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mikey

@mikey@friendsofdesoto.social

Husband. Father. InfoSec and IT Nerd. #FoD. Star Trek geek. Guy who mostly worries about stuff but expresses it as bad jokes. My views are my own and probably not indicative of much.
#InfoSec #Cybersecurity #Security #PCI #IT #StarTrek #GreatestTrek #GreatestGen #Atheist #SecularHumanist #Humanist #DoctorWho #MST3K

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steventdennis, to random
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Tonight's is kicking off with a House of the Year contender. It's amazeballs! We just need to crowdfund $2.795M. We get 9,825 square feet of sheer madness on 36 acres in gorgeous Plymouth, Minnesota! I love it!!! INSANE sinks, WEIRD art, WILD ceilings, AMAZING kitchen, views, colors galore, a pond, a party shower and much, MUCH more. Several of you sent me this gem! 🧵
https://zillow.com/homedetails/5160-Juneau-Ln-N-Plymouth-MN-55446/121844289_zpid/
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mikey,
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@steventdennis Okay, but can we talk about this amazing(ly bizarre) office?

Bridgemakes, to random
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Don't Panic!

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes Where did I put my towel..

night_chrono, to random
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In my house, there is a door in the kitchen that goes to the basement stairs. We put a cat door in it, and a fancy one at that. It has switches so that you can control which directions the cats can move. We needed this because our 3-year-old cat Janet wants to play, and 8-year-old Phoebe does not, so Janet ends up in time out to give Phoebe a break. It took Janet MONTHS to figure out the door as a concept. This week she figured out the switches and time-out is no more.

The troublemaker

mikey,
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@night_chrono @Bridgemakes They also have them that can be keyed to the cats microchips if they have them:
https://a.co/d/4OZ7J8h

mikey,
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@night_chrono @Bridgemakes Those units, while expensive, can be programmed with I think up to 80 unique chip IDs . I don't know how complicated the process is. I also know they have collars that replace the chip IDs. You could possibly add and remove IDs to decide when kitties are allowed through and when they are not.

Bridgemakes, to random
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So it turns out that most everyone that works on my contract is in their 20's. Occasionally a song will come on the radio that they consider old and they all start talking about how they used to listen to it as children.

Then they try to engage me in their conversation and I feel ancient.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes If it's any consolation you're working with people the age of some of my children... Now where did I put that aspercreme...

mikey,
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@rmhogervorst @Bridgemakes I mean is there anywhere else to do a truly dangerous experiment?

(No really, is there? I've got some hella unstable isotopes and I just assumed the only place to play with them was right next to the dilithium chamber)

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes @rmhogervorst I can neither confirm, nor deny any correlation between these events...

Also, why were you cooking targ in the intermix chamber... Never mind I don't think I want the answer to that question.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes @rmhogervorst Right. What was I thinking. Carry on.

NickGates, to random
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Okay but would you rather have to face a bear

Or Gul Dukat

mikey,
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@NickGates I'm surprised everyone is choosing bear. I've seen Dukat get his ass kicked regularly. I don't see anyone here besting a bear hand to hand...

mikey, (edited ) to random
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Okay, who was the 's for this week's episode of ?

Pick one or comment below to add your own.

dangillmor, to random
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On a multi-person video call this morning, we were asked what podcasts we listen to.

I didn't get a chance to chime in but here's my answer:

None regularly. I don't have the time, even at fast playback, to listen to something linear that I could scan much more quickly if it was text.

Podcasters, please post transcripts.

mikey,
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@dangillmor Funny. I find myself in the opposite position. I am tending towards consuming more audio media, as I can do that while working on other things, while I'm having to confine my written word consumption to short form like news articles and short papers for lack of time.

jeffedsell, to random
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Actions/Consequences

Sad dog getting a bath

mikey,
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@jeffedsell Oh noes...

Jamie, to tmbg
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@Anneheathen @mikey @howiecohen oh no, Dr. Worm!

mikey,
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@Jamie @Anneheathen @howiecohen Must have gotten too into twirling the stick.

kmmfoo, to interesting
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the thing that’s both and about home heating systems is that the heat and/or cooling only works in 2 degrees increments

mikey,
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@kmmfoo This depends on the particular system. Some HVACs have configurable deadbands and sways for heating and cooling. They don't recommend narrowing them both for efficiency and for the sake of the equipment, but some smart hardware can have deadbands of a degree or two and sway of 0.5 degrees.

mikey,
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@kmmfoo I fiddle a lot with this; I have a home assistant server and smart thermostats. I've tinkered with the dead bands and with supplemental heat sources, trying to manage them with the same system and different temp settings.

NickGates, to random
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Wesley is now brave enough around The Boy to be in The Boy's room voluntarily

mikey,
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@NickGates Dunno. He still looks pretty uneasy about this situation...

mikey, (edited ) to random
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Okay, who was the 's for this week's episode of

Pick one or comment below to add your own.

NickGates, to random
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Today, on , my one year old touched his index finger to our cat, Tusky, and proclaimed, quite clearly, CAT.

And look yes most people know how to say CAT but it's extra special when it's your young firstborn

mikey,
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@NickGates He gets his cat identification badge. Definitely a good start.

muiren, to random
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It can sound like clickbait, and still be true.

Andrew Tate and Conservative Men now say it is GAY to Like Women


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlh4H4il4WE

mikey,
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@muiren Bold stance...

rooster, to random
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    mikey,
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    @rooster Knees. Ankles. Back....

    NoraReed, to mastodon
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    do any of you use a company that has a MOBILE FRIENDLY administration/moderation interface? it's gotta be one of the ones where you pay for it and they keep it updated for you, i don't want to fiddle with it too much, but i need to be able to do the admin/mod stuff that keeps it going FROM MY PHONE. i use android. it doesn't have to be mastodon specifically just something that hooks into the microblogging fediverse or whatever

    mikey,
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    @NoraReed I don't personally use them, as I do most of the server work myself, but I've heard lots of good things about Masto Host:
    https://masto.host/

    mikey,
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    @NoraReed I'm not sure what all you would need to login to their site to manage. I know they do the upgrades and server management. I can tell you the admin portions of the Mastodon web interface are accessible using a phone browser. So you can do moderation, account management, federation management, etc. from your phone. Does take a little getting used to.

    mikey,
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    @NoraReed No problem!

    vagina_museum, to random
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    IMPORTANT LOST PROPERTY QUESTION! Did anyone visiting the Vagina Museum yesterday lose a little dalek?

    mikey,
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    @vagina_museum Reading a thread on possible issues with weeping angel/ dalek hybrids or mementos looking like them being left at the Vagina Museum is possibly the best reason to be on Mastodon.

    molly0xfff, to random
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    "Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

    That's not something you read every day.

    https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

    mikey,
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    @molly0xfff TBH they are just saying the quiet part out loud. Cloud hasn't been cheaper in a lot of scenarios for a while now. But most orgs eat the cost for convenience and because corporate budgets are just easier to work out that way.

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