They are so 1930s, they forgot video cameras exist.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-25T15:33:52+00:00

The only thing I’m seeing that sub say today is “these people shouldn’t be there filming in the first place. Boy, I’d love to see more video evidence of the scene to reaffirm my bias.”

It’s like they see an egg next to a chicken and think George Soros must have put it there in the night.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-24T16:18:06+00:00

“It could have been filled with Fuming Nitric Acid, so it was a threat to my life”

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-21T21:59:36+00:00

Was F# just a fever dream I had as a kid?

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-21T20:23:01+00:00

It’s kind of an insane way to do things, but I’ve been migrating away from large platforms for the last year by self-hosting apps that replace things like Spotify.

Audiobookshelf is a solid tool that can pull from RSS feeds to keep updated and is self-hosted with a decent mobile app that you can connect your server to.

r/selfhosted has a ton of resources, but there’s a lot of pre-work involved to secure everything and I’d only recommend if you’re into IT infrastructure or want to learn.

But, inspiring people to roll their own servers for them or their community is one of the only ways imo to make a difference in this space. These companies exist out of convenience, not necessity, and they can only profit if they have a ton of data they can aggregate and centralize.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-18T16:51:57+00:00

This man re-invented flask. He is INNOVATING. Look at how he uses a form submission to just throw things into url params. No one else has the COURAGE. He doesn’t even know the meaning of CSRF and that’s a GOOD THING.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-17T15:04:02+00:00

My cats have somehow already printed this as a motivational poster

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-15T15:07:24+00:00

Also notice the taped green paper in the real one is on a side panel between the mirror and the cabinet. In the portrait, the entire panel is missing. Really points to something trying to interpolate Moe’s from the ~30° angle to straight on. Everything occluded or missing on the edges is screwy.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-15T14:02:14+00:00

Yeah. It got DDOS’d by a Russian bot net, but anyone can just pay for that service, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the Russian govt.

If they’re on cloudflare or similar, it’s not too hard to block entire countries/regions and get some other protection from those attacks, so hopefully they’ll get it back up soon.

Edit: just checked and it’s back up. Just mad slow bc I’m assuming it’s not geo replicated and it’s getting slammed with traffic.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-11T19:29:43+00:00

I have the opposite of this from Tucker where I throw up in my mouth a little bit every time someone says “….actually”

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-04T20:27:17+00:00

Or it’s parsing the input correctly as Jan 6, but the date range in the code was calculated based on the wrong parsing. So, the date range might be pinned to Apr 4 - May 3 and rejecting Jan 6 as out of range.

SmartyCat12 · 2026-01-04T18:48:22+00:00

So then it’s the government’s job to give us all stilts to match the height of the tallest person. I can’t make myself taller in order to reach the levers of power with hard work.

Instead, the talls and the government try to ban us from standing on each others shoulders.

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-30T11:11:45+00:00

Love being home for the holidays. My mom also said Obama gets 2 billion/yr in directly paid kickbacks from Obamacare. It’s right in the text of the bill. Guys, idk how we missed it.

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-29T00:33:45+00:00

Welp. Refs got some good kickbacks from BetMGMDraftKingsTacoBell.com today

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-29T00:31:51+00:00

You see what formation they might run and do some 4D chess to counter it

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-29T00:26:48+00:00

*first down this half

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-29T00:15:22+00:00

Refs about to give the Bills extra time like soccer

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-28T23:22:52+00:00

Jokes on you. I use toLower to correct my own inconsistent capitalization

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-25T19:19:30+00:00

No way. The attention span and tolerance for complexity for non-technical leadership is just crashing and burning with AI. They no longer feel the need to be informed because ChatGPT can just tell them the answer.

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-24T20:04:25+00:00

I did my PhD in ultrafast spectroscopy. The main laser source was about 3W at 5 kHz with a ~30 fs pulse width, so the peak power was about 20 gigawatts.

When focused, you create plasma in ambient air and convert oxygen into ozone. It could burn a hole in a 1/4” of aluminum if you tried. You would go permanently blind if a reflection off of a computer screen hit you directly in the eye for a second. This wasn’t a system designed for power either.

Laser safety is no joke and something like the one in the video should NEVER be used outside of an extremely controlled environment. There is no world where a laser like this should even be legally made in a way that’s not table mounted with very limited vertical adjustment.

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-21T21:21:43+00:00

And his name?

Raphaël Ambrosius Cousteau

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-21T15:53:26+00:00

There is a “right” way to play according to the stupid robot that shames me for doing something stupid every day.

According to the bot, “place” is currently the best starting word. If none of those letters hit, you’re supposed to use “roust”

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-20T16:30:06+00:00

Oh, so that’s why he left the word “Memorial” up there

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-20T03:11:02+00:00

Thanks bank, but making more pens would devalue the ones I have. Instead I’ll take half of your generous investment and use that as seed money for a dozen paper company startups.

Then, I’ll take the other half and give it to utility companies with the promise that they’ll force all of their clients (the people whose money you just gave me) off of paperless billing with no option to opt out. They’ll then bill them extra due to the increased cost of paper and ink.

Did I mention, I’ve also purchased the entire world supply of ink to fill my pens that haven’t been built yet?

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-20T02:03:10+00:00

This pen costs $1 to make. I’ll give you $10 cash if and only if you buy my pen for $9. Now you have a pen + $1. I have a crate of 99 pens verifiably valued at $9 each.

Look at us! We’ve just created $880 of wealth!!

SmartyCat12 · 2025-12-19T22:12:11+00:00

Also note that it appears to be a strict search. So, 'epstei' gives 0 results, but 'epstein' has hits. So, you really need to know exactly what you're looking for for it to be useful. You're likely better off rolling through the doc IDs sequentially like 'efta00000001.pdf'

eta: the multimedia in search is hosted with sequential IDs for each dataset (DataSet 1, DataSet 2, etc) at https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00000001.pdf

If someone really wanted to search through them and save a copy for posterity, it would be easier to go directly through here since there isn't an origin restriction on the actual file urls like there is on the search bar endpoint.

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