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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Unfortunately they didn't really succeed to do what they set out to, IIRC, but the OLPC laptops were definitely striking

Picture of the OLPC XO-1 laptop (by Mike McGregor)

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lucky find at the thrift store yesterday, found the PC version of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, which works like a dream thanks to @pmx.newnet.city's PARTYMOD github.com/PARTYMANX/pa...

A picture of Tony Hawk 3 with the PARTYMOD which makes it run smoothly on newer PCs

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That one part of Chop Suey, except every gap has a break spent peacefully meditating on the pleasant sounds of nature (audio by beastsontheweb.neocities.org)

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(For those unfamiliar, it's a teapot model which frequently pops up in graphics programming papers/demos graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/ )

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Graphics programmers, I'm sorry but I have to ask, does this still technically count as a Utah teapot?

The Utah teapot but with the patches at the lowest possible resolution where it's still vaguely recognizable as a teapot, with 19 vertices and 25 edges

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nope, unfortunately not - tested clearing the save and just holding D-pad up in Firefox 156.0 (64-bit) and in Edge 153.0.4234.32 (64-bit and yes I know :( ) - I'm stopped at the door, no clear console output indicating anything going wrong either

Screenshot showing the results of holding up on the first stage in Firefox

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Level selection menus in PS1 games

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

...vent, er det *denne* Alpha School de sikter til? bsky.app/profile/benj...

Sitat fra NRKs "Løsningen finnes":

"I USA går Alpha School enda lenger. Modellen startet for rundt ti år siden med det de kalte «2 Hour Learning»: et par timer app-basert, individuelt tilpasset faglig læring om morgenen, mens resten av skoledagen brukes på praktiske oppgaver, samarbeid, entreprenørskap og andre prosjekter."

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Stole this idea and made a little Linux fridge magnet poetry toy strangebroadcasts.itch.io/debianaire

A screenshot of Debianaire, the Linux fridge magnet poetry toy, with the poem

austin discovers hexer pilots. ack. toxic verses.

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

hushkit.net/2023/08/21/w... is the source, which also tries to estimate the dimensions and thrust/weight ratio of the jet

A three-view drawing of the Barbie Dreamjet, which uses the 1:6 proportions to estimate that a real-life version would be 13.78 feet long and have a thrust/weight ratio of 1.54

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Naomi Wolf famously claimed she overheard a conversation about Apple demoing "vaccines that let you travel back in time", and every time it comes up people joke about Apple's Time Machine but I suspect that she *did* hear and misinterpret a conversation about a "time travelling debugger" like rr

Tweet by @naomirwolf, dated 26/02/2021

"Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2 yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines with nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding"

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Selv forbi VAR-tegnet og inn i dette

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Unfortunately had no idea how to do DSP or any kind of transcription at the time, let alone in Flash, so the game worked purely off microphone levels alone, which inspired this reaction

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

watching England lose on overtime after weird decisions by the ref

the Onion Sickos man with a novelty Viking helmet edited on

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Gamma 9001 by @bwhitman.bsky.social - shorepine.github.io/amy/gamma9001/ - interactive drum machine inspired by Koblo's software instruments

Screenshot of Gamma90001, a drum machine with various Roland drum sounds loaded

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

delighted to discover someone made a proper image generator for that PSA: youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

The "You wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy PSA edited to read "YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A WALKABLE CITY"

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

New Rhythm Heaven game came out

An edit of the Onion's "Sickos" panel with a suspicious-looking man peering in through a window saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!" except it's been arranged as a Rhythm Heaven minigame with two identical men standing next to him, and a conductor leading the trio

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Kommer over alle 1500 UMD-filmene, men ingen lader til PSPen

The end of the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last, where Burgess Meredith's nearsighted character has all the books he could ever want to read but can't read them

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hopping on the tiny Xteink e-reader train, setting up Crosspoint as soon as I can find an SD card

An Xteink X4 ebook reader, smaller than a smartphone

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Aw, technically within Norwegian vanity plate guidelines but still not allowed

The Norwegian Road Department's form for vanity plates showing that "SPC700" is not available

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

That is a fantastic mechanic, but every time you get the option to throw a gun this VB gag comes to mind

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Photos of Lāhainā Noon with the sun directly overhead always weird me out a little bit, they make me think "you forgot to turn on the shadows!!!"

