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[14:56] Usually password requirements are aimed to make users pick secure passwords and have the side effect off pissing some people off. This one has it the other way round. :D
[22:50] Yekaterinburg in Russia has a Keyboard Monument.
[19:40] This rarely happens, but I have to recommend a game: VirtuaVerse, a wonderful adventure that I played this weekend. A cyberpunk story, obviously made by nerds for other nerds (and with a great soundtrack). I can't remember when I last had that much fun with a game. I played (and finished) this on a friend's account, but I'll definitely buy it myself, too, if only to throw a little amount of money at the devs.
[14:27] It impresses me when people find creative ways to make music with things that are clearly not designed as musical instruments. A while ago I mentioned the Phantom of the Floppera and later the music-making tesla coils, but there are noumerous others, some of which I came across only recently.
Many of these acts use computer parts (floppy drives are a thing), devices connected to those (like, for instance, this dot matrix printer) or both (the Floppotron appears to be well known).
The Device Orchestra on the other hand is not limited to computers and periphery but takes whatever is available, while others show that even a car is suited for this task (there is some weird yelling at the end, so be sure to stop the video once the music is done).
Really creative folks out there, awesome work!
[21:08] Justine Haupt built a cellphone with a rotary dial. (see also)
[04:32] Great Ball Contraptions fascinate me. Most of the time the modules are fairly plain and just get the job done, but occasionally you'll come across a real gem.
[22:01] Jason Allemann built a Tensegrity Sculpture MOC, also providing a parts list and building instructions. That's cool!
[21:56] Finland added the demoscene to it's inventory of intangible cultural heritage.
[05:26] Conforming to standard frequencies is not only important to people dealing with radio or wifi, but for animals, too.
[22:04] Police in Tunisia have robots on patrol. I dearly hope they work better than, for example, this one and that one.
[21:17] Seems like I missed a few new tilde servers. Among those the first Windows tilde. That was unexpected.
[20:05] Fold'NFly has a database of paper airplane designs. I'll have to try a few of those.
[05:05] Richard Vijgen built a device that picks up wifi signals and plots images from these signals. (see also)
[20:53] "Blameuser" sounds like a trigger in a helpdesk system ran by a BOFH-esque person. As I recently learned, though, it is a (not too common) german surname. A name predestined to confuse devs and admins whenever it appears in a database.
[22:01] Toying around with bash, cron and css a little: 24 (about)
[21:14] The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy turns 42 today. (And it increasinlgy feels like the universe has indeed already been replaced by something totally bizarre. Oh well. Don't panic!)
[21:09] I recently came across the first two blogs I set up, back in 2012. The first one was a microblog in which I managed to drop links for a stunning nine days. I don't recall why I stopped. Also, I have no idea what the password might be. That was way before I used a password manager. I'm not even sure which email address I used. I do remember for the second one though. Slightly more activity there, but I seem to have lost interest in the topic I was writing about.
Funny to have this glance in the past.
[22:41] I know enough science fiction to be familiar with the idea of machines mimicking humans, but I did not expect printers, of all things, to be the first ones. :D
[23:33] In 2008 there was an art installation in London and New York mimicking a Telectroscope.
[19:22] Closing vim is one thing that confuses many people at first. The good news is that it is fairly well documented. :)
[18:38] Here's a digital meta clock made from 24 analog clocks.
[14:24] Turns out emoji scissors mostly wouldn't work.
[11:56] Geir Isene made a font inspired by M.C. Escher. The letters M and W keep confusing me.
[06:06] I recently played Tiberian Sun and wanted to edit one specific setting in the rules.ini file, which I knew was possible but have never done before. A quick web search later I had found these tools (the XCC Mixer, specifically) and this guide to editing the game. After changing the setting I had in mind, I started toying with other stuff, started mixing units to create my own. A neat little rabbit hole to fall into.
[20:30] So barcode art is a thing, apparently.
[20:28] Here is a switch modded to be a switch. (Yes, I know. Technically, more of a bridge. But name!)
[13:27] dmbaturin has a Web 1.0 memorial. :)
[13:22] Met a former neighbor yesterday who just like me is not really good at staying in touch with people. However, they had a neat, if somewhat nerdy idea: whenever they feel it is time to get in contact but lack a topic, they'll just send "keepalive" to the other person. (Might not work with less geeky people, though.)