Alex Beal 🆎
@beala
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Big tech cyberpunk. Senior Staff Blade Runner. Proud member of the Brotherhood of Technologists.
Callisto Station
Joined April 2008
Lost an hour this morning because I installed Chrome in a different way, and it made my webcam image darker. Couldn't fix it. This is just my life now. I love linux.
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Everyone gets mad about Google Reader, but my personal 9/11 is when I uploaded my music collection to their music locker service, and then they discontinued it, and then I no longer had a music collection.
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Whatever this aesthetic is, I want more of it. copyparty is so goat'd.
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The most sane person you know after spending 8 hours a day poisoning their brain on x dot com.
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If you enjoyed Fog Twitter, you might also enjoy Incandescent Light Twitter.
Switched all our lights to incandescent today. I know I’m behind the curve, but this is so perfect and I don’t know how to explain the absolute relief I feel. It’s as if I have had a headache for 20 years that finally lifted. Yeah I know I’m nuts but just give it a shot
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This website is inventing new neuroses at a disturbing rate.
The fog is back. If you notice an uptick in sinus-related issues, this is why. Avoid this, if you can.
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When you open https://t.co/344LcsEAjv in your browser, it will attempt to stream media directly from your plex instance, whether that's on your local LAN, or through your router. It does this securely without port forwarding or relays. It's actually insane that this works.
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My iPhone 13 is borderline unusable at this point. Please Apple I am begging you.
iOS 26 has been kind of a disaster. • Rendering bugs in Safari. • Complications on my apple watch randomly stop working. • Poor battery life (iPhone 13) I'm also a liquid glass hater, but maybe I'm just old and don't have the brain plasticity for new UIs anymore.
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✓ Over 200 hours of disk burn in complete ✓ First 20 TB mirrored pair online ✓ Migration from ext4 volume in progress ZFS is the 🐐
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Is there some reason I need to run ffmpeg -i "Front\ Door_CH01.MOV" -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 23 -c:a aac -b:a 128k -movflags +faststart front_door_twitter.mp4 to upload my MOV video to x dot com? Why can't you do this for me @nikitabier ?
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The local teenage e-bike gang dropped by (you know what I'm talking about). Surprisingly they didn't take the entire candy bowl. Kind of disappointed honestly.
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The Big Kids are out now. I left a bowl on the porch. I hope the offering is large enough.
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tired: returns to labor wired: returns to capital
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I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Friends episodes and then asked it to write a Friends episode of its own. Here is the first page.
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This is the call screening message they left. Obviously it could be AI, but it feels polished and targeted either way. Ngl I'm spooked. Glad I protect my google account with a yubikey.
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