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mastodon 4.7.3Laid back easy going geeky dude.
My interests are wide and varied probably a result of too much ADHD. Not really antisocial, but I tend to enjoy time alone, so I live a fairly hermit-ish life these days.
#Music #Cooking #Food #Programming #Coding #Pets
Be groovy. Be kind. Be weird.
Bouncing around the fediverse barefoot and robed.
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Joined February 22, 2023
I was talking on the phone and pacing around earlier and I happen to look over and see this fricken weirdo sitting on the steps like a total weirdo watching me walk in circles.
She's so bizarre sometimes.
#Dogs #Berners #BerneseMountainDog #Photo
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Every body making jokes and I'm sitting here as a born English speaking American at 49 years of age looking at this and realizing that I don't think I have any idea why it's not willn't instead of won't.
Surely this must have been explained to me in grammar school, but somehow I just internalized that 'won't' meant 'will not' and I completely purged anything related to why the 'will' became 'wo'.
English majors help!
Regarding the white house name in Google maps being changed to Epstein island (amazing tho Haha) but it got me thinking. It's such a fucking shame that this huge tech companies benefit so much from community input and support while they actively work to strip our freedom away from us.
Could you imagine if everyone stopped updating information on Google maps and instead updated open street maps instead?
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@troed@swecyb.com
This is the difference between a country with a functioning government that implements appropriate regulation for the benefit of the people and a country with a non-functioning government that simply takes bribes from corporations to deregulate.
My wife has certainly moved a bit more towards being techy and geeky since we first met. But not so much that I could meaningfully explain to her why I don't want to use systemd, the pump I got from recovering my #Arch install the other night after deleting the wrong partition and having to revert a failed migration attempt to #Artix where I had already blown away #Systemd, or why I'm attempting to use #FreeBSD as my daily driver on my laptop now.
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@dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social @Compassionatecrab@mstdn.social
Mosquito dunks are these cheap little pucks you can buy made of an enzyme that kills mosquito larvae. A dunk bucket is basically a trap you set up for mosquito's to lay their eggs in. There's a bazillion videos on YouTube with tons of examples. They can drastically reduce the local mosquito population around your property.
I also just don't understand how so many people seem to only, or primarily, see the would through the lens of "business" and business growth. Valuation this, percentages that. Profit profit profit. At the expense of everything else.
I just don't get it. Don't think I ever did. Probably never will.
This is actual fucking reality. One of the largest business software development companies putting a button on the title bar of teams, for paying business customers to, I assume, pay more money to "Unlock Premium" in the Teams business communication and collaboration suite.
I don't even know what to say.
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@alice
This just made me think. Somebody needs to slap a baby on board sticker on the presidential limo. Fuuuuck that'd be funny as hell.
I wonder if any "AI" bros think
All these posts I've seen recently talking about data storage degradation and how every time we copy something we lose fidelity got me thinking.
```js
function entropy_speed_run() {
// destroy it all to begin again
for (let i = 0, i < ¹⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰100000, i++) {
select_all_copy_paste();
}
}
```
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@jgordon that was one of the old IRC severs I believe from back in the day. Stolen from there.
I'm getting too old for this shit. But I've been conditioned my whole life to be a good little worker bee and take any and all responsibility. It's such a struggle to set appropriate boundaries.
Spent ten days at an outage working 12-15 hours a day. Started getting ill halfway through. Now I'm home trying to recover. Had to go to urgent care yesterday afternoon to get some antibiotics. So much for an enjoyable relaxing weekend recovery.
High stress and little rest is a recipe for disaster.
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@calcifer@masto.hackers.town
"Why do I care what happens to farmers? I can just go to the grocery store."
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@Daojoan
"Can no longer be shared with people you live with"
Actually, wait, any person in view of your TV screen must have their own subscription. No free riders period.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social
I convinced a lying machine to tell me exactly what I wanted to hear. Isn't this amazing?!
The internet is cooked.
Long live the undernet.
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@theeclecticdyslexic
The outages are often quite exhausting, working long hours and all, sometimes working nights. But usually only do a couple of those a year, so I can't complain TOO much, all in all.
This #Arch install I just can't kill.
So after like two attempted struggles of installing #Artix, I realized that I had actually downloaded the ISO I was using some months ago. I was having issues getting connected to the mirrors. So I downloaded the recent stable ISO. That seemed to correct that issue... but then it was I think a pacman keyring issue I had. So I downloaded the latest weekly ISO, and boom. Finally success.
Except I hosed up my boot partition. A chroot, fix fix. All good again.
Finner, why do you care so much about the software/platforms/online spaces you use and who it's made by and how they're developed?
*gestures to the internet*
Because the majority of people NOT caring about these things for the past two decades has resulted in all of this shit.
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@theeclecticdyslexic
As rough as this outage was, i was actually expecting it to go much worse. I'm surprised that we were able to recover that mess as well as we did. I've had jobs that have gone much smoother where we wound up missing the startup schedule for whatever reason, but this mess actually hit the startup time miraculously.
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@jwcph@helvede.net
This makes me think about the old saying that went something like "any advanced enough novel technology is indistinguishable from magic".
So many people see the output of an LLM and think it's super intelligent, almost magical.
But the reality is that every time these things APPEAR to be intelligent, it really is just a magic trick. They aren't ACTUALLY intelligent at all.