the first thing you realize when you set up a pi hole is how much trackable noise all of your devices emit.

it's interesting how we remember things. i just found myself typing the first few characters of a password i haven't used in 15+ years. it's surprising i remembered it, and not at all obvious what triggered that set of physical movements...

My hypothesis—and i'm open to counter-arguments—is that the people who are most optimistic about the state of AI tools that write code, don't write code day to day. And that they see the cryptic output that these tools generate, and they think it looks a lot like the cryptic code software developers write. QED.

What I personally really want is a tool that can look at some code and explain to me what it does. That would be useful!

are SMB and NFS really still the “state of the art” in file sharing on Linux? I feel like I’m back in the early 90s…

I bought an Ensoniq EPS  quite a long time ago (c. 1988). It got a decent amount of home studio use and then went into storage. Note the box of DS/DD 3.5" floppy disks (each with 720KB of storage).

Somewhere along the way I added a SCSI interface to save/load from SyQuest 44MD removable disks (small board with the ribbon cable to the right of the large capacitors).

Amazingly, the keyboard still boots from the system disk, and all but one sample on that disk loaded and worked. One key sticks when pressed, so I will need to fix that.

Once I address any other hardware issues, I think I'm going to replace the floppy drive with an emulator that reads USB drives. The EPS had its own custom disk format, but it seems like the floppy emulators deal with that.

#ensoniq #eps #vintagesynth

there's nothing like rolling a natural twenty to make your day!

#dnd5e

well that was a I hope I don’t die uber ride!

the weird thing about this game is that when playing zombies I feel like the rules are biased against zombies, and when playing heroes the rules are biased against heroes. but the last games have been close.

so the rules are balanced, I guess? 🤷

#boardgaming

prediction: the next zelda game will be in space