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NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?
https://tedium.co/2025/09/23/secret-service-raid-sim-bank-telecom-hardware/
#HackerNews #NYCTelecomRaid #SIMBanks #WeirdTech #TelecomNews #CyberSecurity
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Cafe Chill Episode 2023-36: Chickenwizard, Boards of Canada and more
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Listen on PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/492564-cafe-chill-episode-2023-36
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Café Chill is Public Radio’s weekly curated chill mix, produced by KNHC National Productions (@[email protected]) in Seattle, and heard on noncommercial radio stations across the USA.
The latest episode of Cafe Chill includes tracks from Chickenwizard, Boards of Canada and more. Hosted by Seth. Working in the background is me (Richard).
Playlist:
- Chickenwizard–End Dream
Release: Stargaze
Label: Wizard Is a Chicken
———- - Shigeto–Safe in Here
Release: No Better Time Than Now
Label: Ghostly International
———- - Leon Vynehall–Movements (Chapter III)
Release: Nothing Is Still
Label: Ninja Tune
———- - Boards of Canada–Nothing Is Real
Release: Tomorrow’s Harvest
Label: Warp Records
———- - Rykard–North Cormorant Obscurity
Release: Arrive The Radio Beacon
Label: Hunya Munya Records
———- - Andris Mattson–Atlantis Mantis (wildflower)
Release: Water – EP
Label: Wildflower Records
———- - Astropilot & Althai–Ai-Petri
Release: Diary of a Restless Mind (Extended Version)
Label: AstroPilot Music
———- - Hello Meteor–The Exoplanet Environmental Trust
Release: Comfortable Loneliness
Label: Evergreen Prefecture
———- - creative_reality17–B6
Release: Attunement
Label: creative_reality17
———- - Abel, the Giant–Better Tomorrow
Release: Beatsupply: Crate07 – EP
Label: Beatsupply
———- - Rejoicer–Lucid Intent (feat. Nitai Hershkovits)
Release: Energy Dreams
Label: Stones Throw Records
———- - Feverkin–Silhouette
Release: Silhouette – Single
Label: 559975 Records DK2
———- - Frameworks–Kings
Release: Kings
Label: FRAMEWORKS
———- - Tedium Cool–00h28
Release: Midnight Tapes
Label: Kulkraft Records
———- - Slow Magic–Hold Still
Release: How to Run Away
Label: Downtown Records / Fontana North
———- - Sundrenched–Hotel Orange
Release: Emerald – EP
Label: Dust-Tone
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You can also listen at:
https://www.c895.org/show/cafe-chill/
https://cafechill.orgPhoto: “Sunset Clouds with Alpenglow”. Credit: Grand Teton National Park/National Park Service, public domain.
Have a nice week, and enjoy nature!
#abel #ambient #andrismattson #astropilotalthai #boardsofcanada #c895 #chickenwizard #chill #creative_reality17 #feverkin #frameworks #hellometeor #knhc #leonvynehall #publicradio #radio #rejoicer #rykard #seattle #shigeto #slowmagic #sundrenched #tediumcool #thegiant
- Chickenwizard–End Dream
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I really appreciate the #BisexualPride theme that the #Superbowl went with this year!
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I really try to get into games that involve crafting but I just can’t get over the tedium and hilarity of “run a km over there and hit a rock to get copper out of it and then bring it back to feed it into the machine that will turn it into a teleporter” #aita?
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I think it would be better if Forgejo / Codeberg (also) provided a QR code for generated access-tokens hexadecimal string.
Generating an access-token on your laptop, and then — manually typing in that (access-token) hexadecimal string into your phone is error-prone and tedious.
A QR code that you could scan from your mobile phone would help reduce that error and tedium.
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Tedium is not a synonym for suspense #FrightClub #Shiver
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade: Brilliant Update of 1997 Classic ☄️
It took us much longer than expected to get to the Final Fantasy VII Remake (Intergrade). A big update by Square Enix of the legendary FFVII on the PlayStation, it’s a fan favourite from the series and its epic themes were ideal for a big overhaul.
