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jordan

@jordan@sometimes.social

Subversive suburban #Chicago #dad, computer mage, and jaded tech industry trench-digger.

Anyone is free to follow, if I don't like you I'll just block you.

I use lots of profanity, which I do not CW. Sometimes I talk about marijuana, which I usually CW. I almost never post lewd stuff; if I do I will always CW.

MINORS: Please don't talk like I do here, or do the things I talk about doing when I was a minor. Don't do drugs.

WARNING: I am neither serious nor professional on this account.

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Not mine and found too far from its origin for me to know who to credit, but too good not to share

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The Verge keeps using an upside down Twitter bird impaled on an X as the hero image for their stories about the garbage fire, and every single time I'm like "oh is there a new Sonic game coming out?"

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"But if the Torment Nexus shuts down, what will happen to my community? We use this platform for organizing!"

Yeah I dunno, this is only the twentieth or thirtieth time this kind of shit has happened in recent years, maybe quit building your community in the middle of a Torment Nexus?

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Real tired of being told that it's not OK to for me to hate some part of the surveillance capitalism apparatus because this or that group has figured out a way to bend it into being useful for something. Anything positive you manage to wring out of those platforms in an unintended side-effect, unrelated to their true purpose. If the owners could figure out how to optimize that sort of thing away in favor of displaying more ads and collecting more data, they would.

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It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

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@RickiTarr I'll take literally any excuse to post a Paul Barman song: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=aHOs6h1k0yE

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"Masks are recommended at our event" = "At least one person on our staff knows better, but we don't have the guts to make it a requirement, so fuck it, you gotta die sometime, why not at our conference"

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Hey folks, I know I've shared a lot of dasharez0ne stuff in the past, and was a member of their Patreon, but I recently learned that once it hit it big on Kickstarter, the account was stolen from Jane Moon, who was its original creator, and she was screwed out of basically all the money and locked out. I don't generally share a lot of fundraisers, but if you, like me, unknowingly financially contributed to this injustice, you might consider throwing a few bucks at Jane's GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jane-moon-transition-and-recovery-funds

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The most impressive thing about the Steam Deck is that they built a portable Linux device that can be reliably woken from sleep

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You get to make one change to any single genus of animal that’s immediately applied to all of its members worldwide.

What do you change for maximum chaos?

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@NanoRaptor Humans got giraffe necks now

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You are hoping that Redis will go back to its old license, or maybe get forked.

I am hoping that people will start designing the need for Redis out of their applications.

We are not the same.

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Proposal: Rename the BSD and MIT licenses to the "Until It Gets Popular License" and the "Until Venture Funding Runs Out License"

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"Open Source is failing because the corporations are pillaging it," says the guy who was instrumental in the rebranding of Free Software to Open Source to make it more palatable to corporate interests

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Planning on setting up a server in the next month or two. I need your suggestions for software to install on it.

I want the WEIRD stuff. I am not talking about your standard "install all the shells you can get your hands on" kind of deal. I want strange, funky console applications that barely anyone has laid eyes on in 20 years. Whatcha got?

(Please boost)

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I'm the kind of programmer that knows, deep in their heart, that they would have been better off as a blacksmith

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8 years and some months after Evanston’s plastic bag ban, I am finally running out of bags to put in the bathroom trash can. I think we’re down to less than 10.

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Hey folks! As I may have mentioned, I'm working on a tool to run old door games in a container. I started writing it in Python, but decided it would be better if it was in a compiled language, so I decided yesterday to use it as an excuse to learn .

Here are the results. I would really appreciate it if folks with experience in Rust would have a look and maybe do a code review or two? 🥺 I am sure that there is plenty of stuff that I am doing that is not idiomatic, or that is way more verbose than it needs to be. If you have a few minutes, please scan through this and dispense clues to me as necessary:

https://github.com/jordemort/doorman/pull/1

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To federate with my instance, you must certify that you are not Anish Kapoor and that you will not federate with Anish Kapoor

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The chaos goblin urge to edit a meme post after it has gotten over 100 boosts and replace it with the Photobucket "quota exceeded" image

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Did you know you can pay taxes with PayPal Credit?

No, but that would be a spectacularly bad idea, since the IRS is the pretty much easiest creditor in the world to work out a payment plan with and will only charge you 8% interest, but yeah let's owe that money to a pseudobank that charges 29% instead :P

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someone should put "a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" in their game as a loading screen tip. i would do it but my games are too fast to need loading screens

jordan,
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@foone @jenniferplusplus @eniko

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A Never-Ending Block Party

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5622

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@textfiles One of the things I really like about Mastodon is the ability to put people in a time-boxed mute. I also practice “block early and often” but sometimes folks are just having a bad week. Or I’m having a bad week and not reacting to them well. I love the “see ya in a week” button.

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Eclipse pics, taken from White River State Park in Indianapolis yesterday. There are many other better pictures of the eclipse, but these ones are mine :)

A very grainy, blurry photo of the sun. The sun itself is very orange, against a dark grey background. The sun is more than 50% obscured and appears as a glowing crescent.
A grainy, blurry photo of the sun. It is almost completely obscured by the moon. Only a dimly glowing sliver is visible against a grey background.
A very blurry picture of the sun, during the totality of the eclipse. A bright ring of light is surrounding and washing out the black sphere of the moon. This is absolutely nothing like what observing it in person was like, but it is proof that I observed it in person.

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The Vengabus has been parked outside my mind palace for weeks now and the mind cops won't do anything about it

jordan,
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Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
The wheels of steel are turning
And traffic lights are burning

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It's apparently a Handsome Boy Modeling School kinda day

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=i1GZhvLhRpI

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