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mastodon 4.7.2Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.
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If Uline is really so homophobic, why did they select such a fuckable mascot?
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TNG S01E14, "Angel One". The Enterprise visits a Patrick Nagel poster led by Princess Diana. Picard is (as usual) medically unfit to command the Enterprise. Jonathan Frakes' furry pecs irrevocably induce homosexuality in a seven year old boy in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon.
A house centipede just ran out of my CPAP tank when I took it out of the drying rack, so if anyone needs me I'll be never breathing again
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Incredible work by the Chancellor of the Exchequer here, no notes
The existence of an oubliette implies the existence of a larger, more masculine, less constricting oubli.
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How many lettuces to a term? I can never remember imperial units.
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We've fielded a bunch of these reports in 2026 and it leaves us going "well, sure, it could be a bot, or it could be an awkward interaction with a real person on the internet", and there just isn't a good way to act on that without sometimes banning/limiting real people.
I'd say we need some kind of web-of-trust system but Fedi is insular enough as it is. :-/
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TNG S01E22, "Symbiosis". A confusing Zoom call from the local e-stim club leads to a DARE PSA.
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TNG S01E23, "Skin of Evil". Commander Riker's rubber goo fetish backfires. In memoriam, the crew boots up Windows XP on the holodeck.
If you, like me, have absolutely no idea what you're doing w.r.t. pruning shrubs and trees, this is a very helpful, no-nonsense guide: https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/B949/basic-principles-of-pruning-woody-plants/
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TNG S01E16, "Too Short a Season". We are introduced to one of the central paradoxes of Starfleet: a highly ethical, professional institution led by a cabal of admirals who are, for lack of a better term, evil.
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#TNG S01E24, "We'll Always Have Paris". Picard refuses to go to therapy. "I can't compete with a ghost from his past," declaims Dr. Crusher--a line which will come back to haunt her six years later.
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TNG S01E07, "Lonely Among Us". First, I love that the set designers in season 1 had no trouble with SUPER dramatic lighting. Just hanging out in my pitch black cabin aboard the USS Chiaroscuro. Second, Data gets a pipe and starts puffing away and pretending to be Sherlock Holmes in senior staff meetings and everyone just takes it in stride.
Brent Spiner's comedic timing here is uproariously funny. Pulling the magnifying glass on Picard's fishtank
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TNG S01E15, "11001001". Riker generates and falls for an AI girlfriend, blithely unaware that he himself is a fantasy character.
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I assume "Count Binface as Clacton" is one of those weird peerage things or maybe a place name? You know, like the Barony of Loobrush-on-Flushing.
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TNG S01E11, "Haven". Riker watches harp porn in his man cave. Lwaxana Troi arrives, but they haven't *fully* figured out that she's Auntie Mame and can be trusted to run the entire show as a 42-minute monologue. Picard settles an argument at a party by saying "I hereby declare, therefore, all disagreements resolved" and EVERYONE JUST GOES ALONG WITH IT 🫠
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TNG S01E13, "Datalore". Senior staff discover children's drawings of a dendritic godhead floating in the sky and screaming, anguished humans running from it. No one finds this worth remarking on.
On a positive note, Picard gets a brief correction on pronouns and takes it immediately in stride. 1988!
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TNG S01E19, "Coming of Age". Starfleet investigates Captain Picard's history of questionable leadership, perhaps precipitated by the events of the past few months during which the captain rolled his tits off (E03), summoned his mother via the power of imagination (E06), got possessed by lightning (E07), and was mind-controlled by the Ferengi (E09).
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TNG S01E08, "Justice". Crusher lives up to his name and must be executed by a planet of blond, scantily-clad, and inflexibly trim Zumba enthusiasts. Picard intervenes, challenging God in the process. They hadn't quite figured out the Prime Directive yet.
Man the fatigue is real this week. Basically all I've been up for today is a little weeding, repairing the porch, and cleaning the house. Everything is sore and I'm exhausted. 🫠
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TNG S01E10, "Hide and Q". A diamond in the rough. John De Lancie is eating every minute of his scenes. While the pacing and exposition are a bit of a mess, we get Patrick Stewart delivering Shakespeare and an idealist morality drama on the bridge. The shape of things to come.
