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Making the Strofara
11 Aug 2024 | original ↗

I made yet another silly thingThis is going to be pretty specific to a Greek audience, as it’s all based on a Greek meme video, but I’ll try to explain. Watch the video first so you know what I’m talking about while I describe it: Two guys are driving on a road near a remote village

Saving SSH passphrases on KDE
10 Aug 2024 | original ↗

I hate technologyI now notice I haven’t written anything in almost a year, which nobody else seems to have noticed, so I guess it’s just as well. I have, though, broken my unintentional hiatus to post something that reminds me why I hate technology so much: All UX is bad. I’ve been a Linux user for more than a decade now, but the latest Ubu

The UX people
11 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Who are they?Today, at work, I was debating with other engineers on what the wording of the message should be, when a patient tries to register an already-registered blood test kit. The specifics (or the people) aren’t really important here, but what struck a chord was when someone said “this is up to the UX people”. We don’t have “UX people”....

Spam spammers back
5 Aug 2023 | original ↗

Now with added ChatGPTI’m writing this post sleepless and with a headache, which I find is the best way to write posts, because it removes all the verbal guardrails, so, be forewarned. Back in 2016, a year before recorded history, I stole a simple idea: What if I wrote a bot to reply to spammers, pretending to be interested in their wares, and...

Use your Wii Balance Board as a scale (again)
10 Jun 2023 | original ↗

We did it again, internetIf you’ll recall, once upon a time I managed to get my Wii Balance Board to connect to my computer and function as a scale. At some point throughout the years, Linux changed, and that method broke. It would still measure your weight fine, but you could no longer activate the balance board by tapping its front button, you...

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