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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

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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Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Birthday
2022-11-01
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Photography https://eh.fauxtographer.ca/@another
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Farticle Accelerator @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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video podcasts are infinitely more boring. Talking heads, and not the good musical kind.
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Unpopular opinion : Podcasts are generally boring as fuck, and only marginally less boring if you are listening while on a equally super boring long highway road trip.
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@la_sombra Sunglasses exist.
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Yaa Hoooo!

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Running the propane weed torch over the patio while wearing sandals. What could possibly go wrong? Just means I'm extra careful is all. :p
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My feed is increasingly German. Time for western Canada me to hit the hay.
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, and then swing it over your head. Not like my uncles (who were more like older brothers) taught me to do when I was 7 or 8. Usually worked out, but sometimes not.

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I think I've done it. I've finally done it. Reached the end. The end of the internet. Nothing new to scroll. All that appears new is actually old, has already happened at least once before. Time is a flat circle. Things are repeating, but not.
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One button deploy = One button destroy

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Nature is healing.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/motorcyclist-bear-death-romania-transfagarasan-road-b2782638.html

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@wndxlori Confidently Incorrect AI is now in production.
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@wndxlori Whups, deleted that one. Going hands off now, letting it run and hallucinate the descriptions freely.
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@RoyBrander
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Oh boy, is ffmpeg ever a dogs breakfast of convoluted command line option hell.
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@ghorwood Oops. I've edited the image to add alt-text and put the text in the post as well for good luck.
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@ghorwood Related:

EDIT: Convert image to text

Social media post from lloydrang that reads :

I'm GenX. We grew up in an all-print world. We read really fast.

So, my Millennial and GenZ peeps, I beg you for the love of Bananarama, please just send me the article and not the TikTok of the dude talking about the article.

In Prince's funky name, amen.
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Waving a shoe horn wildly and hissing like a mad cobra chicken, I chased the mule deer away from the camping bbq grill. Again. Two evenings in a row.

I did not know deer were omnivorous or carnivorous. Maybe it’s a zombie deer.
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The more you try to make a service highly available and resilient to outages, the more complex it becomes to manage it all. Eventually there is always some random bit that isn’t working quite right and you spend so much time on it all.

This is a reason why I don’t run public access instances. Another is more people than you might expect being shit heads and the time / energy needed for moderating of their activities.

I’m perfectly fine with two nines of uptime on my private instance in the corner of my office at home.

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Seeing news articles weekly, if not more frequently, about various states, cities, and businesses begging Canadians to please come to the USA and spend money.

Yeah, no.

Get bent.

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@Zarquil "I bent my wookie"