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Picked up the BattleTech game on the Steam sale, and it’s the kind of BattleTech RTS experience I’ve wanted since I was 13.
A L P H A S T R I K E!

My daughter has recently requested that I teach her to program, so I’ve picked Unity and C# (something I’ve had to pick up for this). She’s now starting to get curious about what I actually do for work and has indicated she’d like to learn a bit of hacking.
Curiosity is wonderful, and I’m super happy I get to feed it. I recon she could deliver a DefCon talk in a couple of years if she carries on, probably before her old man.

ferrofluid inside of a rotating magnetic field acts as a 2D projection of the 3D magnetic field

Trying to reduce the power utilization of this circuit, and i finally tried the one thing that made the most difference:

Running the whole thing at a lower voltage.

I mean, yea, you can turn off all kinds of shit in the microprocessor, and code in deep sleeps and all that, but running at a lower voltage, man, that's the good shit.

Liking my new Keelback. You’ve got to hand it to Lacon Spaceways, they know how to design a cockpit.

"ratchov@ modified sys/dev/audio.c: Add a "record.enable" mixer knob to control recording. When recording is disabled, the device records silence. The control may be modified only by root and defaults to "off", ie. recording is disabled by default. ok florian, deraadt" marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152

They’re redesigning Homestar Runner to work in a post-Adobe-Flash world. This is the best news of the year. homestarrunner.com

An oldie but a goodie: The Case of the 500-Mile Email:

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. "Come again?"

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."

ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail

Introducing the new KFC kids mascot, CluckButt.

Hehe, birdsite appears to be borked. Will take status updates, and search works, but the timeline is dead as a doornail.
Now may be a good time to flag accounts interacting like nothing is wrong as the boys they obviously are.

Has anyone else had a problem with Amaroq on iOS not being able to post toots with images?

This cat isn't wired right. He's been terrified of everything and everyone since he was a kitten. When he's happy, he actually raises the fur on his back and tail in what is usually the fear response. We've started calling this his "happy fur".
It's taken 5 years, but he's finally decided myself and Mrs. Fish are OK to relax around.
His brother on the other hand DGAF and will ninja the ham from your sandwich while you're making it.

Voyager 1 has not been inactive for 37 years. It's been sciencing all the science since it launched, and we've been talking to it constantly.
It has had thrusters that have not been used since 1980 fired up to use as attitude control, and that's all.
That's the story.

So there is a giant purple penis monster in Persona 5.
I just had to beat it.
K.