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ketmorco

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I'm here for the Python, tech, politics, and friends. He/him/they.

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yurnidiot, to random
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can't tell me this isn't skilled labor ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿ’จ

woman packing avocados in a box by tossing them from one hand to the other rapidly without looking at the catching hand

ketmorco,
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@yurnidiot if has taught me anything, it's that all "unskilled labor" is harder than any CEO's can do

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 90ยฐ and then 180ยฐ, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

ketmorco,
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@foone i bet they say "whee!" when they go down

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Some people say there are no atheists in foxholes.

That may be true, but there are even fewer Christians* in brothels.

(* Feel free to replace the term "Christians" by your favorite religion)

ketmorco,
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@ParadeGrotesque I dunno, I bet most visitors to brothels claim Christianity the other days of the week

MLE_online, to random
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I'm thinking again about making a folding bike by cutting a bike in half and welding hinges in

ketmorco,
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@MLE_online there is a company that uses screw locks, but does this. I don't remember the name.

ketmorco,
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@MLE_online if your lathe is running, I bet you could make your own copy ๐Ÿ˜…

aaronesilvers, to actuallyautistic
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TFW alone time flexes and compresses between feeling like eternity until there's not enough of it. @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

ketmorco,
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@aaronesilvers @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity has entered the chat... but can't remember why ๐Ÿฅฒ

yakkoj, to random
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I never watched "Seinfeld" back in the day, but I'm pretty sure "extreme left", "PC crap", and "woke" are pretty indicative that Jerry's spewing some bullshit.

That's just my opinion, though.

https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/112349491666435492

ketmorco,
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@yakkoj definitely not the billionaires

yakkoj, to random
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I HATE TEAMS

When I press RETURN, that means POST the damned thing.

I never thought I'd say this in a million years, but Slack's Electron app is BETTER than MS's Electron app.

I'm going to really hate engaging with IM now. SINGLE line, have to click "Post" with the mouse...

ketmorco,
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@yakkoj I've never used Teams and thought, "Wow, revolutionary!"

Only, "Wow. I didn't know that was even possible."

ketmorco,
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@yakkoj wait. A Subject line in Teams?

ketmorco,
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@yakkoj I mean, I kind of like it because, well this could have been an email, but I would not expect that sort of shenanigans without a single line entry box and a free-form text box that are very clearly and obviously a subject and text box.

Susan60, to actuallyautistic
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What do people read?

I was an avid reader of fiction when I was a child. Novels about challenging issues or strange fantasy worlds. In many ways reading was an escape to a safe place, but those books were also places where I could learn about how โ€œpeopleโ€ worked. How they thought, felt & behaved. The diversity in those things.

I loved The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, because they were about children who were different & how they coped. I loved The Chronicles of Narnia because, although quite dated now, the girls had real adventures alongside their brothers. There was a series of books about witches, good & bad, which I loved but canโ€™t remember the titles or author.

I loved Ivan Southallโ€™s books, where tweens & teens faced dangers, often without the support of adults. (Marsdenโ€™s Tomorrow when the War Began is reminiscent of Southall.)

And as an adult, I still like youth & YA fiction, probably for the same reason, because Iโ€™m still learning how humans work. I also like adult fiction, but the naivety of youth fiction appeals.

And TBO, I read much more non-fiction than fiction nowadays. Obviously thereโ€™s the Autism & ADHD stuff that is currently dominating my reading, but also social commentaries of all sorts, by feminists, sociologists, etc.

@actuallyautistic

ketmorco,
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@ginsterbusch @pathfinder @Susan60 @actuallyautistic I just started reading Pratchet and I actually really enjoyed The Color of Magic the series (currently[?] available on Prime). I think it may have pulled from a couple of his books because I don't remember it exactly from when I read the novel of that name. Samwise played a very excellent Twoflower ๐Ÿ˜‚

ketmorco,
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@Susan60 @actuallyautistic if you have not yet, I expect you would enjoy Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest series. The basic premise is that Princess Cimorene is, well, a Princess. However, her magic lessons, fencing, and other practical arts are continually put a stop to because those things are Not For Princesses. So she runs off, and finds her way to the dragons.

