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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@TallSimon@mstdn.ca @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social I saw something similar done for a web developer position. It looked like the application page (linked from one of the big job boards. Probably Monster; this was well before Indeed or ZipRecruiter) was broken, just a blank white page. In the end, I had to use curl to get the application. It basically filtered out people who lacked even the bare minimum curiosity required to check the source to figure out why/how this mission critical page was seemingly broken.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me I choose to believe this happened, not because I actually do, but because I was entertained.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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@kirakira@furry.engineer top notch shitpost

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space @linuxgal@techhub.social This was kind of a hold over from the days of 78s (rpm, when records span faster, and shattered if dropped lol), which didn't have nearly as long a run time, so they would often come in literal albums (like a photo album basically) and you might have 5 or 6 discs for a single piece of classical music, for example.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club @foolishowl@social.coop @mhoye@cosocial.ca The problem there is when the techy person in the group's highest qualification is being the one that knows the most about computers in a group of largely non-technical people, but knowing just enough to get yourself (and entire org/community) in trouble is a very common level of expertise, lol. That's not to throw any shade in their direction; we've all been at that level at some point, but you don't know what you don't know even with the best of intentions. I do agree with the sentiment though, but it's hard not to remember all the times I was definitely not qualified for what I'd taken it upon myself to do (like self-hosting client websites, or writing a custom CMS from scratch (I did have a lot of fun doing it though lol))

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @linuxgal@techhub.social No need to apologize, we can both be right. Plus, 78s were well before my time, so I'm really just talking out of my bum, lol. I grew up on tapes and CDs for the most part.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club @foolishowl@social.coop @mhoye@cosocial.ca Yeah I don't disagree. I'm convinced the majority of enterprise software is only just barely less slapped together than most voting machines. I'm sure we've all experienced working at a company and having to keep two browsers to run various outdated web portals, some of which were probably still using ActiveX well past its sell by date.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@welshpixie@mastodon.art I haven't really had a problem with any printer on Linux. CUPS has handled them all out of the box, from a Y2k era Laserjet to a more modern Canon photo printer. Personally, I'd just buy from a brick and mortar with a 7-30 day exchange policy, so in the off chance you do have trouble, you can just bring it back and jump to another brand.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@RichardJActon@fosstodon.org @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io not sure either, but I think starting with Win 10 the start menu search was probably enough for most people. I definitely had that installed on my Win 7 PC at some point though.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@RichardJActon@fosstodon.org @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I don't remember if I ever got that error, but I likely would have found it hilarious lol

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@RichardJActon@fosstodon.org @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io This kinda rings a bell! Was it kinda like Mac's Spotlight but for Windows?

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@rajelaran@oldbytes.space I'm in love with this. It looks like a Jolly Rancher. Nostalgia aside, I always dug crystal clear glossy cases over the far more common (well, back when this was more of a thing) frosted ones... and I suddenly want nothing more in life than a Game Boy Light (because Indiglo) with a fully transparent case like that see-thru phone from the 90s. I must make it real.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@rabbit_fighter@mastodon.world (credit: Simon's Cat)

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@rabbit_fighter@mastodon.world Koko seems like a very matter of fact kinda cat.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@Lana@beige.party lmao I would enjoy that

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@mhoye@cosocial.ca @paul@notnull.space Well that, and soft launching the ability to control what you can/can't do with your computer. I'm not generally a tinfoil hat guy, but I think we're at a point in the timeline where you better have one in your back pocket, just in case.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@tom@labyrinth.social I'm so pleased to be a No on all of this (as in Yes Yes No... as in I lack all context and am likely better off for it. Please tell me you know Reply All).

