Cable Contributes to Life

Cable Contributes to Life

@cctl.me

By paying your cable bill each month, you support our programming. Thank you!

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Hi there. I'm somebody with a passion for analog cable television equipment, weather, and programming. Throw these three things together, and you get a person who thinks they are capable of building their very own cable television network. Give a follow and join me on this bizarre adventure.

been a minute since i've done an update on 4broadcast so check this out!! MTV-style info cards can be generated and displayed as an overlay in real-time. Information about the song is sourced from arbitrary metadata tags embedded in each video file. they can be optionally shown more than one time

if you're curious how the metadata is stored in the file, they're simply embedded with any tool capable of such (ffmpeg in my case). a few of the tags are standard (title, artist, album, date, composer) and others are arbitrary ones i made up (rlabel, singers, npcard_starts, npcard_durations)

aaaaand uninstalling Fortnite! ...if the slop launcher even allows me, that is...

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

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day 6/31 - "enhancement" almost always my experience when i use the default settings within the FL studio "soundgoodizer" plugin

i fell asleep listening to the weatherscan music and I heard one of the songs in my dream, Trammell Starks himself in the flesh was playing the same riff on the guitar over and over again. and he kept doing it while I was trying to talk to him and I wondered why

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SODABYTES@sodabytes.com

⚠️ WARNING - HEALTH AND SAFETY Hi Touch the Touch Screen to continue.

whoever designed 7-zip please tell me why you need to extract a file to a temp folder on the C drive when I am very clearly trying to extract it to another drive, and the source archive is ON THAT SAME DRIVE

nevermind it was fucking Windows because I dragged and dropped the file from the archive to the folder on the other drive. Microsoft, suck my dick

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I have just made my first multi color keycap with dye sublimation. I still have to work out better process parameters. Anyway, it was not a total fail. #C64 #keyboard #keycap #dyeSublimation

I couldn't resist the temptation of financial ruin... #VCFMW day 2 winnings, did not expect to find a video toaster (2 of them, at that!); shoutout Amiga of Rochester for the sick selection of goodies! :3 plus grabbed a BlueSCSI mouse pad from @museumjoe.bsky.social while I was at it too

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In VERY late-breaking news I have been informed that due to a catastrophic and unexpected budget shortfall, the VCF MidWest Planning Committee was only able to rent four tables and a small ball pit. Load-in starts tomorrow. Good luck.

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Here is my early VIC-20 with a PET style keyboard only used in the very early VIC-20 computers. The Commodore VIC-20 was named after its VIC chip, with the number "20" added by the product manager Michael Tomczyk simply as a "friendly number" to give the machine a warm, approachable feel. #Commodore

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linux is too confusing because i can't find this setting on it

Dead Man's Online@spadetheskeleton.bsky.social

Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default. Be sure to disable it :]