Remake launched in 2020 as an action role-playing game, at first on PS4 before making its way to the PC. Finally, in January 2026, there were ports for the Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles.
We got the Switch 2 version and happily dove on it. What we found was a heavily cinematic idealised title, but one that can often be a wonder (even if it occasionally mires itself in some AAA tedium).
The Emotive Sweep of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv3Zd6LO8s?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]Squaresoft launched Final Fantasy VII in 1997. The company became Square Enix in 2003 after merging with the developer Enix. Even though the FF series continues to this day, the peak years are considered the SNES outings and then FFVII on the PlayStation.
As FFVII is one of our favourite games. We first got to play it on the PC port in 1998 and fell in love with it.
As an RPG, its epic story and dramatic characters, amazing soundtrack, and everything else just swept us along with the whole shingdig. Although the original’s blocky graphics show their age, they have a real charm to them.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utVE4aUKYuY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]Once the news of the long-awaited remake was announce, we were worried Square would do AAA trope stuff for the sake of graphics snobs who wanted a graphical overhaul.
However, Final Fantasy VII Remake is much more than just a graphics update. It’s a very impressive reimagining of the original story, with new arcs, complexities, game mechanics, and characterisation. Frankly, within hours we were swept along with it all and think the remake is a total triumph. A magnificent beast!
FFVII Remake Overhauls (and improves) the Iconic Narrative
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOA5GwRcBks?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]The great thing Square has done here is do much more than modernise the graphics. The dev has also given the genuinely brilliant, emotive story a big update and expanded on the concepts of the 1997 original.
Some of the updates are subtle, others major, but on the whole these are all very well done. And show that Remake is much more than a pandering to graphics snobs wailing about a lack of 60fps.
As pretty as the game now looks, what kept us coming back to Remake night after night for three hour runs is that story.
The Remake is a trilogy, with the second installment launched in February 2024, and the third outing is due for release in 2026 or 2027. This first outing focusses in on what’s about a one to three hour segment in the original game, where players are in the radical eco-terrorist movement AVALANCHE.
In the metropolis city of Midgar, you take control of the mercenary Cloud Strife. He’s hired as a one-off to blow up a reactor in the megacorporation of Shinra. He’s initially just out for money, but soon gets drawn into a sprawling story of love, loss, grief, and environmental collapse.
For us, that was our favourite bit of the original game. The opening hour is magnificent.
For Remake, the entire first installment is an expansion of Cloud’s time in Midgar. Brilliant! A full 30 hours or so of that opening segment, so there’s nothing to complain about from us.
It’s genuinely one of the best video game narratives out there. We’ve been critical of video game narratives in general on Professional Moron, mainly in modern AAA games as they’re often so poorly done. AAA games are like having to watch a terrible movie.
But FFVII Remake Intergrade is largely a big success. It helps that the story from 30 years ago was already there, but the expansions of plot and themes are done intelligently and with great compassion.
Central to that is Cloud’s friendship with a young lady called Aerith, a brilliant human being who stands as a beacon of light amongst the economic collapse and corruption of Shinra.
The CRUNCH of the Gameplay and Those Melancholic Moments
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBvGD9qujk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]The original FFVII merged a combat system alongside the deep and emotive storyline, plus a genuine sense of melancholia. It’s a game about capitalism destroying the world, with the head of Shinra a cold and calculating psychopath.
Away from the story, which is what drives the game, Remake offers a fleshed out combat system. Square Enix has been great here and offered all sorts of difficulty settings to accommodate for different playing types.
Before you begin, you can set things to be super tough or super easy. It’s really welcoming and allows everyone to experience the game the way they want to (something devs like Team Cherry need to keep in mind).
