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Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

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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The 'merkins just can't keep their military in their pants. Always taking it out and waving it around in everyone's faces. Gross.
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Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.
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HarfBuzz (an oss project) was named for the sound of a cat coughing up a bumblebee.

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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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Dear country between Canada and Mexico that is a failed experiment. Please keep within your existing borders and implode quietly.
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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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@CStamp @larand
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@auxonic @the5thColumnist @eljojo I agree that the cbc website is horrible by default. Adding some ad blockers helps. There's also the lite version www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=latest
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@GeePawHill social.linux.pizza/@SlowMovies/116062032607489022
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@GeePawHill It's very slow to start but picks up in the middle-ish.
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Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder.

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@ZenHeathen @GrimmReality @lorimolson or other various on the "hold my beer, watch this" theme, yes....
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@PizzaDemon @fesshole Tom Baker era has entered the chat.
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@TheBreadmonkey I think that's from a 2007 World Cup downhill race.
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@LoganFive I'll be in the pool at the swim up bar.
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“Baboon siblings get jealous just like human kids: scientists”

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/baboon-siblings-get-jealous-just-like-human-kids-scientists/


Tell me you've never had dogs without telling me.
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@GeePawHill Wait, I can do that? Totally had forgotten. :p I do full screen for photo stuff, to keep unwanted colors and brightness from messing up my perception.
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@mayintoronto Is this one of those fragile development things? Pun intended.
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Our nascent infrastructure is slowly building out in

We don't have reliable bidirectional comms between west side and south side as of yet, but we're getting there. One of the west side repeater owners has one on an omni and another on a directional beam of some kind and has pointed it at South and North at times with some success.

Bit by bit, it's getting there, maybe we'll have good connectivity before I lose interest and squirrel! back to other hobbies.

meshcore.co.uk/about.html
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*Merkins?* A Wikipedia article @pdmckone Yes, 110% on purpose this word for the people of the perpetual warmonger failed state south of Canada. They like to hide behind 'common decency' but it is all a lie.
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Night Manager Season 2 Spoiler @acf Or we could have the non-happy-hero-ending thing and just leave it as-is. Sometimes evil wins, or at least gets away to do more again. :p
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@vsp That's good, but I am now thinking it was in a tv commercial for a utility or bank here.
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@vsp (there is a comedy skit somewhere, I can't find it right now, about a list of fees being explained and the fee fee was near the beginning... it only got more absurd from there)
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@vsp That's the Fee Fee
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Night Manager Season 2 Spoiler @acf Finished series 2 of Night Manager just now. Um, ok then. A draw. (looks things up on the internet) [ Oh good, there always was a plan for series 2 and 3 to be a 12 episode arc. ]
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The 'merkins just can't keep their military in their pants. Always taking it out and waving it around in everyone's faces. Gross.