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@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org Did you hear us: Stop working with fascist organizations and we'll buy your laptops?
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mastodon 4.7.3Bi. Nerd. He/Him.
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@hittitezombie@mastodon.me.uk @crispius@mstdn.fname.ca @wdormann@infosec.exchange @witchescauldron@kolektiva.social when I first started in this industry, decades ago now, I apologized for taking up so much of a senior engineer's time helping me solve a problem. His response has stuck with me ever since: "my most important deliverable to the company is more senior engineers".
The short sighted murdering of that pipeline in many modern orgs is *shocking* to me
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@rupert@mastodon.nz @Catvalente@wandering.shop "You have to practice believing the little lies so you can believe the larger ones. Mercy, Justice, that sort of thing. You have to believe them, how else could they come to be?"
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@floe @Remittancegirl This is the reason, for me at least, that I think there is kompromat. That once he was president the amount he would make laundring russian money would pale in consideration to what he could make via other streams, and so why would he keep working with Putin unless Putin had him by the balls some other way.
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@helenclayton I would, instead, drill a couple of those small holes in the base, maybe one per each of the little bumps, then bury it until just the top is open, fill it and then put the cap on. The goal is to only allow a small amount of air in to replace the water, such that it wicks out the bottom. Look up ollas for the general idea.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social Someone else was talking about this very issue earlier: https://yiff.life/@tael/116816900099669356
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Ok, just to sum it up for those following along at home:
NordVPN: confidence scam, the Raid: Shadow Legends of VPNs
Mozilla VPN: reseller of Mullvad
Tailscale: partners with Mullvad
ExpressVPN: Israeli
Private Internet Access: ditto
ProtonVPN: sponsors French fascists
MullvadVPN: donates millions to Swedish fascists
am I missing any?
Open quoted postRE: @rafial@masto.hackers.town
This is incredibly useful information
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@cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza I too liked Lain back in the 90s when I watched it on KTEH. ;-)
I actually rewatched it a few years ago, it holds up pretty well as a weird acid trip of a musing on what reality is based on our perceptions.
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@cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza also, who in the present day, present time would install an os who's maintainers are referencing lain of all things
@benroyce based
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@cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza I imagine, in my head, a grumpy owl bear, with little round glasses, hunched over a keyboard grumbling about this or that distro's install process and why doesn't it just work
Just beat someone in #mtgsos where their deck had zero cards left in it *and* I'd reduced their life total to zero.
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@cocaine_owlbear as happens more frequently than is probably healthy for me: wish me a good sleep.
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@beej@kind.social @Texan_Reverend@kind.social you can't do that?
Why not?
Cause it's freaking me out!
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@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party @KiwiEV@mastodon.nz an 8' bed makes sense to me because of how much of our sheet goods are 8'x4'. but if you want to haul 4+ people, get a sedan (or a van), and for the six days a year you need to haul stuff also...rent a pickup. costs $50.
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@JonBaker@mastodon.social Every time this idea circulates around again, I'm compelled to ask the question: Is Daniel Craig a MIchael Caine ("The muppets are just fellow actors, and I'll tread them as such") or a Tim Curry ("I am a muppet")
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@stjepanlukac@mastodon.art
1) Blades in the Dark. It fits the kinds of stories I like to tell/play, of coworkers who don't have to like each other but are stuck in a high stress job, and what they're willing to give up to get that done.
2) Fate. It's a generic enough system that it's pretty easy to expand to tell a pretty wide range of setting or story, even if it does need weird dice.
3) D&D. I'm not *happy* about this choice, but it'll hit the widest number of players, so I'm likely to get to keep gaming.
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@jwz @cdamian @aspensmonster @claudius @mathowie "Motherfucker, are you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy?"
@scalzi I have no idea what "Four Doorways in or near New Orleans" is, but the title has done it's job and drawn me in
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@dtwx@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social valve doing the bare minimum to maintain proton, means that the last real barrier to getting rid of windows has gone out the window. I've been using Linux since the late 90s, but do enjoy playing games that aren't available natively on Linux.
Steam just working for most stuff is HUGE.
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@coachgowron@tenforward.social "and when it has gone past, I will look inside to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing"
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@makeworld@merveilles.town time to start carefully merging and dealing with the *centuries* of conflicts
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@Texan_Reverend @rockario Would it be possible to have those posts from local storage still be available to pull from their originating instance?
So, alice@masto.soc posts a picture, nobody sees it, it gets purged, two years later, bob@mato.soc is flipping through alice's posts, gets to the end of the local storage, kind.soc throws off a "hey, gimme the next hundred posts and I'll store them again", then they get purged?
that way history can still get cached locally, but preserved?
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange 15 years ago now when I was meeting a friend of my now spouse, we were having the "what do you do?" conversation, and his response has lived rent free in my brain ever since: "Ah, so you make good money when you're making money"
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com @cstross@wandering.shop which is funny, because at least half of modern programming has been working to abstract away these complications in order to "deliver faster".
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online I've sat on many large creatures. Horses, donkeys, camels, an elephant once, but never a cow.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Of the damage that Facebook has done to us, "Move fast and break things" might be high on the list
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@Texan_Reverend I don't know enough about how the masto/fedi backend works, and I'm not pitching for wholesale rewrites (If I was that interested, I'd go make my own PRs), but I was just wondering if something like that might alleviate some of the "but what about lost history" woes. It wouldn't require masto.soc to constantly be feeding network requests, but we don't have to fully duplicate all info for all time.
I'm gonna need an EP of Sam Ried singing as Lestat.
One of the things I have learned over my 4 decades of thinking is that rules are made to be broken. However, if you don't know what rules you're breaking, what they're there for, and why you're breaking them, the unintended consequences are probably going to cause you more trouble than it's worth.
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@mattkenworthy I have a little plastic batman that I explain my problem to, slowly, out loud, step by step. He's caught so many of my mistakes.