leadedsolder

@leadedsolder@snack.social
374 Followers
88 Following
1.2K Posts
Old computer repair, history, and programming. One of these days I might actually use one of the machines I've fixed up. #retrocomputing #pc88 #pc6001
Homepagehttps://www.LeadedSolder.com
Pronounshe/him
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/leadedsolder
@gsuberland once you delete all the files the risk of a breach goes down significantly

I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

@th ooh good tip, thanks. I'm not sure why the console is blocked, it was working fine in the emulator when I built the image. A problem for another day when I get a working mouse.
@gsuberland Steve will be back soon to set all this right
@kiwa eventually my kid is gonna find my high school mp3 cds
It was super fun to present my talk, 'the unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform', yesterday at #Teardown2025! It was gratifying to have a full room that mostly seemed to be following along with my ADHD firehose; my goal with this talk is to demonstrate that this sort of radio technology doesn't have to be only the realm of experts, but instead that it can be accessible to almost everyone.

When I have a video available, I'll post it. In the mean time, here are the resources from it: https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
@vga256 love a board fix.
@MuseumJoe have you considered fleeing into the woods and living as a hermit, only leaving occasionally for supplies and various revenges?
@ChartreuseK @errant @CursedSilicon that would explain it. You should add some more SparcStations for structural support.
@delan thank you for making this!
×

I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

@lowqualityfacts Um, she's right though. I think mastodon is less then 10M users? Good luck..
@lowqualityfacts they deserve 10 billion boosts and you're so close now!

@lowqualityfacts

Make the number bigger.

@AinsleyLowbeer @lowqualityfacts

The 70 Billion Low Quality Facts Boost,
Where are they hiding?

@lowqualityfacts
They are adorable. I hope you get all the boosts.😻
@lowqualityfacts you've got 15 now so only 7 more to go.
@lowqualityfacts
769 more boosts to do my part.
@lowqualityfacts the alt text is a bit misleading because only Fishy is on the framed stitched art while Ruby is on the wood floor beside it and him. anyway i would have boosted this even if it was just Fishy and Ruby with no boost request lol
@lowqualityfacts Your fiancée MUST be wrong about the population of the planet because my local McDonald's says, "Over 100 Billion Served". Either that or it's proof that we're being visited by aliens!

@lowqualityfacts

Innumerate mouth breathers will be the reason our grandchildren consider cats a food group. I'ma callin' it.

@lowqualityfacts

It is a little-known fact that a BILLION is a thousand Millions. (that's— 1/10% —NOT 1%)

People who argue about the significance of statistics often get this wrong.

10 billion is THIRTY times the population of the U.S.

If your fiance marries you, they are a fool. But I suspect you knew that.

@lowqualityfacts A Finland study indicates there are actually more than 12 billion people on Earth.
Earth Could Have Billions More People Than We Ever Realized

Is our little blue marble of a planet actually a lot more crowded than we thought? A new study suggests we've been significantly undercounting populations in rural areas, because of the grid-based method typically used to count people.

ScienceAlert
@lowqualityfacts Early intelligence reports indicate you’ve likely obliterated all previous mastodon boosting records, it’s incredible, no one’s ever done what you’ve done before!!!

@rolfsf @lowqualityfacts

We’ve got this 💪

Here’s xkcd on comprehending gigantic numbers:

http://xkcd.com/3102

Reading a Big Number

xkcd
@lowqualityfacts
I don't know what a "billion boost" is, but I can't imagine it would be that hard to get 10 of them.
@lowqualityfacts 10B? That's nothing :'p
@lowqualityfacts 57 already! You're halfway there!

@lowqualityfacts is it worldometers.info?

9 billion by 2027 - January?

Tim.

@lowqualityfacts
I boosted it TWENTY billion times on my other account. (I hope it’s not blocked by your instance.)
@lowqualityfacts i boosted 7 billion times, but it only shows as one

@lowqualityfacts

I’ve got to remember what little C I once knew, get used to my new Linux os again after 10 years away from it and perhaps re-learn a little BASH scripting, and the I’m gunna hack your instance to give you 54 billion-squillion boosts!

Just you wait and see!! 🤣🧐🧐👍👍

@lowqualityfacts

Wasn't there a Mastodon account with the display name "10 billion", so that with a couple of carefully timed boosts you could see
10 billion and 8 others favorited your post

@lowqualityfacts Your cats have opinions on this
@lowqualityfacts ten billion is hardly a mile of freeway these days

@lowqualityfacts

Yeah. It's fine this time.

Usually- I am a dog person, but hey ... Like the email virus where the developer, confessing his incapability, asked for manual distribution of his mail 🤣