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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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@backtoanalog That picture isn't my copy (but it is the same model I think). I think mine is from 1945. I have an amber / brown one as well.
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My most trouble free (writes immediately with no fuss) is a Parker vacumatic from the 1940s. Love the look of it's celluloid layers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Vacumatic
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Living a bit dangerously here. Refilled some while wearing a white shirt. Mess on my hands and the old tea towel I use for this task, but none on the shirt. Yay.

Also, pumice stone and water to the rescue again -- hands were ink free pdq.
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More stories like this please.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-business-owner-wrongly-banned-on-meta-9.6933574

Small biz people need to be more aware of the risks of relying solely on Meta for their event advertising and business location/hours/menu/whatever information.

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@tantramar They're ok, and cheaper than making them yourself, or so I've heard. I used to really not like pumpkin pie, but somehow in the past decade became sort of ok with them if there's no other dessert.
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@tantramar I saw London Drugs putting the xmas stuff out on the floor yesterday.
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@crispius we'll watch some Lexx in-between then.
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@crispius We just watched Joker (2019) last night. Was that enough of a dark disturbing warm up for watching Civil War (2024) next?
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@RussSharek (re)following all my followers and categorizing into local lists later by their most posted theme or whatever suits my fancy. Probably not subdividing by length of pinky toe, but one never knows.
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Dear country between Canada and Mexico that is a failed experiment. Please keep within your existing borders and implode quietly.
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This will just fuel more action.

Canada to USA : Get Bent!
'Why don't you just join our country? Become the 51st state,' Trump says at speech to military officials
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-51st-state-again-1.7647268
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Started a rewatch of Lexx the other night. Got through the second “episode” tonight. Amazingly cheesy scenery chewing and all the dated sfx etc are an important part of the experience.
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Oh, look. It's the Rapture. Again.


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That /24 block of ip from Ukraine sure is persistent with the attempted logins. I think nearly all of that range was hitting my stuff within the same hour. Auto blocking worked but now the whole subnet is going on the permanent deny filter.
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Just finished migrating all my 1Password entries over to Apple Passwords. Lost some features (categories and specific fields for software, secure notes, credit cards), but the basics work and the rest can be worked around by repurposing fields or just pasting into a notes field.

Reason for getting rid of - Apple passwords works well enough, the annual 1pass family subscription is up for renewal. It was annoying when they went to cloud only, subscription only a while back but we didn't have the attention time to find and migrate elsewhere.

Only just now found out 1pass are partnering with some AI browser bs thing.

Apple does questionable things too, but I generally trust them with account type things.
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@GeePawHill All the people involved did a top notch job, thanks for pointing it out to the uninitiated :)
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@Brett @GeePawHill Just wait for the episodes where Tatiana plays character A playing character B. It's exquisite.
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Does Tim Apple have rickets?
I thought California had lots of citrus fruit.
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Had a troubling dream last night.

There was a storm approaching and it was a super wide tornado. I was trying to text an alert about it but awtokorrupt plus clippy and several chat bots were getting in the way. Pop ups and cookie agreement banners overlapping everywhere, stealing keyboard focus.

The tornado came closer and closer, right at me, all while I was stuck trying to get the message out.

Woke up with my cpap hose wrapped around my throat three or four times. I must have been really tossing and turning.

No idea if it was the Brazilian BBQ meat overdose earlier that evening or what.

I’d rather take my usual but infrequent troubling dream of Charlie Brown chasing me with an axe.
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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.