Combat is good fun, but can get a bit repetitive. Plus, the gameplay experience is surprisingly linear, alongside some of the more tedious AAA game tropes added into the mix. Mainly in the form of side quests, which are just the usual “I’ve lost several chickens, go and collect the chickens” filler. For us, it added little to the experience other than fleshing out the game length artificially.
Some of the dialogue and voice acting can be cringeworthy, too, but the whole it’s well done. Even the comically oversexualised Tifa, in the most revealing outfit imaginable, has a clearly defined character. She’s a great human being, compassionate and confident.
Players are also always encouraged, led by Square Enix at regular turns, to just stop and bask in life’s moments.
Its philosophical in that reach, expecting you to think of your own existence and sense of mortality. FFVII is about several very brave people putting their precious lives to one side in the name of something greater.
As the player, you’re very much part of that. Living out the dramatic experience.
And the glorious thing about Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade? This is part one of a trilogy. The game fully deserves this treatment, a masterpiece of gaming modernised in the best possible way.
And a Nod to FFVII Remake’s Musical Overhaul
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zboO7UCUE8?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=723&h=407]On a final note, we’ve done a full feature on Final Fantasy VII Remake’s soundtrack. Remake offers a big reimagining of the original 1997 score, updated by the composers Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki.
The composer for the 1997 original score, Nobuo Uematsu, made one contribution. Otherwise, the work includes new arrangements of his brilliant work 30 years ago.
Credit to the team and what they’ve done here, faithfully recreating classic old pieces whilst fleshing out the main soundtrack with new compositions. It’s a vast score, too, with over 150 pieces and totalling eight hours in length. Square Enix’s official soundtrack release is a seven CD set!
They weren’t messing around with this whole project. Everyone involved put in maximum effort to build on the legacy of the original and from the music to the core gameplay, everything is rather magnificent.
#FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyVII #FinalFantasyVIIRemake #FinalFantasyVIIRemakeIntergrade #gaming #Lifestyle #RetroGaming #RPG #SquareEnix #VideoGames -
Aust pulled a piece of parchment from his desk and uncurled it. Before settling in, he rose to toss another log onto the fire. He had wanted to pen this letter all day and he wasn’t going to allow the cold to drive him to bed early.
It had been a rather long day, filled with the tedium that accompanies the job of fort-master. But he didn’t mind the tedium, now did he? He had seen so much death in his adventuring days. His current boredom was almost a welcome break from a life of danger.
Still, he would be lying if he said he didn’t enjoy revisiting memories of those days. All of his friends were dead, save for a few who he’d lost track of. Luffy the bard had left long ago without so much as a goodbye. Aust had tried to do his due diligence to find her before starting his memoirs. But, it seemed his detective skills were lacking.
No one else from those days remained, so Aust decided that it was up to him to tell the stories of those fallen. He’d written the whole thing up within a fortnight and sent it off to Slateholm for publishing. However, the printing company was rather particular about the content which they published. Aust had already had a bit of a back and forth with them over it and their latest criticisms needed addressing.
So he set aside the worries of the day, dipped his quill into the ink pot and set it to parchment.
I received your most recent letter. While I certainly appreciate the feedback on the latest chapter, I do take issue with your reluctance to accept my account as true. You were correct to point out that no one remains to corroborate my tale. But I would be remiss to point out that using such logic as the sole reason to discount my reports is fallacious.
With that said, I do understand the publishing world is not my trained area of expertise. So I shall make an effort to revise my accounting in a more understated manner. Perhaps then, the veracity of my claims will be harder to call into question. I’ve attached the first chapter of this newly revised document to this letter.
Yours truly,
Commander Aust Raveren
Morgansfort
Aust grabbed the mug and headed back to the table. The dwarf had just witnessed the brutal slaying of a fellow adventurer, the barely infamous Jean-Locke Keyes. Aust had narrowly escaped the same similar fate. He and his group had ventured into a nearby dungeon and were beset upon by a hoard of skeletons on their way out.
He took a swig of the ale to soothe his nerves and winced. He feared the rancid drink set out to finish the job the skeletons had begun.
