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@joshef@mastodon.social @UweHalfHand@norcal.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social @nxskok@cupoftea.social 1963 is part of Generation Jones. Ask me how I know.
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@roadskater@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Inline skating the mean streets of NYC since 1993 and still alive to kvetch about it.
During the day, webmaster for some scientists, Java netCDF dataviz and cartography coder.
Otherwise, a Jack Methodist, somewhere left of center and (sigh) a recovering Idahoan.
Plus various experiences and opinions of no merit.
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@syntaxseed@phpc.social @fuzzychef@m6n.io @evacide@hachyderm.io Americans can do for some things. I pay my utility bill by logging onto my bank website. There are a few other things such as insurance where I log onto the company's website and authorize them to one-time ACH the money from my bank.
The only automatic withdrawal that I have authorized is my apartment maintenance fee.
Re: OP's original point. I got new checks about 12 years ago for reasons, and I probably haven't made it halfway through the first pad yet.
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@paperposts@masto.paperposts.me @sundogplanets@mastodon.social If I understand things correctly, the British call the big tractor+trailer combinations an 'artic', short for articulated.
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@kcpoole@mastodon.au @dramypsyd@ohai.social Or grab a good book, something long, and go backpacking.
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@hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
You're of approx my era.
Wrote my first computer program in IIRC 1977 or 78. Last time I took a programming class was 1981 — in high school, no less! And yet, here in 2026, I still make my living writing 'computer programs'.
(Which, wow, 'computer programs', an ancient term for what we now call 'code')
Anyhow, I still write my own code, and I pray that the library dependencies I rely on are still safe.
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@samerion@mastodon.gamedev.place @ameel@mastodon.social Curiously, the article in OP's original toot was also just cited on Wikipedia for the Muttsee entry. 🤨
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@clayfoot@mastodon.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Some of us saw it first run. Guess what else came out that weekend. (Hint: it had my favorite movie poster ever)
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online Recall seems a bit late given the “best by” range that it mentions.
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@adapalmer@wandering.shop Your synopsis sounds interesting, but the ecoportal.net stories that I looked at a couple weeks when someone else linked to that site, OMG, just the worst writing structure. Will not go there again. I'm told it's not AI, but if so, then wow, humans can write be trained to that bad?
If you have another reference on this story, please post it.
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@cvvhrn@sfba.social @mattblaze@federate.social Worst sushi I ever had in my life was at LAX. Shudder.
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@lzg@mastodon.social It can’t be worse than Kevin Costner pretending to be Robin Hood. Right?
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@rodbotic@kind.social I think I was aware that owlets and/or hawklets did that before fledging from their nest, but once outside? Whoa, news to me!
Has this owlet actually fledged, or is it still branching about near the nest?
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@bruces@mastodon.social Heyo, Bruce. Can we comment whether that is still you tooting here? (Oh, hey, toot!) Or is it Heavy Weather for all involved?
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@kkremitzki@mastodon.social @ambientspace@cloudisland.nz @nyrath@spacey.space "Oh, hey we found a really good purple dye, " morphs into "Maybe it's time you should buy a color TV"?
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@auxonic@ottawa.place @jessamyn@glammr.us The Strava app on my Watch was bricked by an OS update a few weeks ago. I ended up having to re-install it on both watch and iPhone, then spent far too much time re-applying app settings. So if an app on your watch is acting wonky, drastic measures might be required. Just be careful you don't delete data.
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@flargh@mastodon.social I think we've had this discussion about your KFC and my coffee before.
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@flargh@mastodon.social I've had coffee shops where the barista had my order ready before I made it to the cash register to pay for it.
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@rubyjones@wandering.shop @paperposts@masto.paperposts.me @sundogplanets@mastodon.social 'Artic' showed up when I was searching for info earlier. My mind was thinking 'articulated' but I tried to doublecheck.
Now I'm trying to remember if I encountered 'artic' on Wikipedia or elsewhere when trying to look it up earlier.
