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mausmalone
@mausmalone@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Old school jack-of-all-trades webmaster, but I mostly talk about old video games and computing.
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Joined November 16, 2022
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@fesshole@mastodon.social Always remember that the reason they're called "freemasons" is that they're not stonemasons. They're the guys who *hired* stonemasons to make grand buildings back in the day. They were the VC funders of their generation, and they decided to make a whole club for themselves because, when you think about it, actually, *they* were the ones building the buildings.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I can't believe it's 2026 and we still have people in communications who don't understand that "2x lower" means going from 100% to -100%.
Had to use the bike rack on the back of the car as a stand, but I managed to rotate the front and rear tires, clean my brake discs, clean the gear set, and clean and oil the chain.
All the squeaks and roughness from yesterday's ride are magically gone! I didn't realize how much of that was coming from a dirty chain and dirty brakes.
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@themaritimegirl@tech.lgbt Apparently it has detected Romanian as the input language.
So is it correct? If you want to say "you are lazy" in Romanian do you say "ai slop?"
alas ...
The LTT screwdriver has 4mm hex bits. Man this is gonna simplify #bike maintenance at home. No more messing around with Allen keys, quick swaps with the pannier rack.
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@campuscodi@mastodon.social lol ... this is amazing. So you foot the bill for all the compute but they still get the surveillance out of it.
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@TechConnectify So this is a weird thing that I do but ... before I stopped using my Palm Pre I copied off all the fonts and sounds. I still use the Palm Guitar sound as my alarm clock tone. I really loved how much work went into the sound design on that OS.
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@matt@oslo.town huh ... I've never been to Europe so I didn't know about the connected cap thing.
At least now I know why the label in the US say s "replace cap and recycle." It never dawned on me that anybody ever threw the caps away separately.
No more time for crying over spilled milk, now it's time for crying in your beer
Going on vacation next week with lots of time in the car and very little room for exercise, so I'm planning to make the most of this weekend. This *might* be a little too much, though.
It's a total of 1,500 feet of climbing, but 600 feet of that comes in one climb that's 1.5 miles long.
Waiting to see if tonight's fireworks get called off for rain, but we're getting this incredible sunset through the clouds.
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@hongminhee For whatever it's worth I frequently see Japanese hashtags hitting the top 3 in Trending Now. They do tend to be complete sentences but they're being used.
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@ZachWeinersmith Also, for the love of god, explain to them that they're called "imaginary" because they're NOT REAL NUMBERS.
It's a pun. It doesn't actually mean anything.
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@LilahTovMoon If you're transmasc you'd BETTER start your day by walking into a crowded room and shouting "He is risen!"
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@veronica@explains.social If you want to do a favor for your less tech-inclined family who still use Facebook a lot, install Facebook Container for them.
That'll ensure that Facebook can't track them across other sites without you having to try to force them to change their habits.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
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@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place who's got two thumbs and loves pointing at things?
(*this) gal
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@Stephanie @TechConnectify @jamwaffles I do question whether the Doorman reference was intentional.
"Shouldn't that be 'knock knock?'"
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@davidrevoy I like the four images on mobile, but of course that locks you in to four unconnected images where you can't play around with the medium as much.
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@evacide I mean, I think that should be well known outside of Silicon Valley just from, like, the stuff he says in public. But it's good of the MSM to actually say it out loud for the totally unconnected normies.
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The deed is done. Time to feed the cats, shower and go to bed.
I normally wouldn't work out so late but I want to get some more hour+ rides to get ready for the Revolutionary Ramble. I'm hoping this can be my first 50 mile ride.
https://www.rambleride.org/
#cycling #zwift
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I survived and, what's more, it was easy. 15⁰F hotter than last time, but I dialed it back from a 15.5 mph average to 13.5 mph and it ended up being a heck of a lot easier than last time. 2 mph makes a hell of a difference.
#cycling
Never change, #NewJersey
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Nike and Converse have built a decades-long brand image based on working with black athletes and celebrities. Why would they, of all people, decide to just flush it down the toilet to court the white supremacist dollar instead?
