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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
Photography https://eh.fauxtographer.ca/@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.
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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.
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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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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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@GeePawHill Never had any myself, but I like seeing them in the wild.
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I seem to be doing firmware ota updates on my repeater around midnight every week or so.

It's me. I'm the midnight flasher.

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@CDubbs 100%
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@HG “Losers make the world go round”
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(a happier post follows)

I saw some crocus pictures go by in my feed a little while ago. I do not know where from, but let's go check the dates in my photo archive for ours.

Oh, right around first two weeks of March.

I had best check on the crocus spot in the garden tomorrow and maybe visit a patch I know in the Lethbridge coulees to see if the wild variety are waking up.
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(I may have a will-bite-you opinion on the artificial idiocy bubble)
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Come work for the provincial government, and work hand-in-hand with SkyNet™ to build a better future for our citizens.

jobpostings.alberta.ca/job/Remote-across-Alberta-Platform-Services-Analyst/600254117

Butlerian Jihad when?
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@Jam123 ahahahaha fuck that noise.
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Flashing lights @fname
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@RikerGoogling Only if it's someone else's beard, and they consent.
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@SnowyCA That one is tempting to drop as well but not yet....
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So, for reasons, I am still using discord on a fairly frequent basis. Why does it need to install updates nearly every day upon starting it up? Same goes for Firefox and Chrome.

Let's go back to having stable releases with security fixes only. Feature updates or whatever can wait for quarterly updates.

Unless of course, those daily updates are mostly security updates, in which case burn it all down and start over.
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These two sure look alike (but act wildly different - human vs uncanny-valley android)

Are they brothers from another mother, or alternate universe doppelgängers maybe?

(All fast food burger CEOs look the same to me?)

www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1rjtaa7/comparison_of_the_burger_king_and_mcdonald_ceos/
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@AnnieBuddy More it is a likely phishing / identity-theft / drain your bank account type thing, but yep.
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@JakeKb @chu I would argue the same for isolating the forever war mongering united states of murica
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@prism
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@JakeKb @chu Speculation, if it was timed for drop off at the school (or for people rushing to get their kids out of the school after military target attacks were underway) they'd possibly directly take out some of the military people by doing that. Not an excuse, but plausible "advice" by Claude/whatever-other-ai-horror-they-use-for-decisions
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@ZenHeathen Undiagnosed, not even self diagnosed, ADHD here but it is a thing I've thought about being a possibility.
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@oldgeek @dangoodin a dozen years ago, lmao.

More recently I saw something about someone deciphering which ones were in police cars by observing signal strength and direction and velocity etc etc. Follow the dots from there.
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@headius GitHub or similar needs to be a regulated public utility, with interties to the same class of utility in other political and geographical areas. Like electricity. But take the unfettered capitalism out of it too.

I'll see myself out, no need to get up.