Signal running on Windows manages to break RustDesk and I'm curious how it manages that.

The Signal window doesn't render, it's like it's fully transparent, but it still either blocks or receives mouse clicks. So odd.

I'm trying out GrapheneOS. The official OS of antifa. And drug dealers apparently. Anyway, freedom loving folks.

#GrapheneOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBBi4gpBLS8 - what he said. This is the best Quake content we've seen, 30 years after the original game shipped. #quake

My local car mechanic actually has a working IBM PC in his waiting room with a drive. I could probably try to read the disk, but I have no way to get it out. Maybe with some serial to usb thing?

Do I know anyone in DFW who can retrieve the content on 5 1/4 floppies? I have some really old stuff I found - the very first game I wrote actually - that I'd like to recover (and fix - damn there's still a dumb bug I remember).

#dfw #dallas #retrocomputing

I found a label maker in the Airbnb and I'm labeling all the things. Plz suggest name for a little hatchet used to cut firewood.

https://blog.ttimo.net/blog/rss-feed-and-mastodon-comment-threads/ - Testing! Using Mastodon as comment threads for the blog.

Collin County TX property tax website: you can put in an address and see how much you owe in taxes. It also shows how much your neighbors owe, and you can infer if they've paid already (it's due soon).

Is it me, or is that a little weird? #texas #collincounty

Alright, this is what has been keeping us busy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE

Mad respect to Moody's for downgrading the US.

Big balls on these guys, there's going to be some unpleasant retribution but I hope they hold strong.

I have no idea what would constitute a big turnout in Dallas. I would roughly guess between 3k and 5k people came out.
#dallas #handsoff

He protec

Is there a Fediverse live streaming platform?

Each of these LLMs has a (roughly) $20/month subscription plan - which one do you use or recommend? Best value and future prospects for the money in your opinion?

#ai #llm

"Improving Steam Client stability on Linux: setenv and multithreaded environments" - I wrote about fixes we've made in the most recent Steam client release on Linux: https://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2024/11/the-steam-client-update-earlier-this-week-mentions-fixed-some-miscellaneous-common-crashes-in-the-linux-notes-which-i-wante.html #steam #linux #steamdeck

lots to do today .. deep breath, slow is smooth, smooth is fast ..