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Special DLC available with preorder. Opinions in profile pictures are entirely my own. (Je ne suis pas un DJ français.)

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foone, to random
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I keep forgetting that I hate keyboards

this makes it a bit of a problem given that's like 1/3rd of everything I do

foo,
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@foone I can sympathize. I got a new keycap set about a month ago. Looked beautiful. I absolutely could NOT type with it, presumably because the corners were too rounded. I didn't want to, but ended up going back to the keyboard's stock set after trying to make it work for a few weeks.

foo, to random
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Via @spacehobo, the EICAR antivirus test pattern is actually a fully executable 16-bit MS-DOS .com binary: https://blog.nintechnet.com/anatomy-of-the-eicar-antivirus-test-file/

brooke, to random
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Big Bear Solar Observatory

flight sim cockpit view light jet diving towards, then passing a white bulbous observatory building on a pier on a lake

foo,
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@brooke You never told me you worked for Pakistan International Airlines!

mattgrayyes, to random
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For @emf, I’m making Mastodot, which in theory prints toots that are hashtagged for the event!

foo,
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@mattgrayyes @emf Sweet! I've got a receipt printer in my home office which is connected to @lpd and will print to it when you mention it.
https://fosstodon.org/@foo/110289002246443522

foo,
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@mattgrayyes @emf @lpd I also had a dot matrix printer hooked up to identi.ca (basically the great-great-grandparent of the fediverse), back in 2010: https://www.finnie.org/2011/01/03/identica-lp0-on-fire/

foo, to random
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I still can't get over the fact that @jorge has started a Fedora-based distribution called, of all names, Bluefin. (Still debating whether to let others in on the joke of why that name is hilarious, since it doesn't seem to be common knowledge.)

https://projectbluefin.io/

foo,
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@jorge @popey "ujust help backup", guaranteed to cause no harm

eniko, (edited ) to Cats
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Do any of your cats get their claws stuck on fabrics or furniture and if so do any of them panic when they do and seem to forget how claws work?

foo,
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@eniko Yep, with the added complication that my cat hates to be picked up or handled (she's a Bombay so she has no independence and is a total lap cat, but it has to be on her terms).

So I need to be very careful when trying to help her; it's a balancing act between "she might hurt herself panicking if I pick her up" and "she might hurt herself panicking anyway".

foo, to random
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Criteria I use to rank my favorite musical artists:

  1. Whether they have written a song about falling in love with an IRC chanop bot
foo, to random
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The Apple A10 was the first A-series chip name to have a suffix, A10 Fusion. It was their first big.LITTLE implementation, so it sort of made sense.

The A11 Bionic was seemingly named because "A10 had a cool suffix, and Bionic is a cool word."

And then for the next 5 generations, they forgot to ask anyone if they should change the cool suffix, so they kept using the same up to A16 Bionic.

The latest is the A17 Pro, because everything they do is Pro. Everything.

foo, to random
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It appears I've run out of Internet to read. Seems a good time to go to bed, maybe there will be some more waiting for me when I wake up.

foo, to random
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If I ever build an interactive website in the future, I'm totally going to ask the user when they register to provide their preferred gander ("this data will be used for targeted marketing purposes").

foo, to random
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Okta Verify just scared my cat, who was sleeping on my phone.

There's probably a company infosec policy which forbids cats from accepting the "Yes, it's me" prompt.

pleia2, to random
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The boys and I picked up my BART number plate at Lake Merritt yesterday. These were taken from the old BART cars that were recently retired from service.

I'm glad @foo warned me it would be dirty. The back still needs a couple passes with a wire brush, but it's still glorious 😍

foo,
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@pleia2 No problem! I'm grateful to you for pointing me to the sale in the first place, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to pick one up myself.

foo, to random
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The space robots are asking if I have stairs in my house.

foo,
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@foosel pak choolie unf

foo,
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@foosel Funny enough, I didn't even know that all was based on a SA thing until the last few years. I just knew it as a meme via that Flash video from decades ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_t2HDFM4nQ

whitequark, to random
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why does LLVM have a -DLLVM_ENABLE_CURL=ON|OFF option

foo,
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@whitequark To create uncertainty in smartwatch firmware

foo, to random
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Get six impossible things done before breakfast, only at Shell

mcc, to random
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Trying to imagine what kind of harm Duke Classics might be alluding to here

foo,
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@mcc Related, the "all persons fictitious" disclaimer on fictional works is because of a libel case involving Rasputin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclaimer

foo, to random
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I was riding in aluminum electric cars 25 years before the cybertruck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit_rolling_stock

pleia2, to random
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"What did you do for mother's day?"

"We went to a train museum!"

"The boys must have LOVED that! But what did you do for you?"

Tell me you don't know me, without telling me you don't know me 😅 😍 🚂

foo,
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@pleia2 Speaking of which, did your BART car number plate arrive? Mine came earlier this week, it’s large. And heavy. And dirty.

foo,
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@pleia2 Yeah, and most of the dirt was actually on the rear of mine. I'm guessing it was 50 years of a spec of dirt here and there wedging itself between the car body and the plate. I did a few rounds with cleaner and a wire brush to the extent I can handle it without black fingers, but it'll never be completely clean. But that's part of the appeal!

foo, to random
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I want much of it,
I want much of it,
I want much of it,
and I would be prefer to have it soon

foone, to random
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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

foo,
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@foone So with Amazon being the highest authority on retail these days, it would be safe to say you're waiting on rods from the gods?

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