Hacker. Parent. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. (they/them¹).
At Accelerando Lab I research, design and build custom IoT and electronics solutions...fast!
Every day I write a #PowerOnStoryToot over morning coffee, as a self-test of my brain. If you like them, buy me another coffee? (Link 👇)
¹ subject to change without notice 🐣
They’re undoubtedly useful and all, these smart glasses. I mean they’re really smart—no camera, who needs a punch in the face—but they have IR LIDAR to recognize faces and give me a little text overlay, like “Robert Howarth, you met them last year at the RAF Air Show, E works for Supermarine”. The battery life could be better, though; mine are flat right now or I’d give you a demo. Have we met somewhere?
“I’m Pam. Your *wife*”
“My grandma used to make cranes”
“What, like babies?”
“No, cranes used to be machines, before the Awakening”
“What, like you’d let a toaster lift steel bars over the street? Trust your children’s safety to a cable”
“Spoken like the Levitators’ Guild gave you that sound bite”
“Eugh, Why do you have a tub full of kidneys in your fridge”
“I used to keep the old ones when I upgraded in case I needed them”
“But you’re TC now, what would you even do with organic parts?”
“Yeah, I suppose I should lug a load to the organ bank. There’s a bag of lungs in the freezer upstairs, too. Oh and a spare head.”
“Finally, I think I’ve cracked it”
“Cracked what, I have some super glue here somewhere—u need?”
“No, doofus; I’ve analyzed how Metrodyne produce Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane at ambient pressure without distilling it from liquid TNT.”
“Hmmm. Catalysts?”
“Close. Witches!”
“What the tetrachlorinated fuck are you huffing, Jess?”
“Electromancy. They *argue* the molecules into reacting the right way. I’m sure that under the hood it’s some kind of quantum-observation effect, but reading between the lines of this HR spreadsheet that I got out of a data breach dump, they’re hiring every double-major Chemistry-Sorcery grad they can get.”
Cant correct the typo without losing votes, so if you are wondering a "keyboa" is a type of snake that can be trained to perform data entry.
If you are editing a command line and there are some characters that could be reused (eg changing an IP address from 192.168.65.197 to 192.168.65.176 where the 7 could be reused) how much effort do you expend:
@MelissaBearTrix i’ve heard the whole Fediverse Chick thing is some creepy stalker trying to harass an actual Nicole. If so, I kinda wish stalker asshole had chosen to attack someone who’d immediately rip his lungs out through his asshole.