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jpaskaruk

@jpaskaruk@growers.social

Neurodivergent Manitoba Interlake settler (Zone 3, Treaty One), musician, grower of consumables, parent of felines and canines. He/Him/Goblin.
Pic is a middle aged bearded white dude in a Bill Monroe t-shirt, looking thoughtful.
Banner is #Hellbert
I do mainly two kinds of posts: my animals, and Jalapeno Takes on politics and whatnot.
If you're not into the opinionating, #BoDoodle and #GorgeyTheGolden will get you just my dogs. Mute my boosts, I do too many.

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Firlefanz, to random
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3/27 How does it feel knowing that strangers will read your work?

It used to scare me. Then I realized that complete strangers are okay. I don't mind them.

My family reading my books is really, really scary. (At least my Dad is easy. The rest aren't really interested.)

Friends can also be difficult.

It's always, always, the fear of being judged.

And it's a huge relief when the feedback is positive.

jpaskaruk,
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@Firlefanz

Singer here. Still don't really do it in front of the family. Have stood in front of hundreds of strangers with no anxiety whatsoever. Strangers are low risk/high reward. :>

jpaskaruk, to animals
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Rasslin

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fPulHaxh_k4

jpaskaruk, to random
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"Who are the extremists? It's the ones killing civilians who are going about their normal lives. It does not matter what their nationality is."

jpaskaruk, to trailerparkboys
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Ok so listen, everyone in Canada has already adopted because of the so it is no surprise at all to me that he decided to come and jam with . If you were a kid in the 70s you love Air Supply, don't bullshit a bullshitter.

Anyways, then I noticed, holy shit, dig Russ Hitchcock's and wondered if it was a shirt because Metal guy coming over, but no, they're real. And man are his FB fans ever jerks about it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03FrWocQ4Ug

jpaskaruk, to random
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I have been saying to myself "I'm gonna start reading @pluralistic 's stuff" for an embarrassingly long time and that there Humblebundle left me no further excuses.

Decided to start with The Lost Cause for whatever reason and pretty engrossing so far.

It makes an interesting companion piece to Robert Evans' first dip into novel writing, After The Revolution: https://atrbook.com/

They are almost the same universe, but Evans is a bit more Mad Max about it, I guess.

etherdiver, to random
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Just heard Vernor Vinge died. Great author, one of the true originals in science fiction. RIP

jpaskaruk,
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@etherdiver

One of my friends has been trying to get me to read one of his novels for decades. Now I feel vaguely guilty.

jpaskaruk,
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@etherdiver

Something about The Deep I think? She gave me a paperback which I'm pretty sure I still have in the dark moldy corner where I keep the paperbacks...

jpaskaruk, to random
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Oh hey little tip

We've been having a lot of bad performance of the web interface lately, and I could not figure it out, I shut down everything else on the server that was running it but nothing seemed to work.

I had reached the point of flailing desperation this morning when I noticed there were about 15 devices in the Devices section of the thing, so I deleted them all, and how bout that, it really seems to have made it pretty snappy.

Note also you can name your machines in there.

StillIRise1963, to random
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When you think about who BUILT the United States, the first people off your tongue need to be BLACK PEOPLE.

jpaskaruk,
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@StillIRise1963

Not doing a reply guy, but if any of my whities think they come next on the list, we need to talk about the railroads...

azonenberg, to random
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Just had someone suggest that I start a company making my probes and "exit" by selling out to a scope vendor (who would almost certainly bury the project as active probes are way more profitable).

He even offered to put me in touch with VCs. What part of "this is not a capitalist enterprise" did you miss??

jpaskaruk,
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@azonenberg I once did a, sometimes I go off on a rant in less than appropriate places. If I'm having a good day it comes off as biting wit but mostly I'm a human megaphone in your face.

So I did a big antifesto rant about crypto and then moved on and talked about my friend who is fundraising to open a new live venue right now and some dude who was right there suggested we do some sort of token offering or something.

I choose to say to myself that they do mean well.

flockofnazguls, to random
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    jpaskaruk,
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    @flockofnazguls

    I thought that movie was alright, stipulating that it was a buddy cop movie. Just, a very Canadian one.

    Did not get into the show as much, there was a show right?

    vga256, to zerowaste
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    i need a new repair and restoration project like i need a third butthole.

    but i couldn’t say no to this poor old IBM Selectric rotting in a government surplus warehouse for $5. once the pride and joy of some government office, it is completely gummed with sawdust and old lubricant.

    besides, there’s something so wonderful about the premium burgundy/wine ones. i can’t wait to get the grime off and see the original colour. this will become a piece of functional artmaking equipment when it is done.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @vga256

    I grew up with a family business that ran an office (trade magazines) and the number of cool old machines that I could have hoarded as they were discarded sometimes makes me cry.

