matt bluelander 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

My summary: a full-time yob with a full-time job

I'm sorry, there must be some mistake. It says here that my tiny house costs as much as a real house

Linktree is a weird site. It's just a list of links in a linear column. There's nothing treelike about it. More like linktrunk

Making a gritty historical drama about Roman centurions that plays it 100% straight except that they're all wearing crocs

I wonder if Freaks & Geeks holds up

My assumption is no because of how heavily Judd Apatow was involved, but maybe it's like a John K situation where his work was tolerable as long as there were people around to rein him in

A handy mnemonic if you ever need to remember the order of the days of the week:

"Super Mario Tennis? What the fuck, Susan?"

"This means that, for example, if you unlicence a piece of software, in Germany, technically, your inheritors still might own some of the relevant rights, and might be able to start going after people for money, or with cease and desist letters, after you've passed away. Or you can change your mind, and do this. Meaning that unlicensing your software makes it potentially dangerous for german companies to use." thoughts and prayers to german companies 🕯️

Vote to legalize fracking. It'll create jobs. And now a totally unrelated ad: Vote for this bill that will kill people without jobs (paid for by Americans for Freedom, a subsidiary of FrackCo)

If the only positive thing you can say when trying to convince people to vote to legalize something or relax regulations is that it "creates jobs" there's a 100% chance it's evil

It's weird that a program would opt to track my physical location with satellites to tell me what the weather is like where I am, rather than just asking me where I am

I feel like the potential consequences of me falsifying this information are fairly benign. Doesn't seem worth beaming my coordinates into space and back to verify, imo

Dr. Robotnik's MBM Machine

It'd be nice if we could add "spellcheck = true" to the CW field #mastodev

I didn't know why they would ask for this, but heck, I didn't know anything. A lot of these types of contests and giveaways just asked you to send in a postcard with your name and address; it made sense that an empty envelope would serve the same purpose as a postcard. Maybe they were trying to encourage kids who had envelopes in their house but no postcards. Or maybe it was some arcane legal requirement. Don't ask me, I'm just a kid!

It never occurred to me as a kid that "self-addressed stamped envelope" could mean something other than "an empty envelope with my return address on it". I never entered any contests or anything that required a SASE, but I imagine the number of empty envelopes they had to throw away was huge. Kids are supposed to intuit that they need to put a stamped envelope inside another envelope? Who even had two different sizes of envelope in their house?

I just moved around the corner
And thought that this was brave
To give up what for years and years
Felt like home, felt like I was safe
Now in front of me a diner, German style
And a barber right next door - did you know
That I never went to cut my hair
Anywhere else then at my mom's before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGrV6RzmD5o

Invention for tactile feedback in VR: gloves with tiny plastic tubes on each finger and palm connected to a tank of compressed nitrogen. As your fingers press against things in VR, the computer sends a signal to the valve controller and releases a burst of propellant equivalent to whatever you're pressing against

Practical application: game instructs player to look carefully at the back of their virtual hand, sends signal for maximum nitrogen power, player hilariously slaps themselves in the face

How am I supposed to play PC Building Simulator and learn how to build a PC if I need to build a PC to play PC Building Simulator on the PC that I need PC Building simulator to teach me how to build??

Extraordinary popular de-moo-sions and the radness of cows

Want to make one of those faux reverse time lapse videos where I take a stack of pringles and turn them back into a potato

What's a good color palette to use? I was thinking of (255, 0, 0), (0, 255, 0), (0, 0, 255). Just three good old fashioned, solid, dependable colors, you know? Classics for a reason