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trike

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He/him, il/lui. I live on unceded and unsurrendered Wolastoqey territory. I'm bi and polyamorous. I have adhd. I'm a technical writer and content engineer. I write fiction and poetry on the side. I'm doing a daily haiku challenge in 2024. I play D&D and bass. I like hiking, linux, dogs, sci-fi, reading, history, etc.

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trike, to random
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I wish I knew more
'bout my Irish ancestors.
Also the others.

trike, to random
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Cory Doctorow's
Kickstarting another book.
Of course I backed it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-bezzle-a-martin-hench-audiobook-amazon-wont-sell?ref=thanks-copy

(cc @pluralistic)

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Drop one of your family secrets.

trike,
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@BlackAzizAnansi My great-great grandfather accidentally shot my great-grandfather (while trying to shoot my great-great grandmother's lover).

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should I have a happy birthday?

trike,
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@evan qualified yes. Have a happy birthday if you're into that sort of thing!

trike, to TechnicalWriting
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I've been tasked with single-sourcing some docs that we should've single-sourced from the start (which I suggested at the time). 3 doc sets, built from 3 different branches of the same GitHub repo. Comparing branches on GH shows 148 & 300 files different between main branch and the other 2. At least some of those files are the same in all 3 branches, so I don't trust that compare tool.

It's nice at least that more people agree with me now, I guess?

trike,
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I'll bitch and moan about this, but also genuinely enjoy doing the work.

trike,
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@rekiwi technical writing is a great career for people who like to both complain and fix the things they're complaining about.

trike,
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@rekiwi @davidbures past Mike isn't always great either

dachary, to random
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Has been interesting reading some Qs/threads about what helped people get comfortable on the command line.

Someone I know accidentally rm rf’d their home directory once and hosed their machine, and had to spend basically the whole day setting everything up again. I was surprised to read that other folks in the thread have done this. Oof!

This is why I use a fancy prompt that gives me info about where I am and the current git state, and basically only do destructive things in git dirs.

trike,
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@dachary I once accidentally rm -rf'd my / folder because I borked a loop in a shell script I was writing (the loop had a misplaced cd .. in it, iirc). Fortunately I was sitting next to a developer who quickly taught me to ctrl+c to stop the command, I didn't have permission to remove any important system stuff, and I had a backup I could restore just about everything from

trike,
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@masukomi @dachary ouch!

trike, to random
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I backed @pluralistic 's kickstarter for "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" today, and so can you! Or don't, I'm not the boss of you. I'm barely the boss of me some days.

Anyway, it's probably going to be great so maybe you'll want to take a look at it https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

evan, (edited ) to random
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Is it OK to tease someone about their big beard?

trike,
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@evan I went with rarely. I think if you know the person with the big beard and understand that they'll take the teasing in good spirits, sure. But I don't think it's ok to tease the other big-bearded people, and they'll be in the majority.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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My father claims he vividly remembers my grandfather sobbing and smashing their television when this happened.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

trike,
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@lowqualityfacts Fred turning to the camera to say "Yabba-dabba-fuck-you" is still the best TV series ending ever.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you prefer the city or the country?

trike,
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@evan more city by a long shot, but it's nice to be in the country sometimes

thegibson, to random

Do I go to the cool kids party, or go to the temple of VC to flip tables?

trike,
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@thegibson I bet some of the cool kids would be into flipping VC temple tables with you

trike, to random
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Just found out I'm being layed off in September. Anyone out there need a senior let me know?

thegibson, to random

My co-workers this morning... always asleep on the job.

trike,
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@thegibson my co-worker here is sleeping on the job too

dachary, to random

Ok, I have spun up my own single-person Mastodon instance so I guess I’ll follow a migration guide and 🤞 I’ll see y’all on the other side?

(Masto.host makes hosting a Mastodon instance really easy, and is accepting signups again, so if you want to be in control of your own federation destiny, it’s not hard.)

trike,
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@dachary I found the migration was pretty smooth when I did this a few months ago

RedPenRabbit, to writing
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Yes, published books will have some typos or other errors in them, but you never see the many, many more that never make it to print.

#AmEditing #AmProofreading
#Editing #Writing #WritingCommunity @edibuddies

trike,
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@RedPenRabbit @edibuddies I expect most people don't realise how easy it is to miss typos because our brains are good at interpreting things that are close to correct as if they actually were correct.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should computing devices update their operating systems and installed apps while not in use?

trike,
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@evan qualified yes for me. I want this to be an opt-in option for anything on my personal devices, and ideally there should be other conditions I can set (ex. I don't want my phone to download OS updates when I'm not connected to wifi).

For work devices, I think if IT is going to push updates it's definitely better if it's while I'm not doing any work

evan, to random
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I'm really glad to be here with you.

trike,
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@evan likewise

rekiwi, to random
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Just in case anyone thinks my work is all sunshine & rainbows: Name change of a fundamental service. Oof. I tried my best to decouple my doc process from this freaking thing, keeping variables & structure product-name-agnostic while retaining semantic meaning for usability. Probably could limp along, but if I don't fix this now, I know the name change will bite me in the future and annoy me constantly.

trike,
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@dachary @rekiwi name changes can be really annoying! I've had a few to deal with recently too, and I hear that there are more coming. Variables definitely help, but when I grep OldName I inevitably find places where they weren't used.

thegibson, to random

Transphobes and bigots playing at centrist get yeeted into the sun.

I don't make the rules... wait, yes I do.

trike,
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@thegibson give 'em hell

evan, (edited ) to random
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How often do you eat fast food?

trike,
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@evan every few days, but I'm trying to reduce it back down to every other week or so

thegibson, to random

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight.

trike,
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@thegibson you can Wang Chung when you want to

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