I'm in NYC, but I've heard 'semi', 'tractor-trailer' and '18-wheeler' at various times in my life. Most likely 'semi' is in my mind these days when one of those big F-ng Fedex beasts blasts by me on Amsterdam Ave at night.
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@billyjoebowers Further sign that no one should have fuck-you money until they've hit forty or have at least two kids. And even then… I'm not sure,
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@AnnonBudgie @futurebird Cricket ball would slot in between a tennis ball and a baseball.
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@bruces Too much. I bailed after two or three screens of something called Apple Business Manager, which I had not heard of before. With editing, I might have hung on a bit longer.
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@jwz@mastodon.social @darkling@mstdn.social The crazy thing about it, as least from my perspective, is the number of these requests that are for file paths that simply don't exist and never have.
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@JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net @doctormo@floss.social fail2ban F-ed up some legit users of my office website a few weeks ago because they were unlucky enough to be using VPN software that assigned them the same IPs as scrapers that hit the site during the previous 24 hours. (Boo, NordVPN.)
I think I've had some better results with using modsecurity configured to drop the obvious scrape connections. (The request URIs are predictably F-ed up.) But there was a burst of new shit yesterday that made me wonder.
Are there any phone numbers in the 202 area code that aren't busy sending out political text message spam?
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@darkling@mstdn.social @jwz@mastodon.social Fail2ban has been near useless for me lately due to all the requests coming from apparently compromised home devices. Literally 100s of 1000s of different IPs making the same sort of F-ed requests on some days.
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@peter@thepit.social Who's this Whyland guy? Because the Times article makes it sound like he's making Heastie's decisions.
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@cybergoths@dice.camp @hexaedre@dice.camp I'm still holding out with Sequoia on my two personal Macs because I know the upgrade will break the genealogy software that I've used for 15 years, as had every major macOS upgrade of the past decade or more. And it's now abandonware so there's no hope the developer will do anything about it.
I was required to upgrade my office Mac to Tahoe a couple months ago. It doesn't completely suck, but, jeez, now everything on that Mac looks like the crappy MS Outlook UI.
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@flargh@mastodon.social The detail of your initial description almost overwhelmed your ultimate (valid) point. Much like the scents some people apply.
I'm still trying to remember if a praline is a nut or a tiny shrimp.
Saturday was designed to make me feel like a slacker…
There was an #NYC #Groupskate in which at least 5 people started in the morning and rolled 100+ miles (a couple of them 120+).
And over in Minnesota, there was the NorthShore Inline Marathon in which some other people I know rolled 26 miles in less than 70 minutes.
My Saturday? I finally put on my skates around 9 p.m. and rolled a marathon distance in 190 minutes.
It only took 3 months after I was forced to upgrade my office Mac to #macOS #Tahoe for me to figure how out to get the Character Viewer to again show me Unicode code points, and even then it may have taken me 20 minutes. I needed to add a couple Polish lastnames to a publications database, and did not have ź in my website's text utilities lib.
Sure I could have looked up on the Internets, but now I know what to do when I get around to upgrading my personal Macs to #GoldenGate sooner or later.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @clayfoot@mastodon.social Sorry. Wandering too far off topic
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@JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net @doctormo@floss.social I've no idea why my co-workers were using a VPN, but there are legit reasons, and they may have just left it on because why not.
So what makes me raise an eyebrow 🤨 is why there was bot traffic coming from those same NordVPN IPs within the previous 24 hours.
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@arstechnica@mastodon.social Noting, FWIW, that the header graphic is from NASA/GSFC/SVS's annual animation of NASA/GISS/GISTEMP temp anomaly data. Now I'm trying to figure out what time averaging period it's from.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @clayfoot@mastodon.social The Thing, indeed. But it you'd guess Wrath of Khan, E.T. or Tron, you would have been within three weeks of the date.
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@jessamyn@glammr.us Some of us have two watches and switch at 1) bedtime and 2) just before leaving home the next day. Nighttime watch is the one I first bought a few years ago; daytime watch is the current model bought late last year because battery life on the first was crapping out during a long Strava activity.
In any event, fascinating alt use case you mention. I may get there in another ten years.