“The worst drinks I’ve had in the Western Lands so far,” Bregedur said. His normally enchanting voice now sounded tired and shaken. Aust hadn’t even noticed that Breg had joined him. It was quite the feat to miss the purple-haired elf. His nerves must have been more shaken than he realized. “Luffy wants to go back tomorrow,” the elf continued. “Personally, I do as well. But I’m not keen on her leadership abilities.”
Aust took another drink of the ale. “I hadn’t realized she considered herself a leader.”
“Well, she gathered us all together,” Breg replied. “And she’s the most experienced adventurer of our group. She seems eager to get that treasure, for which she needs us.”
“Right.”
“Anyway, I plan on taking charge of this thing. I’ve already spoken to a few of the others and they support me.”
Aust regarded the magenta-mage with a cool stare. He was bold…but smart. He lacked experience but exuded an aura of confidence. “Aye, then you’ll have my support as well.” He conceded. To be honest, Aust had no reason to doubt the elf. In fact, he did like him. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to return to the scene of their near demise.
The party descended into the darkness, remaining cautious. Their torches were all that lit the room but it was enough to reveal the pile of bones on the floor near the foot of the stairs.
“Oh no,” Eliana cried under her breath.
“Picked clean.” Luffy said.
Aust felt a little sick to his stomach. He’d never actually seen death firsthand like this. His short stint at the necromancer school hadn’t involved any live practice, just the study of old tomes. Somehow, he’d never realized that the first step to practicing the art involves killing something. Or someone.
The group fell silent, perhaps out of reverence. But the young dwarf believed the silence was born out of fear. Surely they all felt the same fear he had upon being back in the place.
He sought to relieve their tension and bring forth some levity. “Hey, Jean! How the hells have you been man!” Aust shouted jovially while approaching the pile of bones.
“Ohh,” he heard Luffy murmur in horror. Was she disturbed by Jean’s passing or Aust’s joke? The dwarf couldn’t tell.
“Hey y’all! What ya doing down here!” A thick accent interjected the silence. It caused Aust to fall onto his rump and elicited a scream from Eliana.
“Who the hell are you!?” Bregedur exclaimed.
“The name’s Jim-Bob Jacobson,” came shadowy figure’s drawl. “I saw your group up on the surface and decided to follow you down.” He dropped the pleasant tone and looked down at his feet. “To be honest with you folk, I’m rather hungry. I thought you might know where I could find something to bring home to my family. The soil’s not been too kind to us this season.” He said the words deliberately as though we had coerced him into revealing a secret shame.”
“I like the name Jimmy better” Aust said. He spat on the ground.
“Oh…kay,” Jimmy answered in confusion.
“I’m sorry, who are you?” Quinnan, our replacement thief, had returned from scouting for danger.
Jim-Bob!” Jimmy’s voice had regained the pleasant lilt it had when he first introduced himself.
Bregedur stepped forward, his torch illuminating the newcomer. He was indeed the very image of a farmer, even down to the dirt on his breeches. Though, his oversized clothes hung off his malnourished frame like rags on a skeleton. “I’m sort of the leader,” Breg said. “You can come with us, but you’ll need to fight. What sort of equipment are you familiar with?”
“I’m pretty good with a plough,” Jimmy answered.
“He’s sort of the what now?” Luffy’s delayed response didn’t interrupt their exchange
Bregedur handed him a hatchet, “Fighters usually go in front Since they can take a hit better.”
Jimmy looked at the sword and furrowed his brow. “I-I’m not really a-”
“Look guys, we were so upset about Jean, but now we have two new recruits to take his place!” Aust’s attempts at boosting morale fell on deaf ears.
“Oh right, Jean!” Eliana exclaimed as she stooped down at the pile of bones. “It’s Important that we take something of him back to bury!” She gathered a few of his bones and placed them in her back.
Jimmy watched as the elven woman stood up. “Are you saying…that used to be one of your friends?” He pointed at the bones.
