His dad was also Thain. Pippin obviously earned it on his own merits anyway, but it was also sort of a political dynasty thing, like a Bush or a Kennedy.

Worst case scenario, you could hook your LEDs to an Arduino running WLED instead of to the motherboard headers directly, then run something like Home Assistant, xLights, or Vixen to automate them or choreograph them to music. 🤪

WarGames. Everything but the AI was very realistic. (Well, also except for the fact that the movie’s NORAD headquarters was apparently way fancier than it was in real life.)

I hate to say it, but I think that might be one of those differences that actually is inherent due to biology. Ultimately, women can only benefit reproductively from one partner at a time, whereas men can benefit reproductively from as many as will have them. Therefore, women are only interested in compliments from a prospective partner they might actually choose, while men are happy to receive any expression of interest.

He literally invented the concept of Free Software. So yeah, of course he’s extreme about it!

He’s explaining the sexists’ train of thought, not endorsing it himself.

This is part of how they rationalize their resistance / apathy towards movements for justice, at the very least they believe it is futile to seek justice in this life.

Sounds like bullshit an unjust leader would feed them.

If he’s been convicted, he shouldn’t have a choice about that.

Username checks out!

Welp, that’s embarrassing for me. Good catch!

The article doesn’t mention this rapist’s name, though.

What makes you think the fake screenshot is Mastodon? I don’t use it so I don’t know about fonts and colors and margins matching up, but I’d at least expect there to be an instance name attached to the username.

Also, RMS is certainly not the kind of guy to use social media at all, libre and federated or not.

It has to be. RMS browses the internet by e-mailing a remote machine that wgets the page and e-mails it back to him, then views it in lynx so that JavaScript doesn’t run. There’s absolutely no way in Hell he’d be on corporate social media.

(I’m not joking, by the way.)

My parents have an LGB train set that they got to put around the tree each Christmas, and added to it a little bit each year. It was a great memory for me.

IMO it’s a very appropriate scale for that use-case, even if it’s intended to be “garden” sized.

I’m annoyed that they’ve refused to either give it to me or continue displaying it themselves for Christmas, depriving their grandkids of the experience I had.

Plenty of LGB

I feel like the number of closeted model railroaders might be declining, though, along with other “older” geek hobbies like ham radio, because they’re being replaced with things like homelabbing and Arduino and 3D printing.

I’d be kinda embarrassed to be compared to Johnny Bravo, though.

I’m more a fan of identical triple monitors and keeping them all in the same orientation (all vertical for doing a lot of programming; all horizontal for everything else), but that might just be my perfectionism coming through.

Sorry, I was just trying to emphasize the more “sword-like” rather than “club-like” nature of the thing, not impugn their technology.