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jon, to random
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They have a handy map of where I’m going tomorrow 🙂

elithebearded,
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@jon
Those can be angle grinder hardened by what you fill the tubes with.

I have seen news stories (but cant find them now, thanks 2024 web search) about techniques for improving those. I recall something about aircraft cable (wire rope) inside to make cutting much more tedious.

elithebearded,
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@jon I have not heard of that. I would have thought concrete Myself, but maybe something that's normally solid yet becomes a gooey sticky mess when heated would be good. You know like tar or pitch.

elithebearded, to random
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Macos $HOME/Library is really fucking determined to make my Unix-y "find ~ -conditions" habits miserable.

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking
Besides sticking a bunch of stuff that would be in a dot dir in a regular Unix in ~/Library (which a straight "find ~" but not a "find ~/*" would search), the stuff in there has weird permissions generating pop-ups and error messages. It's slow and noisy and feels like "find /var" as a regular user instead of like looking through my stuff.

elithebearded, to random
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Never Kink? I've seen the Internet, I'm sure someone has this kink.

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking
Technology?

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking I had not looked at substrings. Wondering now how that's pronounced. Does the "X" give a "st" sound?

NanoRaptor, to random
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Most people on earth can’t remember anything before 1997.

elithebearded,
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@MLE_online @NanoRaptor
How about the B-52's?

Or the airplanes either band was named for?

Cornellbox, to random
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TiL, Tradle edition

There is a country with over 60% of its exports in the category "Planes, Helicopters, and/or Spacecraft" and that surprised me.

I'll give you 4 hours to guess, and schedule a reply here with the answer for 19:00

elithebearded,
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@Cornellbox
No real idea, so a wild guess. Chile?

HEX, to random
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I’m considering offering discounts on fonts for websites that are not annoying. 10% off for each of the following:

  • No cookie/privacy consent is needed.
  • No pop-ups or other dickbars.
  • The homepage uses less than 1 megabyte of data to load.
  • Basic functionality doesn’t require JavaScript.
  • The layout works in a small 320px-wide viewport.
elithebearded,
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@HEX Do people with sites like that buy fonts for their sites?

ifixcoinops, to random
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Every winter: 🦝 ah, time to make the annual "Here's how to DIY an anti-SAD lightbox" post
Every summer: 🦝 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 “Avocado Jelly Waldorf with Mayonnaise” 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... 🤔

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"?

SimonCHulse, to random
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elithebearded,
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siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’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

It’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

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