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TNG S01E09, "The Battle". Picard is mind-controlled by Ferengi. This marks the third or fourth time in a year (episodes 3, maybe 6, and 7) that Mon Capitan's brain has endangered the crew, and you'd think senior officers would be better at relieving him of command by now.
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TNG S01E12, "The Big Goodbye". The holodeck was originally designed as a Rube Goldberg machine to winnow the ranks of inept Starfleet cadets; the doors weld themselves shut upon entry, the walls are made of high-energy explosives, and an independent microfusion reactor allows the simulation to run independently of external controls while simultaneously disregarding muffled pleas from the chamber's occupants. Each holodeck is (of course) sentient, and carries the rank of Fleet Admiral.
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#TNG S02E01, "The Child". The USS Enterprise and Commander Riker's face are resurfaced at Utopia Planitia shipyards, with varying results. Sometimes a family is a single mom and a radioactive parasite. Sometimes a family is three dads and a fresh-faced acting ensign.
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TNG S01E17, "When the Bough Breaks". Captain Picard devises a plot to rid the Enterprise of the children he despises, but is unfortunately stymied.
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TNG S01E21, "The Arsenal of Freedom". Riker explores his mummification kink with an old friend. Captain Picard, not to be left out, beams down to join the fun. The Enterprise's chief engineer, a rotating position assigned to a random crew member each day, finds out if he can have little a mutiny, as a treat.
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#TNG S01E25, "Conspiracy". Alien parasites have taken over the bodies of key admirals in Starfleet for nefarious purposes--an operation which continues more-or-less unhindered for the next five centuries.
This episode is a fucking banger. Camp scale off the charts. Almost unrecognizable as TNG.
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TNG S01E20, "Heart of Glory". "Smells like a trap," says Riker, shortly before beaming half the senior staff into mortal peril. Worf discovers mysterious guests lied to the captain, and offers them a guided tour of the ship.
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#TNG S02E02, "Where Silence has Lease". A postmodern nemesis flummoxes the Enterprise with modular arithmetic. Picard decides to kill everyone and retires to his quarters for some muzak.
Shout out to Zach Tellman's byte-streams, which I use *constantly*: https://github.com/clj-commons/byte-streams
holy shit how did it take me this long to learn about btop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop#screenshots
"A ship that can navigate space without a computer on board can be constructed in one-fifth the time and at one-tenth the expense of a computer-laden ship. We could build five times, ten times as great as Deneb could if we could but eliminate the computer."
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TNG S01E18, "Home Soil". Glitter is contagious.
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#TNG S01E26, "The Neutral Zone". The D'deridex class is mother. There's an A and B plot too, I guess.
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange A military friend of mine has a gruesome story about a colleague who ignored a fence and warning signs and inadvertently made contact with an active radio antenna. If I recall his language, their head "exploded". Arc hazards are a risk even with smaller AM or 5G antennas.
I wish I had a good source for you here, but IIRC RF power density near some antennas is enough to fuck you up--basically like a big microwave. Be careful around antennas!
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@tyler@typing.ink @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club Most welcome. I should write up a post about it with some config examples too!
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@pupatlas.bsky.social The bestest boy demands your supplication
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@tyler@typing.ink @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club Crawler request rate increases, but Iocaine is much more efficient than them hitting Mastodon, so it reduces our overall load by a big margin.
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@juliancalaby@social.treehouse.systems Possibly. I'm asking the lawyers (and the governor, and several legislators, again), to help figure out what compliance actually looks like. :-/
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@deadliftbear@mas.to Oh sorry, I misparsed! Clactonby is the town name, and Count Binface is moonlighting as the town.
As someone who read "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" on Kuro5hin when it came out, I feel like I would probably not name my AI startup this: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent
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@gratdelay@woof.group ugh, yeah, would that we had a regulatory state capable of acting against that.