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chrisgn

@chrisgn@mstdn.social

Professional geek, amateur guitarist. Toots 92.7% cat. I have a pet dragon called Brian in my attic. He/him.

Profile picture is me and the lady known as Darling Wife, in a pub, both looking down at the camera.

Header is a small black cat with a fluffy white belly curled up on her side with her paws held at slightly odd angles so we can see her belly. Her eyes are open and seem to be looking at something towards the bottom of the image, which we can't see.

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chrisgn, to random
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I have Russ Abbot's "Atmosphere" stuck in my head. Just the one line of it that I can remember...

chrisgn, to Cats
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I don't think this will work properly, human. You should do it in COBOL or something instead.

chrisgn, to Cats
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Goodnight folks

chrisgn, to Cats
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Niffler has a new friend

chrisgn, to Cats
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Why yes, I am perfectly comfortable. Good day to you, sir.

chrisgn, to Cats
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We missed because we were watching Justin Hawkins riding again live (which was very entertaining).

So here's Niffler this morning.

chrisgn, to Cats
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Is this for the Internet again human?

chrisgn, to Cats
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What do you mean "not allowed on the dining table?" Does not compute.

davidallengreen, to random
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The curious incident of the Afghanistan war crimes statutory inquiry being set up

It may becoming obvious why the government set up this inquiry rather than its usual tactics of denial or derision or deflection of serious allegations

By me at Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-curious-incident-of-the-afghanistan

chrisgn,
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@davidallengreen "it may becoming" 🙂

(Same phrase is in the article)

chrisgn, to music
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Does anybody know where I can get genuine Gibson parts (specifically bridge/pickup covers/tuning pegs) for an LP Custom Red Wine?

The local guitar shop is struggling to get them and I'm not convinced the ones I can find online are actually genuine; I was hoping to sell it and buy something a bit more appropriate for someone that only plays at home but the metal parts are quite corroded and polishing is not going to cut it...

bronsen, to Cat
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It's March, let's have a bit of consensual fun & game: reply with photos or drawings, my timeline wants it!

Here are some rules:

  • Your cat, or your photo of a cat
  • Your or your friend's , , , , , etc
  • No meme-fied images, just cat
  • I fav every image and enjoy its "Behaglichkeit"
  • For every such genuine image I will 1 EUR to @Testoceratops (up to sensible & non-trivial amount of course)

:BoostOK: :ReplyOK:

chrisgn,
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@bronsen

This is Niffler. She was cross because she wasn't allowed to sleep on our bed last night (because we were driving early this morning and she makes it hard to sleep) so she was watching me play Last Epoch.

chrisgn, to Cats
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Why yes, I am very cute.

chrisgn, to Cats
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Did you just pspsps at me, human?

chrisgn, to Cats
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Apparently she disapproves of something outside.

chrisgn, to Cats
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I think we need to discuss your performance in the treats department, human.

Excellent loaf posture there though.

chrisgn, to random
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On the one hand I need to get up and do some work.

On the other, I really don't want to.

chrisgn, to Cats
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Niffler wants to know why we've waited until today to take the decorations down.

chrisgn, to Cats
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So when are you getting this weather sorted, human?

eclectech, to dance
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Feelin' Festive Mastodon-style

boogies

Also, time for one final call for the project for the season. If you have a pet you'd like to see in a Santa hat post a photo in the replies and I'll festive them up as best I can over the next couple of days 🐱 🐶 🎅

Looping drawn animation. A cloud against a teal backdrop. On the cloud are one mastodon in the centre, the logo to my things.uk instance, and four simple figures dressed in red. They are all dancing. Thy are all wearing Santa hats. They are having a fine old time.

chrisgn,
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@eclectech Niffler has a strong objection to actual hats so this is probably the only way we'll ever see her in one...

chrisgn,
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@eclectech thank you!

fell, to programming
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I just found a piece of old code where I encoded some information into an 8-bit bitfield just to decode it again 3 lines later.

I am certainly wiser now.

chrisgn,
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@fell surprisingly, I did. I can't remember how or why I know, since I generally do not need to know that sort of thing at all for the type of work I do. I suspect I heard it somewhere and checked the veracity and it stuck....

chrisgn,
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@fell I have generally found that the answer to nearly everything in computer science (except the most basic things) is "it depends". 30 years of writing software and there's rarely a clearly "right" answer.

chrisgn, to Cats
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The perpetrator of many crimes

chrisgn, to Cats
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That is not, in fact, a place to sit.

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