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binford2k

@binford2k@hachyderm.io

Developer Advocate at @puppet; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! \o/ I run marathons in those funny finger shoes.

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lilithsaintcrow, to random
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"But amidst all the national attention, there was one group conspicuously missing from Miller’s growing legion of fans: the Amish themselves." https://therevealer.org/an-amish-farmers-court-case-and-a-curious-coalition-of-rightwing-supporters/

binford2k,
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@lilithsaintcrow “give me salmonella or give me death.”

We live in the dumbest timeline.

xahteiwi, to random
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Serious question: why is it that so many people apparently have real problems adopting ISO 8601 dates and UTC, in a professional context?

As in, are those somehow fundamentally incompatible with human nature? Or do people just completely lack the cultural awareness to understand that some of their colleagues are used to a different date format than they are, or live in a different timezone, or don't use daylight saving time?

Related:
https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2023/02/10/brown-mms/

binford2k,
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@xahteiwi I almost always link to a conversion service like https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240526T050000&p1=202&p2=236&p3=240&p4=1038&p5=3925&p6=1440. Anything less is disrespectful and risks a miscommunication.

binford2k,
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@xahteiwi I’m usually making events for people in many time zones but I don’t always know for sure what zone everyone is in. If I’ve done the work to pick a time that I think works for most/everyone (using said converter) then it’s easy to share it so other people can easily add in their own zone without doing math in case I missed one.

hazelweakly, to random
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Unreasonably sad that I'm at 4068 followers. So close to a Nice™ number

binford2k,
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@hazelweakly @GeePawHill and here I am, the nerd who thought you were excited to get to 4,096

binford2k, to random
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All right, let’s get these started.

mph, to random
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    binford2k,
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    @mph God Emperor is still a rough read. Slogging through it now.

    mph, to macos
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    binford2k,
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    @mph I’ve been told that if you disable autofill “using info from my contacts” it goes away. It doesn’t seem to interfere with 1Password for me though, so I’ve not tried myself. 🤷‍♀️

    binford2k, to random
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    "You know that phrase that everyone loves to quote? “Disagree and commit”? I hate it. I think it’s a phrase that causes a lot more harm than good because it’s quoted so often out of context and used frequently as a cudgel by leadership to force top down consensus when it was originally intended to be a reminder to leaders to trust the people you hired."
    -- @hazelweakly

    mph, to random
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    binford2k,
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    @mph did you get this at the restaurant? I kinda want one....

    binford2k, to random
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    “I don’t know what the solution is,” Guilmette said.

    You go back in time and vote out all the fuckwads who pretended climate change wasn’t a thing. That’s what you do.

    From: @pvonhellermannn
    https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112081547942670443

    xahteiwi, to webdev
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    Somewhat niche question.

    Suppose I have SVG files, which include some text (labels, and such like). And I want to use those images in several reveal.js presentations using different themes, which means the presentations use different default fonts.

    Do I have a way to ensure that the text in the SVG is rendered in the same font as the HTML it's embedded in? If so, how?

    (Boosts appreciated. Helpful comments too, obviously. 🙂)

    binford2k,
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    @preya @xahteiwi not only that, but you can write CSS selectors to target the text elements in your SVG directly and style them (mostly) like any other elements.

    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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    Meta: "We will no longer promote posts which are political in nature."

    My Facebook feed:

    binford2k,
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    @BoydStephenSmithJr @BlackAzizAnansi can I suggest that the person you are “reminding” has a far deeper understanding of the alternatives than you might realize.

    xahteiwi, to running
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    Who among you runs long distance in Vibram FiveFingers? I'm looking for model recommendations. I absolutely love my KSO Evo, and it's the best shoe I've ever run in, but I've found that I can put barely 300 kilometres' worth of training on them before the sole wears through.

    (Boosts ok.)

    binford2k,
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    @xahteiwi I run marathons. Currently rocking the V-Run but have had several, including Bikila. Tbh, I have the same wear issue as you. But I cheat and periodically paint on a new sole with shoe goo and I generally now get about 1200 k.

    binford2k,
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    @xahteiwi (which horrifies my run club friends who replace their traditional shoes at 3-500 km)

    lauren, to random
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    I'm not a cartoonist, but if I were, I'd draw one of a bunch of far left folks being marched into Trump Concentration Camp #934 in chains, with one remarking to the other, "At least I didn't vote for Biden!"

    binford2k,
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    @lauren another is saying “Bernie or bust!”

    xahteiwi, to random
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    Flex incoming.

    https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2024/02/10/my-talks-are-good/

    binford2k,
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    @xahteiwi can confirm. And thought provoking too.

    molly0xfff, to random

    fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

    binford2k,
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    @molly0xfff will this be the thing that gets me publishing again? https://binford2k.com

    hazelweakly, to random
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    Anyone else struggle with feeling like that sound extremely rude online if they don't use emojis constantly as punctuation? Just me? 👀

    binford2k,
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    @hazelweakly I’d rather look like a dweeb 🤓 than sound like an asshole 😉 It puts more of the weight of a civil conversation on me rather than expecting someone else who may or may not have those skills to pick up the other side.

    xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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    “I just finished my slides”, ”I did my talk on the flight over, it's a little rough around the edges”, “I forgot all about this conference and then whipped this up in a panic two days ago”, or something of the sort said casually at the beginning of a talk, is

    binford2k,
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    @xahteiwi I did a form of this just yesterday. I signed up for a lightning talk recycling something that had been Covid canceled. It was based off a blog post. Turns out that I never actually wrote the deck and I had just a few rushed minutes to brain dump out some words and it really needed an apology.

    Generally speaking though, I don’t get offended but it rarely comes across well.

    binford2k, to random
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    “Ansible is radically simple” @xahteiwi

    dymaxion, to random

    Holy fuck this comment: https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962

    binford2k,
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    @skry @FeralRobots @dymaxion I think their point was that Boeing will find and crucify the author of the comment for exposing fuckery, not the persons who actually perpetrated the fuckery.

    binford2k, to portland
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    friends, the Mercado needs your help. Even if insurance comes through, they need to make payroll and other bills right now.
    https://www.portlandmercado.org/firerelief

    binford2k, to random
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    I wish I truly understood why people don't get that "reduce costs" is exactly the same thing as "increase revenue."

    Like I know the accounting bullshit, but we're not children anymore. We should understand nuance.

    binford2k,
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    @gepandz Sure. But ultimately it's all just math. Sustainability == (income > expenditures).

    binford2k,
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    @gepandz as a concrete example of the context I'm thinking in -- giving away the puppetlabs/apache module for "free" reduces the support costs from customers who'd otherwise have to build their own.

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