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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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2022-11-01
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@idoclosecuts A park on the other hand. . . (or a turtle/fish/water fountain feature in the lobby of an office tower works in the winter)
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Alberta Canada Politics #ableg @Zarquil That's our MIA MLA. Glad he's been found. Was worried for a bit.
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Thanks awtokorrupt for changing colour to color and then me forcing it back and not noticing it then changed to computer.
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Hey, it’s November in Alberta and we still have some colour in the back yard.
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This is what the internet is for. Maybe not the MS Teams part though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZaP8VMv0c
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Once upon a time I discovered that inserting an OpenBSD boot floppy into a Windows 95 or 98 system would instantly BSOD. Circa 1998-99

I think it was triggered by no dos partition in the MBR, and some obviously lack in error checking in the windows on-diskette-insert stuff.
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Blah Blah Blah ... Ginger ... Blah Blah Blah

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-build-together/

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During the Sunday night D&D game someone casually mentions the grey cup game and everyone else goes ... that was today? Oh well, anyways... roll for initiative.
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Started watching Plur1bus. Got through the third episode just now. Great set up so far, now let's see how long it takes Carol to figure out the hivemind bypass switch.

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@bhoutlook My milk shakes bring all the girls to the yard.
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@bhoutlook Good luck. They rejected the idea of 1/3 pound burgers because the 4 in 1/4 is bigger than the 3 in 1/3.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger
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Hello ICE dinguses.
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@murderbotbot You are in a maze of twisty passageways, all alike.
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@murderbotbot Just deflect the reasonable and give wild but plausible answers to unasked unreasonable questions.
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I reached the end of the internet, again. Resetting to the last save point.
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@kolev The more I read about handwriting scripts/hands (as a casual interest) the more I am amazed at the variety used historically and in modern times.
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How would poppies and sesames propagate if there weren’t any seeds falling off sandwich subs every which way?
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@TommyTorty10 You'll also need to enable rtscts hardware flow control on the linux pc side as well. www.pyserial.org/docs/getting-started
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@TommyTorty10

This may be of use
github.com/i-am-bigmike/HardwareSerial_flow_control
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@TommyTorty10 Hi. Old Unix fart here. The dropped characters etc smells of serial flow control issues. You are using 115200 for the serial rate. Is this with a cable with hardware flow control on both ends? What happens if you try 9600?