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just_one_bear

@just_one_bear@mastodon.social

Just this #bear. What kind of bear? BEAR! But with opposable thumbs, is not-too-clumsy walking upright, and may info-dump about a topic if provoked.

Canadian #settler in Treaty 6 Nations' territory. White cis male (he/him). Terrifically #queer. #Neurospicy.

Interests: [list that is madly off in all directions]

"I'm old enough not to care too much about what you think of me but I'm young enough to remember the future and the way things ought to be." (Lee Lifeson Peart)

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vga256, to random
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🥴

just_one_bear,
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@vga256 Someone didn't take the 2 minutes to grab a step stool...

kiwa, to random
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i want to try that pixelfed thing but i dont want to self host lol

just_one_bear,
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@kiwa not sure if you mean as an admin or as a user, but there's a pixelfed instance at tiggi.es https://tiggi.es/@LeoBurr/112322566841947548

revk, (edited ) to random
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I just rotated a hot tub by 90 degrees, with the help of Tom.

This was not, err, easy.

But it means the heat pump conversion this week will be much easier.

The hot tub came with the house, and I had no idea at the start how expensive they are. A heat pump will help a lot, I hope.

The house also came with a fence approx 1m inside the border wall, which was silly, but was cheaper than making up the wall to a good standard, which we are now doing.

Houses are costly some times!

just_one_bear,
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@revk I have quipped (and will continue) that one of the joys of home ownership is the reassuring stability of knowing you will never have absolutely spare time or money ever again. There's always going to be something on the list even if it's not immediate or pressing.

I do, in all honesty, find it reassuring. But my brain soup is known to be a bit odd :)

Chrishallbeck, to comics
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Rhythm of life.

Check out the musical version here: https://youtu.be/Fw_gHGZ7OPw

just_one_bear,
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@Chrishallbeck (and the opening bars of The Circle of Life swell up from nowhere)

vga256, (edited ) to edmonton
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🧵 1/x

thanks to @billgoats and @paulrickards this LC 475 is going for its first flight in over 20 years.

i rescued this fella last summer from a retired junior high school teacher who himself rescued it from his former mac lab in the mid 1990s. you can even see the old asset tag for Parkland School Division which I will leave on for historical value :) this was workstation #8 in his class

the LC 475 was the “education market” version of the same model of Performa. it has a speedy 68040 which I’ve never used before

for this year’s marchintosh - the first i’ve participated in! - i will be turning the ol gal into a WAN AppleTalk network router, and FirstClass BBS node :D

just_one_bear,
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@vga256 A sure sign of the internal use of two-digit years.

I'm afraid this system is not Y2K compliant...

:)

just_one_bear,
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@vga256 Crafty cruftiness from the early days. Using the byte to keep a pair of BCD values meant the date could be held in 3 bytes and if the machine was adept with BCD (and the 68K has instructions for such packed BCD) it was pretty quick to manipulate in that form. So it was a multi-dimensioned trade-off. Not the best for anything but about the best considering everything. At the time :)

vga256, (edited ) to edmonton
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time for some goofy forgotten telephony history

back in the late-80s, universities all over canada made a massive investment in converting their paper registration systems - which usually required the student to walk from faculty to faculty and have them hand-approved by the department - to touchtone telephone registration.

this was a massive bureaucratic improvement in many ways. a server with hundreds of phone lines handled the tens of thousands of students calling during registration week.

it also meant that adding and removing courses required a certain....... facility with what basically amounts to a verb-object scripting language.

both because of the dialtone scripting language, and server errors, most students, including myself, loathed calling in to register for courses. 😆

i found this "sample worksheet" from 1996 buried in the waybackmachine. if you were a post-2000s student, it should give you a sense for the 90s.

circa 2003, the telephone registration system was replaced with an online registration system.

just_one_bear,
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@vga256 @rjblaskiewicz I kinda wish I kept mine! Though thinking on it, it was probably kept by my parents and then lost in the flood...

It WAS pretty neat when I was registering in 1993. Long distance call from where I was and it was a call I didn't want to employ any "techniques for unauthorized discounts" :)

hacks4pancakes, to random

Lesley explains home owning

just_one_bear,
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@hacks4pancakes Legos that are nice to step on! Nifty!

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Okay techies: Every time I post a link to my website on Mastodon, everyone (including me) is shut out of my website for about 5 mintutes with an "error 500" message.

This doesn't happen when I post anywhere else, and I get 10 time the traffic from other sources.

People have offered me and my tech support staff (my husband) solutions. None of them worked.

just_one_bear,
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@Teri_Kanefield There could be slogans!

Mastodon: Where We Slashdot Your Blog Server By Design!

Mastodon: We give your blog server a BIG HUG [of death]!

:)

tubetime, to random
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doing research on refurbishing old hard drives, and i learned that the platters are typically coated with a PFPE-based oil.

https://www.moresco.co.jp/en/products/hd_lubricant.php

just_one_bear,
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@tubetime This means I shouldn't use them as a serving dish! Y'know, because the big spindle hole isn't enough deterrent :)

RickiTarr, to random
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What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

just_one_bear,
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@RickiTarr Husband and I eloped on our way to a vacation in 2003 2 months after it was legal in the neighbouring Province. Our provincial Premiere was still fighting against it so there was an awkward time where in Alberta we could BE a legally married Dude To Another Dude but we could not BECOME a legally married Dude To Another Dude.