“Hardly a friend. We’d just met him.” Bregedur said coolly.
Aust threw his arm across Jimmy’s shoulder. “And we’d bury your body parts too, if something happened to you!””
Eliana laughed awkwardly, “Goodness Aust. Don’t frighten him! I’m sure nothing is going to happen to any of us. We’re prepared now.”
Commander,
I hope this letter finds you at peace. As I understand the pressures of managing a fort cannot be few.
In regards to your most recent and earlier submissions to our agency: I didn’t mean to call into question the bulk of your work. It is a simple yet unfortunate fact that those that choose the career of adventurer are oft dead before their tale can ever be told. Your attempt to honor your fallen comrades at all is one we at the Slateholm Slate admire.
It was instead the claims made that are easily verified as fiction that we wished to bring to your attention. I do not wish to bring forth some traumatic memory, but we cannot in good conscience publish your work with the ‘About the Author’ segment as it is written. Perhaps you did not consider this, but when our reporter first visited you at the fort, he took a rather detailed accounting of your physical features. And, at least according to all known medical research on the topic as well as current census data, there has never been and likely never will be a dwarf that measures one point nine meters tall.
Further, after receiving your short biography, we investigated the Necromancer College you claim to have attended. You might imagine our surprise when we learned that it is not an accredited school at all. The address led us to the home of a pair of elderly dwarves who did confirm their familiarity with you. Beyond that, they would answer no other questions however, and instead spent the entire visit attempting to hide (quite badly, I might add) superficial evidence of necromantic practices. The dwarf woman threatened to turn our investigator into a worm thrall, despite much evidence to suggest he was not dead. Regardless, she performed the ritual anyway. And upon learning that the man had in fact not become her zombie servant, she grew quite angry and tried to set him on fire.
I did say that the content of your epic was not at issue. However we did pass along part of it to one of our consultant scholars. They confirmed that, outside of magical influence, it isn’t possible for a prone individual to fall face first onto an arrow that is mid-flight. This is particularly true if the person is trapped under a table. To put it simply, the scene, as you described it, is not possible.
Whatever your involvement is with the Dwarven couple, I recommend you excise that segment from your bio entirely. The Church of Tah is quite influential here. And I worry that any work written by a professed necromancer would be subject to extra scrutiny.
Regardless of all this, I look forward to your next revision.
Markus Strongarm,
Slateholm Slate Publishing Company
The flask bounced off the hard shell of the giant ant. It clattered to the floor, broke open, and spilled oil out onto the floor. The ant immediately ceased moving and its antennae began wiggling.
“Do it, Aust!” Bregedur commanded. The elf leader had grown more daring as of late it seemed. With each passing day it was as if he tempted the fates with their very lives. Still, he had carried many of them this far without harm. The same could not be said for the ones who had not survived of course. But it would be a disservice not to recognize the accomplishment. “Do it,” he chanted again.
The dwarf half-elf reached down into his bag and gave Jimmy a soft pat, “Let’s hope we make it out of this one, pal.” When Jimmy died on his first adventure, Aust remembered the promise he’d made him. But it would have been too much of a burden to carry his body around. So instead the party had opted to remove the poor farmer’s head and take it back with them to be buried.
However, Aust had felt rather sorry for the fellow, having seen him die on his first night with the group. He was determined to enable Jimmy to soldier on and accompany them on the rest of their adventure. So he drew upon knowledge taught to him at the College of Necromancy Grurid & Ethel’s Academy for Homeschooled Necromancers. He first removed the innards from Jimmy’s head and buried them. He then boiled the outer skin. This preserved Jimmy’s head into a form that would not decompose as well as made it much more convenient to carry around.
Jimmy had been much more jovial ever since. The little fellow had never ceased to keep Aust entertained even during their most desolate of journeys. There was no danger so frightening that Jimmy could not bring levity to with one of his well-timed wisecracks. It was such a shame that the rest of the party always seemed to miss the jolly fellow’s jokes. Perhaps it was because he was always stored in his bag. Aust had first cinched Jimmy to his belt, but other members of the group claimed that the sight of him was too morbid. Aust didn’t understand what they meant.
