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From this angle you can't see the Habsburg jawline.

THE CYBERIZER takes a bunch of videos, finds the scene breaks in them, shuffles those scenes randomly, and appends them back together with a burst of cleansing static in between.

Help needed:

• I would be curious as to the oldest macOS / hardware combo on which this works, and if it works on x86 at all.

• The ffmpeg I built for x86_64 does not work on my macOS 10.13 system, which reports itself as arch = i386, config.guess = x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0. It says "load command 0x80000034 is unknown". Any ideas?

• If that machine in fact requires a 32 bit executable, can one cross-compile for that architecture from macOS 10.14 arm64, and if so how?

• Since this is a long-running process, it would be nice if it posted to Notification Center, like iMovie does. I can't find any good examples of how to do that.

Previously, previously, previously.

Das ist ja mal echt apokalyptisch. Qualcomm ist echt die letzte Firma, die noch mehr Einfluss kriegen sollte.

Rein rechnerisch könnten sie es sich wohl leisten. Die Marktkapitalisierung von Qualcomm ist doppelt so hoch wie die von Intel. Au weia.

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Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this entire house, including the photos have not been touched since that time.

This Wake County, NC house, built in 2007, currently boasts a price tag of 1.7 million smackaroos. Its buxom 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths brings the total size to a completely reasonable and not at all housing-bubble-spurred 5,000 square feet.

I know everyone (at least on TikTok) thinks 2007 and goes immediately to the Tuscan theming trend that was super popular at the time (along with lots of other pseudo-euro looks, e.g. “french country” “tudor” etc). In reality, a lot of decor wasn’t particularly themed at all but more “transitional” which is to say, neither contemporary nor super traditional. This can be pulled off (in fact, it’s where the old-school Joanna Gaines excelled) but it’s usually, well, bland. Overwhelmingly neutral. Still, these interiors stir up fond memories of the last few months before mommy was on the phone with the bank crying.

I think I’ve seen these red/navy/beige rugs in literally every mid-2000s time capsule house. I want to know where they came from first and how they came to be everywhere. My mom got one from Kirkland’s Home back in the day. I guess the 2010s equivalent would be those fake distressed overdyed rugs.

I hate the kitchen bench trend. Literally the most uncomfortable seating imaginable for the house’s most sociable room. You are not at a 19th century soda fountain!!! You are a salesforce employee in Ohio!!!

You could take every window treatment in this house and create a sampler. A field guide to dust traps.

Before I demanded privacy, my parents had a completely beige spare bedroom. Truly random stuff on the walls. An oversized Monet poster they should have kept tbh. Also putting the rug on the beige carpet here is diabolical.

FYI the term “Global Village Coffeehouse” originates with the design historian Evan Collins whose work with the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute!!!!

This photo smells like a Yankee Candle.

Ok, now onto the last usable photo in the set:

No but WHY is the house a different COLOR??????? WHAT?????

Alright, I hope you enjoyed this special trip down memory lane! Happy (American) Labor Day Weekend! (Don’t forget that labor is entitled to all it creates!)

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