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@bsletten@mastodon.social
Briliant.
"Ce n'est pas une prophétie."
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Currently exploring 
#python 
#django 
#debian
Occasionally dabbles in #guitar #painting #drawing
I route the packets that make the Internet sing.
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Generally a recluse in the #PNW #Seattle area
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Anu remains a role model and an inspiration...time to follow the dreamer.
#CatsOfMastodon
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Here's a full picture of the mandocello.
Beautiful instrument. Even though I've never played it before, I plunked around on it for about an hour and managed to make some non-atrocious(to me) sounds on it.
A nice little diversion while I was over my daugther's place watering the plants, reptiles, and amphibians.
#MandoCello #StringedInstrument
Nice to see Gil Scott-Heron and his piece "Whitey on the Moon" get some recognition courtesy of astronaut Victor Glover and today's #Artemis launch.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis-2-pilot-victor-glover-whitey-on-the-moon-
Big bada boom this morning about 30 miles north of us on Whidbey Island.
"About 700 pounds of fireworks were inside the home on Smugglers Cove Road, according to Kolton Kellison, a firefighter with Central Whidbey Island Fire and Rescue. A “large explosion” shortly after firefighters arrived, threw one “into a truck” and knocked another to the ground, he said."
Apparently four pallets of fireworks were dropped off at the house yesterday. 😬
https://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/2026/06/26/700-pounds-of-fireworks-at-center-of-fire-explosion-investigation/
#WhidbeyIsland #pnw #news
My vengeance is a confident block.
Giving mercy is only a timed mute.
Curating my feed is certainly necessary.
When comments aren't terribly cute.
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@rmd1023@infosec.exchange
Oof. Whatever you did with virii in Vegas was supposed to stay in Vegas. Not cool.
Hope you recover quickly!
Performed my annual rotating & deploying of SSH keys in pre-celebration of #Bloomsday tomorrow.
"...and my heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. Yes I will rotate those SSH keys."
Cool. I'll just enter a decryption password for an archive from 2018.
This is sure to bring joy.
Out and about(sp?) running errands this afternoon and can already see signs of the impending weekend Canuckian invasion.
Saw a few groups of forward scouts/Toronto Blue Jays fans malingering about the neighborhood in advance of this weekend's baseball games.
It a couple times for it to click as to why so many Blue Jay fans were piling out of over-sized clown cars at different places.😆
#Baseball #SeattleMariners #goms
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@nekohayo@mastodon.social
I dunno. I think that Clem Lefebvre articulates his point very clearly in support of his #LinuxMint project.
And the upstream devs are, well, kinda douchebags.
Seems terribly disrespectful in my opinion.
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@jorge@hachyderm.io @nekohayo@mastodon.social
I guess we'll find out after upstream have shown themselves to be dicks, won't we???🤣
Sleeping on the bathroom tile is not entirely out of the question tonight....
The Specials - Too hot
Caught up on all my matrix threads(I fucking hate matrix/element/SPA crap).
Acheived #InboxZero on all of my email accounts. 🎉
Feelin' really good about getting some much needed digital housekeeping done.
"Vacation" is over.
I'm all caught up...until tomorrow.
It's been almost ten years exactly since I left Facebook.
It was terribly disappointing to see my old high school and college friends eagerly drinking politics for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I do miss some of them; but, I don't regret walking away from the cesspool.
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@GeopJr@tech.lgbt @nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
Moderately skeptical towards this argument as Gnome/GTK/et. al. has a (relatively) great deal of funding behind them.
I don't buy the burn out argument in this case. Not an excuse for shitty behaviour.
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@GeopJr@tech.lgbt @nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
Or the people running the project are just being anti-social dicks when downstream projects are trying to work with their applications.
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@nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
"honor the will"
Jeebus. You are really full of yourself, aren't you?
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@nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
Oh dear god. Please spare me the victim bullshit and work it out.
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@nekohayo@mastodon.social
NOT A FUCKING HOT TAKE.
#Gnome #GTK and #libadwaita have ALWAYS been historically pretty disrespectful and dismissive of anyone who uses their libraries and does not comply with their latest dictates.
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@keepers@mstdn.social
Just those reflections in the window are a pretty great composition unto itself. Nice.
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@tsupasat@infosec.exchange
That looks like a fantastic mental health day!
Better luck next time on the fishing.
