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.
On an Egypt trip with a small tour group organized by a fellow Canadian. She’s a little frazzled and the language issues twixt her and our local guide gives extreme Fawlty Towers vibes (Basil vs Manuel). Extra entertainment for me.
About a year ago, after not having used AWS for many years previous, I started receiving monthly invoice notices for $0.00
I can not find how to turn this off or delete my account anywhere in their dogs breakfast of account services web pages and similar useless help pages.
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.
Testing out my new camera. Worlds better low light ISO performance than my 2014 era previous camera. Which I need to now gather up accessories and boxes and put up for sale to defray some of the cost of the new-to-me one. (I did save a little bit by getting a 10/10 mint graded used one from a major online photography store.)
Ham-handed post-processed quickly in C1 and Nik Silver Efex to see what it looked like in black and white.
Updating all the photo related software, cracking knuckles, and then getting down to revisiting a project that I did a ok-effort-only on-site editing job of in December. For a type of subject I wouldn't otherwise do. As a favour.
I mean, shooting mountain bikes dropping off cliffs was interesting, but I normally don't deal with moving things very much and certainly not extreme sports. (This is a in-situ unreleased-at-the-time mountain bike being put through it's paces in Sedona area.)
These might be the next ones to go up on my Vernissage site. I should clear that with the bike company first though.
Not to over generalize, but ... is #GenX the only generation that has a substantially large cohort who knows how computers generally work from top to bottom?
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.
This is my self hosted #iceshrimp instance for me, myself, and I.
Related, I have a self hosted #vernissage instance where I post things I find while wandering around with the cameras. You can find those at @another@eh.fauxtographer.ca
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 #shitpost or #meme about them from time to time. Those are more likely to be deleted sooner than other posts.