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @mhoye@cosocial.ca All of the above (yum isn't real anymore but the commands still work), and yes let's not; network config makes me ornery.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space I've definitely heard of/read other examples, but there's one in particular in the form of a blog post about a small company whose IT infrastructure was built by one guy who was hired on in early days, and he worked there for years. Everybody at the company thought he was a genius, because he was single-handedly keeping the infrastructure afloat. Of course he was also the only person with access to anything, nothing was documented, and he left the company without any kind of handover, and the new guy had to decipher his complicated network of highly esoteric solutions that might be clever on a home network, but ate batshit insane as corporate network infrastructure. If I can find that link again, I will definitely send it your way. Who knows how much of it was strictly true or embellished or entirely fabricated (you mean... people like on the internet!?) but it was very entertaining, and you just know these people are out there, especially in the 90s and 00s.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@arclight@oldbytes.space @thelastpsion@oldbytes.space I don't know, I'm not that guy, lol. I probably should have added a "/s". Though that is kind of relevant to my life anyway, although in the off chance that a client's website goes down, it's generally a problem at the hosting company and out of my control. I basically just bring my laptop wherever I go though, just in case.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

I cannot express how much I truly loathe this breathing placeholder shit (especially when it never gets replaced with content, like right now).

Just serve me a fucking completed document so I can get on with my day.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

These 3 items represent that entirety of a $100 USD gift card lmao. Okay, to be fair I also paid the $20 shipping with the gift card, but still. Guitar repair is not a cheap activity.

I decided in the end to get a single 2ft length of fretwire instead of 4ft, because my plan is to just do the problem areas rather than a full refret (for reference, 4ft is just enough to do an entire guitar), and that allowed me to get the set of 6 grits of this 3M flexible polishing cloth, rather than just the couple single sheets I could squeeze into the budget.

Worst case, fretwire itself is pretty inexpensive, so if I need more I can just make a trip down to Solo Music and spend <$20 for another 2ft length. Anyway, I should moat definitely forget all about this and get to work on something somebody will pay me for lol

#guitar #guitarrepair #guitarrepairs #stewmac

hachyderm.io

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@Two9A I do have a certain fondness for PHP, specifically for much older versions when it was an objectively trash language lmao. But that's definitely nostalgia more than anything. PHP 4 was one of the first languages I did any serious programming with. Building database queries using basic string manipulation and feeding them into mysql_query() (not even mysqli lol) builds character... in the same way that pointing a loaded weapon directly at your foot builds character, sure, but I had a great time doing it 😅 Modern PHP is fine, I guess. Lol

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

My s/o's employer uses Google Workspace for everything. She's currently working on a Doc, and it just told her she maxed out the character limit, and that she would need to "remove content." It's less than 200 pages.

Did Google forget to turn off an April Fools joke or something?

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@cybervegan Yeah that's exactly what mine needs. I've got the replacement belt and have it partially disassembled, I've just been trying to work up the interest and motivation to finish the job lol. I got the T610 specifically because the cartridges do still exist, and in generic form as well, and this one included nearly full cartridges installed plus a set of spares. Who knows how long they'll continue to be available though 🤷

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ocean They've been doing this for years. Super shit registrar. I also wholly recommend Porkbun. Over all, a great user experience. Upsells are minimal, and mostly during checkout where they belong, and unlike GoDaddy, you can easily set multiple forwarding emails because they're not constantly trying to sell you a 365 subscription. I've got at least 20 domains with them spanning several years. I believe they were acquired at some point in that time, but it hasn't had any appreciable impact on my experience, except that they began offering .ca domains in the last couple years.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@deutrino@mstdn.io @yvan@toot.ale.gd @mhoye@cosocial.ca I'd hardly call it a debacle. I'm as against age verification laws (especially extremely stupid ones like those regarding operating systems), but the reality is that many distros are going to comply. Giving them a database field with which to do so is going to reduce the cost and complexity of doing so. The real debacle is the fact that people can't disagree on the internet without somebody getting death threats, doxxed, or swatted (well that and the fact that nobody to this very day can forgive systemd for existing).

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @mhoye@cosocial.ca lol true. I've been using Fedora for 5 years and I've already had to adjust my muscle memory thanks to changes to dnf's command syntax. Then again, I think yum has stayed largely unchanged though, no?

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space Definitely not. How are you supposed to maintain continued employment if you're not the only person keeping everything afloat with your collection of highly esoteric solutions?

