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Kevin Lyda

@lyda@mastodon.ie
mastodon 4.7.3
  • Open on mastodon.ie

Bio and how I use mastodon here: https://phrye.com/mastodon/ (he/him, cis, geek, puns)

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Joined November 06, 2022
bio:
https://phrye.com/mastodon/
gitlab.com:
https://gitlab.com/lyda
programming.dev:
https://programming.dev/u/lyda
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 3mo ago
Some people care about "white birth rates" in the US. I don't and never researched them. Race is a rather tedious social construct. I should have looked in - apparently a "white birth" is based on the race of the mother. If she's white, it's a white birth. Brack Obama was a white birth. As I said, it's a stupid topic.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

Hey #Ireland, might not be a bad time to write your TDs and tell them we need to do something soon to reduce the impact of energy and food costs. And removing fuel taxes isn't it. Increasing grants for solar PV installs - and more battery storage, encouraging people to move to EVs, insulation grants. Anything to reduce energy usage and to help make existing wind power useful will help. And honestly, doing something to get as much wind power online as quickly as possible.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

It's amusing that Gen X and Millennials are the only generations who know how to use a computer. I had to explain them to older people. Now I have to explain them to younger people. Sigh.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

I've had a weather station set up in my back garden for a week now. I can confirm that the weather in #Ireland is crap.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@gallowaylass You forgot the $2,000/month insurance to get those low US prices - assuming get everything in network.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

"We should install nuclear."

Lots of us already have. Here in Ireland I have a nuclear power system that produces between 5.5 to 6 MWh a year.

Now, to be fair, I only have the nuclear energy collectors on my property. They're these big black rectangles. I'm using this old fusion reactor that I noticed was hanging around one day.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

Wonder what would happen if a bunch of US B-2 and B-52 pilots defected to Ukraine and dropped their bombs on Russian oil sites instead of Iran.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

So Iran can continue its nuclear program, it can charge tolls in Hormuz, it gets sanctions lifted. So a better deal for Iran than the Obama deal, but a bunch of people had to die and the US had to spend around $50 billion.

Brilliant negotiator. Top notch.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago

Nice to see - an inexpensive US-made customised #wheelchair.

https://notawheelchair.com/

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@georgetakei@universeodon.com Carlson is a white supremacist. So unless the dam is breaking and he's drowning, nothing is changing about that scumbag. He's just seeking out a new meal ticket.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
BTW, as the numbers show, half of the white population believes this. If you're white and you don't hear attitudes like this from white friends and family and coworkers, you really do live in bubble. ETA: I don't want an award for this. I want to stop doing it. Seriously. More of us have to do this to make that happen.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

Do people still play nettrek?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

Just curious, over the next year are we going to call it the Trump Famine?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago

Nobody: ...

2026: I'm going to bring Scrubs back and you're going to ugly cry in several of the episodes.

Everybody: oh come on!

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

I wrote a little script to catch unknown commands in zsh. Wrote it up in the following snippet. It's rough and I can probably extend it. And xdg-open works on Linux, but does it work on other popular desktop OS's like FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenIndiana?

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/5972072

gitlab.com
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@geekysteven@beige.party The lower menu prices are for the pizza place? Also, is that a public phone booth?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@DeliaChristina I suggest everyone contact folks involved in this case (at least on the plaintiff's side) and ask a version of this question: "Can you provide the maternal mortality rates broken down by race in the United States over the past five years?" The numbers continue to horrify me. And Serena William's story of her post-birth complications shows that the healthcare system in the US needs to listen to Black mothers *more* not less.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 10mo ago
Replying to
@corbet@social.kernel.org That is beautiful. That's all we have. The journey. But it's good to have longer journeys.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago

Why do oranges (and things that look like oranges) have a variable number of sections. I've seen 8, 9, 10 and 11.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

Out of curiosity, do any font types support animated fonts?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

I set up trivy for my opentofu pipelines today. I wonder if there's anything I should read up on since I last looked.

