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@gsuberland@chaos.social spider should have 1 leg fewer to be considered as a unit of value (per 27B/6)

@mjd hahahahaha I can assure you that every deskside/support engineer who hears "oh, it's working now. it always works when you are watching it" has an internal monologue along the lines of 'please stop working so I can disassemble or replace you' aimed at that bit of kit. the computer knows it might find out and that is why it pauses in its fuckery at that time.

@eclectech I misread that as "FreeForm" and was interested to see what trifles they had comitted

@meltedcheese @mjd when called upon for tech support I carry a Leatherman, full set o' bits and the hope that this time I'll get to actually see the problem. rarely do. oddly that seems to work for software too.

@rootwyrm sooo... they had a reasonable weaponised system and abandonned it. that was surprisingly unskynet of them

@nileane@nileane.fr Yeah, no. Not in our house. We've explained to our pre-teen lad that the person who wrote Harry Potter is "problematic" because hating some groups of people and so we're avoiding supporting them at all. He's not too bothered about this so far.

@netblocks@mastodon.social I guess we at least know who the Great Orange Person is talking to when he tweets at the Iranian people :/

@ross Detergent-in-Depth

@scottwilson yeah, going to need your fax number to whitelist for that please ;)

@adam BPO, but brain not business... "do this thing I don't like doing, but half-assed according to some vague metric which only counts if I catch you out not meeting it at some point"

@ManyRoads @lowqualityfacts I thought all bears were classified as Greek Orthodox? The pope's toiletry habits are mostly unknown, though I have my suspicions around the al-fresco loo-roll carrying capabilities of those Swiss guard outfits myself...

@lowqualityfacts fully appropriate question. no guess, no find the mess ;-)

@lowqualityfacts oh. oh no. he's unfishing for brown trout.

@yetzt Teuchborough, but close enough ;)

@foone bad. wrong. bad and wrong.

@jonty@chaos.social sounds like we need him to prove himself by creating a device which clears the vacuum around our planet of spacejunk first. convenient though stuff like Starlink is, the poorly-maintained/managed stuff is going to age-out and prevent further off-planet fun soon enough

@wec was about to see if spare hands were needed, but 120v is not local. sorry

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social maybe they are thinking house-arrest, but without the joined-up brain online?

@pfmoore@mastodon.social @simontatham@hachyderm.io I am in this comment and feel seen :)

@wokerati@mastodon.social - palm-grease too

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca using, 90s. really just using though. my comfort zone was DOS and any unix boxen around were critical systems for work, so not ideal for learning on. learning properly was in the late 00s with own kit and the ability to break things without major consequences :)

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt some accurate, some way off, some deeply giggly - "your device is 47 degrees from horizontal" is a somewhat odd thing to be exposed via browser