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aubilenon

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I make escape rooms at https://triviumgames.com!

I also have cat-like reflexes. That is, when I see a cat, I like it!

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loresjoberg, to random
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Part of my problem is that my only two modes are “charming rake” and “boring misanthrope” and people who meet the former are inevitably disappointed to learn that I spend 98 percent of the time as the latter.

aubilenon,
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@loresjoberg But at least the leaves got cleaned up

mathowie, to random
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The final XOXO is a go! https://a.wholelottanothing.org/xoxo-is-on/

aubilenon,
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@mathowie if you ever play my escape room I will totally give you a backstage tour

Paperposts, to random
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Be the seagull

(Edit: unless you live in the Netherlands - if so, enforce the sign. Thanks Edgar for telling me about that)

aubilenon,
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@Paperposts @williampietri It's not just a "No Seagulls" sign, it's a "No That Exact Seagull" sign.

ElleGray, to random
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don't get me wrong, the rap battle is fun, but a fight between men named Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Aubrey Drake Graham should really involve dueling with swords at dawn

aubilenon,
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@ElleGray @inthehands I’m starting to be concerned that we’re somehow accidentally living in the DuckTales universe or something

aubilenon, to random
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It's fine that there are two different words spelled “micrometer” with different pronunciations, but it is unacceptable that one is a metric unit of distance measurement, and the OTHER one rhymes with “kilometer”.

annika, to random
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White Lake State Park, Tamworth, NH, US. 2019

aubilenon,
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@annika Nice pictures! Are you in 2019 currently?

annika, to random
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Life is short. Tattoo your crush's name on your face

aubilenon,
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@annika I have very sensitive skin, is it okay if I use someone else's face?

aubilenon, to random
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Why is it called cable management and not LANscaping?

inthehands, to random
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Cheng Heng restaurant in St. Paul. Great food, full of heart, truly a neighborhood place where you see all kinds of people eating side by side — and the owners are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. (They’re extremely proud of their son who works for NASA.) So good.

aubilenon,
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@tedmielczarek @inthehands It does make sense for VCs having absolutely zero interest in that sort of business. However I'm pretty sure it's not just nostalgia distording things when I say the world was better when more business were like that

aubilenon,
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@Rycaut @tedmielczarek @inthehands I own a small business with a few partners (you can guess what based only on my mastodon host). At one point it made sense for me to loan our company some money. I said “I’ll match the rates we’re getting from our other lenders; they probably know how much this risk is worth!” But no dice; that would be illegal under usury law (because I’m not an accredited lender)

aubilenon,
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@Rycaut @tedmielczarek @inthehands that said I don’t really thing access to capital is as much a problem as the huge number of factors that make things cheaper for bigger companies, from logistics to legal stuff to advertising. Even with the huge Ace hardware coop making it possible for independent stores to even get products, they still can’t really compete with Home Depot or Lowe’s on price. (Most sure do win on service though)

aubilenon,
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@Rycaut @tedmielczarek @inthehands hmm! Maybe I cheated myself out of a few points of interest! But I think it was our accountant who told us about that law

petergleick, to random

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

aubilenon,
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@petergleick @inthehands also I am not sold on this idea that the point of people is to have a chance at being Mozart rather than have intrinsic value of their own

miunau, to random

cool sampling on this album all around, prod by hank shocklee (of public enemy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBZwsevoMg&list=OLAK5uy_mgwlynWtzF1mC1O7uuzet2yWQSTqwn6Eg

aubilenon,
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@miunau I was wondering for a second when this was from but then like the first thing they do is shout out to 1991! It was so convenient now I think all music should do that!

mathowie, to random
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what in the flying fuck is going on with online ticketing fees?! I've gone to two big shows recently and both had fees that amounted to as much as one of the tickets!

