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@me@social.taupehat.com

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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kevinrothrock, to random

dall*e3: missiles launch over the horizon as two men are fishing in a small boat on a lake, in the style of gary larson’s “the far side” comic

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@kevinrothrock I like how both guys in the third image are fishing two poles and the painter is coming out of the one guy's armpit.

w7voa, to random
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SDNY: "A verdict has been reached and will be read in U.S. v. Samuel Bankman-Fried."

me,
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@w7voa 4 hours and a jury comes back on a big complex case means the prosecutors are throwing a cocktail party that afternoon.

w7voa, to random
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A man who allegedly threatened to bring a weapon to an unnamed elementary school in Maine has been taken into custody. https://wgme.com/news/local/caribou-mans-alleged-threat-prompts-shelter-in-place-at-all-msad-75-schools-maine-interim-superintendent-heidi-oleary

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@w7voa the man had a conflict with an elementary school student and threatened to confront said kid with a gun at his school??? Good grief!

hacks4pancakes, (edited ) to random

Polling y'all IT and security people for my own amusement and frustration -

The very worst tech sales pitch you got this week:

me,
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@hacks4pancakes gloves and bags. Somebody wants to send me a sample pack of gloves and bags. I'm a systems administrator.

me,
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@hacks4pancakes @darkuncle ouch, yeah. On days when I'm doing a lot of racking I wear mechanic's gloves. What they're offering me here though, plastic bags and disposable rubber gloves. Not much use really.

me, to random
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So I've got this thing in my procmail file that I use for asshole sales schmucks who won't take no for an answer. Behold the fuckoff file:

:1
? fgrep -i -f ${HOME}/.fuckoff
{
SUBJ=formail -zxSubject: # get the subject
:0 # clean up the subject

  • SUBJ ?? Re: /[^ ].
    { SUBJ=$MATCH }
    :0 fh # generate a reply header
  • $ !^X-Loop: *rejectlog@$HOST
    | formail -rt -I"From: (Rejectlog Mail-Agent) $LOGNAME" \
    -I"Subject: Re: $SUBJ" \
    -I"Precedence: junk" \
    -I"X-Loop: rejectlog@$HOST"
    :0 afb # generate a reply body
    | echo "Your message is being returned because the recipient" ; \
    echo "does not wish to receive any email from you, ever. " ; \
    echo "Your original message follows:" ; \
    cat -
    :0 a # send it off
    ! -t
    :0 E # no reply generated
    error.log # keep an error log
    }
kevinrothrock, to random

good god

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@kevinrothrock ooh, a real nail-biter...

emarktaylor, to MLB
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⚾ @baseball @baseball

Via Bad Sports Refs @BadSportsRefs
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1m
Should’ve been a walk to lead off the 9th, which would’ve brought the tying run to the plate with no outs

Instead it’s a ground out, and the Rangers go on to win 3-1

Via Barstool Sports @barstoolsports
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49m

Strike 2?????

me,
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@emarktaylor @baseball @baseball @BadSportsRefs @barstoolsports didn't see the game but that looks like an Angel Hernandez strike right there.

ai6yr, to venturacounty

Fire Weather Danger for Southern California, particularly Ventura County

me,
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@ai6yr cool, we've got one in the North Bay too. How exciting! Trick-or-treating afterwards with the kids will be like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NQEPrcXIx4

(sorry, this is gallows humor that is totally not a trauma response or anything, nevermind all the times I've had to flee with my family in the face of wildfire)

emarktaylor, to MLB
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⚾ @baseball @baseball

Via Super 70s Sports 🤖 @Super70sSports

Back in 1980, you knew there was a future Hall of Famer involved in this home plate collision. You just didn’t know it was Bruce Bochy.

me,
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@emarktaylor @baseball @baseball @Super70sSports that's Pete Rose with the elbow? Lol

ai6yr, to random

I'm curious if this is a misspelling or not, LOL. (probably). No one wants to eat a "buger".

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@ai6yr Berder King any better?

ai6yr, to gardening

Tomato plants in the backyard are acting like it is spring. Now I have to decide if I want to trim back all the old growth and keep them going into 2024 or not (i.e. will we actually have frost this year, or will we skip winter? Knowing things... will have one week of massive cold followed by a heatwave, LOL)

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@ai6yr I'm worried about the roses - they don't get cut back for months but they're showing some signs of wanting to branch out.

me, to GNOME
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Fucking sometimes (most of the time). I've got a fairly intricate op to run tonight and under I would be able to re-title all the shells I need to have open to run it but in Gnome? "Derrr, we removed that option... it was 2 hard 4 luzers to understand!"

I swear to all that matters, the UX experimentation perpetrated by Gnome is a pestilence rivaled only by that of

Once again, Torvalds was right:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00021.html

w7voa, to random
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President Biden departs Bidenomics event after his remarks, saying he's need in the Situation Room.

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@mjausson @w7voa 😬

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@MsMerope @AE4WX @ai6yr @mjausson @w7voa I mean, that's a situation, but is it a Situation? Depends.

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me,
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@emarktaylor @cfb how many innings left in the game? ;)

me,
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@emarktaylor @cfb see I would have thought a game with this score was measured in innings, not quarters. I do hope the injured player recovers.

me, to random
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The amount of money spends advertising what a great job they're doing hardening their infrastructure... how about they just put that ad money into hardening their infrastructure instead? Chaps my hide.

ai6yr, to food

BBQ ribs in the smoker for dinner. Making apple sauce today, so it's apple core smoked ribs, LOL.

Is several apple course on top Of burning Charcoal

me,
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@ai6yr does that work with the apples?

me,
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@ai6yr so... did it work?

me,
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@ai6yr awesome, glad to hear it! I will try this trick at home.

me, to facepalm
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I love how -c told me it was OK

catsalad, (edited ) to random

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    me,
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    @catsalad 100% put emoji in text fields, this can be great for reminding programmers about input sanitization, a thing they seem surprisingly likely to forget about after a couple weeks.

    EICAR is also an amusing choice.

    ai6yr, to random

    Friday the 13th... FARM FIELD OF TERROR! They're angry! They want revenge! They are yelling "we're mad, we're going to get you!" (ps. 60,000 to 80,000 bees unhappy with being carted across the county, LOL They were not amused.)

    me,
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    @ai6yr some time I'll tell you about the full-length flatbed trailer full of bees that overturned.

    foone, to random
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    Today in fun international standards:

    It turns out Argentina uses the same power plugs as China & Australia, at (roughly) the same voltage and frequency...

    Except they use the pins differently. Line and Neutral are swapped compared to China/Australia.

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    @foone that has all kinds of potential...

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