emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 1hi am one of the developers of all time 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 1h@b TIL about: > hidden="until-found": Hide an element until it is found (e.g. via a find-in-page search or when targeted by the URL hash). wh... why would you want this i can think of no use cases for this feature that aren't utterly asinine 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 2hdid a hyperfocus and rewrote #shorkle's solver today (used during puzzle building to verify that there's a unique solution), which means now i can make bigger puzzles :3 then i spent the next 10m30s struggling with shorkle.uni.horse/p/big-test, despite having *just* seen the solution […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 3h@aburka my website is also php because php written like it's 2003 is a better templating language than basically anything that's been invented since (i run all the php locally and upload the html output though) 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13hjs only having map/filter on arrays and not generators is asinine tbh 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13h@b via diameter. punch the board harder to make a bigger hole 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14hdoing research for shorkle and learning about fun and exciting things I missed out on in uni: oeis.org/A002464/internal > This sequence is also the solution to the 'toast problem' devised by my house-mates and me as math undergraduates some 27 years ago: Given a toast rack with n slots […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 001 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026reported a minor nethack bug and they wanted a specific list hardware information, which all seemed irrelevant, but who am i to question forms waiting for the inevitable reveal that this actually only occurs on thinkpads somehow 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026@b monadic car is when you go through a drive-through instead of walking into the place it's still you ordering food, you're just in a wrapper to fit the type of counter you're interacting with 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026typos in job postings from normal companies: "ah well, at least we know it's human written" typos in job postings from security companies: "i wonder if that's the entry point to a fascinating puzzle" 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026does anyone else occasionally get a Brilliant Idea, a flash of inspiration which you could turn into a Device with only like a couple of days of effort, and then you think about it for five more seconds and realize you've invented a normal-ass device that everyone including you already has […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 010 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026surely my corpse is worth more than that, i think i would make an excellent undead minion 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026@tschundler www.onsemi.com/pdf/datasheet/ncp302… looks plausible. Is pin 5 connected to that capacitor, and 2 to a power rail? 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026i forgot to watch literally any of the roguelike celebration talks, and also did not pay for a ticket this time because unemployment, but they sent me a free mystery steam game anyway so now i am conflicted about redeeming it 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026OH: "I'm microdosing hell" 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026[chants of sennaar, spoilers] finished it tonight. 4.5/5, immensely enjoyed the languagey puzzley bits. i can tell a fellow linguistics nerd designed this because the languages weren't straight calques of english or each other. equivalent words translating to different english to convey […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026also the dryer does not use the circuit labeled "dryer", because of course it doesn't i think it's Mystery 240V 1 but there are also two other 240V circuits doing their own multi-kilowatt things in various patterns 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026immediately after i posted on fedi about it, it dropped to ~60W (still more than a powered-off dryer should be pulling) so, uh, which one of you is it? i'm not even mad. i mostly just want to know how you pulled this off 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026anyway, what i've learned so far, having now grafana'd every circuit in my house and workshop: the single biggest consumer of electricity right now is a mystery ~240W load tapped into one leg of the clothes dryer circuit (i tried unplugging the dryer temporarily, it is definitely not the dryer […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026which means that, after following the logical implications from there and renaming some other circuits, we arrive at: 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026update: i believe it is, in fact, on none of those circuits 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026i am actually misrepresenting how wtf my house's wiring is here the "4" labeled "garage" are actually 4 split-phase breakers controlling what i'm pretty sure is 8 separate 120V circuits 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026normal things to ask while doing home electrical work: "do you remember if your computer is on the breaker labeled 'furnace', the unlabeled one, or one of the four labeled 'garage' even though we do not have a garage?" 200 2
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026@gray17 (also thank you for providing a new wiki to get lost in) 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026@gray17 I did not know this term! I'd seen similar ideas before but blanked on what to call it besides "meowdoku clone". 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/is… imagine using an easily blocked tracking domain as a critical part of your auditing and compliance setup 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026[re: hypothetical body mods] bonus: "sorry, i will not be getting out of bed today because my bed frame is steel and my butt magnets are too strong" 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026[hypothetical body mods] disapproving face: implanting a tiny magnet in your hand so you can do party tricks approving face: implanting several large magnets in various places on your body so you can stick objects to yourself, both decoratively and so you don't lose them 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026apparently they were at least considering this at some point in the past: www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files… which also offhandedly mentions the absolutely wild idea of being able to email physical objects (using an email address as a postal handle) 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026> Want to separate home and business mail or keep your address private? Reserving a PO Box™ is a great way to get your mail when and where you want it. that's the opposite of where i want it! i want my mail to be delivered to my home like a normal person! 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026... does USPS not offer virtual PO boxes (like, register a number i can enter as my address and mail still gets physically delivered to me)? why is this a thing only third party companies do USPS is objectively the organization that *should* be doing this! 200 2
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026achievement unlocked: printed the shipping label on the right side of the sticker paper on the first try 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026pentesting is a metroidvania actually 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026in its defense i really did outright miss the title field in my defense it was because it's one of those text boxes that looks like an uneditable header but has a tiny edit icon next to it 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026so hackerone now makes you go through an llm to send a report in. it's not good i'm still staring at the ip address thing. the template asked what ip addresses i was testing from, and i explained that i'm behind CGNAT and don't have a fixed public address […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse] 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026today is a good day to have my fluffiest cat purr as loudly as possible directly into my ear :3 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026pulse oximeter (tool for measuring sudden bursts of oxen activity) 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026cursed formats I have discovered while reverse engineering things: utf-8-encoded gzip "you mean utf-8 text compressed with gzip? that's not that weir--" no, binary gzip data that had somehow been run through the utf-8 encoding algorithm, with a header of `1f c2 8b 08 ...` 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026[food] why is my broth labeled in pounds instead of literally any volumetric unit i should not need to calculate how many cups are in two pounds of broth 001 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026sudden curiosity: do poly people use the term "single"? clearly it can semantically apply (a person who is generally polyamorous but has zero partners currently) but under monogamy it's a necessary condition for "open to new partner", so i am wondering if it has acquired monogamous connotations […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 001 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026after a frankly ridiculous number of setbacks, i have produced one #vaporpad #theWorkshop 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026it is. that's unexpected and mildly horrifying and probably a gpl violation 000 0
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026wait, is this firmware just a hacked up *Marlin*? 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026scrolling through `strings elegoo_lcd.bin |less` while i wait for stuff, as one does, and found this neat bit 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026okay yeah apparently this is just the firmware updater and it decided to jump to it for no particular reason 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026safereddit.com/r/ElegooMars/comment… this is certainly a reasonable way to distribute firmware images 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026like, it was displaying "erase flash block 2072" with the number at the end increasing slowly, and i immediately pattern matched it to "device in weird state, shrug and restart it" and hit the power button before registering what "erase flash block" meant how does this even happen what series […]fedi.uni.horseOriginal post on fedi.uni.horse 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026walked away from the sla printer to put another file on its usb drive, came back to find it erasing its own flash unprompted?? and now it will not start of course the fuck is wrong with literally all my technology 100 1
emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026petition to rename long-form youtube videos to youtube pants 000 0