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Greg

@Greg@social.coop

A middle-aged white cis dude from the upper midwest living in southern california doing the "remote work in technology" thing. Perpetually wanting to change some of the above.

Parent of 2 kids that need a lot from me. Failing at it most times.

I try use CWs for things like parenting. Feel free to point out failure to CW something I should.

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ai6yr, to pihole

Put the entire household on the pihole, hope I don't get too many complaints, LOL (maybe overkill for the entire household, but... worth the experiment) #pihole #cybersecurity

Greg,
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@ai6yr I had to undo that :( It was blocking the stupid ads that the stupid free "games" that my youngest was playing on his tablet. I hate those games. But that's a parenting difference here. So I had to disable router-wide pihole use. :(

Greg,
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@ai6yr yeah. so annoying.

Maybe I should have just taken the time to figure out which ad systems I needed to allowlist to make the android spam, er, kid game economy work.

(For the record, those games block any forward progress if you don't watch an ad every minute, so he was mad at me.)

Greg, to random
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Holy cow, the person sitting behind me at the coffee shop is on work calls (fine, I do it too) but they sound JUST LIKE those "here's what corporate speak sounds like when spoken by a millennial" videos.

Greg,
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@TheDJ heh, no, just a lot of "we'll circle back on this" and the just general voice/tone was something which I think he only uses when on work calls.

Greg, to random
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God I hate the act of getting a conversation out of Slack. Even just a 2 person one.

What the fuck happened to respecting text?

Greg,
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Yes, I could just copy/paste straight out of IRC, you gobstopper!

No, I can't do that in Slack. Always bad formatting no matter where I paste it/etc.

Greg, to random
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OK,

How do I get my home IP (via Spectrum) off of the bad list?

The soccer program my oldest is a part of has a website that uses cloudflare and every time I try to use it from home I'm blocked. My cell phone connection is fine (as are any coffee shop wifi connections).

Help?

Edit: for the record, I do have a OpenVPN connection going at times. Would be a pain if that was the culprit.

ai6yr, to random

Paying a car service to pick up the relatives at LAX, I have hit my free Uber limit.

Greg,
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@ai6yr this seems like a really frequent request on you. I'm surprised at how often.

inquiline, to random
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Something terrible happened (saw a Cybertruck)

Greg,
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@inquiline it's so jarring.

Greg, to random
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When a previous CEO of yours (not WMF) ruins a simple word for you for the rest of your life.

Nuance.

lzg, to random
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I just had a third party account deactivated IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAMPAIGN without any notifications. the service costs thousands of dollars a year. there's basically no other providers for this service I need so we'd have to build our own. I guess we'll have to.

Greg,
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@lzg not sure what the providers in question is, but feel free to reach out to me/us (WMF) if there's anything we can help with. We build a lot of stuff ourselves :)

ai6yr, to random

Ooh, I think I actually got a customer at my Not-A-Licensed-Free-Library! (missing a cookbook!) Restocked it with a few more books. Looks like I need to lay over a supply of books for refilling the thing.

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@ai6yr neighbors are weird man

inquiline, to california
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"Los Angeles makes progress but earns 25th-straight F in air quality"

This is a significant part of why I'm so grouchy all the time

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-24/los-angeles-makes-progress-but-earns-25th-straight-f-in-air-quality

Greg,
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@inquiline because the pollution makes your brain hurt or because you're annoyed at the situation (or both!)? :)

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Coachella beverage prices (snagged randomly off Instagram). Note: only two of these items are hydrating (water, hydration drink). Curious what sizes that water/hydration drink are, we could calculate the damage to your pocketbook for staying properly hydrated in 94F weather for two days. 🤔 UPDATE: three items, apparently alcohol free beer is ALSO hydrating 🤯

Greg,
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@ai6yr I wonder if they still do the "bring 10 empty plastic water bottles back and get a free new one" deal. That's how my buddy and I did Coachella the one year I went (2007, for RATM's reunion show).

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@ai6yr we definitely had a "look". Me wearing a superman t-shirt and long hair and generally being a dirty hippy going around picking up trash :)

Greg, to random
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Gosh, looking at the option of taking public transit from San Diego to Tijuana and marveling at the 24 hour service of their light rail/trolley.

Good job, San Diego.

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@ai6yr yeah, I wish. We have our only vehicle with us (F150 super cab+long bed, same length as the standard crew cab + short bed) and I always make the comment to my family when driving around: big truck in a big city is annoying.

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@ai6yr yeah, if I didn't have a million other things to spend money on right now I'd buy a little electric car (Ioniq 5?) for the family and only use the truck when towing our trailer (why we went from an Outback to an F150, alas).

Greg,
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@ai6yr being in Ojai we basically shop in Ventura/Oxnard and while the truck bed is nice for some Costco runs, it's definitely overkill for 99% of all of our trips :)

I do want an electric bike for around town, but that's just for fun. I can walk everywhere I need to go in Ojai.

Greg, to random
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You know the music that doesn't sound right unless it is played at a loud enough volume?

Yeah, I listen to that stuff.

ai6yr, to random

Well, good timing on ending class!

Greg,
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@ai6yr sorry but what app is that?

Greg, to random
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Alright, can we start the anarchist Foundation for Free Culture and Software* already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism#Gift_economies_and_commons-based_organizing

  • I'm trying to make the acronym sound something like "fucks" so any naming help appreciated.
Greg,
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@luis_in_brief I was thinking to take more inspiration from MAPS and make it sound all boring when expanded.

Foundation for the Unregulation of Culture and Software.

yeah, I know it's not a word.

Greg, to random
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Oh reply-guys, never change.

Actually, please change. Stop replying.

Greg,
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@chrisjrn <insert someone's wrong on the internet xkcd here>

Greg,
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@chrisjrn very much more important indeed.

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