shello @shello@octodon.social

This digital scale's manual has a rather peculiar stance on intellectual property: "Patent products, copyright infringement!"

I just found a photo of a paper prototype I made of the ThiccDad sticker, to check for size and shape against the original ThinkPad logo on the laptop lid.

Originally I had imagined the sticker to be "TwinkDad"... then I figured "ThiccDad" would be better!

Over the years I saw pictures of the Atomium, the popular construction in the shape of a crystal structure in Brussels, and somehow I always imagined its size was in the ballpark of a typical museum statue.

But the Atomium is gigantic, and you can go into the crystal structure, comfortably so: each of the spheres has a diameter of roughly a 4 storey building (18 m, 59 ft), each tube 3.3 m (11 ft) in diameter, and the whole thing is 102 m (335 ft) tall.

Now I definitely want to see it some day.

Case in point, from a bank phishing SMS I received this morning...

The second wave of Ferris emoji, lovingly made by @dzuk, is now available to download from Ferris' own website: https://rustacean.net/

They are licensed CC BY‑NC‑SA!

Many thanks to @aldeka for hosting these Ferris emoji!
Also, Dzuk designs the fabulous emoji set https://mutant.tech/ and takes commissions: https://noct.zone/commissions/

#rust #emoji

"A vulture can fly up to 400 kilometres each day in search of carrion. Little should it care whether this flight takes it from one country to another. The vultures of Spain, however, skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy."
"During a 2-year study period, only 13 birds visited Portugal, and they all quickly turned back[...]"

A very interesting thread, with a peculiar explanation.

https://twitter.com/TurbanMinor/status/1113352919301218304

From Portuguese local news...

"Four men between the ages of 58 and 68 were identified by the Lordelo GNR (National Republican Guard) for the practice of illegal gambling, in Guimarães."
"Two playing card decks and about 21 euro were confiscated."

(source, in Portuguese: https://www.guimaraesdigital.com/index.php/informacao/judicial/56398-quatro-identificados-por-jogo-ilegal)

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I'm still pretty happy with these custom ThiccDad stickers!

New flavour day: strawberry. It has the same background taste as vanilla and chocolate, but it smells and vaguely tastes of strawberry (surprise!).

From the get go I knew this would be a hard sell, as strawberry flavoured stuff generally tastes strange to me.
Verdict: the taste of this shake isn't all that bad (maybe it's because they used freeze-dried strawberry powder?)... but the aftertaste is of gross strawberries.

I'm glad I didn't order much of this one.

First wave of stickers on the new laptop: done!

(Details of the stickers in the image description!)

Just remembered the day I woke up to a direct message from a rando on Twitter asking me to "change [my] username for the benefits of the company" he represented, and then offering me "prize (money)" after I rejected their suggestion.

The awesome @mutantstd is now two years old. Happy anniversary @dzuk & @kiilas!

Did you know Mutant Standard isn't just very well designed, sweet, and colourful emoji? Beyond its visuals, what sets Mutant Standard apart is its set of principles of culture decentralization and de-corporatisation, plus being in touch with the world: https://mutant.tech/info/principles/

I'm a proud supporter of Mutant Standard.
If you want to support it too, do take a look: https://mutant.tech/donate/

I spent way too much time late last night doing basic geometry, trying to figure out the maths of this paper folding I made the other day while I was zoning out.
Then I got into the rabbit hole of a special case that turned out to be rather anticlimactic...

Anyway, kites and geometry are fun.

I ended up ordering a full sheet worth of these stickers (I was bound by a minimum order cost).

Close up, the printing isn't perfect, nor is the cut, but these stickers are about 35 mm (1 3/8 in) wide, so none of these details are noticeable without close inspection.

They also were printed in pairs: one with a cutout in the "i" dot (for the red activity LED in the laptop lid to show through), and another with a red "i" dot and no cutout.

So, this happened today. 😅

(I may have overhyped with the "fancy" part last week, but the rainbow chrome effect *is* really neat TBH)

The production isn't 100% sharp, but in general it looks good, especially at some distance.

This week I started experimenting with one of these meal replacement shakes (think of something like Soylent) to replace an unhealthy lunch I was having every day.
So far it is going well, the taste isn't stellar, but it isn't putting me off either. Much like a meal replacement shake I tasted years ago, it is better chilled.
I have a month's supply of this thing, so I'm not making any decisions yet, but I'm sure I'm not replacing any other meals.

Following @dzuk's excellent idea of tagging streams as "lurk-safe" (as per https://weirder.earth/@dzuk/101093266484108765), I took the initiative of suggesting this tag to Twitch (at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw7UJG7L2mIA2Fg9e2HoE8MWNba560ZCI6x2G4p8sU1S4uZQ/viewform)

Knowing that upon joining a stream one will not be called out while they're lurking is a relief if you're anxious about that, and makes it more welcoming to join streams, especially the ones with few viewers (where acknowledging viewers is feasible).

Choose your starter! (shitpost)