rotor

rotor

@rotor.bsky.social

reluctant programmer, avid luddite, middlin tier husband and father. Please read, enjoy and share this manifesto about why Open Source has become a Bad Idea https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h__zP17eMoSXntHq6Jo7nKxRB8DoCOcVZ794Qd4LEA4/

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i keep seeing posts in normie media like “will AI destroy programming?” and like dude it already has.

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he shouldn’t have.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.
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if I was Tyrant King of Earth I would summarily execute anyone who manufactured a wired usb keyboard without an integrated usb hub.

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man my linux steam thing is acting up and won't launch and i've got a bunch of linux stuff to do I guess before its fixed. I just wanna shoot some shambers or imps or whatever, why the computer gotta treat me like this, fuck

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man my linux steam thing is acting up and won't launch and i've got a bunch of linux stuff to do I guess before its fixed. I just wanna shoot some shambers or imps or whatever, why the computer gotta treat me like this, fuck

rotor
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when you're at home, sitting at your computer reading all my great posts, I'd like you to picture me as this guy

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now that i can post images from my desktop, I can post images like this, which i saved from so long ago

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cheers to these 18650 UPS things i got on alix jeers to components that are rated 3-5 volts that can't take a measly 7v without melting

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lady on the left like "I know what I must do, but I do not have the courage to do it."

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idk when the Dr. Who theme was made but I'm voting the Wild Wild World of Animals theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlK...

youtube.comWild, Wild World of Animals introYouTube video by love2register
garth marenghi's chart place@tef.bsky.social

but yeah, the answer to "oldest piece of electronic music still reconigzable today" is probably doctor who here's an hour long video about the rise and fall of the radiophonic workshop, if that's your jam archive.org/details/alch...

archive.orgThe Alchemists Of SoundA documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963155/
rotor
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Did no one watch the Heavy Metal movie??

Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

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uh, ditto

The Quigadook@quiggy.itch.io

[taps microphone] I'd like to issue an apology for past statements that have come to light, such as "I wish he would mackle less". This statement came from a place of ignorance--it was wrong then, and it is wrong now. I am listening, and I am learning.

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Dear Video Games, Please make more Machinegames Wolfensteins. At least 3 more would be good. Sincerely, rotor ps: i am not a crank

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way back when in the 80s in LA i would hit the anti club most weekends and I got to see chris isaak get his stage persona together over a period of like 3 months, it was neat to watch. Like one day he was country & western, next he’s doing vegas lounge, next its torch songs und so weiter

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way back when in the 80s in LA i would hit the anti club most weekends and I got to see chris isaak get his stage persona together over a period of like 3 months, it was neat to watch. Like one day he was country & western, next he’s doing vegas lounge, next its torch songs und so weiter

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