GuinansEyebrows

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make computer do thing

not for profit

https://nvsbl.org

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Comment · 8 days ago
to play a record, i don't need a computer or any electronics created after, say, 1960 or so. that's a nice benefit :)
Comment · 8 days ago
If you're a trackball person, a lot of trackballs have a scroll ring that's similar to a click wheel. The Ploopy A+ has two discrete scroll wheels: https://ploopy.co/aplus/

I'm pretty partial to the Kensington Slimblade though. You scroll by twisting the ball itself - very satisfying once you figure out the technique. I hate the aesthetics (it looks kind of tacky) and the client software (bloated and buggy) but it's the only trackball I know of with this feature and I like it enough to put up with the issues. https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol...

Comment · 12 days ago
> ... I wrote him what I felt was a conciliatory letter,1 though ending snarkily by quoting his own words, “The street finds its own use for things.”

autodesk had been public for 4 years by the time this happened. i don't think they get to claim that they were "the street" at that point :)

Comment · 12 days ago
Still waiting on 64-bit BonziBuddy...
Comment · 16 days ago
> The same reason why many great tech companies originate from Israel.

wait - what's the reason, though? i don't understand what you're trying to say.

> That's why Nvidia is the largest private employer in Israel. Why Apple's CTO is from Israel.

you cite two american companies with presence in Israel to defend your claim that "many great tech companies originate from Israel".

> is not about the companies and more about you and how you view Israel

your entire response is predicated on your view of Israel but you haven't explained what your view actually is or what it's based on.

Comment · 25 days ago
i'll take one Bemale Nody Dinspector shirt, please.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
i love instant cameras but they aren't really used for professional photography except as a novelty or as a specific artistic choice, and sx-70 isn't a particularly stable medium.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Nobody is actually orienting work and action to real, concrete goals. It's all based on speculation and anxiety about the future.

the simulation has become simulacra! cosmic horrors abound.

Comment · 1 month ago
wild choice to double down on focusing on the degree of difference in what one does with footage obtained from filming people without their consent!
Comment · 1 month ago
neither of these things are remotely acceptable. the degree of distinction is relevant to the impact on the victim and in a punitive sense, but doing either of these things is a mark of a severely antisocial behavior disorder that needs to be addressed by mental healthcare and prevention of access to tools that facilitate this behavior.
Comment · 1 month ago
> These are overloaded terms at this point which is part of the reason so few actually comprehend.

this is perhaps the smallest of all possible reasons that "few actually comprehend" :) yes, the left is good at eating itself, but that self-destruction is not without a lot of external assistance!

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