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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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exador23, to BurningMan
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First word of friends leaving due to contracting

I had a feeling it might become a superspreader event.

me,
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@ai6yr @exador23 not sure whether this will rank it up with the year everyone got chlamydia...

ai6yr, to random

NHC: "Hurricane Advisory 14: Idalia Still Strengthening. Forecast to Be an Extremely Dangerous Category 4 Intensity At Landfall."

me,
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@ai6yr bloody hell. Sometimes you really really want the smart people to be wrong.

melsaywhat, to random
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I'm at the age where I hate sneezing.

me,
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@melsaywhat you've just described the last four decades of my life.

ai6yr, to anime_titties

Reported near (or should that be "plane crash") Passenger list includes chief https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/23/europe/russia-wagner-prigozhin-plane-crash-intl/index.html

me,
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@ai6yr much more visible than accidentally falling from a 10th-floor window.

Skepticat, to random
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If I had a glass eye, I'd occasionally tap on it with my pen while people were talking to me at work, you know, to stay focused.

me,
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@Skepticat oh jeez, that's chaotic evil. I was on the swim team in high school and on the bus ride home from a meet the guy in front of me turned around and said "Hey check this out!" He had a Swiss army knife with the blade extended and proceeded to poke his eyeball with it. I may have screamed, I'm really not sure.

Yep, that eyeball was glass, which I figured out when the knife made a "clink" sound when hitting it. Crazy bastard, traumatized me for life lol.

me, to python
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After Yet Another goddamn time when there was no goddamn way to tell that I was in the wrong goddamn fucking pyenv and broke a bunch of shit by doing a pip upgrade to a package, this sums up my feelings entirely.

ai6yr, to maui

Volunteers from California heading to for Red Cross. (severe shortage of Red Cross manpower in Hawaii) https://abc7news.com/bay-area-american-red-cross-hawaii-maui-wildfire-how-to-help-victims/13629070/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_TW&taid=64d5a8f099e3c900016ce926&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=mastodon

me,
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@ai6yr never occurred to me it might happen in Hawaii.

taylorlorenz, to random
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The Twitter account just officially rebranded to X but they can’t figure out how to change the handle

me,
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@taylorlorenz to be honest none of this was on my "How else can Melon Husk fuck up the birdsite" bingo card.

heidilifeldman, to random
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The basic facts, as currently being reported, about the Nazi imagery in ad. Just disgusting. https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-delets-video/

me,
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@heidilifeldman
Holy shit. Not even subtle - I thought it was going to be one of those "we snuck in a frame of something" things, not that the Sonnenrad was going to be the focus of that scene.
Not that the rest of the clip wasn't also filled with troubling content. Holy hell.

ai6yr, to philosophy

Sound analysis of is not a new thing. First done by . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7711573/

me,
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@ai6yr the prank potential of this has got my mind buzzing.

me,
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@ai6yr possibly, although then you'd have the issue of chasing down the swarm when it settles elsewhere.

ai6yr, to mead

#blackberry #mead Go! Lalvin D-47 versus natural yeasts in honey, see who wins!

me,
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@ai6yr dude, stealing the Aldi quarter is a capital offense. There are whole product lines developed to help people keep from losing them. No joke.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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me,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat yes, I am the racoon on meth in this partnership. In my defense, even with a higher fail rate I get a much higher clean-dish throughput.

Some_Emo_Chick, to music
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Henry Mancini plays the iconic "Pink Panther Theme" in 1983, with Plas Johnson (the original saxophone soloist who recorded the song) and the Terry Gibbs band

video/mp4

me,
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@Some_Emo_Chick just so cool. Love how unassuming Mancini is, too.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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what's a popular command line tool (other than git) that you wish had a clearer / more intuitive UI? I'm thinking of tools like dig which has this IMO pretty arcane output format

me,
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@b0rk anything using libcurl is a sure bet for confusing structure, but one that currently makes my eyes cross (until we retire the hardware for it) is megacli software for managing MegaRAID controllers. It is indescribably awful, complete with obscure, sometimes but not always capitalized flags, and output that requires all the best grep|awk|grep stanzas a person can imagine. Some examples:

Get status of all physical disks:
megacli -PDList -aall
See if a rebuild is done:
megacli -AdpAllInfo -aALL

So, when is it -aall versus -aALL?
Only the Google knows.

me, to StarTrek
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Oh dear.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield "This totally wins my case."

    Yeah, for the prosecution.

    atoponce, to random
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    @passthejoe @carlwgeorge If I were Red Hat CEO, I would have stayed with the hat theme. Rename Rawhide and CentOS Stream with hat names.

    EG, "Bowler", "Derby", "Panama", "Homburg", etc.

    Bowler -> Fedora -> Derby -> RHEL

    me,
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    @atoponce @passthejoe @carlwgeorge they're too busy coming up with ways to sabotage the EL community to do any fun creative things.

    timbray, to random
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    Hmm, now that I have a modern Pixel 7, I’ve been checking out the RAW-vs-JPG camera output. Hmm… the JPGs are considerably and unsubtly edited. And well-edited, they are very pleasing to the eye. I’m not sure what to think about this.

    me,
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    @timbray here's an example of that very thing, taken with my Pixel 7. I walked out, snapped this photo without any setup beyond launching the camera app, and did nothing afterwards.

    I'm old enough to know how many hours in the darkroom and how much wasted paper it would have taken to get the same shot on film.

    kentbrew, to random
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    Over the weekend we finished the upper pasture. About 1100 feet of fence, all held together with tiny fiddly bits of metal. Naturally the goats would prefer to eat the stuff on the other side.

    me,
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    @kentbrew @catsnfats our next-door neighbor when I was little was a Basque sheep-herder. His trick was to get two tree branches (or cut planks if he couldn't find any branches the right size and shape) and tie them to the ram so there was a big 3-foot X around his head. Looked vaguely ridiculous but the rams didn't seem overly troubled by them. Maybe it was the natural materials?

    me, to random
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    Currently warning everyone I know named Tim to avoid hiking in New Jersey.

    juergen_hubert, to random
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    English confuses me.

    When referring to Earth's satellite, when are you capitalizing "moon" and when not?

    Same goes for the star that Earth orbits. When do you capitalize "sun"?

    Because the Wikipedia entries capitalize them, yet I constantly see texts stating "the sun/moon went down" - without capitalization.

    me,
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    @juergen_hubert as a native speaker my best answer, and I'm sorry for this, is that it comes down to personal preference in common usage. I suspect part of the reason for this is that we use the same word for our moon as we do for the moons of Saturn, for example, so it doesn't read as a proper noun when referring to Earth's moon.

    How is it in your language?

    ai6yr, to random

    I'm going to say there's a better way to get a translation for this new car brand, LOL.

    Incorrect translation of fang chen bao as "dustproof bag"

    me,
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    @mjausson @ai6yr @exador23

    emilygorcenski, to random

    2023 Pride march

    me,
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    @emilygorcenski yeah, when did that stop happening?

    me, to random
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    So we've got... apt, yum now dnf (sorry Yellowdog), pkg, ports, pacman, zypper, pip, gem...

    It almost makes me thankful that uses something so cumbersome as "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Foo::Bar'" just so I don't accidentally install the wrong thing.

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