Photo by eli fessler from the Wikipedia page for Lahaina Noon, showing a level stood vertically on the pavement, casting no shadow on the pavement because the sun is directly overhead

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The book in question calls it "repeated rounding off" and I think that's the closest thing to a term for it? I'm not sure if there's a catchier name for it

Quote from Volkov's Numerical Methods

"A repeated rounding off is not recommended, since it may lead to an increased error. For instance, rounding off the number 18.34461 first to three and then to two decimal places, we obtain 18.345 and 18.35 respectively. When rounding off at once to two decimal places, we have 18.34. The absolute error of the repeated rounding off turns out to be equal to 0.00539, while in one-time rounding off the absolute error is equal to 0.00461."

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Actually no, that would better describe rounding errors compounding over time, whereas the problem here is that the rounding happens in multiple steps Wikipedia talks about this precise type of error but does not give it a name, just refers to a numerical methods textbook

Quote from Wikipedia's "Round-off error":

"Rounding multiple times can cause error to accumulate. [Reference to Volkov's Numerical Methods] For example, if 9.945309 is rounded to two decimal places (9.95), then rounded again to one decimal place (10.0), the total error is 0.054691. Rounding 9.945309 to one decimal place (9.9) in a single step introduces less error (0.045309)."

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This has run for half an hour at this point, I'm not sure if it counts as winning or losing

After half an hour, the game is still computing the score of the hand. The point estimate far outnumbers the number of protons in the observable universe. Chaos reigns.

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I seem to have turned my game of Balatro into Folding@Home

Balatro with the Cryptid mod installed, in the middle of calculating the score for a hand which has taken 800 seconds, or just above 13 minutes, to calculate the final score for

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ha med liveavstemninger over debatten og live-kommentarfelt samtidig

Bilde av prateshowet Mess-TV med en live-avstemning over "Hva hører du på: A: Rap B: Britney Spears"

(Bilde: Kampanje)

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Being informed I am going to jail for "DJ crimes" #fuser

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The mashups will continue until morale improves

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'd forgotten how fun it is to make silly mashups in this

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Not quoting to avoid dogpiling, but you can disprove "there wasn't 'brainrot' humor in the 2000s" with three simple words

The bomb from The Demented Cartoon Movie, setting up someone to say a certain phrase

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Got the Little Black Classics box set because I'm bad with money

The 80 books making up Penguin's Little Black Classics, including Dostoevsky's The Meek One, Poe's Tell-Tale Heart and The Communist Manifesto

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm weak for VB's incredibly specific references, the Myst joke pops into my head occasionally

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

While I'm writing about Scandinavian things for exactly five people: came across this article about the likely first Danish videogame, a 1963 variant of Nim by Søren Lauesen and the famous artist Piet Hein: dl.ifip.org/db/conf/hinc...

Figure 3 from the article "An Early Danish Computer Game", showing an IBM typewriter console next to the hexagonal grid Nimbi is played on

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Please don't tell anyone how I breadboard things

A picture of a Raspberry Pi Zero wired to a protoboard which is in turn wired to a small UHF transmitter, with an RCA cable spliced in for good measure

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Audio working, but it will not surprise any audio electronics people reading to learn that piping PWM through a single RC filter does not make for great audio

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Jørgen @strangecasts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

According to the source snippet from neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632... it's tied to specific "this sucks" phrases, not any use of the word

A still of Claude Code source code showing a "negative pattern" regular expression, meant to pick up combinations of "horrible", "awful" and cursing

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