It's YA FIC, but I've (re)read them several times, including to my children.

yakkoj, to random
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another day at the "teach the security team about how Debian patches security holes" factory

CVE-2023-48795 was fixed in Debian's versions of openssh in 2023! Security team's braindead Tenable scans are flagging us as "vulnerable" because we don't advertise a version of 9.6 or greater.

This is what happens when you blindly trust automation.

ketmorco,
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@yakkoj vUlNeRaBlE

Garwboy, to random
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"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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ketmorco,
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@justafrog @enoch_exe_inc @Garwboy I just saw the best thing ever:

> Never trust someone who won't apologize to a child.

And that's my new litmus test for "is this human being someone I can trust as far as I can throw them?"

ketmorco, to random
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it's starting!

ketmorco,
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my phone is a potato but wow!

ketmorco,
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not visible (very well) in my poor photo but does anyone know what the red dot was at the bottom right of the ring? Solar flare?

ketmorco,
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@chris_hayes The more I think about it the more terrifying and amazing that all is.

What appeared as just a little dot of red was probably larger than the entire Earth.

teacherbuknoy, to random
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It's Sunday evening, and I have survived my first week of living alone! I'm still afraid of ghosts when I go to sleep at night, but nonetheless my body has adjusted really well to the new environment.

ketmorco,
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@teacherbuknoy is cooking your own an option? In the US it's way cheaper that way

twipped, to react
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For nearly a decade I was a strong fan of using jQuery and Backbone to enhance server generated html.

What led me to abandon that and embrace was not reactive development, it wasnโ€™t the performance of dom diffing, it wasnโ€™t any of the things that were inherent to Reactโ€ฆ it was JSX and pluggable, composable components.

Now, after two years working in a large scale react SPA with federated microfrontendsโ€ฆ Iโ€™m finding that I miss the simplicity of Backbone and jQuery.

Funny, that.

ketmorco,
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@twipped vanillajs is shockingly powerful these days ๐Ÿ™ƒ

ScriptFanix, to actuallyautistic
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I've been actually autistically honest to my @actuallyautistic girlfriend, and now she won't talk to me.

Sometimes I wish I could lie

ketmorco,
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@ScriptFanix @actuallyautistic it may or may not have been related to the kind of discussion like "does this make me look fat?" - but that's the societally acceptable lie - the real question is "do you find me attractive?"

That's not easy to unpack in the moment, of course.

Especially since most of us wouldn't ask a question we didn't want an honest answer to ๐Ÿฅฒ

I don't have any other help, but I do wish the best for you (and everyone)

shoq, to random
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I remain convinced that 2.5 generations of Americans have been brainwashed by television and the the internet to believe 2 completely wrong ideas:

  1. everything happens for a reason.
  2. everything works out in the end.

I fear weโ€™re about to learn just how wrong.

ketmorco,
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@shoq to be fair, there is a reason, and the reason is greed

Wileymiller, to random
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Remind me again how it's Tik Tok we should be most worried about with national security...

https://wapo.st/3IGNjWD

ketmorco,
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@benroyce @sysop408 @Jennifer @Wileymiller i think the problem comes from saying that it's a threat from a state actor rather than it's a threat because it's a manipulative social media. Also ignores the empirical data from the number of people who have found incredible, but credible, information (especially as search engines are eating themselves with ML)

It's probably closer to saying "VW cars are bad because Hitler made them"

The state sponsored spying is practically an irrelevant.

ketmorco,
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@benroyce @sysop408 @Jennifer @Wileymiller the warrant machine on the likes of FB, Googlr, Twitter and friends makes the US spying probably just as bad. About the only things they don't really do is control the algorithms ๐Ÿคท

dgar, to HashtagGames
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The Cookie Dgar Song:

Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Dgar?

ketmorco,
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@prettyhuman @dgar

Patty Cake (am I doing this right?๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿ˜…)

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