ZK-Class Reality Failure Event 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

@pandentia I already had a little bit of trouble just trying to cut them with my shitty box cutter from work, actually stripping them would have been more of a pain

@pandentia I've never bothered with that but it's certainly an option. Not quite as simple as just cutting some wires, though.

I didn't actually make this one for security reasons, I have a much more boring purpose for it. But this is exactly how you make it impossible for data to travel through a cable.

Every once in a while you see an article or something floating around that talks about people using public phone charging stations to steal data, and warning that if you're going to use them to use a special charging-only cable. Obviously, those are kind of a specialty item that you'd have to buy from online or whatever. Sometimes they're selling you a specific one. But all they are is a USB cable with the two power lines, but no data lines.

So here's how to make one!

my shift starts two hours later than i thought it did, whoops

i asked if they wanted me to start early and they said no so i guess i'm chilling

@EeveeDefender yeah that fucking sucks

@EeveeDefender was he the smash guy or the cell phone guy

horrible either way obviously

@halcy i might but if i do it won't be until tomorrow, i have work

@InspectorCaracal i have a rectangle on https://hollymcfarland.com that animates when you hover over it

i was experimenting with it because i think if you stacked them all up on top of each other and made them links with text on them, it would make a relatively pretty sidebar

that's all i've got

@InspectorCaracal you can but it's so intimidating to go from "i can make rectangles, colour things and sooort of move them around the screen, hell i can even do very simple animations" to something that's actually pretty and usable

obviously possible but the sheer leap from what i can do to anything even kind of acceptable is what puts me off of it

@commie even that is less terrible than what i remembered: it was losing the cooperation between the bees and humans that destroyed the ecosystem

"the proletariat isn't being exploited for their labour, the way it currently works is actually the best outcome for everybody"

@halcy but i'm not sure anything i could do intentionally could come even close to the level of self-parody that video embodies

@halcy i've been thinking about doing this all day

when i say "young communities that are still kinda desperate for validation probably shouldn't choose a flag democratically" referring to are people, i'm not saying that ace people are a recent invention, i'm referring to the specific community of ace people that formed over the internet (think AVEN and shit like that, i don't know my history well enough to tell you what came first) that were the ones that chose the shitty flag

"That definitely was the reason they sued but my memory is that they realized after winning the trial that they were misguided and that sharing the honey was better for everyone all along and they had misunderstood the situation entirely

"However, I just realized what a sad metaphor for capitalism/propaganda piece that would be so i'm choosing to believe your version of events instead"

It is plausible that I don't recall the finer points of the bee movie perfectly accurately,

@wigglytuffitout i skimmed because i'm exhausted but i'll give it a real read later, and anyway what i read made sense to me

i've noticed that a lot of instrumental music tends to be a lot less melody-focused than most video game music is, unless it's something like chiptune that's specifically trying to evoke a video gamey feel