    SpaceAce, to random
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    I SAVED ACE'S FOR LAST as a reward for listening to well especially Peter's ....
    99% of people would say the classic on here is "New York Groove" and so I'll go along with them but I REALLY REALLY like the spacey, echo laden "I'm In Need Of Love" it's really awesome and druggy
    It just occurred to me listening to "Speedin Back To My Baby" the only solo record that doesn't use female backup vocals is Paul!

    jpaskaruk,
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    @flockofnazguls @SpaceAce @Defiance

    wat

    virtualbri, to movies
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    https://variety.com/2024/film/news/popeye-live-action-movie-chernin-king-features-1235945446/

    No thanks!

    jpaskaruk,
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    @virtualbri

    Oh I dunno, we watched Barbie last night and it was kinda alright. In the right hands, there is a lot of potential to examine toxic masculinity there.

    jpaskaruk, to random
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    GET THEE BEHIND ME MASTODON

    toxy, to bookstodon
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    @bookstodon I found an audiobook narrator I rather like called (I am listening to Gai-Jin) and checked out other stuff he narrated. He has taken on the series by . I am a huge Sci-Fi fan. Does this series cut the mustard?
    Thanks.

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    @toxy @bookstodon

    I loved it. Probably about due to reread cause I cannot recall a single thing about it, but I recall loving it.

    rysiek, to solarpunk
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    Hey fellow Solarpunks, the mainstream is onto us:
    https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104890/figma-ceo-dylan-field-cyberpunk-solarpunk-trends-sxsw-2024

    Don't lose your bearings, don't get distracted, don't fall for the trinkets. "Solarpunk capitalism" is still capitalism.

    Remember, it's more about the "punk" than the "Solar". Movement, not just aesthetic. Community as the protagonist.

    Media attention comes and goes, it's up to us what remains. And we're all in this together.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @rysiek

    Nothing a CEO ever says is worth as much as your compost.

    jpaskaruk, to python
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    #Cadquery

    Anyone here use it?

    It presents as #OpenSCAD which I love, only you write #Python instead of that C-ish stuff it uses, and if I read correctly it's got a better underlying render engine. Only heard about it because someone did a #Gridfinity reimplementation with it, and all things being equal I would definitely rather use that than devil-begotten, temple-beridden, snot-encrusted #Autodesk products.

    Like jeez man some of us don't run windoze.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @linux_mclinuxface

    I dunno, I read when I first got into that it uses a "C-like" structure, but I am only an Arduino-level C programmer; anyone treating my toots as anything but opinion, hearsay, lies or slander is being quite foolish.

    Main thing here was not to dissect syntactic details of the one I'm considering moving on from, moreso to get some real-world reports on the other one.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @linux_mclinuxface

    I had some rough patches at the start, but these days I can usually sort out whatever I need to do with this sheet:

    https://openscad.org/cheatsheet/

    I have a tendency to stay with a tool once I've learned it, so there's no guarantee that Python alone is gonna pull me out of there. I still reach for Bash when I'm scripting a system.

    But, I will say, OpenSCAD's render engine has failed me more than once when I was importing and modifying a complex STL. Had to use Blender sometimes.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @mcdanlj @linux_mclinuxface

    I will do exactly that, cheers! Like I said above, if I have an option to solve my one real problem (buggy renders sometimes) while remaining mostly mentally inert, I'll stick with what I know every time. :>

    edit: I always forget that with Free software there is usually a dev branch that's full of goodies, thanks again for the reminder.

    shoq, to random
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    JFC, a Tiktok controlled by Steve Mnuchin and a cabal of right-wing extremist billionaire fuck sticks, or one owned by the Communist Party of China. We just can’t catch a break.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @shoq

    Is the company privately owned? Wall Street? VC?

    Google used to be so not evil, they made it their slogan.

    If it is owned by money that expects to profit at some point - and all money expects to profit - it is only a matter of time.

    If it's a scrappy thing that got going in the early days and never did an IPO, maybe you're right. But maybe next year is rough for whoever owns it, and private equity offers them a golden parachute to yachtlife.

    This is not a new story.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @shoq

    Also.. as it turns out, we only need a very small number of companies to be evil for the whole world to be fucked up.

    Maybe we should take away the choice to be evil. Maybe we should (stay with me here) punish evil companies in ways that make them smarten up.

    I don't even know what point you think you're making with "companies have to choose to be evil" as though choosing to be good was the default here.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @shoq

    particularly when I didn't even come here to bitch about evil companies. If you go back to the top, I came to praise evil companies, not bury them, because they are better than communists every damn time.

    jpaskaruk,
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    @shoq

    If we could accomplish that, we could handle a reasonable amount of capitalism. The current situation is untenable and we can't just keep handing our communications to the worst people in the goddam universe.

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