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Chris Abbey

@cabbey@phpc.social

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sourcerer @ SmugMug, photo geek, dad, licensed rocket scientist (L2 w/ NAR and Tripoli).

This is MY stream of consciousness. I don’t speak for my employer, club, or hobby.

Fiscally conservative, socially liberal; he/him

89 Followers

100 Following

24 Posts

Joined November 18, 2022

Photography:

https://smug.cabbey.net/

Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

The absolute best part was I thought I had fried the brand new power supply. Because the device under test went dark, so I differed I had triggered the over current protections. Reset all the things, still dark. Too the meter out if the supply loop to measure things and it came back, but even with lights on I had no voltage? It wasn’t until I put it in continuity mode to check something in debugging no voltage that I finally figured out what I had done.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 4mo ago

Hey straight people, here’s your chance to stand up and be an ally without leaving the couch, or wherever you are reading this. Take a moment to tell the FCC to pull its head out of its ass please. Here’s a great write up on what’s going on, with directions on how to help.

https://glaad.org/fcc

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 6mo ago

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@ramsey@phpc.social uh, is that extra “, by” in the last line of the version output a typo? Or is it supposed to be different and more cumbersome to read than the other lines?

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

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Grepping the source does find a couple GTK3 references... in an "unfinished example" of what a future port to the "GIMP Tool Kit version 3" might look like. Yeah, I don't care if you've updated your software for the new 2025 rules... that's terminally bad technical debt management.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

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@afilina@phpc.social much like here, the Bluesky experience is very much dependent on the community you seek out. The discover tab isn’t much of a feed, it’s really just there as a place to bootstrap your experience. There are a few php related feeds users have curated, but I see more activity in some of the subgroups like craft or laraval. I have to say though with the phpc.social server here, this community mostly lives here. A couple of my other communities however, dead/toxic here, flourishing there.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 8mo ago

RE: @andrewnez@mastodon.social

> the fish shell is not malware, it just feels that way sometimes.

🤣

mastodon.social

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 10mo ago

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@greem heh. I can imagine you do. I have feelings about the form of cancer that took a chunk out of my ass a few years back as well. I’m surprised there are still debates. My doc said the false *negative* rate with DRE was “unacceptably high”, and that modern blood testing’s false negative rate was “nearly zero”. In any case I think we can all agree the most important things: Get tested. Get screened. Catch it early.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 36mo ago

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@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com there are great solutions for that second problem. I heartily recommend @1password@1password.social for it. I’ve heard good things about Dashlane. I wouldn’t wish LastPass on my worst enemy however.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

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@kboyd@phpc.social this is the one, in Sketch Workbench. No need to add a circle, or deal with any of the constraints, it does all that for you.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

Anyone in my circles know much about ms365's new typescript based scripting in excel? I'm trying to figure out how I can share some common code between a number of different functions. Right now I'm literally copy/paste-ing it around between them when I need to make a change (thankfully rare). But this is typescript, I should be able to put this in a shared resource of some sort and just call it from many places. No obvious way to set that up I can find. :(

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 10mo ago

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@greem as a 2x cancer survivor I say #fuckCancer! Congrats on kicking its ass so far, keep up the good fight! And as a fellow AMAB who just hit 50 this year, I’d tell all y’all: don’t fear this checkup… the DRE is, in the words of my doctor, “a relic of the past”. Modern blood tests are far more accurate. If the blood test gives reason to worry they’ll schedule a detailed exam. And you should be getting a colonoscopy anyway! Which will apparently spot enlargement just as well.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 10mo ago

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@greem just had my first Friday as well. Not crystal clear, but not expected to be horrible… waiting on path results. 😒 And hoooo boy… that prep…. That was by far the worst week I’ve had in a very long time. 😬

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 6mo ago

Yes Anker’s support is fast. But OMG are they incompetent. Sending me debug steps that are physically not possible on this unit and telling me it has connections it clear as day does not.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

Just got this shared with me, absolutely nailed it. The ending was a perfect surprise. https://burningbird.net/the-parable-of-the-languages/

burningbird.net

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 3mo ago

Is anyone else finding that with #ios26 you have to type your passcode to enable Face ID WAY more frequently than you used to? #ios

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 4mo ago

RE: @cabbey@phpc.social

Still looking for insight here.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

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@bobmagicii@phpc.social @afilina@phpc.social funny you bring that up…. Just today on BlueSky there was a post about how it wasn’t going to plan…. https://bsky.app/profile/pookleblinky.bsky.social/post/3mewmojas3c2i

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

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@bobmagicii@phpc.social @afilina@phpc.social ah yeah. It’s a large thread about how Dorsey founded Bluesky as a place for the crypto bros, libertarians, and uber capitalists… but then left in a huff when instead it got filled with trans folk, furries and academics. And how as soon as blocking became a thing, all those OG weirdos found themselves shunned into a corner.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

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@kboyd@phpc.social there is a tool for automating that. It has a daft icon iirc, but once you know what to look for it makes this easy. I’ll fire it up and get the name in a minute. As for the not closed wire… that’s a pita. The easiest solution is to just start trying to adjust things and see which one doesn’t pull attached corners along. I usually save the file, do that until I find it, then reload from disk and go fix that joint.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kevbob@xoxo.zone needles area?

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kevbob@xoxo.zone I thought those mountains looked familiar. My folks live in Fort Mohave, and I grew up all up and down that river.

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Chris Abbey @cabbey@phpc.social

· 2mo ago

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@kevbob@xoxo.zone so I’ve heard. Though my mom said a thunderstorm came through the other day and knocked 20° off the temp in an hour. Down to 84.

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