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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.
Location Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Birthday 2022-11-01
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I used to wear tea towels as capes when I was a wee boy. Mom would safety pin them to my shirt and I'd go zooming around the house and yard.
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Goals :

"wear a cape, find a sidekick, and have them join you in your odd behaviours and weirdly antisocial lifestyle"
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@autisticplushy @ZenHeathen @sundogplanets "disgusted to see that i could call my phone number while it was inside of a microwave"

Phrases you'll only hear on fedi
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Proof reading matters.
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@ai6yr laughs in people probably forgot that just connecting your phone to a Microsoft email system enables remote wipe on a whim by the employer and this google thing probably is no different.

Use work devices only for work things. Do not cross the streams with personal devices.
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@GlobalNews @global-news-GlobalNews
Oh UCP, stop being fuckwits and move to Texas already.
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@ZenHeathen @sundogplanets I wonder if an unplugged microwave would work as a faraday cage in a pinch?

Also, an unplugged hdd that is sitting on a shelf some distance away from any power or utility lines might be just fine in a Carrington event. Long lines of wire in the air are more prone to taking an induced field charge than anything else, is my guess.
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@dannotdaniel I get all that and the desire / reasoning that went into the feature. Other software will adapt (or not) to the new way because of the juggernaut influence.

Ever look at the raw json of quoted toots? Some have the content in there two or three times to accommodate the mish mash of prior implementations and this is just another to add to that.

All very amusing from a “I’m glad I don’t have to code support for all that” viewpoint.
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As seen on the internet :

"Restaurant websites are designed like escape rooms now."
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@dannotdaniel If it smells like a quote toot, it is a quote toot. The weird consent quote thing Mastodon is faffing about with is ... weird. Whatever, carry on.
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@Alice @dannotdaniel I can quote post anything as my instance doesn't run any mastodon code at all. YMMV.
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I meant to put the outside seasonal lights and such up today but instead fell down the rabbit hole of fixing home automation things that were no longer talking or just set up wrong somehow.

Amusingly the Leviton light switches (after deleting the malfunctioning entries) paired more easily than they ever have before. Maybe iPhoneOS 26 made that better. Unsure.

Firmware updates for all the switches went well, but sad I apparently stull have to use the manufacturers app for that.

Furnace thermostat and sensors room assignments and automations rejigged.

Furnace humidifier filter replaced.

No outdoor lights put up though.

Task failed successfully?
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@_dm This smells like propping up a fraud of some kind.
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@randomwizard I tend to play thieves, but actually detest higher levels when reliable talent etc come into play (5e). Sweet spot is around levels 4-7 for what I like. Which is a very real danger of sometimes needing death saving rolls or something more catastrophic.

At higher levels I sometimes take unreasonable chances / actions on things when I'm getting bored with the typical combat tactics, just to put my character into danger that the other characters may pull out of their current fight focus to come rescue me.
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@babe The clothes drying line is my fave of these, followed closely by birds on wires
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@george
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@HamonWry yo-ho-ho
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@Oldfartrant @qurlyjoe The gods at mardi gras
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Definitely cancelled my subscription to PeakTo. Product doesn't perform well at all on high spec intel Mac and I'm probably not the right user use-case whatever for it anyways.
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@fname If it doesn’t, maybe diy with something like :

Add one of the big relays, delete the account, wait a day, delete the relay, let the instance idle along for a few weeks?