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@mhoye Is this supposed to be referring to power consumption? Or am I trying to see intelligence where there is none (just like with LLMs)?

@cstross @mhoye @mwl according to the Kickstarter page, it's a standard Bluetooth HID device which doesn't need any drivers (this makes sense, because I'm strongly guessing they use the Nordic nRF52 series SOC, and it would be harder to build a proprietary protocol than just go with the standard HID example).
I assume the desktop app is mostly doing custom gesture recognition based on the raw data?

WER WAR DAS? !!?!11elf! 👿
Mein innerer Schwob ist traumatisiert 😭
#bayern #food #allgaeu

As it turns out, the difference is a bit more complex than I remembered: https://stackoverflow.com/a/180993

@gsuberland good point 😕 what made you think it's starting, BTW? I noticed Bitcoin is down 30% or so, that sounds like an indicator?

@gsuberland yes please.

Got totally stumped today by the difference between re.match() and re.search() in Python. 🤦
But seriously, why does re.match() even exist when it's just adding an implicit ^ in front of the regex?
#python

Found by @maximilianh somewhere in the UCSC basement. Not that I ever needed to learn Fortran, but now I kinda want to 😅

@UKFilmNerd My immediate reaction was "oh sure, they'll release everything, just _slightly_ redacted" (i.e. one big black blob per page). 🙄
OTOH, given the high competence levels in this administration, it's probably just black text on black background and you can still copypaste everything 😈

@cv Brilliant. If you put both the VSCode and Emacs stickers on your laptop, you can get _both_ kinds of neckbeards to explode 😈

@dalias @lothcat already got accidentally Wham'd by the kid yesterday 🙄

@annaleen you're missing Bavarian sweet mustard, which is the only appropriate condiment for Münchener Weißwurst (Munich white sausage). 😋
(You can perhaps guess I'm originally from Munich. 😉)

OK, what the hell? This sounds like the worst case of bullshit bingo I've ever heard, that's basically the last three hype cycles combined?! I doubt this sort of thing will get a lot of traction on the Fediverse. 🙄
Update: seems like the account has already vanished again, probably some sad attempt at SEO spamming?

@DonChacale @skykiss it's right there in the NPR article.

@sixtus @MontyZuma WER WAR DAS? 🤯
Wenn diese Security-Fortbildung aus mehr besteht als "wir installieren eine Antivirus-Software" fresse ich nen Besen. 🙄

After the battery in my work laptop started inflating, I had to fall back on using an 8-year-old Thinkpad X270 for a few days, and what can I say: it works just fine for 95% of work tasks, probably because it a) has 16 GB RAM and b) is running Ubuntu 24.04 instead of Microsoft Bloatware (TM). 🤷 
#linux #ubuntu #microsoft

@leyrer Ne sorry, Weltmeister im Umfallen ist schon immer noch unsere SPD. Was die schon alles "mit großen Bauchschmerzen" abgeknickt haben, weil sonst ja die schöne Groko mit den ganzen Kabinettsposten gefährdet wäre... 🙄

@UlrikNyman @randahl If that's the best clip that Fox News could find, then...

Applied electric engineering: route mains power through a hotdog and get just the right voltage divider for testing LEDs 👌😋
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/09/2025-component-abuse-challenge-dawg-gone-led-tester/

It's been a while since I posted my personal collection of weird #HCI papers: https://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/rants/weird/
Any good stuff from the last 1-2 years I missed? Bring on the crazy 😁