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@foobarry@mastodon.social OneDrive has always been garbage, but this is some bullshit for sure. I remember fondly the time they duped me into almost deleting all my local files. Those were good times. /s

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@zep idk what I'm looking at but I like it

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@cybervegan The only times I've ever had to install print drivers on Linux, it turned out I actually didn't, and that there was some other fault, lol.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@foone How is it as a mouse though? Everything I know about the quality of Star Wars merchandise indicates terrible, but my standards were pretty low for the entirety of the 2000s. Not Jar Jar low mind you, but most pack-in mice were fine. Tbh I find that entire movie exhausting; Jar Jar is just the shit-flavoured cherry on top.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@hootalex@mastodon.social oh wow I like this even more

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

I'm the kind of psycho that always considers the worst case scenario, and I probably shouldn't have kids because I would be an absolute basketcase. So anyway, parents, consider this a PSA:

I just had a fear confirmed by something a pediatrician on the internet said when asked for one thing they would do different knowing what they know now (I'm paraphrasing a video I've never seen but which was paraphrased to me lol). They said they would never let their child use a metal straw, because bad things happen when kids using metal straws fall down.

They went into just a bit more detail than I just did, and it made my spidey senses* go off immediately, so no thanks.

So uh, yeah. Use that information as you see fit.

*It turns out what I've always called "spidey senses" actually has a name: the cremasteric reflex. The more you know.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 1w ago

#monsterdon This sounds like every movie ever sampled in a Man or Astro-Man? track and I'm so very here for it (finally managed to tune in, for once!)

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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(...assuming you've either skate or snowboarded and you know how to fall with style (e.g. don't try to break your fall by breaking your wrist(s) instead))

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange @RichardJActon@fosstodon.org @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io true, and iirc it was somewhat extensible? I just mean compared to earlier start menus, at least the basic functionality was there by default. Of course the Win 10 start menu only got less performant and more annoying over time (not to mention web results always used Bing in MS Edge regardless of what your default browser may have been 😤).

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@foone Holy shit I knew I was and I'm well capable of doing math but Episode I being 27 years ago hurts lmao

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

This is amazing. I didn't realize dunking on audiophiles was already a thing in the 50s 😅https://youtu.be/Us6hQLwG1S8?si=8CDCN3YDm5sGSGnZ

1959: The AUDIOPHILE's Quest for PERFECT SOUND | Monitor | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

I am not built for living with the kind of people who feel the need to speak to me at 7:00am.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@dominic Right!?

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@Two9A Not that Office is perfect of course, especially now that μSlop has apparently hired a bunch of web developers (I, a web dev, mean this in the most pejorative sense of the term lmao) to vibe code the shit out of it.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@foobarry@mastodon.social Hm, good plan. I've never personally had a problem with it, but I've used OneDrive so little that it's not exactly a representative sample size (well, not using it is probably fairly representative. HA! GOT EM!)

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@cybervegan This is a black and white laser actually. Colour inkjets are pretty much dead to me (this is a bald faced lie. I've got a DesignJet sitting in my office waiting to be fixed, but that's wide format so it doesn't count lol). In this case, basically I can tell that it tries to pick up the paper, but when it gets to the roller, nothing happens (when I open the tray, the top sheet has been visibly lifted up to, but not past, the roller). The user manual recommends cleaning the rollers, but the rollers are completely fine. I ended up on a thread on some forum where someone who'd been through this explained about a little lever that goes out of place, and doesn't even require disassembly to see or adjust, but when I looked at that spot on mine, that little white lever is just entirely not present. The last time I needed to print something, I plugged it in, printed the thing, and then unplugged it and put it on the floor in my office. So seeing as that part isn't sitting in the paper tray itself, I have to assume it's fallen deeper inside 🤷

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Wow. It's almost like supporting Linux was possible all along.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

I really don't like "SEO experts" who claim to be experts, but apparently can't handle building a form with the existing set of tools (a bloody WYSIWYG page builder, come on). If you install WPForms or Contact Form 7 on a WordPress install I maintain which already possesses form functionality (as evidenced by the contact form on the homepage), I promise you I will uninstall it.

UGH.

(for the record, I didn't hire this person and have had zero contact with them. I just logged in to the site I built for my brother (who recently asked for the login because he hired someone to do some ads) to confirm what I already knew to be the case, because this is just what these people do)

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