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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

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
Pronouns he/him/eggs/bacon (EN)
Photography https://eh.fauxtographer.ca/@another
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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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They say that Apple's AI initiative and overhaul of Siri is late and has less far less budget than the front runners. That it is dead in the water.

I beg to differ.

Me: Hey Siri, play BBC world news
Siri: Now playing AC/DC Highway to Hell

Me: (Not what I asked for, but accurate...)
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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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At the start of the pandemic, I had been already working from home for about six years and was very comfortable with the video meetings.

The majority of the company was new to it though, and they were doing video calls for the first time due to offices temporarily closed for the plague. When I attended some meeting outside of my usual group it was a revelation for many that you could have fun with it.

Most didn't know about having custom backgrounds, for instance.
Screen shot of me video conferencing with my face largely obscured by the hood of my bath robe, and the background from 'this is fine' comic with the house on fire etc. This screen shot was shared in company chat with others that hadn't been in that meeting, with the person sharing saying "This is how you do video conferencing." (12 ha ha reactions)
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Back when I worked as a sysadmin, I had to put in some scripts to log out idle ssh sessions on certain servers.

I decided to have a bit of fun with it, and oh boy were there ever a bunch of laughs and a few WTF when people unburied a forgotten terminal window.
ASCII art of a Dalek firing its plunger weapon and saying Exterminate! This was shown just before the idle ssh session was killed.
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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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Yellow notepad in laptop keyboard. Large friendly printing that says Big Dipshit Energy
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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.
https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/images/e/e3/Data_General_6053_174290497642-1.jpg
https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Data_General_D200_301093669497-1.jpg
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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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@jake4480 s/dumb crap/dumb phlegm/g
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@M0YNG It's a toy, and the moment my town has a reliable mesh is when I'll lose interest. I'd keep my repeater up for others though.
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@ZenHeathen agree onnnoth the name and one-off need
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@ZenHeathen Something like this? knifemerchant.com/f-dick-bone-and-frozen-food-saw.html ( I wouldn't use any old hacksaw not rated for food safety )
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@knapjack Rolling Coal Festival?
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@plzupgrademe Both things can be true.
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Remember when they experimented with audio simulcast of TV shows on an FM radio station? Back in the days of CRT and single mono speakers. I distinctly remember a Calgary TV and FM station duo doing this for the tv-movie premier thing of Miami Vice.

www.nytimes.com/1984/07/09/arts/tv-series-to-be-broadcast-in-stero.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aMCzRj3Syg
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What bullshit loophole is this?

techhub.social/@Techmeme/116998514444818066
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Precarious position
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Seize the memes of production.

( Meta Meme created by @creohn )
Karl Marx, in a convertible car. "Get in Lose, We're seizing the memes of production" Author : https://chaos.social/@creohn/114080600805190615
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There's shades of grey to everything.

It's the extreme in any dimension that is the problem.

mastodon.social/@anolandria/116992942023577958
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@ZenHeathen top hat and prescription welding goggles
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Smoking is a hell of an addiction. Sitting in a row of seven at a music festival and the innermost five are up to smoke every ten minutes, but usually single or pairs. I’ll forgive the food and drink excursions.
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@ZenHeathen @crispius I don’t use it, but if you have a Linux box kicking around it’s one to try. If you already handle scripts and ads with ublock, you may not have any extra benefit. I use AdGuard myself.
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@ZenHeathen pi-hole.net
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If this Alberta separatist nonsense doesn’t derail soon, SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

People are pissed already.

Don’t light the powder keg.
Stochastic terrorism is a thing.



www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/separation-petition-deemed-successful-by-elections-alberta/
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@benbrown This reminds me of nuke chess my roomie and i created circa 1990. Two different coloured d8. Roll first one after your chess move, and if you got a one, roll both d8 and remove any piece sitting at those coordinates.

Variations included putting a marker penny on the spot as unusable radioactive no-go crater, can not land on or pass through it.
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No shit, Sherlock. This has always been the point.
mstdn.ca/@asiny/116976034250629789
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@piersb @jalefkowit "Lead, Follow, or GTFO of the way."
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@jimbob Stanislaw Lem’s “memoirs found in a bath tub” comes to mind.
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