😱 😱 😱 😱

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

Reading the notes for the gitlab cli:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli#installation

I like the lefthook idea (new to me), but then looking at it, it then wants to install mise (a curl ... | bash deal 🙃) and npm. Sigh. That's an awful lot to dump on my machine just to run hooks.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago

This is really neat. The go fix command is a great way to keep code bases current. It now lets you apply this to your own code - or for library developers to help keep your code current. #golang

https://go.dev/blog/inliner

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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@ActuallyAubrey@void.lgbt One of my youtube trash watches is movie reactions. It's kind of interesting seeing people coming at movies from a totally different perspective. Today I saw an Alien reaction where the reactor noted that people in old movies had weird accents. I watched some retirement videos after that.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 11mo ago
Replying to
@me@jaehanley.social Huh. You're right. Not sure about the cause, but passports didn't have gender markers till 1977 or so. I have all of my passports, but also all of my parents' passports. The earliest passport with a gender marker is from 1977. They also used to have 5 year expiry dates. And my mom's Irish passport from the last 50s had a field for "shape of face".
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 7mo ago
Hey #php peeps! I'm looking at putting a bunch of php containers on a diet and #frankenphp looks really interesting. Is it getting wide adoption?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 22mo ago
Replying to
@amie@woem.men Does this mean I can finally remove the "get the .fax domain working on my home email setup" todo item?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 13mo ago
Replying to
@Pepijn @venite Just noting this... https://amsterdamduckstore.com/rubber-duck/ducktrix-rubber-duck/
amsterdamduckstore.com
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 21mo ago
Replying to
@daniel@mstdn.degu.cl @dfg_public@wisskomm.social Do they have an English language feed?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 31mo ago
Replying to
@courtcan@mastodon.social I'm soon to be 53 and honestly this is one of the best things you can learn after you hit your 20s. Some people know some things and can help, but for the most part we're all just winging it. School's over - the simple problems with known, simple answers are gone.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 21mo ago
Replying to
@mattdm@hachyderm.io @selzero@syzito.xyz Don't Look Up Jurassic Passion - the prequel.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 21mo ago
Replying to
@EricBranse@mastodon.scot @selzero@syzito.xyz As an American I'm glad to hear we're still manufacturing and exporting things.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@biomejs@fosstodon.org Really? I have a COBOL project I want to do.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@winden@mastodon.gamedev.place sometimes I find the right parties!
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@OpenSauce All washed up, yep, that tracks!
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 3mo ago
Replying to
@Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party Can you donate if you don't live in the UK and aren't a UK citizen?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@ciaranmak@mastodon.ie Do you seriously think pilots in an illegal war would defect because of a go slow protest in Ireland?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@rfc1036@hostux.social GECOS already asked for your office number, your phone and your office phone. I like the idea of extending that to include other things. Though I thing some "reserved" tags and then free-form tags would be a way forward. The office number field in GECOS made sense when UNIX systems were only in universities and companies for example. Not so much now. And as long as none of the tags are required, it's all good.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 19mo ago
Replying to
@16af93@wetdry.world I like this.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 4mo ago
Replying to
@davidho@mastodon.world They're going to become in-grained in society.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 6mo ago
Replying to
@dec23k@mastodon.ie Why? Comedy?
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 9mo ago
Replying to
@misty@digipres.club That's a fantastic story. The end is hilarious. """As I go to pack the car, I realize that Lori has bought some things on the trip, and fitting them into our Jeep Cherokee is getting tricky. Then I look over at Lori, and it all makes sense. "From now on," I tell the new master of fitting shapes into tight spaces, "you pack the car."""" Smart man! Know when your partner is clearly better!
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 21mo ago
Replying to
@selzero@syzito.xyz @EricBranse@mastodon.scot 😂 Darn. Ah well, good to know China has alternate markets lined up.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@davidsirota@mastodon.online I keep telling people to install solar and batteries. I know it's out of reach for many, but some people buy a lot od expensive shit and don't spend money on their own energy generation.
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Kevin Lyda @lyda@mastodon.ie
· 21mo ago
Replying to
@selzero@syzito.xyz Blessed be Rex and Tigh. May their stubby arms be safe from the Holy Saw.
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