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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 13h

Not great, not terrible

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 2d

I started HRT today. ❤️‍🩹

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 4d

Ubuntu strong!

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 4d

LITERALLY SO FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

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sam (pjfrix) @pjfrix.bsky.social · 4d

day 6/31 - "image" (ft. bri rodez)

thank you @cctl.me for implanting a specific melody into my head

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 7d

When did they get rid of ads? Holy shit F in the chat

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 7d

zap2uh tune on that thang

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 8d

"PLEASE, PLEASE, IT'S TOO MUCH WINNING! WE CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! MISTER PRESIDENT! IT'S TOO MUCH!"

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 9d

Sick!!! Dude I'm so fed up with Spring, the production/shipping took way too long... I had a bad feeling that would happen but hey at least you got yours!!

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sam (pjfrix) @pjfrix.bsky.social · 10d

i helped create the graphics for (in addition to reverse engineering) this. check it out!

Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 10d

here's a recording of my Zap2It channel guide that I brought to VCFMW this year, courtesy of @weather.horse's Panasonic CRT with a built-in VCR.

A longer video of the schedule config we ran is available here: dl.cctl.me/public/Video...

I'll probably add some more videos there soon!

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 10d

here's a recording of my Zap2It channel guide that I brought to VCFMW this year, courtesy of @weather.horse's Panasonic CRT with a built-in VCR.

A longer video of the schedule config we ran is available here: dl.cctl.me/public/Video...

I'll probably add some more videos there soon!

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 10d

Gushers collab with Nokia? Interested to know where this one came from. Had to have been 1997-1999 because that's when the Nokia 5100 series was the flagship model

Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 11d

wait till they have to deal with the many early web browser exploits and re-image their machine for the 4th time this week

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 12d

if Twitter doesn't have to comply then neither should you

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 13d

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our Approach to Age Assurance - Bluesky

We’re committed to keeping our community informed as we navigate new regional regulations.

bsky.social

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 14d

bruh

Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 15d

so anyway The Weather Channel has resorted to using AI for Jim Cantore's voice... even the text feels like it was generated by an LLM. Note the "Ai-Assisted" in the bottom left.

It comes as no surprise and is honestly pathetic. Soon they'll lay him off too and use his name and voice without him.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 16d

Any bets on how long until yt-dlp will have to switch to a full browser automation stack (ala selenium, playwright, etc.) to snag YT videos? github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...

[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads · Issue #14404 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 16d

wow that's freaky. TIL if you ask ChatGPT to find local places (with memory disabled!), it will oblige happily!

and then when you ask it how it got your location, it will swear upon not knowing your location, saying it doesn't do IP geo-location.

don't believe me? try it!

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Alex "The Frightful Skeleton" Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 17d

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 17d

tylenol gang stay strong ✊

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 18d

i'm just building my little empire

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 19d

That is so stupid I literally thought it was only a toggle switch that whole time

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 19d

Okay I love Android but why am I unable to set a notification sounds SPECIFICALLY for all text messages? I can set a tone for texts from specific people, but I cannot distinguish all texts from regular notifications.

Why? Does anyone know a. Work around or am I just stupid?

Samsung S22 Ultra btw

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 22d

Interesting to nobody: I have rev-engineered the batch-send process of the Texscan MSI CompuVID Spectragen 4B titler/chargen system and have a Python script that successfully completes a full serial communications cycle.

Why is this important?
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Console output of python script showing full communications cycle between a modern PC and a Spectragen 4B unit over serial cable.

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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · 23d

life of an SGI O2

A computerized drawing of a blue desktop computer, depicted with large butt cheeks and a caption that reads "Everyone is so mean 2 me 💔"

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