But here they were, facing an all new danger. And, although they did not know it, it was the toughest fight they would ever face.
“Alright,” Aust said. He abandoned all reluctance and tossed his torch forwards. It arced gracefully before landing in the oil at the feet of the giant ants.
Aust thought the fire would blind him as it roared up. The ants, on the other hand, did not seem to mind the heat or the light, as they charged right through the flames. It appeared that their hardy carapaces protected them from the fire.
“Hey, that didn’t really work.” Eliana said.
“That’s weird,” Bregedur scratched his head. “Fire’s never failed me before.”
The ants breached the flames and approached the arsonists who had invaded their home.
“Run!” Bregedur shouted. Aust wasted no time and climbed over Alain, who stood behind him.
“Watch it!” Alain complained. But Aust didn’t listen.
The ants reached Bregedur first. Aust could hear his screams even as he exited the room they were in. He glanced over his shoulder to see the elf lying on the ground, bleeding out.
To Aust’s surprise, he also saw Eliana running alongside him. She had made it out of the room. Unfortunately, Alain had not been so lucky as he was the very next to go. Aust saw one of the ants snap his head off with its giant pincers.
The dwarf half-elf felt guilty and almost turned back. There were so many perfectly good body parts going to waste. But no. He did not wish to join his companions in death that day. He would do something to commemorate them, if he made it out alive.
As they reached the outer hallway he felt Eliana thrust something into his palm. “Here,” she said through huffs of air. Breg tossed me this before he fell. You should wield it.
It was Burst, Bregedur’s sword. It was a fine sword, both beautifully crafted and enchanted with powerful mage. If its wielder exclaimed ‘Burst’, the blade would be lit afire. Such a weapon could amputate any body part one desired as well as cauterize the wound. Not that Aust ever took parts from the living, of course. But he still had to admire the functionality of the sword.
After some time it seemed the ants had retreated deeper into the dungeon. And when the pair met back up with the rest of the group, they had to report the sad news.
Luffy was silent for a long moment. After exhaling, she said, “Well, we shouldn’t be surprised.””
“What?” Aust felt shocked.
“We let ourselves blindly follow Bregedur,” Luffy swallowed hard. “And he led us off a cliff.”
“That’s not true!” Eliana said, fighting back tears. “Bregedur was a great man. A great elf!”
“Eliana…” Aust began. He searched for the right words. He was hurting too, but it was hard to miss the truth in Luffy’s words. “Eliana, he got people killed.”
Eliana shook her head. “If he failed, it’s because we failed him.”
Luffy sighed again and walked over to the grieving elven woman. She placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Eliana,” she began. “He may have been a hero. He may even have been a great elf. But in the end, he was a bad captain.”
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All the tech / programming podcasts that I follow have degenerated into creating “AI this; AI that” kind of episodes. 😩
Everyone says the same things. Ugh! 😒
Thankfully the history podcasts are still interesting. 😮💨
What a waste. 😥
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Well, I'd say this concludes the case, Watson. Much too boring to be turned into one of your pieces, I dare say. That it was Sir Montague who had burned the papers was obvious from the start, was it not. Even Lestrade would have noticed it, eventually. The only challenge left was to find the discarded USB stick, and doing that required little imagination, merely a good deal of steady footwork. Important perhaps, but rather tedious and unexciting, wouldn't you agree? I need to be more careful in the cases I take on, Watson. I am too old for tedium.
