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Alex Beal πŸ†Ž

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Big tech cyberpunk. Senior Staff Blade Runner. Proud member of the Brotherhood of Technologists.

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Joined April 2008
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
1 month
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.
@DanielLockyer
Daniel Lockyer
2 months
2026 is the year of the Linux desktop
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
Wait you guys are on here unironically?
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
Whatever this aesthetic is, I want more of it. copyparty is so goat'd.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
The most sane person you know after spending 8 hours a day poisoning their brain on x dot com.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
If you enjoyed Fog Twitter, you might also enjoy Incandescent Light Twitter.
@Watchman_motto
Hamilton πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
3 months
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
This website is inventing new neuroses at a disturbing rate.
@GubbaHomestead
Gubba Homestead
2 months
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
This would be a great system design question for an interview.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
My iPhone 13 is borderline unusable at this point. Please Apple I am begging you.
@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
iOS 26 has been kind of a disaster. β€’ Rendering bugs in Safari. β€’ Complications on my apple watch randomly stop working. β€’ 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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
βœ“ Over 200 hours of disk burn in complete βœ“ First 20 TB mirrored pair online βœ“ Migration from ext4 volume in progress ZFS is the 🐐
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
2 months
Ah there it is. (But come on leave the bowl you hooligan.)
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
The Big Kids are out now. I left a bowl on the porch. I hope the offering is large enough.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
I'm in my data hoarding era.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
tired: returns to labor wired: returns to capital
@WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru
3 months
JUST IN: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ S&P 500 closes at new all-time high of 6,890.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
@KeatonPatti
Keaton Patti
7 years
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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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
2018 era AI memes have never been more back.
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@beala
Alex Beal πŸ†Ž
3 months
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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