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elithebearded

@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

He/him of Usenet fame, if Usenet can be said to have fame. Diverse interests that tend away from "new"ness. Non-fiction reader and art appreciator.

Icon is from a "Signs of the Times" art project decorating traffic control boxes in Emeryville, California. Profile banner is my Dr Monocle character, a one-eyed spy using his small size for stealth.

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ifixcoinops, to random
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Every winter: ๐Ÿฆ ah, time to make the annual "Here's how to DIY an anti-SAD lightbox" post
Every summer: ๐Ÿฆ oho, time to make the annual "Here's how to suck cold air in" post

elithebearded,
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@ifixcoinops Don't want to leave it running all night here. Even on a hot day the nights are usually cool enough to chill things down in an hour or so with the 8000 CFM drum fan I have.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The AI hype sometimes reminds me of 1970s foods.

People actually thought dishes like โ€œAvocado Jelly Waldorf with Mayonnaiseโ€ were decent and a good idea.

elithebearded,
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@KanaMauna @thomasfuchs

Just two days ago I was talking about my gelatin fears.

https://fed.qaz.red/@elithebearded/112452392221558216

elithebearded,
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@mikey @KanaMauna @thomasfuchs I can't say I've tried them. I have had other agar based jellied confections. My impression is agar works but can't get as stiffly gelled as the meat based stuff. It's a small sacrifice overall for avoiding prion diseases.

phranck, to random German
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Very interesting: Since I have adjusted my profile (picture and text), a lot of followers have dropped off. But the rubbish I publish is still the same. They were probably rather superficial personalities... ๐Ÿค”

elithebearded,
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@phranck The avatar is unflattering and looks AI generated. The bio says:

elithebearded,
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@phranck Even misspelled "enthusiast"?

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, itโ€™s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

Itโ€™s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

elithebearded,
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@siracusa @MichaelWhelan I had that book and I remember the cover well, too

thomasfuchs, to random
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Just typical southwestern US desert things like Auroras

#astrophotography #aurora #desert

elithebearded,
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@thomasfuchs I'm still thinking of that "how to tell heat exhaustion from heat stroke" thing you retooted and thinking "maybe not for me"

elithebearded, to random
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"I like capers."

Later clarification after the robbery:

"I like those salty green things sold as capers on my pasta."

glennf, (edited ) to random
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I am down to 30 copies (as of May 18) of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a letterpress-printed book in an edition of 425. The book traces printing with type before Gutenberg through the present day across all technological developments. Typeset in hot metal in North Yorkshire, printed in London, bound in Germany, the hardcover book is covered in green cloth and comes in a slipcase of the same fabric. https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress Some copies remain with Tiny Type Museum slipcase stamping.

elithebearded,
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@glennf Down to at most 39 now since I just saw my shipping confirmation email.

elithebearded,
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@glennf Well I stand corrected then

NanoRaptor, to random
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It appears I have radiation burns.

I spent an hour and a half with unsatisfactory shielding just minutes away from a G2V class fusion reactor.

elithebearded,
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@NanoRaptor Hereabouts the common recommendation for that sort of thing is aloe vera applied topically. Not sure if thats the local (to you) cure. For all I know the Aussie cure is dettol and a pint.

Either way, do be careful around those reactors. They have been known to cause cancer.

elithebearded, to random
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Overheard spoonerism of truth:

Salty Faultware

elithebearded, to random
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Tried to use "identify" from imagemagick to find out some details about a .mkv video file. It failed but left a 18G file in /tmp filling the partition and causing strange errors in other programs until I figured out what happened.

Nice job there.

elithebearded, to random
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Today's spammer of note

Uses a gmail From line address
Uses a gmail Reply-to address
Solicits responses via forms.gle (Google Forms)
Sent mail through Google's servers with DKIM and SPF tests passing
Is selling advertising

So wonderful that Google is so great at spam filters.

foone, to random
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I think my next project along the lines of VGAPride might be writing programs to display a trans pride flag for as many platforms as possible.
Like, a simple c64 program, qbasic, win32, js, etc.

elithebearded,
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@richardloxley @brouhaha @BRicker @foone Some commercial Unixes (thinking Digital in particular) shipped with /bin/true as a zero length file. The system would run it as a shell script and it would exit successfully while ignoring all command line options, which is all true is meant to do.

vga256, to random
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the wheel of samsara:

<finds a $7 big box game at the thrift store and drives home happy>

<drives into garage, closes garage door which comes off its rails and falls on top of vehicle, doing $2000 damage>

elithebearded,
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@vga256 Yikes! I have had the spring break in mine a couple of times, but the door stays in the rails. New terror to contemplate.

elithebearded, to random
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elithebearded, to random
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Vladimir: Well this has been pleasant.

Estragon: Yes but now I am hungry.

Godot:

Vladimir: We should go.

Estragon: Yes, we should.

[No one moves.]

nitpicking, to random
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Actual page on the NewEgg web site (the web version of a promotional email). "Bulider"?! In a professional marketing product?
https://promotions.newegg.com/neemail/latest/USA_PromotionDeals-index-landing-033024.html?cm_mmc=EMC-Automation033024-USA-

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking Newegg has gone really downhill since it was sold. I have stopped shopping there

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking I for one really never gave the matter much thought.

vga256, to random
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all this panic over xz v5.6.x and my macOS mojave brew install won't even upgrade past 5.4 ๐Ÿ˜Ž

for the first time in 10 years, brew's obsession with only working well on the latest macOS has saved my ass.

elithebearded,
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@vga256 People at work who had upgraded packages in the past week report that "brew update" today is downgrading back to 5.4.6. Internally we are accepting with caveats 5.4 and only consider pre 5.2.12 (last version not touched by this contributor) fully safe.

elithebearded, to random
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People who are surprised to learn Mastodon admin can technically snope on direct messages always need reminders that the same is true everywhere (that doesn't promise direct to recipient encryption). Here's an article about Facebook sharing private messages with Netflix (and Spotify mentioned as well). The access seems to have been from about August 2013 until Facebook turned on encryption in 2018.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

vga256, to random
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last year @ThreeOhFour told me that buying a kilo of old used stamps was a bad idea

this is what being wrong looks like my friend ๐Ÿ˜‚

elithebearded,
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@vga256 My mom died about two years ago with a lot of unfinished projects and supplies. Her concern before she died was that stuff would get thrown out instead of going to someone else who could use it. I think of that now, you finding this prior half finished work and giving it purpose.

JenMsft, to random
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"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke"

"Hi, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke"

"OK, I'll tell a TCP joke"

"OK, tell me a TCP joke"

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'm ready for a TCP joke"

"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out"

elithebearded,
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@JenMsft Reminds me of a joke.

faerye, to random
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This video could have been a numbered list with a few illustrations

elithebearded,
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@faerye People know how to upload a video for free to youtube. They don't know where to put a numbered list.

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