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🎩✨ Behold, the mystical art of transforming #Lua closures into C closures—a riveting read for the 0.0001% who crave #APIs and global functions like their morning coffee! ☕🔮 Spoiler alert: you'll need a PhD in #tedium and an undying love for #parentheses. 🙄📜
https://lowkpro.com/blog/creating-c-closures-from-lua-closures.html #Cclosures #Coffee #HackerNews #ngated -
🎙️ Ah, the riveting saga of 'Bcachefs'—where an entire hour and a half is dedicated to the joys of file system #development, perfect for anyone who finds paint drying too exhilarating. 🎧 This gripping auditory experience is brought to you by the "People's Filesystem" (because who else would demand this level of tedium?). 💤
https://linuxunplugged.com/644 #Bcachefs #Filesystem #Podcast #Tedium #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
🍷 Tedium's "How to Assemble a #Zine Using a Rube Goldberg Machine" features a Linux-Windows-Affinity cocktail that sounds like the world's most tedious way to generate a #PDF. 🍹 Ernie Smith bravely ventures where no one really needed to go, proving once again that the most efficient way to do anything is as convolutedly as possible. 🙃
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/? #Tedium #RubeGoldberg #Linux #Windows #HackerNews #ngated -
🎹🔍 Wow, a thrilling 10,000-word #thesis on the exhilarating world of event listeners! Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend measuring digital wiretaps instead of, you know, doing anything else? 🙄 Thanks to the Simons Foundation for bankrolling this adventure in extreme tedium! 💸
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19825 #eventlisteners #digitalwiretaps #tedium #SimonsFoundation #HackerNews #ngated -
🧮 Behold, the groundbreaking innovation: a #spreadsheet with #prime numbers! 🤓 Now, you too can stare at a grid, pretend to discover "cosmic #codes," and feel like a #math #genius while doing absolutely nothing useful. 🙄 Surely, humanity's prayers for transforming mundanity into #tedium have finally been answered. 🎉
https://enda.sh/primegrid/ #innovation #numbers #cosmic #mundane #HackerNews #ngated -
well the music clean-up adventure continues. Bulk of items missing from Mac mini have been transferred and added to library. Next on to transferring some songs the opposite direction mini > external HD (and why the heck are whole albums only PARTIALLY on one drive??). Next big step will be cleaning up duplicates on both drives. UGH that'll be a tedious one. Time to take a break #AppleMusic #Music #Organization #tedium
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🎮 Ah yes, "Blue Prince" — the game that marries #roguelike mechanics with the urgency of picking your nose. 🤔 Navigate endless rooms in a mansion only to win... more rooms. 🤷♂️ Truly, a masterpiece in turning #tedium into a $29.99 adventure. 💸
https://mssv.net/2025/04/07/a-puzzle-designer-on-blue-prince-a-roguelike-puzzle-masterpiece/ #BluePrince #gaming #indiegame #gameadventure #HackerNews #ngated -
Truly enjoyed this week's #Tedium @tedium by @ernie
I actually have Bell Centennial still installed from the days when Penny and I owned our newspapers. We used the fonts in our display advertising and "enhanced" classified ads.
I load the old font archive onto every new computer I get. #font #Fonts
There is something beautiful and magical about fonts. A true work of art. A world where art and text collide.
🔗 Tiny Type On Yellow Pages
Why AT&T had to redesign its primary phone-book font in the late 1970s to keep with the times, and the clever typographical trick it used.https://tedium.co/2025/03/05/phone-book-typography-bell-centennial-ink-trap/
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G-rated films have largely disappeared and the original intent behind the rating has been lost: https://tedium.co/2024/12/08/mpaa-g-rating-history/
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https://tedium.co/2024/12/20/punk-rock-mba-youtube-quitting/
Some worthy and valid thoughts by @tedium about the ever-present clash of conflicting values between punk and social media attention economies, idealism vs money and influence.
I gotta say i was at best superficially aware of that "Punk Rock MBA" dude, as in: i've noticed at some point that this channel exists and that's about it. Although i do watch plenty of youtube things - my main interest there being film-/media criticism and analysis - that platform actually plays no part in my music obsession and mostly that's exactly because of that platform's algorithmic push towards a monoculture which can already only be overcome by a select few of creators working in more broadly appealing categories such as film, political commentary, etc... but is pretty much preventing unique and consistent voices from taking hold especially in fundamentally niche and anti-commercial (in a profits-over-artistic-expression sense) subcultures as the punk scene.
