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msh

@msh@coales.co

Proprietor of coales.co, Python wrangler, tech tinkerer, advocate for a truly free and open society. Lives in Moh’kinsstis (Calgary) 🇨🇦.

NOTE: I have locked follows on my account to prevent bad actors from taking advantage. Feel free to request a follow. If your bio is filled out and the instance you are on is reputable I will gladly approve your request!

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jonny, to random
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Omg today we get to see a baby Godzilla

ernie, to random
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It’s alive. https://udm14.com

thatgeoguy, to random
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Folks interested in buying air filters: stay the hell away from products!

I went to go purchase replacement filters for a RabbitAir 3, and apparently they put a stop on my order because my girlfriend received a RabbitAir MinusA2 filter kit from them (that we can't use and that she didn't order!!!). Apparently they want us to pay shipping to return it, or we can't order new filters!

Fuck this to high hell and back. I have no interest in working with a company that can "send me the wrong item" and then try to hold future maintenance of the product hostage if I don't choose to mail it back to them on my dime.

msh, to random
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So this year marks the 25th anniversary of my first email server going online, and I have been running it continuously ever since (seriously I still have "Happy new year the world didn't implode" emails from 2000 in my email folders)

Nonetheless I still get this mildly dreadful feeling I have been doing it wrong this whole time. As such I have decided to go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server and make a modest pledge in exchange for Sage Advice and instruction from @mwl on running your own email server in the form of a DRM free e-book.

I have always been bemused by the irrational fear many Very Smart People have regarding self hosted email. By no means is it easy to set up but maintaining it isn't THAT hard. I have also hosted a Mastodon/Hometown instance for 7 years and I out more work into that, and that same crowd hasn't developed a phobia towards elephants. The propaganda against self hosted email is very strong!

I encourage all efforts to wrest control of email back from Google and Microsoft!

Adam,
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@msh @mwl Nice! I've self-hosted Exchange server for many years and started self-hosting a much cheaper Postfix/Dovecot server last year (which is a completely different animal!) There are so many different ways to make your own mail server! Still learning lots and probably doing something wrong, but here are my notes in the context of the cheap one I made for DeltaChat use: https://bookofadamz.com/how-to-make-your-own-whatsapp-signal-telegram-competitor/

puzzled, to random
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I asked perplexity.ai's LLM a question about a Dostoyevsky translation (disclaimer: I may be the least literate person you come across today). Perplexity told me "The New Yorker article states that "Pevear and Volokhonsky...agree with the majority of their critics that they are best at Dostoyevsky."

The New Yorker writer was obviously being funny (I confirmed this by skimming the original source) but the quote anchored the service's response to my query. 😄

melaniearbor, to random
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! How does @blackpythondevs only have 94 followers‽ Let's get that to 500! At LEAST! (Especially you white folx… I see you)

evan, to random
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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

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Perrin49, to random
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I'd like to see a reality TV competition where being kind and friendly is promoted and the vile aspects of competition are (heavily) penalized.
I don't want a popularity contest, but I'm pretty tired of seeing petty, two-faced-backstabbing seeming be glamourized as "winning".

No idea how you would do it, but winning at all costs isn't a win in my books.

Perrin49,
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This post brought to you after seeing that CBC commercial where somebody says, "There aren't any friends in competition." There damn well should be.

jwz, to random
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NOTimothyLottes, to random
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It is not the amount of transistors, but rather what you do with them that counts ... C64 it on a real CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUmVdd_t2s

yurnidiot, to random
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peer-to-peer Cat6 cabling

#Caturday

cat connected to wire walks under floor of deck and appears at other end where person is holding treats

yurnidiot, to random
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why are you always late for work??

half dozen kittens jumping on to legs of woman trying to leave the house. every time she pulls one off, another one jumps on her.

hannah, to random
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Me getting 4 boosts on fedi

A breakdancing bear dude cheered on by four other animal people. From the old jurassic 5 music video “we know something”

NanoRaptor, to random
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Installing Mac system software on your Ti-92 Plus gives you a calculator in your calculator.

jonny, to random
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Posting from one account to reply from another account to be on the feed without polluting the local feed. others who wish to do the same but don't have an alt can reply to this as well (but untag me)

jonny,
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Seems like plenty of streams out there, but in case none of them work for ya or they have ads on them, here's one more on @monsterdon
https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/qABH6whr4J8zDdy1ciGytD

scanlime, to random
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to clear up the confusion,

"computing" is when the task you are engaged in is computation

"computering" is when the task you are engaged in is use and maintenance of a computer

hope that helps

Louisa, to random
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"It's coffee time. To hell with everything else."

CactuarJoe, to movies
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This week on , it's KINGDOM OF THE SPIDER (1977) starring William Shatner! It's gonna be like The Giant Spider Invasion but with better spiders and Captain Kirk gnawing on the scenery for an hour and a half :D

The flick's available on Tubi and Pluto, or you can download it in advance from Archive.org right over here: https://archive.org/details/KingdomOfSpiders

We start at 9pm Eastern on Sunday! See you there!

jonny, to random
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Testing if I can start a thread from here and reply to it on another account without having it show up in the local TL but also have it still show up in the monsterdon feed

jonny,
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notes that this movie could take from prior movies: everyone needs to be drinking more coffee, and more of these scenes should take place in bathrooms because i want to see what their bathrooms look like in the future

jonny,
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trivia: that scene was actually farah fawcett ad libbing while forgetting her lines and they only had enough budget to keep her for one take

jonny,
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y'all are comparing this guy to tom bombadil but he in fact bubbles from trailer park boys from top to bottom

Lazarou, to random
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"look logan, our mobiles are out of signal for the first time in our lives....we're free, FREE!"

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