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Can't believe I never realized those big steam locomotive whistles from American movies were actually composed of several tones. Three, five, or six notes, with each railway company designing its own chord for branding 😲 Again, completely obvious in retrospect — it presumably explains why the dominant tone varies with pressure — but I'd never given it any thought. That would be such a fun thing to3 views Can't believe I never realized those big steam locomotive whistles from American movies were actually composed of several tones. Three, five, or six notes, with each railway company designing its own chord for branding 😲 Again, completely obvious in retrospect — it presumably explains why the dominant tone varies with pressure — but I'd never given it any thought. That would be such a fun thing to I can't believe some people have the patience to spend months designing and building an excavator with swappable attachments from scratch. I assigned my neurodivergence points all wrong 🥲 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35fpUFfMMM3 views I can't believe some people have the patience to spend months designing and building an excavator with swappable attachments from scratch. I assigned my neurodivergence points all wrong 🥲 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35fpUFfMMM It's festival streaming season so I'm ADHD-ly looking at DJ hardware again and oh my god there is so much lickable new stuff on AlphaTheta's website 😍 Look at the chibi CDJ! And that chiseled pad controller! And they've finally designed a replacement for the RMX-1000 that doesn't look like a toy! https://alphatheta.com/en/1 views It's festival streaming season so I'm ADHD-ly looking at DJ hardware again and oh my god there is so much lickable new stuff on AlphaTheta's website 😍 Look at the chibi CDJ! And that chiseled pad controller! And they've finally designed a replacement for the RMX-1000 that doesn't look like a toy! https://alphatheta.com/en/

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2
Avg engagement / post
1.4%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Can't believe I never realized those big steam locomotive whistl · 3 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
13.4 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
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🔥 Top post Can't believe I never realized those big steam locomotive whistles from American movies were actually composed of several tones. Three, five, or six notes, with each railway company designing its own chord for branding 😲 Again, completely obvious in retrospect — it presumably ex… ★ 3
It's the first time I play a car game with a relatively wide array of EVs, and they all feel like we've used up the last fifty years of advancement in brake and tire performance to make cars three times as heavy as they were — cannonballs … If I connect my TV to the PC with an HDMI cable it works fine. If I connect the same input, with the same cable, but add a DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter so I can use another port on the GPU, I get overscan (missing pixels on all sides) that … Love to be a pioneering astronomer and passionate advocate for women in science then shortly after my death Nvidia plasters my name all over the AI bubble at its most predatory. https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116969229312712900 I had to look it up just in case, thinking I was silly for looking up a joke image but you never know these days 😶 https://aus.social/@jamesh/116969222035776740 ★ 1 The one thing that's interesting about ChatGPT hacking servers after OpenAI asked it to hack servers is that HuggingFace detected the attack, tried to use commercial LLMs to help them fight against it, and the models declined because it tr… ★ 1 It's kind of odd in retrospect that Nvidia actually resisted the crypto craze when it came down to it, going as far as firmware blocks to try and prevent bitcoin miners from seizing the market. What changed? It's the same CEO. Please tell … Am I correct in understanding that EV chargers can only establish powerline communications when charging in AC modes? #LastBoost Found a Mac mini hot plate from 2011 at the bottom of a cardboard box, nothing much seems to happen if I try to turn it on, and it occurs to me that could make for a nice Raspberry Pi enclosure 🤔 Of course it's been done before but the onl… It's festival streaming season so I'm ADHD-ly looking at DJ hardware again and oh my god there is so much lickable new stuff on AlphaTheta's website 😍 Look at the chibi CDJ! And that chiseled pad controller! And they've finally designed a … ★ 1 I can't believe some people have the patience to spend months designing and building an excavator with swappable attachments from scratch. I assigned my neurodivergence points all wrong 🥲 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35fpUFfMMM ★ 3 I was intrigued by D-topia when I played the demo: it had an interesting premise (you bought your way into a digital "utopia" by agreeing to do chores for the other residents) and did sow the seeds of ethical issues to be considered, but i…

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 13.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

89/100 Excellent
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
99%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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About

I make websites, sometimes apps, hypothetically games at some point. I have strong opinions about UX. Posting about Linux and Apple platforms, video games, tech in general. French and stubborn. Also available: occasional photography on @garoo_photos, game screenshots on @ff00aa_pics, random stuff in French on @garoo. He/They 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Can't believe I never realized those big steam locomotive whistles from American movies were actually composed of several tones. Three, five, or six notes, with each railway company designing its own chord for branding 😲 Again, completely obvious in retrospect — it presumably explains why the dominant tone varies with pressure — but I'd never given it any thought. That would be such a fun thing to It's festival streaming season so I'm ADHD-ly looking at DJ hardware again and oh my god there is so much lickable new stuff on AlphaTheta's website 😍 Look at the chibi CDJ! And that chiseled pad controller! And they've finally designed a replacement for the RMX-1000 that doesn't look like a toy! https://alphatheta.com/en/ I can't believe some people have the patience to spend months designing and building an excavator with swappable attachments from scratch. I assigned my neurodivergence points all wrong 🥲 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35fpUFfMMM I was intrigued by D-topia when I played the demo: it had an interesting premise (you bought your way into a digital "utopia" by agreeing to do chores for the other residents) and did sow the seeds of ethical issues to be considered, but it gave me the feeling that it was gonna stay too surface-level in its examinations. Unfortunately it looks like I was spot-on. I kind of understand the impulse t

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