I thought Pearl Jam solved this issue for us a generation ago.

aubilenon,
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@mathowie I run an escape room, and every so often I get cold-called by a booking platform that charges 6% of ticket sales. I tell them "that's way too much" and they reply “Oh you don't have to pay it, the customers do!” and then I get extremely angry.

annika, to random
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A cool thing about living in Europe is walking by a non-zero number of castles on the way to work

aubilenon,
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@annika Hopefully a positive non-zero number!

mathowie, to random
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WeWork could have remained a successful business if stuck to the one city it was developed in, NYC, where it was the killer way to get office space NOW (an impossible thing in NYC).

Reminds me of Kozmo.com, where if they stayed SF-only, they could have been small but still profitable.

Don’t believe the lies VC guys tell you, not every business should take over the planet.

aubilenon,
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@mathowie I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but feel compelled to point out that Kozmo started out in NYC and expanded to SF. But I think of Webvan as the poster child of VC-fueled over-expansion.

miunau, to random

beep

aubilenon,
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@miunau boop

mcc, to random
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Discovery: It is currently impossible in Google Image Search to search for "Underware", the 1995 Macintosh extension that animated your desktop image. It searches for "underwear" instead. It does ask "Did you mean: 'Underwear?'" but it no longer gives an option to say no.

Searching "Underware" in quotes does not help. Searching "Underware mac" gives you about 50% results related to Underware for Macintosh and 50% pictures of underwear.

aubilenon,
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@mcc I am imagining a bunch of results showing a 512K Macintosh in tighty whities.

mcc, to random
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Often I find people making fun of things moving into the browser rather than just running as software but the fact is the browser increasingly works better than my regular OS. Like in my experience Linux works universally quite poorly at most GUI things I want to use it for, Android works a bit better than that, & Chrome works much better than that. Chromebooks would sound like a great idea to me if only I trusted Google (and if I didn't believe everyone developing ChromeOS is using a MacBook)

aubilenon,
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@mcc I'm more leery about google than average (I mostly use Firefox and Kagi), but as the one in charge of tech at a non-tech company (an escape room), I have to say, Chromebooks + Gsuite has been a dream to administer. Like when I buy a new shared Chromebook all I have to do is tell people where it physically is located, and then I can go back to fussing with microcontrollers and Max/MSP, instead of having to think about the Chromebook(s) at all until like their hardware fails.

mathowie, to random
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I took this shot of a monorail dashboard in Disneyland’s monorail station and now I want to figure out what every stat means

aubilenon,
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@mathowie They haven't decided what TBD means yet

mcc, to random
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I have just found, on Amazon, a USB peripheral which is a gearshift for a manual transmission car

Challenge: What is the funniest way you could utilize this peripheral in software

https://www.amazon.ca/Thrustmaster-Shifter-8-Gear-Compatible-Playstation/dp/B0C2JCX1TD

aubilenon,
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@mcc the first thing that comes to mind is different gears are different modifier keys (it’s a shifter!)

mcc, to random
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Would you describe yourself as a "ranged weapon user" or are you more of a melee build

aubilenon,
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@mcc I used to be but now I’m de-ranged

miunau, to random

bandcamp being sold is an opportunity for competitors to come up and that's exciting. their only innovation in over a decade has been listening parties. none of the artist tools have been updated or made easier to use since the site's inception

aubilenon,
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@miunau The problem with innovating is it costs a bunch of money so then you have to take a bunch of investor money and then you have to make way more than that back somehow, which is typically a pressure that makes services turn shitty. I haven't seen things from the artist's side, but I really like the Bandcamp customer experience as it is. Well, okay I WOULD like to be able to download all 8 albums I just bought with one click instead of 8.

mcc, to random
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ALL HUMANS ARE SPHERICAL

ALL HUMANS ARE SPHERICAL

ALL HUMANS ARE SPHERICAL

ALL HUMANS ARE SPHERICAL

https://mastodon.scot/@andrewducker/111137027371941314

aubilenon,
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@mcc are you saying I’m fat?

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