And the Conservatives are still trying to roll back the calendar about it...

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I had several British people request I use "aluminium" instead of "aluminum" for yesterday's comic, so here you go.

just_one_bear,
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@ZachWeinersmith I found a delightful way to very-mildly-but-cheekily agitate folks is to - in conversation - flip back and forth between pronunciations of some words. Like 'aluminum' and 'aluminium' and especially flipping back and forth between hard and soft G on GIF. If it hooks someone that is brimming with excess argument energy it's a fun little outlet they can use to take the edge off.

rodhilton, to random
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lol oh my god is this real? we should have taken trump off the ballot 3 years ago, so long losers

just_one_bear,
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@rodhilton I know I've tooted it before but it is always so nice when the trash sets itself to the curb.

dannotdaniel, to random
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Roleplaying: It's not just us humans.

just_one_bear,
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@dannotdaniel "So when they sit here, there's food. We GOTTA give this a try.."

kiwa, to random
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eating the bendix g15 drum memory

just_one_bear,
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@kiwa The titanium donut inside is fortified with iron (oxide)! :9~

just_one_bear, to random
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I suspect that the magpies who habit the downtown parking lot I use have sussed out that I'm the one that puts a handful seeds in a sheltered spot in the morning.

just_one_bear,
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@vga256 I'm not cool enough to be a magpie - I'm just some bear :)

qlp, to apple
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I was bored and was looking at cable management stuff and ran across a product that shows a classic Apple Macintosh desktop sitting on a desk.

I mean... either the product has been around a very long time or someone is a retro geek.

just_one_bear,
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@qlp I cannot imagine it is comfortable to use that machine with the keyboard and mouse on the floor behind the desk. Think Different indeed!

hacks4pancakes, to random

My Uber driver was on insta watching reels the entire hour+ drive, and then missed the exit at rush hour and added 20 minutes to the trip. AITA if I rate him down for it? I get bored too, but like, damn.

just_one_bear,
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@hacks4pancakes @Legit_Spaghetti I read "Sometimes doing the right thing feels bad." It feels like whole systems are built around us that make doing the right thing suck more more often and in greater quantity. But it's still the right thing done.

simplenomad, to infosec
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I’m telling myself it is progress. I’m totally not mad. No, all of that coding effort to get a USB GPS dongle to work wasn’t a waste simply because you picked a shitty GPS dongle, the other more expensive one you just ordered should work with one of several versions of “failed” code you wrote.

just_one_bear,
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@simplenomad You honed your skill set further and in slightly different directions than you had intended. It's not a waste at all.

lzg, to random
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    just_one_bear,
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    @lzg I feel like I would enjoy wearing a baseball hat with this printed upon it :)

    cazabon, to privacy

    Remember set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to you into oversharing?

    I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.

    Go check your settings, and opt out -- again.

    just_one_bear,
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    @cazabon I had thought the new Patreon logo looked like a slime. This particularly slimy behaviour from the owners is really fitting that new branding! So a nice slow-clap-kudos for telling on themselves!

    acdha, to cisco
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    just_one_bear,
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    @acdha This is why I will get in front of even tiny firmware updates from our vendors and run some sanity checks before they reach employee trials. I have trust issues but they are vindicated.

    vga256, to random
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    so this was a new one for me after 30+ years of networking

    for the past 3 weeks, my mac pro decided to fall off the network randomly, every 5-45 minutes.

    suspected a bad ethernet port, so i switched to the secondary port. no dice.

    suspected software weirdness, so i reinstalled adguard and anything that might be hijacking my connection no dice.

    suspected a bad ethernet cable, so i swapped that out too. green lights on my pro, and on the switch. no dice.

    yesterday I noticed that my doorbell cam had been mysteriously offline for some time - probably weeks. i traced it back to its ethernet cable, which was only partially inserted. the locking tab had snapped off.

    oddly enough, i noticed that it neighboured the mac pro's port on the switch.

    i replaced the bad doorbell cam cable. suddenly, i've got rock solid ethernet on the pro again. 😖

    i assume this means there are electrical relationships between neighbouring ports on this $9 switch, probably to save money. sigh.

    just_one_bear,
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    @vga256 Also a non-zero chance of a 'logical' relationship and a silicon or firmware bug. At a guess the cam is fast ethernet, full duplex. A bad physical connection can have the PHY in the switch flipping kittens trying to autonegotiate something stable. If it gets as far as 10bT-half it can get a bit sketch as "nothing runs at that rate and mode!" so it too often doesn't get interop testing before the product is farted out the door.

    maldr0id, to random

    I've called my ISP and they've told me that they will call me back, but refused to say when.

    I asked why.

    They told me they've stopped giving time frames, because if they give one and miss it I'm going to be mad. So instead they don't promise anything anymore.

    just_one_bear,
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    @maldr0id "Customers across the country have upped their expectations of service providers and here a $COMPANY we say to OUR customers: 'Up yours!'"

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