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elfin

@elfin@mstdn.social

I make things, I fix things, and quite often break things. A Silicon Valley refugee living in the Pacific North West.

Three decades in the world of computers and most of it developing the Internet (largely as a Web Thing, but not really).

#Carbs #Salt #Sugar #Caffeine #SysAdmin #Dogs #Outdoors #Food #WestCoast #Seattle #SiliconValley #SantaCruz #UNIX #OpenSource #SelfHosting #UrbanWalking #WiFi #CafeComputing #Geekosterone

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Pandamoanimum, to random

And the Angel Gabriel appeared before Mary and said, “Ooh, I like your robe!” and Mary did reply, “Thanks! It’s got pockets!"

elfin,
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@Pandamoanimum For Teh Winz!

sunflower, to random

stop using elf on the shelf to spy on your kids you weirdos

elfin,
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@sunflower For the record ... I do not sit on shelves.

elfin, to random
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Wait, wait wait ... Hold up.

My laptop was all up to date yesterday.

Today, some other updates including curl and google-chrome-stable and so, about 45 minutes ago I updated.

One minute ago my system tells me updates are available... just google-chrome-stable.

Hmmmmmm.

elfin, to random
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Aaaaand work just stopped while I go play dirty-words with the registrar.

fuck.ing is taken (I mean, duh), and someone is squat.ing ($112.50) on it. Shitt.ing is taken (also duh). Grop.ing is $187.50. Fist.ing
$1,625.00, jack.ing is $12,500.00 but jill.ing is $812.50.

Someone take my browser away or I'll do this all night.

The sun rises on .ing, the latest domain name shakedown
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/05/the-sun-rises-on-ing-the-latest-domain-name-shakedown.html

elfin, to random
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Chris Wray: "We shouldn't have to worry about getting warrants, that judges wouldn't give us most of the time, so we don't have to worry about judges not giving us a warrant most of the time. We have never, and would never violate the Fourth Amendment."

Who nominated this shit-stain? Oh, yeah.

FBI Says Spying on You Without a Warrant is Essential
https://boingboing.net/2023/12/05/fbi-chief-says-warrantless-spying-on-americans-is-essential.html

elfin, to random
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Image Resolutions 169

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18+ cosmicallyf, to random

Today's vibe is Tommy Tuberville needs to eat a bullet.

elfin,
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@cosmicallyf From BusinessInsider: Tuberville says US Has Weakest Military in his lifetime because ... Woke" over $114M USD on Diversity Training.

  1. Pocket Change in defense budget.
  2. Military has POC and Women that would like to see that training.
  3. Sunshine has caused huge gaps in military leadership. Can't have a strong military without, you know, leaders.

And yes he does. But I'd settle for dropping him in Leavenworth for two decades for treason.

elfin, to random
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Aha! Now I know where my underwear and contact lenses went a decade-and-a-half ago.

They can stay in Alabama, I'm not going back anytime soon.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/24/1214841411/luggage-lost-airlines-resale-unclaimed-baggage-alabama

Edit: Forgot Link.

elfin, to random
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I just herd a teenager at the cafe exclaim, "Put it all into PowerPoint!".

GrimmReality, to random
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HER: Ok, you can have any superpower, what do you pick?

ME: Anything?

HER: Anything.

ME: Omnipotence.

HER: Oh come on, that's not fair.

ME: I think you will find that "fair" means something different now.

elfin,
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@GrimmReality Spits tea across parking lot

Tho uncoth, worth it.

elfin,
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@GrimmReality Yeah that was funny as hell.

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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In a delightful occurrence, five pairs of twins were born in a Cherkasy maternity hospital in a single week, and all the babies are doing well.