"It's deliberate." Okay, now prove it. Show literally any shred of evidence to that effect. A note. A memo. A cork board with photos and yarn connecting the photographer to the klan through 6 intermediaries. Anything beyond "it's obvious."
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@Craigp I mean ... It still doesn't have decent support for text resizing and positioning. In 2026. And then there's still the problem of DRM-infused professional font foundries not supporting Linux.
It's a nice enough basic photo editor but it's missing so many bottom-rung basic features. It's never been anything like comparable unless you have a very narrow subset of tasks to limit the comparison.
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@ppulfer@mastodon.ie That's Wrike, a truly terrible Electron app. GNOME shares a lot of the same problems thanks to client-side decoration, but thankfully the actual GNOME app suite exercises more restraint.
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@jessie@mastodon.social the only thing that fucks me up more than the different pronunciations of "permit" is when I meet someone from Southern NJ who pronounces them the same way.
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@budududuroiu @nixCraft THIS.
There's stuff that uses neural networks/ML that ISN'T generative AI, and that's what's getting rolled in.
The post explicitly states that the gen AI stuff is being pushed into Snaps instead of apt for better sandboxing. You can choose to install them or not, just like any other Snap.
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@pa3weg@mastodon.social @mattgrayyes@chaos.social That font/color combo is a reference to something but I think I'm too American to get it.
I just get the vague notion the red word should be "sports?" But I can't recall where I've seen it to go and check ...
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@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com it "has" a feature to trim the recorded ride, but every time I use it it just doesn't do anything. Maybe they've fixed it but I haven't checked in a while.
I hate that I knew instantly what video you were talking about. I was pretty disappointed too.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Every time I see a statement like that it makes me think of "you can take the donkey or you can take the tram. It is the same price."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiIiL-JIcN4
Ron White - Mountain
One weird quirk with the @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org 13 (12th gen Intel) is that when I'm hooked up to a USB-C hub with PD and the power goes out, the hub will switch from supplying the computer with power to *drawing* power from the computer.
And then the computer *freaks out* and crashes on a hardware level so completely that I need to open it and disconnect the battery.
I mean, on one hand at least I *can* open it and disconnect the battery but what a pain.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Where would one get the idea of a "prayer closet" if they hadn't already been exposed to this verse?
Today's brain teaser works much better as a coding prompt.
EDIT: full source here: https://mattpierce.info/sera-test/number-darts.txt
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social lol ... I love it.
I work in higher ed marketing and while our campus photographer is very good we've been in this situation SO MANY times.
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@NVAccess@fosstodon.org @pablolarah@mastodon.social It's one of those articles where you get into it and say "wait, people do this?"
NVDA has been a "testing tool" for us in the same way that Chrome and Safari are testing tools. We treat it almost like an additional browser to test compatibility with, along with Voice Over and Orca.
Screen reader testing isn't just "is this accessible?" It's also "is this a quality experience for these users?"
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@veronica@explains.social I was going to push back a little with the Ziggy Stardust comparison, but honestly that album is all over the map. Ring, Ring is nothing like Five Years or Lady Stardust, but maybe a little like Suffragette City which was always a weird fit there.
It also reminds me a little of Of Montreal. ABBA may have had the aesthetics of a glam rock band, but they sounded more like bright indie rock, to me at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJymCgHtfE
Jennifer Louise
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @Susibryant@mastodon.social @gedeonm@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town I think if the label says "replace cap and recycle" that really only means the cap is also made of PET plastic (type 1 in the US).
Speed profile from today's ride. Can you spot the stop signs and traffic lights?
For once I started/ended the ride at a public place so I can share it without doxxing myself.
So one thing about the US is that when anybody proposed socializing retirement and health care we get ghouls coming out of the woodwork to ask in bad faith how we'd pay for something so extravagant (that everybody else already has).
In the US, if you have benefits you get a sort of shared-cost system where some money goes to socialized benefits and some to private. Going full social just means you and your employer pay into the social pool instead of the private pool and then EVERYBODY gets it.