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Canageek

@Canageek@wandering.shop

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Canadian Geek. Ph.D. in Chemistry. Plays tabletop RPGs, video games and board games. Aspie & ADHD.

Not a geek in a can.

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Joined June 15, 2017

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 2w ago

Got rejected from donating blood. Not for something dignified like to much sex, no. I got rejected because my breath issues don't have an official diagnosis so they can't be sure donating won't hurt me. *headdesk* I donated six months ago when we thought it was asthma and I was fine!

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 2mo ago

Sometimes things blow my mind. First there is an HIV preventative drugs so effective THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DO MATH to compare it to the control group (No one in the test group got HIV in the first trial. I have never before or since heard of a drug trial that effective. I believe they got something like 98% effective in the follow-up, much larger trial. NOW there is a human trial of an HIV *vaccine* that shows a lot of promise on primate trials.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social So it depends on how much you have and it's really non-intuitive how long it will linger. So all of your really short stuff like I131 will go away quickly, but even something with a relatively short half-life like Cs137 could be dangerous for centuries if you have enough of it. Now couple this with history is a lot shorter than most people think: 10 half lives of cesium-137 ago and the US hasn't been founded yet

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social So you have stuff that is spicy enough to cause a lot of problems, they could very easily still be heinously dangerous 100 years after a societal collapse. Plus in previous technological regressions, it's been very uneven. You actually had a lot of metal working and agricultural advances during the collapse of the Roman Empire, but large-scale understanding of construction techniques was lost.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

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@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social So it would entirely be plausible that knowledge of nuclear physics was lost, because it's not relevant to day-to-day life, whereas mining techniques stay the same or advance, because they're needed and used on a day-to-day basis

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

For those that don't know: There are edit out of control wildfires in the same lake I live near, one at the north end near Vernon, the other about 26 km from be (far side of the lake, thankfully), and a third they have contained.

20,000 people evacuated last night alone

Edit: Three out of control wildfires, I forgot one

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

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@futurebird@sauropods.win @jredlund@social.linux.pizza I'm guessing the Liberty has wings for the same reason that they're writing one nation under god on it, to make it more christian

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

Me: Remember that Literal Skyrim Trailer video? That was good, I should watch it.

Me: I wonder who made this

YouTube: Tobuscus

Me: Oh shit, There is a Fallen Titans about him. I don't remember why though, might not be that bad

Quinton Reviews: Content Warning for Sexual Assault

Me: FUCK

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@ret@furry.engineer No idea of you are Canadian or but, but that one works for me

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social but honestly, I'm much less worried about people digging up deep underground waste dumps, we haven't even built any of those. We do however, have a hill in the Ottawa Valley with an entire nuclear reactor Corps buried under it, that puts off enough radiation that you can't stand on top of the hill and they can't even figure out what's down there because they have radiation coming off of it destroys any electronics put on top of the hill...

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social sort of, I'm not a nuclear physicist but I am a uranium chemist who got training in this if you'd like me to nerd out

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games I'm surprised that more of them don't do it like '80s D&D artists, where they work the signature into the artwork in a subtle way

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 2mo ago

What is the best place to all Linux questions these days? Is Linuxquestions.org still good? I'm reaching the point where my bugs are getting weird enough that I'm not really getting answers on Mastodon, would love to know what the best place to ask is #linux

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

Dear people in #Calgary : Where can I get distilled water and shaving cream on a Sunday night? Will be 8 pm when our plane lands. All your drugstores appear closed.

Edit: Local friend has helped us, thank you

#yyc Please Boost

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@xgranade@wandering.shop Honestly, I think Creative Commons is non-commercial license was a much better idea than the GPL, And I've always been annoyed that if you selected it, scolds you for not embracing free culture.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

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@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social Oh I agree about 100,000-year timelines, that's longer than all of recorded human history. It's a lot of years ago now, but I don't think I actually got any formal education on radiation physics until university. It also doesn't need to be totally lost, just removed enough from the general population that someone decides to explore in that spot. Also, I don't think it takes any special technology to dig a really deep hole- The technology's in speed and safety

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Note to self, never fly with Flair again: They no longer have human support staff and when you call you just get a chatbot that is unable to connect you to a human.

They also do not have X gender markers on their website, so I'm having to put in a support ticket to update my husband's booking as both Canada and the US offer X IDs and he has one

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 2mo ago

MotherFUCK, we've been having an issue with a bunch of boxes of crab shells rotting from a mixture of moisture and heat. The smell was entering the building and making the whole way incredibly unpleasant to be in, so I told the group they need to get those dried out and put into watertight containers. #RealTimeChem

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@mxchara@seattle.pink Yes, yes they are! Excellent guess!

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Just realized I've been active on social media for *18 years* now (Opened my twitter account Halloween 2008)

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@jrootham@mastodon.acm.org @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social And not needing massive teams of workers.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Very glad Swords Against Cerebus is around to help me though migraine

@SophiaSurname@shrike.club

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@xgranade@wandering.shop @neckspike@indiepocalypse.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Also not six years: There was pretty good circumstantial evidence for the first couple years that it was for mites (ex the infection rate plunge when Indian nurses started wearing face shields in addition to masks).

