#GenX #EarlyRetirement #Retired
#Unix #SysAdmin 
#MeshCore (very casual tinkerer)
#YQL #Lethbridge #Alberta #Canada 🇨🇦
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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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.
Dear country between Canada and Mexico that is a failed experiment. Please keep within your existing borders and implode quietly.
I'm thinking of starting a side gig selling photos of my giant big toe on OnlyToes.
In the early 90s I worked with Data General Dasher D2 serial terminals that are the inspiration for the computers in Severance. The D2 was in the printer room and was used to control the print queues. The keyboards were shit, partly because even at that time those terminals were long in the tooth (introduced 1977), and the keyboards were starting to go.
My favourite as far as looks went was the D200, from 1979. I was also able to type reasonably ok on it and used an in house Oracle Pro*C Forms application in my main job as well as monkeying around with rewriting printer queue management scripts for the new AViiON DG/UX system that replaced a pair of MV/8000 AOS beasts.
#Sysadmin #Unix #SerialTerminals
Back in simpler times, I set up some mailing list software and added any spammer that found my inbox to that list, then injected their spam back to the list. This was when the majority of spam was sent from real accounts. From fields were not forged, generally.
There were clear instructions in the email headers on how to unsubscribe.
The indignant chaos of them fighting with each other demanding to get off the list and to stop sending them spam was priceless entertainment.
#bofh #sysadmin #90s Latest notes
Found my old high school math calculator. Circa 1986 according to Wikipedia. It’s survived quite a few prairie winters in various cars parked on the street.
40 years give or take a few months. #VintageTech
Are we sure this isn’t just Denise Richards?
This reminds me of when the company I worked for in the financial services industry got bought out by a very large worldwide (but based in us) company and they started to give out VP titles like candy (instead of actual raises etc). The vice president title seemed meaningless to me by being thrown about so easily.
@idoclosecuts My grandparents raised nine in a two bed. At some point the basement gained a tiny third.
@acf We have some metal 10 foot wide ramps in the neighbourhood here. They're hollow underneath and people that have them can be seen using poles or high pressure water to clear the leaves out in the fall. (That's to aid water drainage to the storm water drains which are typically at the corners of the street).
I don't know if they're actually permitted by city bylaw but they exist.
Plastic wouldn't last here, with the few -30C to -40C and many -20C weeks we get in the winter.
@Viss I've a Q3 28mm but am not a macro nerd (and don't generally use macro but I know how to turn the ring to enable it lol). What can I experiment with for you?
"D&D 2024 Class Optimisation Guide". -->. No thanks. I prefer my character builds to be flawed in hopefully interesting ways, and then the fun comes from working with/around said flaws.
Get up, walk out. It's that easy.
@simontatham
"ARRGH THIS IS A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME TO KEEP AN IDIOT HAPPY"
Goes into the title of the document and/or the email subject line.
There definitely was some jumping off the arm rests of the couch and other things like that going on too, trying to get airborne.
So many shit posts tonight.
