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mikey

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Husband. Father. InfoSec and IT Nerd. #FoD. Star Trek geek. Guy who mostly worries about stuff but expresses it as bad jokes. My views are my own and probably not indicative of much.
#InfoSec #Cybersecurity #Security #PCI #IT #StarTrek #GreatestTrek #GreatestGen #Atheist #SecularHumanist #Humanist #DoctorWho #MST3K

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virtualbri, (edited ) to Starwars
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https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4?si=T0ac3w4gtN1o8fK4

It's finally here: Jenny Nicholson's Star Wars Hotel...um, post mortem?

mikey,
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@virtualbri It might be the video size maybe. Just spit balling, but normally there's a caching and preview generation done by sidekick. I don't think it can do it to a video that large. Or if it can, it may take it a long time to chew on it due to the file length.

beecycling, to random
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Oh lawd, I've got to bite the bullet and start rewatching Star Trek Enterprise, now Greatest Generation podcast has finished Voyager and is about to start on Trek's red-headed stepchild. I mean I don't have to watch, but the pod is better if you've seen the episode they're discussing. The things I do for @GreatestTrek

mikey,
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@NickGates @beecycling @GreatestTrek It's a real mixed bag. I feel like it had some of the most potential, especially by season 4. But also I think the series is where the misogyny of the producers and the creep factor of their ideas become the most apparent. They pot some serious plants and get out some awkward gel cans. It. Gets. Awkward.
But I was still sad to see it go because a lot of the characters had stories worth telling, and the time they were entering was suppose to be epic.

mikey,
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@beecycling @NickGates @GreatestTrek Well. Same show runners. Same failings, unfortunately

forgottrek, to DoctorWho
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was awesome. Best episode since Wild Blue Yonder, probably better but I need to re-watch

mikey,
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@forgottrek It was fun that they called back the Catholic Marines. I had forgotten about them, it had been so long since wee saw them last.

I also enjoyed the crux of the plot, which I won't spoil since I didn't CW this.

NickGates, to random
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I haven't posted much lately, but, in my defense, I'm very very tired

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes @NickGates Right there with you. Life has a way of demanding all your attention.

mikey,
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@NickGates @Bridgemakes I woke up to two of my children screaming at each other about who was sitting on who...

42402dot7, to random
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Does anybody (eg @GreatestTrek) know if Ben and Adam will watch ENT's Broken Bow as one episode or (snickers) broken apart into two?

(I have it as two eps recorded and that means I would have to skip the damn song twice... )

mikey,
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@42402dot7 @GreatestTrek I haven't heard anything but I would lay odds based on past EPs that they do the whole thing in one go. Maybe we'll get clarification before you have to hear long road twice...

kmmfoo, to random
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EXCELLENT RE-POD: just watched the streaming — it wasn’t the same as the boston show i attended, but was excellent in its own unique la-specific way.

bring on !

mikey,
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@howiecohen @kmmfoo But if phase II ends with someone passing out glasses of yellow colored kool aid, I might have to take a pass.

shawnhooper, to opensource
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Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code


mikey,
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@shawnhooper Well that really whips the llama's ...

virtualbri, (edited ) to random
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https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/star-trek/107247/Star-Trek-Tricorder-2260s-BlueBrixx-Pro

Woah, how cool is this BlueBrixx TOS tricorder?

mikey,
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@virtualbri This is what they should have done with Lego over here... They have all kinds of cool sets over there...

mikey,
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@Painter_Local @virtualbri I've been tempted to order some to ship over to the states. It always seemed like with shipping it made more sense to get all the sets I'd want at once. Never got myself to push the buy button.

mikey,
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@Taotica @virtualbri @Painter_Local I can't say I've done it enough to be certain. The few times I've purchased things from the EU the biggest hit usually was in shipping. Its not terrible, but when you're buying small items it can easily be as much as the item itself.

NickGates, to random
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Okay look every parent thinks their kid is the smartest and best looking kid, but in my case it's true

mikey,
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@NickGates Hey, happy birthday litte guy!

howiecohen, to random
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My inbox message has a handy countdown for me.

mikey,
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@howiecohen Feels so much closer...

howiecohen, to StarTrek
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Which Star Trek parenting style are you today? :tng_badge: :picardfacepalm:

mikey,
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@howiecohen Going with #8 Kids are off doing crazy sh*t and I'm trying to pretend I've got my act together.

forgottrek, to DoctorWho
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#TheDevilsChord was amazing, I thought #SpaceBabies was alright but not my thing.

#doctorwho #DoctorWhoSeries14 #doctorwhoSeason1

mikey,
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@forgottrek They are definitely taking this season in a new direction. It's interesting. A bit odd.

mikey,
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@forgottrek Yeah. I am looking forward to seeing where they take this. It is just a very different feel. It's like driving a new car and you kinda know how, but it feels like nothing is quite the same, and you gotta get used to how it handles and where everything is.

night_chrono, to random
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I recently switched from Verizon to AT&T for my cell service. I already had AT&T fiber at my house so the bundle became a much better deal. I upgraded to a pixel 8 pro through ATT, and my brother who is on my plan kept his pixel 7a running lineage OS 21. Standing next to each other in our house I get 300 down and 5 up, and he gets symmetrical 300 Mbps over 5g. This is just using the speedtest.net app. I assume AT&T is doing some kind of throttling, but this implies it happens on the phone. (1/2)

mikey,
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@night_chrono Have you looked to see if the APNs are the same on both? I'm curious if the set some differently on the phone form the provider.

Bridgemakes, to random
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Listening to co-workers complaining about how their garden is too big and that it takes too long to do the gardening.

Other co-workers talking about multiple foreign holidays they take.

Meanwhile I'm trying to decide if I can afford a large pizza tonight.

Btw, some of these co-workers are the ones who told me they take the good food from the donation box and replace it with smaller cheaper stuff.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes Are we allowed to fire your coworkers? I'm not sure how international law works.

NickGates, to random
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Always sharing these two best pictures of my wife when I find them

A person wearing a horse mask in American Science And Surplus

mikey,
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@NickGates I'm sure she appreciates the image you have portrayed of her in the fediverse.

Or she will hate you for it when she finds out.

Bridgemakes, to random
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Just watched Wayne's World and my Q I forgot how good that movie is. It's also connected to so many childhood memories of making skate videos with my friends.

I just wish I didn't have work in the morning so I could watch Wayne's World 2.

mikey,
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@Bridgemakes I can't count the number of times I quote that movie, and nobody around me has any idea what I'm talking about.

Much like my MST3K quotes.

mikey, (edited ) to random
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Okay, who was the 's for this week's episode of

Pick one or comment below to add your own.

Kaiyalai, to random
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Squeak?

mikey,
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@Kaiyalai Indeed

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

mikey,
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@RickiTarr Oh absolutely it does. Ohio is as it always has been a deep purple state. The problems are a combination of the gerrymandering, a lock on the government, deeply conservative policies, and a resulting flight of progressive people and those oppressed by those policies, causing the state to turn more red.

mikey,
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@RickiTarr For reference, my US House representative is Joyce, a Republican. If you look at his district its very carefully drawn to avoid the only large cities in the entire region...

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