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@abraxas

Joined 24 March 2021 · 709 posts

Non-theistic Satanist (TST) from Ontario, Canada. Fan of retro videogames and tech

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Been screwing around with some Linux configs to cyberpunk up my old laptop. The Neofetch needs more work still, but it's getting there. I run arch, btw 🤣

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What's up guys? Hope everybody's been doing well. Just dropping by to say hello and that I'm still alive. I honestly kinda miss the old NC website. It had its share of spammers and scammers, but I felt like it was also easier to view content and interact with new and old people on there. Noise app is okay too, don't get me wrong. The way it works is interesting. I respect that. It just doesn't resonate the same way with me as Noise did. Anyway, not much more to add here. I…

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Any webdevs in here want to make the need for Sass to make sense to me? It doesn't expand CSS, and browsers can't even render it - you have to compile it back to CSS to include in your project. It also seems to discourage multi-classing elements... It means that any adjustments you need to make will be done to the sass and then converted back to css. Sure it only takes a second, but still. It also means that the output is somewhat of a generative mess. Am I doing some…

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Last month I (finally) installed a composite-out mod on my Atari2600 Jr. I got this console off a friend in September 2022, and got the mod shortly after. The kit came in right around the time I ended up getting burnt out, had a death in the family, and holidays all kind of hit at once. The Atari sat in parts on my shelf until now. The mod was relatively easy, had to remove a few resistors, transistors, and capacitors, then solder in the four wires. I had to make some…

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What's happenin' noise? Been a while! Hope you're all doing well. I've been keeping busy with a variety of silly little hackjob scripts for my Twitch bots and some other stuff. Nothing too exciting, I guess. Took my usual 2 week break around the holidays - enjoying the last week of it now. Definitely not looking forward to going back to work. There's just not enough time in the day to enjoy everything I wish I could do. How have you guys been? Hope your holidays have been…

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Oh man! Zojoi is working with Grahfmetal to drop a new Shadowgate game! This one I think is supposed to be along the lines of the TurboGrafx16 game, but re-designed to fit the style of the original Shadwogate game. They just opened the Kickstarter today. there's a "PC Only" demo available that seems to be working fine on Ubuntu. Can't wait to see the final game when it's done!

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Came down with a cold on Sunday that pretty much had me down for the count yesterday. Tested negative on a COVID test, but it sure felt like 24h COVID. Spent most of the day in bed. Today it feels more like just a regular cold. Hopefully it stays this way.

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Been up to so much, but so little at the same time lol. Gave myself a crash-course in JavaScript by frankensteining a bunch of code together to make an otherwise unusable site at work much more functional. Also itching to learn how to slap together an Android app. Still have to solder that Composite chip into my Atari 2600 Jr... I'll get around to that eventually. Want to do more digital art stuff... PIxelo has a few really awesome font bundles on right now. Horrible time to…

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On my way to catch the bus the other day. I didn't even see him at first. He startled me, but he was chill. He grazed for a bit, then headed back into the woods. I was almost uncomfortably close, but he didn't show any signs of aggression. I was mostly just thankful it was a deer and not a moose lol [EDIT] Whoa, we can edit posts AND manage pictures!

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Last post, catch you over on Noise app! ♥️🤘🏻

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Sometimes life throws you a crappy hand, but you gotta roll with the punches and remember the good times. RIP Grampa - 1931 - 2022. Lost, but absolutely not forgotten.

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One of my pet rats died last week, I wrote more about it over on nosie.app but didn't want to post here because it felt weird getting possible tips because of it. You can read more about that here: https://noise.app/Abraxas/7p2q8zgk But I thought I'd share a pic of my other two ratboys - we got them so Sus could have some friends after Link died in the summer. So here's Smeagol and Dobby. Dobby is super sweet - much like Link used to be. He's still not totally warmed up to…

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Let's say you need to reset a password, but you *really* don't like the person... I've come up with the perfect tool! Introducing the "Bastard Password Generator!" It's default is to spit-out passwords that combine 0, O, I, l, and 1. They all look similar but it's a mix of Zero, Capital O, capital i, and lower L. It also includes switches to use Unicode characters that *look* like western alphabet letters but aren't. Here are some examples: lI1I01I0O0I0lO00 111100I0l1l1010O…

