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@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 😁
If you're in the mood for some slightly morbid entertainment, this Wikipedia page is a goldmine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths_in_the_21st_century
An eclectic blend of some seriously unlucky people on the one hand (e.g. the guy who was peacefully sleeping in bed when a cow fell through the ceiling and killed him) and Olympic-grade Darwin Award candidates on the other (e.g. the guy who died of septic shock after injecting himself... with dead butterflies). 🤔
Oh damn, my laptop has started to inflate 😳
The lid doesn't quite close anymore because the battery is pushing the keyboard up. This is fine. 🫣
@azonenberg that sounds like the plot for some old school whodunit.
@libreleah There was a hilarious case recently where a little city needed to renew some regulations related to the fire department, and the local "conservatives" passed a motion in the city council to not use any inclusive/multi-gendered wording. The mayor then decided to just use female forms throughout the whole document, and now the conservatives are very pissed 😜
@andreasofthings There's no way the original post is for real. Nobody can be this delusional. Right? RIGHT??
@odr_k4tana @abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen unfortunately, very true 😕 I'm trying to lead by example here (because, at some point, I turned into a "senior academic" 👴), but it doesn't feel like there's much impact yet - I feel like you need to have a lot of patience in this race, and that's a luxury most non-tenured folks cannot afford 😑
@abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen 100% agreed - this is exactly why @jovi exists! (which is also diamond OA, and focuses on the HCI/VIS community)
Coincidentally, we're looking for additional ACs and steering committee members, so I sense an opportunity 😉
@kasdeya this is very accurate 👌
@joe @cliffle who would ever need to invent stuff like Brainfuck or Malbolge when good ol' C is right there 👌
Bit of a dilemma: out of curiosity, I assigned a minor issue in SurfaceCast to Copilot, and somewhat to my surprise, it actually produced a sensible and well-explained PR. 🤔
Now, do I just merge this and help MS make their AI counter go brrrr? Feels like a waste to throw the patch away and reimplement it myself...
PSA: I had a lot of issues with #Thunderbird being unbearably slow and eating up insane amounts of memory.
Turns out the user profile I had been using has been hanging around since 2012 (!), so this had accumulated 13 years of cruft, despite the occasional folder cleaning.
Created a new profile and moved all my settings over, which was annoying, but definitely worth having a usable email client again 👍
@fm_volker Obviously, I didn't pick up 😉
@isotopp TBF, our current branch of reality could easily be a Terry Gilliam movie 🤷
Somebody called my office phone yesterday. This hasn't happened in the entire 5 years I've been at AAU. What is this, the nineties?
@Scmbradley agreed 👍
(to quote my friend who's a CS prof in programming languages: "well played" 👌)