📸 Cherkasy City Maternity Hospital "Mother and Child Center"

elfin,
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@Free_Press Something in the water?

neilhimself, to random
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Come and see me in Newark on the 3rd of December. It's going to be fun. I will read things and answer questions too. Sun, 12/03/23 @ 3:00PM

https://www.njpac.org/event/neil-gaiman/

elfin,
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@neilhimself Heh. I happen to be reading "The Iron Druid" books and "Neil Fucking Gaiman" was just a chapter or two ago. :D

RickiTarr, to random
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If one of your pets started talking in a language you could understand, what is the first question you would ask them?

elfin,
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@RickiTarr Why the hell did you eat that?

Parakeet: Expensive First Edition Comic Book
Dog: Corner of a Wall
Another Dog: Table Leg
Parrot: Every Available Ethernet Cable.
Cat: Fake Fern

elfin, to random
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Today is the one year anniversary of finding my good friend deceased.
I'm a little crunchy and it is not my way to complain about such things openly. I kind of need to shed some shit tho.
He was one of the finest people I've ever met.

His family is together tonight and this is good.

I miss my friend.

Amazing how fast a year can go by and things change.

@pluralistic Call Tim. He's in Toronto at Gill's new place for Thanks Giving. You might swing by if you're about.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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When KOSA passes, my career as a Trans creator is kind of over, right?

Like, this is banned on Threads right now. There’s no way I can succeed as a leftist YouTuber in drag. I mean what were the odds before?

elfin,
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@ryanhoulihan There are people here to listen.
I'm sorry for your struggles but I'm glad you speak out. Don't stop.

elfin, to random
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Dude's face is Priceless.
https://reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/Hr4lIxD1rH

shoq, to random
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I am so tired of branded liberals who are grifting just as much as the right. Their incomes, mortgages and lifestyles rely on selling outrage and handwringing. The only difference is, the right gets paid a lot more. No one will ever dare write about this. I take a big risk even saying it out loud

elfin,
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@shoq Yeah That's why I like you.

KathyReid, to random
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Fantastic talk by @pluralistic at @defcon about how to combat . If you loved , you'll love this talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

elfin,
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@KathyReid @pluralistic @defcon Yeah, I'm sick @plurialistic right now. This has become Old.

Cory? FIXING this has both the solution and the solution.

I built Free Wifi with Skolnick and leveled the feild. I love you mate, and whining gets us nowhere.

Crushing the opposition with Solutions works.
Get shit done by giving people Solutions.

My $0,02

ethanschoonover, to hamradio
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Some in the park here in

A small boxy ham radio with large dials and a prominent screen next to an iPad on a park table in a tree filled park, each displaying a signal display. The video pans up to show a large round antenna nearby.

elfin,
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@ethanschoonover Suppose I have to get my radios out of Santa Cruz.

elfin, to Seattle
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Roaring Laughter.

So I ran into a friend of mine that owns the BESTEST Masquerade and Costume shop in Greater Seattle.

https://amasquerade.com/

She asks me: Have you seen my store?
(New store is two blocks away)

Yeah? It's wonderful!

No! My old store!

You mean the missing city block? I may have noticed it, yes.

Shameless plug: If you happen to be in or even ... Halloween is coming soon and you owe yourself the joy that is experiencing this costume shop and the staff.

elfin,
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@jonobie She's the Best!

Had some tight times during the lock-down but she toughed it out and survived years of hell only to make things even Better!

Nothing but love and respect.

And...I like eclectic and iconoclastic folk and she's got that in platinum.

lain, to random
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elfin,
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@lain I'm probably more like the left image, but I got no problems with the image on the right.

And a lot of the image on the left hid that they were the image on the right.

BDUs and a gun do not maketh a man. Manners maketh a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT0M2YxFQ50

ZurichCrowCollective, to random

Patience comes to those who wait crow.
What does that mean?
God knows crow, it's just something my mother used to say

elfin,
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@ZurichCrowCollective Grin Tis absolutely true.

I can't remember the Web Comic anymore but there was a story arc about the protagonist's father, suffered from dementia. And the crow became Dad's "keeper" and kept him more or less on track.

I like crows. They're fun.

polychrome, to random

Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.

Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.

Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".

elfin,
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@Adirondack Agreed.

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