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It's been a difficult few days for me. My old rat Sus got really sick Sunday night - at first I thought it was just him and his buds scrapping but when I went to check, I saw that the other two weren't near him and he looked lost and distraught in his cage. I'm 90% sure he had a pituitary tumour which caused a seizure. He went from being a tough and tumbly rat who hated affection to being lost, lonely, and a total suck-up. His decline was slow, and a bit of a rollercoaster.…

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Oh man, I just learned that one of my favourite vocalists paired with one of my favourite bands a few years ago. Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) subbing in for Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod) while he was in for liver surgery. This is wild! I wish I could have caught one of these shows. This would have been during the (long) time they weren't allowed to play in Canada, but I thought that was just because of Mike's drug charges? No clue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9MpimRVsdI

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Sucks that we can only post 5 pics at a time... here's some bonus pics from the show last night that I didn't post to nCash

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What an absolutely frigging awesome show last night! The venue was cool, too. Really small dive bar kinda place. Can't wait to go back again lol The lighting kinda sucked for getting good pictures, and interestingly, the shirt cost more than the ticket. Lineup: - Cognitive - Interloper - Psycroptic - Fallujah

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Just a bonus pic from the 2600. I was trying to grab a pic of that slanty boy chip near the transistor. Somehow it ended up being surprisingly visually appealing. I'm not really a professional photographer, but I play one on "The Internet" 😂

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Got an Atari2600 Jr from a buddy at work the other day. I've been giving it a real good cleanup. Couldn't believe that the plastic factory tape over the silver band hadn't even been removed yet haha. Also ordered a composite output mod for it, should probably get that next week. I'm gonna leave it apart until I get a chance to install it - the plastic shell is pretty fragile and it's a pain in the ass to open.

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Got a 2600 Jr and some games from a buddy at work. Started cleaning it up last night, left the parts to fully dry overnight. I couldn't believe the tape stuff over the silver band hadn't been removed yet! Also had one game basically CIB, but the box has definitely seen better days.

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Man, kids back in school has me like a total zombie. In bed around 12:30, up at 5:45. I legit slept almost 11 hours today

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Today's #WTF moment: A macro-embedded Excel file (.xlsm) whose sole purpose is to copy a temporary file and open a particular Access database that feeds this temp file into it. Surely you can just add this logic into the Access file itself, on? Or just make a simple batch script to do it? It reminds me of people who save screenshots and images to Word Docs 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Oh dang, guess what site isn't blocked by my work (yet) 😂

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Last night I had a dream where I fell asleep and had another dream. I got to experience this meta dream, and in it I became aware that I was asleep and needed to figure out a way to know. Eventually I made it outside and I had a small inflatable pool, and my neighbors had a slightly larger one. It appeared that there was snow on the ground and my pool was frozen, but my neighbours were outside in bathing suits having a blast. That was all I needed - I looked at them and said…

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Separating Windows 10 from OneDrive is a real pain in the ass... but I'm getting there. Apparently I had a temporary 100GB on OneDrive and had no idea. Well, that just expired and shrunk down to 10GB which in turn put me in a panic to figure out how to move everything over. Microsoft being Microsoft has everything so tightly locked in with their own services - but I think I've got a solution. I'm gonna try to run backups via RClone. Google Drive offers somewhat of a service,…

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Still getting used to things here on nApp... I think the menus could use some changes. I keep hitting the main menu to try to get to my profile, for example. So far though, I'm really enjoying it here and look forward to building up a new community. Once I settle in, I'd like to maybe start doing some member showcases to help people find new people. I'm assuming most (if not all) the people who find me here will be people I've known for a year or more on nCash, so it won't…

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Bug reports! Hopefully Simon finds me here - I'd love to try to help with debugging and bug fixing. Got two things off the top right now: 1. Replies are being duplicated. - Go to any post, leave a reply. Seems to get posted twice. - Using Firefox on Android (as mobile, not masking as desktop) - Also happens when masking as a desktop user - Closing tab and starting fresh in a new one doesn't help. - Tried from Chrome on my phone, no problem there. - Firefox incognito -…

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Whipped up a quick doodle for something. Turned out pretty good, just wish it could have been a bit bigger... was working with limited space for a banner, though

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