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marcEndingInC

@marcEndingInC@aus.social

Lives in Aus.
Captures photos of nature.
Makes noise with guitars.
Writes software with bugs.
Cooks crepes with lemon & sugar.
Cares about climate action, human rights, digital privacy.

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marcEndingInC, to random
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Hi Melbourne Mastodon people; I have a single general admin ticket to Sleater-Kinney live at the Forum tonight (opening act 8pm, main act 9pm) which I need to give away to someone because I'm too sick to attend. I am so disappointed I can't go but I also don't want it to go to waste. No charge. It's a PDF print at home ticket I can email or send a link to download. PM me if you're interested. Thanks.

timrichards, to random
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People complaining both about paywalled articles and about being asked to turn off your ad-blocker to read an article... I don’t think you get to complain about both of those things. One or the other.

marcEndingInC, (edited )
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@timrichards The problem is that ads aren't just ads anymore. They're trackers. So ad-blockers are tracker-blockers and turning blockers off feels like giving in to the surveillance. In my case, I have no problem with ads being displayed on a website or at the beginning of a video, but I don't want to be profiled by third parties at every website I visit and that's just the nature of what ads are these days. There's no longer really such thing as a passive ad.

Edit: typo

timrichards, to melbourne
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We drop into Moonee Ponds from time to time, Puckle Street is a fun strip nowadays.

They call it ‘MoPo’: Dame Edna’s hidden gem of the north is changing

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/they-call-it-mopo-dame-edna-s-hidden-gem-of-the-north-is-changing-20240512-p5jcxc.html

marcEndingInC,
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@timrichards "They" = real estate agents

luciedigitalni, to random
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This is an actual thing in my workplace

marcEndingInC,
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@luciedigitalni Is a poem from the SLG like an album from a comedian/musician who is now so rich they're unable to relate to the lived experience of their audience members?

timrichards, to melbourne
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Melburnians - where am I? You score 1 point for the suburb, bonus point for the specific shopping strip.

marcEndingInC,
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@timrichards Never heard of the cafe but I reckon the Miele Washers in the background puts you in a place that isn't short of surplus dollars, e.g. Armadale, Brighton, Toorak etc

marcEndingInC,
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@timrichards There's only so many places that an entire shop dedicated to Miele could be a viable proposition 😁

Natalie, to GraphicDesign
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Why do I feel bad asking Adobe for a discount off their exorbitant plan when they have built the poor artist discount into the price anyway and basically count on people forgetting to ask for a discount?

Anyway I grovelled and thanked the Adobe chat person profusely for the half price discount and free months then blamed myself for being a perpetually poor creative who isn't rich, sexy, or famous enough to spend $90 a month on some computer programs.

Everything is working as it should be on capitalist Earth.

marcEndingInC,
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@Natalie Is it really $90 per month? Thanks for reminding me why I don't use adobe software 😯

luciedigitalni, (edited ) to random
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Why do some people still hyphenate "e-mail"?

WHY?

marcEndingInC,
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@luciedigitalni because spellchecker tells them to

mattcen, to random
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I can imagine a scenario where some folks may be too distracted by subtitles/captions to enjoy a movie, but I, for one, would love cinemas to just put captions on-screen! Alternate sessions, one with captions, one without? I don't usually need captions, but it certainly helps with sentences which are poorly enunciated!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/29/i-miss-out-on-a-family-experience-the-deaf-victorians-taking-legal-action-against-cinemas-over-captions

marcEndingInC,
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@mattcen I like being able to turn the sound off and read captions sometimes, but I can't listen and watch captions at the same time. The reason is, often the words appear on the screen before the actor has said them, rather than as they are saying them, and I feel the captions spoil the delivery if they're there too early. There is an art to good caption timing I think.

timrichards, to random
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Have to say this... "lay" has a different meaning from "lie". You don't "lay around" on the sofa, you "lie around".

"Lay" is transitive, ie it is connected to an object. So you lay a coat on a chair, or you lay a towel on the sand. Then you lie on it.

This has been a public service broadcast from Vocab Pedants United. :)

marcEndingInC,
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@timrichards This confuses me eternally. What abouy past tense? Would it be more correct to say "I lied down on the bed" or "layed down on the bed"? When I was a child I always went with the former, but throughout my adulthood people have been telling me it's actually the latter.

marcEndingInC,
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@timrichards Thanks. I accept what you're saying is correct but it will never sound right in my head so I'm just going to completely avoid writing or talking about lying down in that tense forever.

timrichards, to random
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What's the story behind the 6000 people in my spam folder claiming to be SEO experts? Are they actually after SEO business, or are they just garden-variety scammers?

marcEndingInC,
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@timrichards yes

KathyReid, to random
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Me: Posts about Windows
Mastodon: Encourages me to Linux

I love this place

marcEndingInC,
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@KathyReid You weren't expecting anyone to encourage you to keep using Windows were you? 😅

KathyReid, to random
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I am setting up Windows on a spare computer, and OMG EVERYTHING IS GEARED TOWARD COLLECTING AND TRACKING YOUR DATA.

Everything.

The OS wants to track my browsing, my geo-location, my telemetry data. Everything.

No. Absolutely The F*ck No.

marcEndingInC,
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@KathyReid Day 2 of new install, is drawing the curtains, making a coffee, before uninstalling all of the BS and turning every setting and feature off, and then making an image of the installation and setup you've worked so hard to achieve so you can return to this point when you have a drive failure or your Windows becomes corrupted in future

marcEndingInC, to random
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2011: human minds combine to successfully land the curiosity rover on the surface of mars

2023: formatting on printable online gift vouchers remains the same hot mess that it was in 2011

marcEndingInC, to random
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I have a PC with these OS drives:
Gigabyte 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (Win 10),
Intel 120GB Sata SSD (Debian)

Tonight, under Windows, was editing photos in DXO Photo Lab, and suddenly the screen froze, then changed to this blue screen.

After the PC restarted itself, the NVMe drive is missing from the bios interface and bios boot menu, and the Debian grub boot loader can't find Windows boot.

Rebooting into Debian, and using the file explorer there, the Windows drive doesn't appear.

I suspect an SSD failure, but is that the most likely thing?

Note: I would think if it was just a Windows corruption, I would still be able to see the drive exists from elsewhere (which it seems I can't)

pixelfed, to random
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marcEndingInC,
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@pixelfed :welp:

SecurityWriter, to random

I think we need to normalise not answering the door.

We ignore cold calls on our phones, we delete spam emails, we recycle junk mail. We turn down unsolicited sales on the high street, and block ads online.

Yet we answer the door to strangers. Why?

Massively more inconvenient and disruptive, much greater risk to vulnerable people.

Don’t make me trek from my back garden, take off my boots, wash my hands, find my keys, and tell you you that I don’t need my gutters cleaning or that I’d rather not become Mormon.

marcEndingInC,
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@SecurityWriter I still had sleep in my eye so read this as "guitars cleaned" rather than "gutters cleaned" and I was immediately annoyed that nobody has ever knocked on MY door and offered to clean my guitars

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