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Technologist, dad, author, ally if you want one. Writing site used to update weekly.

"The limits of what you are willing to imagine are an epitaph you wrote for your own freedom." --ohnoitstbskyen

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ai6yr, (edited ) to Aviation

This is NOT the kind of window seat I'd ask for!

OregonLive: "Window section blows out of plane, forces Alaska Airlines flight back to PDX"

h/t @dcreemer

#aviation #accident #pdx #AmericanAirlines #Oregon #flight #plane

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@ai6yr @dcreemer and this is why we keep our seatbelts fastened at all times.

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@ai6yr @dcreemer also wtf, this is a 737 Max. Boeing has really botched the type. I'm glad everyone was OK.

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If you want a good reason to figure out how to clear the drain tube on your sunroof, imagine if this were the carpet/foam in your car. Clean it out once a year at minimum - pulling this out was as far from fun as it gets.

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By the power of evaporation and dessication I command thee!

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New year, new project. Under 150k, need to rebuild the transmission, bought it for a song.

ai6yr, to random

How annoyed would the family be if I snagged these (free) drums and played on them all day?

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@ai6yr I suppose you should probably ask the family...

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The dog doesn't want to go outside and get his toesie-woesies wet in the rain, so he's just sitting here farting. Does he want to go for a long walk in a driving rainstorm? Because that's how he goes for a long walk in a driving rainstorm. Phee-YOU!

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@ai6yr well, you weren't wrong.

DemocracySpot, to photography
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📷 Yes Virginia, there is a Waffle House in Heaven.

#FediversalPictures #Photography #StreetPhotography #WaffleHouse

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@DemocracySpot wow, I had no idea huge food-throwing brawls were allowed up there. Maybe it's not so bad after all!

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The quick brown fox is going to jump over him any time now...

ai6yr, to random

SCE still considering PSPS shutoffs for 26312 customers this morning (12/7 0805).

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@ai6yr in December.

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@ai6yr remember when "Cascadia Wildfire Season" changed to "Cascadia Wildfire Has No Season?" I think it was because of the Marshall Fire.

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📷 Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10:23 PM.

What lies beneath?/.

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@DemocracySpot that is an absolute unit of a Circle K. The ones around here are generally the same size as a small 7/11.

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@DemocracySpot nice. Any bigger and they'd have to add truck parking and a fuel desk.

Instant follow once I saw the Utah Saints quote. Saw them live a very long time ago.

ai6yr, to random

I once went to the San Diego Zoo, and they had a display of primates, and I learned they liked to fling poo at people. It reminded me very much of political debates. Since I don't like watching poop thrown (or participating in being hit with poo), I avoid both monkeys and political debates.

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@ai6yr squirrels throw. I know this because one day I was sitting on a rock overlooking a meadow in the Rockies, trying to ignore the squirrel angrily chattering behind me when something hit me in the arm. I wasn't sitting underneath anything and the sky was clear so it puzzled me. Then a tiny pine cone (Doug Fir sized, don't remember the tree) hit the rock next to me and I looked back to see the squirrel with another cone in its hands, held over its head like a soccer player doing a throw-in.

It tossed the cone at me but I caught it and fired it right back with quite a bit more zip, causing it to make a very noisy retreat. Fair's fair.

ai6yr, to ai

Filed for the robot apocalypse: the AI image recognition on Wyze cameras is easily fooled by mottled sunlight through trees on a white surface; multiple, false detections due to blobs of sunlight changing in the wind. "Vehicle!" "Pet!" "Person!" "Package!" (no... it's just shadows in the wind).

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@ai6yr also: how to use your favorite superhero to lock yourself out of the house.

ifixcoinops, (edited ) to random
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Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man

MAN

Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race

Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating

EDIT 2023-11-27 2130 UTC: I muted this thread a while back because wew lad this got too big. I won't see your reply but the lurkers (and commentors) of Hacker News might.

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@ifixcoinops one of the first things I did at my previous job was to bin all the inkjet printers and replace them with a fleet of HL-2XXX models. I'm on my second - the first lasted years until I loaned it to somebody and never got it back. The second, current, printer is from 2009 or so (2170W) and gives zero shits about being used not at all for months and then heavily for weeks, only throws a jam when something's blocking the output, and sips toner like a Prius being driven by a grandma. It Just Works, and I can't say the same for most printers out there.

ai6yr, to random

Why do I get the feeling I need to war drive around the neighborhood to find all the Wi-Fi enabled ovens in the neighborhood, and then run some vulnerability scanners on them?

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@ai6yr as a teenager I'd go out wardriving with a bunch of friends and a garage door opener. We'd cruise suburbia slowly while mashing that button. Back then the number thing only went up to 999 so the odds of success were decent.

Only once did it work. Somebody pressed the button, and the garage door rolled up. So what did we do? The obvious thing: we laughed our asses off and drove away in a hurry.

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@ChampersBE @ai6yr weary sysadmin response: "If somebody really wanted to break into my house here is a long list of ways to do so that don't involve IT stuff, starting with putting a rock through the window. Hey Google: set the oven to 425 degrees and put on Nirvana!"

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@ChampersBE @ai6yr also I just read this aloud to my partner and now the oven is preheating and Smells Like Teen Spirit is playing while the kids decorate the tree.

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@ai6yr @ChampersBE lololol, the old API keys checked in to git thing. We had a programmer do that - fortunately it's a private repo but we still give him a hard time for it.

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Anyone surprised?

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there's a truck stop near Fresno that has a curry place which I think is a great idea

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@astrid what could possibly go wrong? Answer: nothing, at least until somewhere around Turlock.

exador23, to random
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Now THAT's a tumbleweed.

video taken from a car shows a giant tumbleweed larger than a car going down the road in the other direction

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@exador23 good thing it wasn't fire season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCX_L9RbGao

me, to Dog
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Sign at my local park:

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Six o'clock and it's dead of night out. Fuck this time change bullshit.

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