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Gauss

@Gauss@furry.engineer

{ he: true, taken: true, straight: false, age: 23, race: 'white', sfw: '95%', occupation: 'SW dev', hobby: 'fluffy pics', supports: 'BLM' }

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Gauss, to random
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My coworker once did a 👉👈 to ask me for something

I almost said "what the fuck is 👉👈 use your words I don't speak bottom"

Ninji, to random
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anyone want to… make some content with me? seductively gestures at an open, empty vim buffer

Gauss,
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@Ninji seductively types :! make content hope your Makefile is... not too long :3

Ninji, to random
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I guess I'm 29 now, oh no

Gauss,
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@Ninji Oh wow, that's like, exactly 29 years

Happy borkday!

Gauss, to random
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Why is regging for cons so painful? Normally you should be looking forward for things like this, like a pre-order of a game or a new tv show. But con reg for NFC (which is first come first serve) was painful.

I didn't get main, and had to make the hard choice of going for another hotel and leaving the main's waiting list. Even though I regged in 2 and a half minutes, the 320 rooms vanished in what seems like moments after reg opened.

I guess I could've been worse. 1 person regged in a minute, and 30 minutes later got the feedback that they didn't get main and now they can't even get into an overflow hotel.

Gauss,
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@Ninji I tried regging quickly, but the server was so painfully slow. Autofill data took 10 seconds to come in, and I also wasted a bit of time not understanding the UI. So I wonder if I was just a tiny bit faster, then maybe I would've gotten in

Gauss,
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@Ninji Any tips for regging quickly? (besides having fast Internet and being lucky)

Gauss,
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@Ninji I guess it's possible that that 1 second of me adding the excursion added to the approval time, and if I didn't do that I might've gotten main, now that I think about it

Gauss,
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@Ninji I guess only people familiar with the backend would be able to say anything certain about it.

From what I've seen reg is all over the place. Apparently there were people who regged later than me but still got main, and people who regged earlier than me who didn't. I guess there is a room lottery system after all

Ninji, to random
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work update: our team retrospective meeting went so far off track that near the end, i was screen sharing the Pizza Hut website and we were discussing the different deals and items available at different branches

i’m satisfied with this outcome

Gauss,
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@Ninji "In retrospect, we should've bought cheaper pizza"

Ninji, to random
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things to do while home alone on a Monday night: update my Life Scrapbook with more random artifacts that i’ve collected over the past year

Gauss,
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@Ninji I also have a bunch of random stuff that I need to put away. I originally wanted to put it in a box, but this is a 1000x better idea

Ninji, to random
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my new watch has 64GB of storage and this feels somehow... wrong. i feel like you could fit every watchOS app worth installing into about 500MB, if that

Gauss,
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@Ninji It'll come in handy once all the apps decide to start using electron

Ninji, to random
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[begrudgingly, after getting a Java stack trace that ends with “… 69 more”] n-nice…

Gauss,
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@Ninji It is said that you need 2 monitors for coding in Java

A horizontal one for the class names and a vertical one for the stack traces

Ninji, to random
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I want to commend BRGR (local burger place) for their continued commitment to crimes against food which I am still inexplicably supporting with my money

After School BRGR - “Smashed beef patty, American cheese, golden crispy potato waffle and Heinz beanz with ketchup on a brioche bun”, £8.00
Loaded Curly Fries - “Seasoned curly fries topped with Kraft red box cheesey pasta”, £4.50

Gauss,
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@Ninji It's only a matter of time until they put a full English into a burger

karpour, to random
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So I checked out bsky, and while it's nice to not have ads (which will be there as soon as they need to make money), I definitely prefer Mastodon. People write more thoughtful posts and engage in more discussion here. Things posted don't disappear into the void a few minutes after they're posted. Also I have no faith in bsky ever doing actual federation.

Gauss,
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@karpour I've actually seen 1 person say "I hope Bsky never federates" cuz of all the defederation drama. It'd be really weird if Bsky doesn't implement their big main feature that's advertised on the home page, I see a non zero chance of them doing it

EU_Commission, (edited ) to Bulgaria
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Celebrate European by pedaling into a sustainable future 🚴‍♀️💚

In 2022, bicycle production in the EU increased by 10%, with a record-breaking 14.7 million of bikes produced.

Cycling not only protects your health but also serves as an eco-friendly alternative to driving, curbing air pollution.