In our current culture defined by hordes of *sigh* "influencers" and *bang my head on table* "content creators" chasing clout and money by any means possible, i'm just gonna say that the - currently still kinda frowned-upon - ancient notion of "selling out" as actually being a bad thing is pretty fucking overdue for a comeback. But in this climate instead, the things getting washed into our feeds are just the kinds @ernie is describing here - varying degrees of influencer-type personas sticking to a winning formula and making videos about artists everybody's already known for years while failing to shine a light on the incredibly dynamic and diverse underground scenes, whose bands and artists, quite ironically, are in turn forced by the algorithmic attention economics to play that same social media popularity game with varying degrees of success and ethical compromise.
I'm kinda glad i'm not playing in bands 'cos the potential cognitive dissonance arising from the need to balance recognition and integrity, having an audience vs staying true to your own values and beliefs, seems kinda crushing to me. I can't really fault bands and musicians for playing the game but it's still a sad state of affairs that the artists with the biggest audience are always gonna be those most willing to intrusively market themselves.
With my punk music blog 12XU, i've chosen to not go that route of promoting the shit out of things exactly because i despise the tireless race of "building your brand" on social media. Privately, i've opted for a quieter, less cluttered, more focused mode of media consumption and i refuse to add to that firehose of relentless attention-seeking. The price i have to pay for it is that i'm staying a kinda poor fellow. And fuck me, i'm pretty sure that - by way of a lot of noisy and aggressive self-promotion - i could have maybe double or ten times or even 100x more visitors. The question is: What for? I'm glad that i'm reaching at least *some* of the audience i intend to reach and the notion of generating income doing what i do wouldn't be realistic even with that greater reach! Believe me - even in this evolving era of paid-for or donation-based newsletters - if i'd see a reasonable chance of eeking out a reasonable living or at least a substantial side-hustle from what i'm doing, in a way that won't make me feel utterly gross (for that to happen, it would have to stay a non-paywalled, donation-based operation), i'd sure have given that a try already. But i don't see that happening in our present media climate and thus, i just try to keep my little thing going for as long as i'm able to, doing music blogging for its own sake. It sucks but that's how it is. Don't wanna end up as another Punk Rock MBA dude.
@punk #Punk #Tedium #Blogging #Youtube -
Tonight's #Tedium has me thinking about a new project.
Take a wood grained retro cable box and make it a #RaspberryPi case for a home media/gaming setup. Throw #Jellyfin in, maybe even #retropi, then gut an old VCR and turn it into a little homemade NAS.
Have a retro look with today's technology
If nothing else, looking at all that underneath the TV will bring back good memories of yesterday, when I was young.😂 #GenX
The post:
🔗 Guided By Gifts https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16921934/tedium-2024-holiday-gift-guide
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How an “Eternal September” mindset permeates online tensions. Still.
https://tedium.co/2020/10/13/eternal-september-modern-impact/
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The weirdness of the bin store.
https://tedium.co/2024/06/01/daabin-bin-store-retail-ecommerce-returns/
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Remind me to never make a lyric video ever again. #tedium
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The 'debate' on
book formats sucks.As a #reader my preference for print doesn't affect you as a reader. My inability to enjoy reading a #novel via screen or using audio isn't smart, clever or more authentic. It's just me.
As an #author, I love to be in all formats that keep me afloat. It may be that the hardback first needs to go - that we provide in the mass market forms first. e, audio, and ppk. Then a special edition.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #eBook #AudioBook #amwriting #Tedium
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I would best describe this #NRA speech by @GovChrisSununu as pablum. A great example of meaningless throwaway pablum. Bromides. Nothing. Nothingness @nra #Indianapolis #ponderous #tedium #pablum
