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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.
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Left my wife at home and went downtown to let another woman grope my butt.

The massage was great!
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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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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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Gowan vs Gowron
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Bird Gangs!

mastodon.art/@otterlove/116211440079442392
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@DarcMoughty I had the pleasure of working on a seismic (oil and gas exploration) crew one winter and got to walk past a big vibe vehicle while it was operating.

What a very odd whole body feeling it was, though my knees threatened to give out and I stumbled a fair bit.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_vibrator
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Not what I had in mind when I read "Industrial Vibrator"

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@rc_ha_tc @paul Chocolate and Coffee are becoming more and more dear.
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This will take a while, because the cleanup jobs are written to have small delays between each operation and a numerical limit per job, and they run x times an hour.

This is fine. It isn't needlessly hammering the little NAS all the
things are running on, and will eventually get through the backlog.

Performance of everything running is just peachy.
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Hmm, I have 1/4 TB worth of toots going back about a year on my single-user instance. Why is the bit bucket so full of bits?

Aha, I neglected to enable the purge old toots job.

Source code seems to say it'll leave local toots and any remotes that got some interaction alone, so ... seat belts off, set it to 30 days retention.

Annndddd... go!
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@the5thColumnist Very beautiful
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My boss at the last employer would annually close all tickets older than a year. If there were any in there still relevant and possibly could be gotten to within the next six months, we were told to reopen them.

This continued to be a thing over the 11+ years I was there. I legit had reopened some tickets a few years in a row before I got around to doing them. They were important but not urgent. Many other tickets though were valid to get rid of as the bit of environment they pertained to no longer existed or changed in ways that the original problem no longer existed (or did but didn't matter as nobody used it in a way to trigger the problem)
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"Never gaze directly at the light from a nuclear explosion."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nuclear-war-survival-method-can-36826439#amp-readmore-target

🤨☢️😎🍿🥤
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@HergahBlergh They are probably in some Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy reels.
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If they bring Firefly back, I hope they make Mal's toupee a feature character.

mstdn.ca/@techm/116206857977714965
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@Legit_Spaghetti @alice I'm super early Gen X and I haaaaaaate making phone calls. YMMV
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@ZenHeathen So, like one episode with Tilley so far? Better than zero, and it was a decent enough appearance but... more. Gimme more.
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@cks @GeePawHill That too is a reason for full screen photo editing
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Left my wife at home and went downtown to let another woman grope my butt.

The massage was great!
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@pat @Ryanbigg Did a toaster oven write that?
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One of the benefits of having a doorbell camera is seeing the local wildlife making their door to door rounds.

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