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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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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.
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Deleted my fourth or fifth reddit accout now. That site is a bit sticky for me but I will be rid of it permanently some day. Try, try again.
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Pulled the bread machine out of storage for probably the first time in a decade.

<LOUD CREAKING NOISES FILL THE KITCHEN>

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Just finished TRON: Ares. Pretty good, and love the throwback bits too.
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If you use an “ai” chat for anything but non serious things, I’m going to judge you harshly.

Just saw someone asking one about
and radio settings and of course the answer was beyond wrong, and the “reasoning” it used was facepalm city.

I can’t wait for the ai overlords to finish their ponzi schemes and execute their rug pulls so we have a chance to get back to doing useful things.
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@ghorwood

"I've got two hands and pockets"

[gets to car outside and has to put things on ground or on top of car to fish keys out of pocket oh wait there's more things on top of the keys in the pocket]

[round things go rolling away]
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My aged-out iMac can't run anything newer than MacOS 13 and home-brew is starting to not be able to install certain things anymore. Oh well. Installing a Debian vm in slight annoyance to run some automated fediverse things.
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HarfBuzz (an oss project) was named for the sound of a cat coughing up a bumblebee.

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LOL somehow locked myself out of Discord.

Oh well, I'll look at that tomorrow.
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Shutter button still works, as does the manual focus, aperture rings etc. :p

New firmware looks to be as advertised in the announcement video that landed in my inbox today. I'll play with it later.
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I've been free of FB for a while now. Time to turf Reddit, as I just moved all of my random scrolling to that and most of the time it's actually of less use to me than Fedi.

Definite lack of local to me peeps and news orgs and such on Fedi though.
Just a bare handful.
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Oh look new firmware for my camera. Let's change how the whole thing looks and works.

It's an oh-oh. version. Dare I?

Yes, why not. 4.0.0 loading onto my Leica Q3 now.
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I am not a cinematography nerd, just a small two bit photography hobbiest, but there are times like this movie where I really am struck by the framing, lighting, etc as part of the story telling.
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"Wake up dead man" -- two thumbs up, what else would you expect from a Knives Out movie?
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@SecularJeffrey One does well to take the opportunity that presents itself.
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@SecularJeffrey I never have seen any of these flying shark movies, probably never will. But, never say never.
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@SecularJeffrey Did the Happy Days shark make a cameo with Hank Wrinkler jumping over it?
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@SecularJeffrey that.... that's.... not allowed. :)
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This isn't going to end well for him, and the

Sign me up for the angry mob.


Neudorf has denied any involvement in his recall or any association with Ryan Tanner.

“I have no relationship with Ryan Tanner and I’m not involved in any way on my own recall,” he said in an interview with the Herald. “It saddens me that it’s gone to this level provincially.”

He added that the recall process isn’t how democracy was meant to work.
lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2025/12/13/neudorf-recall-mystery-deepens/
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What a bunch of fuckups our local paper has running it.

Checkout the placeholder text of the image caption, and the photography credit. In the actual freaking printed newspaper. They have no functioning editors or proof readers, or simply do not care.



Bad Google Translation of placeholder image caption :
I will flee from pain and pain to seek what is good and what is bad, and what is bad and what is good and what is bad, but what is bad. The greatest and all the
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I was trying to be nice to my little NAS running this instance (and other instances and websites and email and *arr things and ...), by limiting the number of threads for inbox, outbox, backfill, etc to very low numbers.

Then I added every relay known to Cthulhu, causing the queue backlogs to get kinda stupid large. What the heck, I have NVME cache protecting the spinning rust in the NAS. Other than maybe running out of CPU due to i/o wait what could it hurt ... cranked the concurrency up quite a bit. Lo and behold, everything's just fine and processing is keeping up.