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I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.">
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(very casual tinkerer)
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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
Location Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Birthday 2022-11-01
Pronouns he / him (EN)
Photography https://eh.fauxtographer.ca/@another
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1w
HarfBuzz (an oss project) was named for the sound of a cat coughing up a bumblebee.

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4mo
Our pedestrian crosswalk beg buttons say "WAIT!" in a semi-urgent male voice when you press them (or wave at them closely in some cases). Meaning, wait for the light to change and the walk sign to light up.

Tonight we encountered one that said "Change password" in a non-urgent female voice. Couldn't get it to repeat that, nor give any more audible output while we were there waiting for the light to change. Pushed it a zillion times. (Usually you can push them and get it to say WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!)

LMAO.
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3mo
Dear country between Canada and Mexico that is a failed experiment. Please keep within your existing borders and implode quietly.
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1y
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10mo
I'm thinking of starting a side gig selling photos of my giant big toe on OnlyToes.
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In the early 90s I worked with Data General Dasher D2 serial terminals that are the inspiration for the computers in Severance. The D2 was in the printer room and was used to control the print queues. The keyboards were shit, partly because even at that time those terminals were long in the tooth (introduced 1977), and the keyboards were starting to go.

My favourite as far as looks went was the D200, from 1979. I was also able to type reasonably ok on it and used an in house Oracle Pro*C Forms application in my main job as well as monkeying around with rewriting printer queue management scripts for the new AViiON DG/UX system that replaced a pair of MV/8000 AOS beasts.
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Hello, I'm an former etc residing in

This is my self hosted instance for me, myself, and I.

Related, I have a self hosted instance where I post things I find while wandering around with the cameras. You can find those at @another

My toots are ephemeral and might be deleted at any time.
(I run irregular sweeps of my posts and zap them when I feel like it.)

I prefer to stay away from politics, when possible. I may boost or create a or about them from time to time. Those are more likely to be deleted sooner than other posts.

Here is a pile of hashtags related to me :


(See @another)
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Back in simpler times, I set up some mailing list software and added any spammer that found my inbox to that list, then injected their spam back to the list. This was when the majority of spam was sent from real accounts. From fields were not forged, generally.

There were clear instructions in the email headers on how to unsubscribe.

The indignant chaos of them fighting with each other demanding to get off the list and to stop sending them spam was priceless entertainment.
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@archaeohistories Looks like a standard beard-dude-bro influencer.
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When is the last time you wrote anything in cursive?

Within the last . . .
week 3 votes60%month 0 votes0%year 1 votes20%can't remember 1 votes20%
Multiple choice - 5 users voted - Ended
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@ZenHeathen @MikeImBack @Bumblefish That's the reason this image exists.
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@eryops @ZenHeathen Co-op gas stations and grocery stores exist in rural Alberta. Can't say there's anything like what you're looking for in those.

Maybe UFA out west and some sort of equivalent must exist central or east?
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Bookmarking this to read later
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5d
@pseudonym @lonelystone @Alice ... and an aeroplane propeller and ...
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@lonelystone @Alice It's like the Scrapheap Challenge aka Junkyard Wars, where things were seeded in the piles for people to 'discover'.
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6d
@erysdren If the certified stickers are on the tape itself, I'd think these are blank.
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@ZenHeathen It's a sliding scale of sketchiness. My use is on the hopefully lowest impact end, where I run a model locally using my electrons and am just using for it's hilariously bad visual descriptions on @jetsons ie
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If you use an “ai” chat it for anything but non serious things, I’m going to judge you harshly.

Just saw someone asking one about and radio settings and of course the answer was beyond wrong, and the “reasoning” it used was facepalm city.

I can’t wait for the ai overlords to finish their ponzi schemes and execute their rug pulls so we have a chance to get back to doing useful things.
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I’m going to start responding to political polls and other things intruding on my sms with this.
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“ a man driving a car that appears to be made of ice cream cones”

Ai description for the win
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@MirrorAyako @Meowthias @startrek Ask the Klingons from TOS.
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@ikuturso @hyacin @misty
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@feather1952 @n_dimension Ah, you're well informed then. I sometimes grow tomatoes or carrots in a raised bed (to keep the dogs from peeing on them....). The garden dirt was due to getting my uncles annoyed and they chased me down and made me eat garden dirt. They were more like older brothers than uncles though, the age difference isn't very much at all.

(and on the other side of the family I am older than one of my aunts)
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@n_dimension @feather1952 I believe you need to hill your spud plants to get more spuds. How that works for an indoor pot and a single eye being planted, I'm not sure. If this one sprouts can you put her in entirely, or maybe just 2-3 eyes that are going?

(I am so not a gardener, but I ate mud in one on a farm that one time as a kid.)
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@ghorwood

"I've got two hands and pockets"

[gets to car outside and has to put things on ground or on top of car to fish keys out of pocket oh wait there's more things on top of the keys in the pocket]

[round things go rolling away]
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@ZenHeathen Ratchet Steamhammer at your service, and this is my mechanical assistant Klank. Mind his teeth.
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My aged-out iMac can't run anything newer than MacOS 13 and home-brew is starting to not be able to install certain things anymore. Oh well. Installing a Debian vm in slight annoyance to run some automated fediverse things.
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@ZenHeathen I tend to play some variant of thief or tinker. When we get to whatever level reliable talent is in, it's seriously not fun since rolling doesn't make much difference in outcome of thing-being-rolled-on.

I like levels 3-7. Even 1-2 with possible oops tripped on shoelaces and died is ok.