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mastodon 4.7.2• Coder in Sydney, Gadigal land
• Bass/Rhythm/Lead guitar
• Bouba in the streets;Kiki in the sheets
• I run a couple of bots.
• I have been in #WebDev for many years, did a lot of #perl; currently working in a manual job while I try to get back into programming/dev work; it's difficult at my age!
User image and header are both from the animated series "Gravity Falls" in which a fictional President of the USA issues a bill worth -$12.
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@corbet@social.kernel.org This is like "putting your PIN into the ATM backward" only it actually works!
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @blogdiva@mastodon.social @django@social.coop Yeah there won't be any trouble with BlueSky. I found lots of examples online. I ended up going with node.js in the end.
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@cstross @alice @HighlandLawyer
My favourite story about McKenzie Scott is, when she started to give away huge amounts of money, people simply thought it was a scam. She had to have her people make phone calls and say "no, seriously, McKenzie Scott wants to give your inner-city-youth STEM project a million dollars!".
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@zzt
You can copy permissions from another file with chmod using --reference
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@bhoutlook@mstdn.ca
Expensive to feed
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
The entire US economy is those companies *announcing* that they're *planning* to spend *up to* X billion dollars on a thing that's never going to happen and the media reporting it as if it already happened.
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party @12thRITS@mstdn.social @SKleefeld@retro.pizza There are people who insist that the proverb is "one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch" despite the factual basis of the correct version.
Partly to blame: The Osmonds.
https://genius.com/The-osmonds-one-bad-apple-lyrics
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@blogdiva They won't save ALL the money they were paying to Microsoft. Someone will still need to program and maintain the systems and servers etc. But those people will mostly be French people. The money won't be going to America.
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@fesshole Of all the things which never happened, this never happened the most
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@Viss
I was at one of these where the presenter
a) did not know how many slides there were
b) did not know how long his talk would take
c) frequently spoke about something, then moved to the next slide to find that thing was on the next slide and was surprised
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@anildash Just so you know, I can't read this post on my phone.
This is what it looks like, and I can't close the citation box by clicking the x top right.
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@OddJob It's the "this too shall pass" of pets
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@samlitzinger@journa.host
The CMOS says they agree with you but also shrug their shoulders.
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0330.html
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@IndyRichard
I said something like that once and got the job, because the interviewer wasn't an idiot.
Apart from anything else, needing the job means you'll need to stay in the job.
That's significant on its own.
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@overholt@glammr.us "old typewriter font"!
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @cluaran@mstdn.social @satsuma@dice.camp @overholt@glammr.us Weirdly, there were some typewriters which did proportional lettering. https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/3ltlgn/have_variablewidth_typewriters_ever_existed/
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@Ex_spurt@aus.social
She doesn't think we should try and convict war criminals because … people don't want to join the army any more.
Seriously missing some cause and effect there.
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@ethanschoonover
Japan, didn't you read the article?
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space @catsalad@infosec.exchange
You have to ask the one on the left "what would the one on the right tell me?".
@elilla@transmom.love Are you familiar with this piece? It's experimental in the time axis, not the pitch axis which you're so interested in right now, but I figure you might be intrigued if you've never heard it before:
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@mattblaze There was a guy in France a while back who made a fun "Jewish or not?" app which let you look up celebrities. He ran the risk of jail, it turned out, because that kind of list is explicitly illegal.
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@morc OMG StuffIt Expander! It was such a mainstay of Mac software back then. And some Apache servers were even configured to know its doctype and not serve 400 pages of mojibake when you clicked on the links!
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@oivaeskola@toot.community Or in fact not even a bicycle!
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@_elena@mastodon.social I used to love Twitter but then a terrible person took it away from me. Nobody can take Mastodon away! It's a system, not a website or a company.
J'aimais Twitter mais puis un person affreux m'en à emporté ca. Personne peut emporter Mastodon! C'est une système, pas une site web ou une compagnie.
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@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot
Tiny detail but you might want to get it fixed. The book's synopsis on GoodReads contains:
"in the space and silence, she was forced to confront everything she had tried to racism"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231517194-drystone
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@NanoRaptor
I have all my data backed up twice! Because it's in RAID, sitting next to my computer. Right?
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@Firlefanz@writing.exchange Currently working in brick-and-mortar retail and one sensible answer is, because you need to do some things while physically present in the store or at the checkout. An online store doesn't need it, you're right.
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@keira_reckons @joe A day's profits for the ABC would be a negative sum of money surely.
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@Mellivora@im-in.space @fesshole@mastodon.social All graphing software would have the lines distinguished by other things: dots and dashes, added squares or circles.
Yesterday I achieved three good things:
• got a problem with my car fixed
• went to a government office and got a $58 refund I was owed
• moved a bunch of cables at the back of my computer around to a much better arrangement
All small things but #ThreeGoodThings all the same.
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@i0null@infosec.exchange I don't *hate* the idea of a social network where only one person per birth year can join?
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A) It's prose, not a "joke".
That just simply makes no sense. Jokes can be prose, prose can be a joke.
You chose a sample of prose from Wells in which he jokes about violence against women.
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@Quasit Maybe don't promote this with a joke about violence against women?
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@geerlingguy Why do you need to edit the metadata?
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@timnitGebru@dair-community.social
Is there a practical way to reach Bernie Sanders and re-educate him? Someone in the democratic party who can talk to him?
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@Quasit
You also don't seem to know what "dictating" means. I very clearly said "maybe" and phrased my misgivings as a question.
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@lopta@mastodon.social @maxleibman@beige.party Who is really D B Cooper
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
You need to sit at the back of the form if you're not white
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@jwz Where does this happen? I've never experienced this.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social That's the colour filter every movie and tv show uses for "we're in Mexico now"
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@maijanlainen "Watercolour classes don't explain themselves"? Could you elaborate please?
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@vagina_museum
TIL there's a penis museum? Whatever it may be, it has been completely overshadowed by your amazing achievements. You're a really positive presence on social media.
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@Halaana@mastodon.social
Well exactly. Seeing a psychopath get a medal and the whistleblowers getting bullied into mental illness? It would be terrible for the image of the forces. Cleaning house can only improve things.
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@klara@wandering.shop I saw an article saying the Neo is just a marketing gimmick. You can buy a Mac laptop with those specs already.
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@DeliaChristina@sfba.social Link please?
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
It's a good thing there's only the one kind of intelligence, which can be easily applied to any situation. Otherwise that statement would be ludicrous.
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@mattblaze this is my favourite of yours