Being a public scold is not an admirable trait.
Your bloviating screeds are not to be emulated.
You're simply a bore trying to make others feel bad about themselves.
Go die in a fire(metaphorically speaking).
Thanks.
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@tsupasat@infosec.exchange
That looks like the type of town where you just might be able to find a damn fine cup of coffee. 😉
One of these days I hope to catch a film there. Enjoy!
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@travisj@indieweb.social
Thanks for this! Great article detailing your image processing workflow.
Also nice to see some love for Thunar custom actions.
Q: Is there a reason why you are linking to the 4.12 version of custom actions instead of the current documentation?
#Thunar #Xfce
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@GeopJr@tech.lgbt @nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
You're more than a little wound up.
"the downstream projects contribute nothing to upstreams and just expect free work forever that exclusively benefits them and nobody else and when they get told no they come to social media trying to bully them into submission instead of, you know, forking and maintaining it themselves"
Again, that's some wild belligerance. Get some rest.
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@rmd1023@infosec.exchange
Neat. I didn't realize you indulged in the baseballs. Didn't they supposedly drink the town dry?
I would indulge more if it weren't for all the people involved.😆
In the Land of Lowered Expectations, the operational word of the day is: SLUGBAIT.
Happy Friday!🎉
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@i0null@infosec.exchange
Goofus and Gallant would still be stuck trying to get this through change control approval.
Dearest Annabelle,
Out on our drive this afternoon, I managed to "pinch" the tip of my right middle finger while I was trying to gently close the car door.
Hurt like a motherfuck.
Was fine after 15 minutes.
There were about a two dozen tiny, broken blood vessels that showed up immediately on the tip. But otherwise no bruising or apparent damage to the nail.
Six hours later I've got this weird, incorrect dull pain if I move my middle finger in a specifc but, generally, normal manner.
I am a delicate, fragile blossom.
I am not certain that shall make it through the night.
With loving regards,
Your husband
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@GeopJr@tech.lgbt @nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
Wow. You're right. My entitlement for demanding development upstream development is showing. /s
Bullying??? That's kinda nuts. Don't try and play victim here.
This is supposed to be collaborative cooperation. Not something combative.
I had completely forgotten that there was a second season of Rings of Power even though it's been sitting on my harddrive for two years.
Let's maybe give that a spin before I go to bed.
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@GeopJr@tech.lgbt @nekohayo@mastodon.social @jorge@hachyderm.io
You're angry at something other than this. I can't help you.
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange @cwebber@social.coop
As talented as Willison may be with working with LLM models, and as eloquent as he may be with explaining how to work with them, I personally find it disturbing that he continues to avoid adressing any sort of ethical ramifications of their use.
He seems, to me, to have little self-awareness, or interest in how these tools are used.
Personally, I find this reckless. YMMV.
A new blog post by me:
"List outdated packages in Python's pipx without upgrading"
Solving a papercut in pipx with a small bash function.
https://suburbanalities.blogspot.com/2026/03/list-outdated-packages-in-pythons-pipx.html
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minor typo: s/3.13.3/3.13.13/
Thanks for all of your hard work!
Every morning I wake up and fail my own purity tests.
How can I persist in tolerating myself?
Dammit!
Locked Anu out on the lanai again for a half hour(or so). I am a bad hoomin.
At least it's warm-ish.
Pretty soon it'll be warm enough that I can leave the door cracked 24/7 and she can be a "free-range" kitty once again.
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@jtk
Is it time we go back and re-visit Jim Fleming's NANOG proposal for IPv8?
I think he covered this ground pretty thoroughly way back in ~1997. /s 🤪
https://seclists.org/nanog/1997/Nov/138
Seems like I'm not the only one without adult supervision today.
Who's gonna get some extra cookies and a nap today?🙋
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@rmd1023@infosec.exchange
That tartan army thang sounded/looked crazy!
Definitely not as charming. Over the course of the afternoon, we came across gaggles of 'em in ginormous white SUVs at: the pharmacy, the local burger joint, and later at the bodega around the corner from our house. kinda weird, tbh.
I can't say for sure whether they were the same gaggle or not....they all look alike to me...
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@nekohayo@mastodon.social
Eh. Perhaps.
Not my circus not my monkeys.
Though I don't think Clem deserves to be shitty like this. *shrug*
It's a really lousy attitude.