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mastodon 4.7.2I make things, I fix things, and quite often break things. A Silicon Valley refugee having lived in the Pacific North West, recently returned to my home, #SantaCruz after too long away.
Three decades in the world of computers and most of it developing the Internet (largely as a Web Thing, but not really).
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Joined December 20, 2020
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Server Herder
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Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
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I am sick of "Prediction Market" as a moniker.
It's Gambling. Gambling is the fucking word.
Gambling that you can manipulate (or create) the outcome.
I don't like gambling (four years of statistics will do that to a person) and I'm not fond of people who gamble (lotto anyone?) ... but that "Market" shit is Criminal.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Dude's a construction worker and that's all he packs for lunch?
Shiiiiiiit. When I was in the trades:
- 4-6x Turkey/Ham/Swiss lettuce tomato pickle onion sammiches.
- 6-Pack Sierra Nevada (I'd never drink Coors).
- 2L Sprite (hate cola)
- 2L Tea/Lemon
- 1L Lemon Water (Cuts dust)
- BAG O Tortilla Chips
- 4 Apples
- 4 Oranges
- 2 Bananas
- 3 Bagels & Cream Cheese
- Half Pound of Cheddar
- Quart Bag of Goldfish (what's that little sandwich bag?)
- 2x PB&J (snacks)
- 3+ Cliff Bars
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @faraiwe@mstdn.social Oh, so you've met one of my Ex's daughters I see.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Oh yeah. I'm totally getting octopus a fruity rum drink with an umbrella. Guaranteed.
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@faraiwe@mstdn.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Exactly what I was thinking. I mean, verbatim.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yeah ... in the 80s I has to wear a fucking tie when I worked on computers at location.
This is why people are lucky I wear clothes at all when doing maintenance on machines (actually it's so I don't catch boy parts when I slam a server back into the rack).
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@knutson_brain@sfba.social Angle Grinder or SawsAll (or plasma cutter but that's not very inconspicuous).
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Step 6 has a problem ... when (if) people come back, they're going to want A Lot More Money.
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org DO NOT GET ME ST ... too late.
I was responsible for Backend Stuff and a shitload of desktops/laptops at some well known tech publication.
The Laptops had 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA cards. Users would (say) roll a pencil under-ish the laptop and lift the edge to retrieve it and *CRUNCH*. Dig out pieces w/pliers and replace. I had a standing order w/vendor: Just send two boxes of dongles/month.
3Com Megahertz adapters were instantly fucked.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'm sorry.
I know the time and number for every bus, train, and aircraft OUT of Indianapolis ... for, reasons.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Eh, I've been wanting another bread machine for loaf type bread for a while now. Suppose I'll have to up the priority on that.
[Mine is at my mother's place in Indy and she won't give it back. I'm not flying there to get it, and try to get that bad boy through TSA in my laptop bag.]
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@notanowl@social.brotherpsyche.social @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Yeah ... hailing from Indianapolis in a previous life GenCon confuses the hell out of me.
I mean, they tore out the Hoosier Dome to expand the Convention Center just so GenCon would stay ... buuut if *I* were GenCon I wouldn't want to be there At All. Indy is pretty hostile to anyone not MAGA,
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social THAT would be the model I said was Instantly Fucked. Those were worse because instead of a $20 dongle, I had to replace the whole damned card.
That is what *I* used for *MY* laptop and nobody else was allowed one ... ever ... No ... Fuck That.
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@Viss@mastodon.social @petrillic@hachyderm.io Oh! And for logs I've been using lnav for a little while now. Does some seriously useful shit.
https://lnav.org/
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @kajer@infosec.exchange @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social And thank you all for bring up that particular PTSD trigger. I'm going to go play in traffic now.
Smoked some POTS.
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@Viss@mastodon.social @petrillic@hachyderm.io I'm REALLY liking it man. Multiple files. BIG fucking log files. Does system logs and sql logs ...
Can use SQL to query logs!
Every once in a while (2x/year abouts) I go look up new CLI/TUI stuffs and occasionally I find a gem. This is one of this year's excellent finds. 😁
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@Viss@mastodon.social @petrillic@hachyderm.io
I like "grep --color" ... works good.
(ripgrep is also very good, and scary fast.)
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Glad I don't eat white bread.
Looks like I'm making my own dough for buns now.
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social I MISS SCSI, I really miss SCSI.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Make that a bench in front of the Santa Cruz Main Beach, and trade the cat for a dog, and that could be me.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social *Ballistic Coffee* / *ROARING LAUGHTER*
This is Completely Valid.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social No bet ... my wallet's on the table, just take the cash in it.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*Scrubs Eyes with Muratic Acid*
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social 😆
#10 - This is happening today:
https://www.ironman.com/races/im703-santa-cruz
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social There's a ton of marathons in Greater Seattle and 26.2k Stickers are frequently found on verious autos (SUVs usually) in Redmond.
I was walking through the parking lot on day and found, "13.1k ... I'm not that motivated"
I had to stop and write them a note to tell them that they are awesome human beings.
Ok ... There's a reason, but I cannot remember *why* I installed that.
#SysAdmin
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social That was the only sane design HOWEVER ... it took two slots and I couldn't fit my Adaptec 1460 SCSI Card (for my IOMEGA Jazz and external Seagate Hawks) or CF Adapter (to read camera data).
Now, I Will open my laptop (ThinkPad fun) and solder (say) a USB dongle to the fucking motherboard (because crunching those *could* {has} screwed motherboards on laptops and damnit are those a pain in the ass to replace.
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