Do you know which country is the biggest producer of bikes? ↓

Visit https://MobilityWeek.eu for more information on how you can contribute to a greener world.

Gauss,
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@EU_Commission I guess when you have more bicycles than people, you don't need to make any

Ninji, to random
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this hotel has two rolls of toilet paper. what are the two different ones for? (wrong answers only)

Gauss,
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@Ninji You take the left toilet paper, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the right toilet paper, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the butthole goes.

Ninji, to random
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no!!! i forgot to post something for fursuit friday because i was too busy finishing up my silly little blog post about sega splash golf

Gauss,
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@Ninji Just post it anyway, it's Friday somewhere

Ninji, to random
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one of my favourite urban sightings is when i see someone walking a dog and waiting to cross a street

and the dog is just sitting on the pavement obediently

Gauss,
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@Ninji Is it because you wish you were that dog?

EU_Commission, to Europe
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Travelling by train in Europe should be silky smooth.

From pan-European corridors to interregional connections, we have helped build greener and sustainable ways into .

And we are up for more:

🚊 Today, we earmarked more than €52 million to support the purchase of 37 electric for 13 interregional routes in Romania.

🚆 This month, we allocated €411 million to help build two sections of Spain’s Murcia-Almería high-speed railway.

Discover more: https://europa.eu/!J6DBmw

AVE high-speed train on the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail railway line bridge near Roda de Bera in Spain. The line is surrounded by trees. In the background a tunnel is visible. © Adobe Stock - Photographer: Markus Mainka

Gauss,
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@EU_Commission That's great and all, but we really need rail travel regulation to be on par with air travel. That means:

  • Price transparency
  • Centralized booking system (especially important for connecting trains)
  • Compensation if you miss your connection due to delays (such as free re-booking, and free hotel if you have to stay overnight)

All these are standard for air travel, they should apply to train travel too

Ninji, to random
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thinking about this fine art gallery that i took a photo of back in 2016 🍑

From another angle, a pillar obscures the left side of the sign, so it just reads “Anus Gallery” in a fancy serif font

Gauss,
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@Ninji Also known as Telegram saved messages

Ninji, to random
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Going through the onboarding process for my new employer's HR system. The form has an "About" section and you can enter a Twitter username if you want

This feels like bait

Gauss,
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@Ninji Reminds me of this

Ninji, to random
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I signed up for LinkedIn two months ago, and in that time, I’ve received over 310 different emails from them

All I ultimately got out of it was two calls with recruiters that never went anywhere— the job I ended up landing was one I applied for independently

So much for the professional network :p

Gauss,
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@Ninji It's the same story for me ngl. But in a few cases I did get pretty far with recruiters (as in multiple rounds of job interviews)

Gauss, to random
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Me dunking on social media platforms:

Facebook: Zucc's clever trick of stalking on uni students got a little out of hand

Instagram: Facebook for basic millennials

TikTok: 90% garbage, while the good 10% gets reposted on other platforms

YouTube: The platform that can copystrike you for beatboxing a song for 3 seconds, but can't figure out how to filter extremely obvious spam comments

Twitter: The place where people act like it wasn't a dumpster fire before Elon took over

Reddit: They killed the only thing that made it usable, while driving away the people who make it useful

Threads: Oh you thought Mastodon is irrelevant?

BlueSky: These people created a better Mastodon, then made it invite only while forgetting half the features

LinkedIn: The only time you'll use it is when looking for a job, or looking for a new employee

Discord: This platform ruined the word "server" for an entire generation. Also it's not a wiki, please stop using it as one

Ninji, to random
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Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently

I saw these Wii Remote golf clubs for sale in Poundland today, by the way

A sign outside a Londis corner shop says “Vapes Available!” and then lists four items: “Lost Mary”, “Elf Bar”, “Bongs & Grinders”, “Crystal Bar”
Someone has left a McDonald’s drink cup on top of the alarm unit outside a shop, about 2.5 metres off the ground — quite impressive
A cardboard box full of Signalex-brand Wii Remote Golf Clubs on a shelf at Poundland — they’re cheap plastic shells for you to place the remote into

Gauss,
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@Ninji Fun fact: elf bars are banned in Hungary. We had a lot of memes about that

Ninji, to random
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one of the things that sucks about having no art skills is that i can’t, like, take commissions to get some money between jobs

nobody in the furry fandom will pay me to write one-off code for them or whatever

Gauss,
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@Ninji What if you made custom generative art?

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