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@fluffy@plush.city @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Is it the "Don''t refer to trans men as eggs, the term comes from the fact chicks come from eggs" thing again?

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

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@LexYeen@plush.city @lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games Oh yeah, that sounds like the modern version of what I'm talking about all right, that's cool!

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

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@lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games @LexYeen@plush.city Is it really ahead of the were curve if it was standard practice before I was born? XD

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

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@LexYeen@plush.city @lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games I've not seen it? I've seen people having names or what not running along limbs or in places that would be a pain to photoshop out, but I haven't actually seen names or symbols or initials worked into the artwork itself Like the old TSR guys would. They would make their initials into runes on a wall, or incorporated into the texture of things or stuff like that

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@datum I've been very skeptical of that last one, just based on my experiences as an inorganic crystallographer. I do want to talk with some colleagues this summer at the international union of crystallography meeting about what the smallest thing that can count as a crystal is that would still be able to act as a seed.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @xgranade@wandering.shop It's even getting to the point that people are expecting to be paid for DMing these days

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @xgranade@wandering.shop see I don't want people making money in certain spaces at all. if possible, I would like it if there was enough open source ttrpgs to completely push companies out of the space, instead of what we're seeing is that it adds easier and easier to publish things for money. Instead of writing an adventure for a home group, thinking it's pretty good, and putting it up on a forum for free for others to enjoy, everyone puts it up on DTRPG to make a quick buck.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@eldersea@expressional.social @cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza Mint cannot KDE, at least not without doing a lot of work yourself. That is why I stopped using Mint. I then stopped using Fedora when they started accepting AI contributions, and they recently announced they're creating an entire AI focused spin. Which is sad, I liked it more then OpenSUSE for reasons I can't put my finger on.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

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@eldersea@expressional.social @cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza OpenSUSE does KDE very well, but there is one person trying to make an AI introduction as a GSoC project, but I'm told they're more of a collective than an organization, so no idea if that will make it into tumbleweed or not

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

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@eldersea@expressional.social @cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza I've used mint (Debian based), Fedora and OpenSUSE In the last last year, and I haven't noticed any real differences between them for gaming, so I'm kind of assuming any relatively modern distros going to be practically identical for that use If you're doing the Gentoo thing where all of your packages are optimized specifically for your exact architecture, it's probably going to be a bit better at performance? But as I understand it, not many people do that these days

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@thomrstrom@triangletoot.party WOW! I didn't have them much until LAST YEAR O.o

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop @memnus@swingset.social I heard the advice a number of years ago, so I don't know if it's still true for stuff like this: You used to be able to get a phone plan for basically nothing with no calling minutes and a small number of taxs with the idea that if you need to call someone you just text them and they would call you. these were a single digit number of dollars per month, and would give you a phone number. I don't know if this was the thing in the US, or just MostExpensiveCellPlansada

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@datum Will do!

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@fluffy@plush.city @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social *sigh* That sounds really frustrating!

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@mdhughes@appdot.net @WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop thought it sounded like someone conveying the plot of a rock opera

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

I really wish Kasts was usable. @kde@floss.social

It looks so perfect, and then you try and use it and buttons keep getting placed offscreen, bars suddenly take up half the screen, and scrolling lists has visible framerate issues :(

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza @eldersea@expressional.social sadly, the Canadian BSD appears to have fallen :( https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/

OpenBSD and slopcode: raindrop to a torrent? – OSnews

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@xgranade@wandering.shop I just meant in terms of intentions, The GPL and BSD licenses seem almost designed to make corporations happy

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

Might miss the opening of IUCr and the Drumheller excursion due to the forest fires. Only one airline didn't cancel it's flights it today due to the smoke and fires blocking routes.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lgrochal@toot.community Debian *is* on my list of backup options!

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @xgranade@wandering.shop I don't want tiny shops using my writings either. in I want them to be given out for free, like net.books and other things as they were created when I was young and it was hard to monetize things on the internet.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Arrgggg. Waterfox lost my tabs AGAIN. I never had this issue before this year. I had my same tabs open for YEARS. I need to start bookmarking them all as a backup more often :(

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @xgranade@wandering.shop I don't get your point? I'm dealing with an existing culture that I can't change, but I can prevent my stuff from contributing to the problem.

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@saphire@dragon.style @lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games Interesting, I've never seen that, the closest I've seen is written along an arm or overlapping with the character

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@xgranade@wandering.shop Well for consumer facing code, sure. But if you're just putting it on a server to run some sort of website that attempts to extract money from consumers?

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 4mo ago

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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @xgranade@wandering.shop @neckspike@indiepocalypse.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Sure, but for the average person they probably wouldn't pay attention until the WHO conceded that point- I heard about it much earlier, but I was a scientist trying to get as much news as possible with connections on Science Twitter

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Canageek @Canageek@wandering.shop

· 1mo ago

Watched a dubbed copy of Captain Harlock YouTube recommended to me today. Wow, that does not hold up. I've heard better acting in local theater.

Is it magically better with subs? Is this why there was such disdain for dubs when I started watching?

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