using Amazon, but it turns out that they use Amazon for their direct sales store logistics.
kepstinApr 29
An interesting thing about how important people feel that this election in Canada is right now is that the Elections Canada website https://www.elections.ca/ has been having technical issues - been up and down all night. The live results page in particular is overloaded right now.
Élections Canada en ligne - Elections Canada On-line