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tallship

@tallship@social.sdf.org

Slackware, OpenBSD, and a bit of a Debiantard.

FOSS and Privacy Advocate. Secure, Enterprise Cloud.

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Sandra, to random

Today I finally learned about xfe0e, a unicode magic code that tells modern devices to use plain text representation! So now my hearts ♥︎ can finally go back to their stylish style that WRNU and Story-Game veterans remember as my schtick since ages immemorial!

I've been actually typing that same playing card heart this whole time, it's just that modern devices started displaying it as a red heart (🤦🏻‍♀️) but xfe0e to the rescue I guess!

Yet another instance of this bullshit:

https://idiomdrottning.org/past-web

tallship,
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@Sandra

\m/

grislyeye, to mastodon

Can anyone point me in the direction of an ActivityPub implementation suitable for client integration testing?

Something well maintained, current and easy to run as part of a test suite? Maybe something in a Docker container?

tallship,
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@grislyeye

https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list

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arnelson, to random
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tallship,
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@arnelson
And a very Merry Christmas to you too Adam!

🎅🎄☃️🦌

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daniel, to random
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As it is a long, long tradition Conversations is available for free on the Google Play store for the last week of December.

This tradition was originally born so that when I meet people at Chaos Communication Congress and they ask what I do, they have an easy way to install Conversations. In that regard it's a very special year as we are seeing the return of CCC.

However if you are meeting loved ones to celebrate something else these days that’s fine too.🎄

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

tallship,
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@daniel

Prefer to recommend that folks install , , and other forks from F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cheogram.android/

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dimkr, to random

I'm thinking about opening a merch store, because I desperately need winter shirts but also because I'd like to set up a "staging" instance for QA purposes ($5/mo) and collect some funds for work on PostgreSQL+Redis support and horizontal scaling ($$$/mo). Any recommendations other than https://www.spri.ng/?

tallship,
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@dimkr

I'm very glad to have helped. I'll hit you up natively via my tootik account tomorrow. My cert is on Lagrange on my laptop and I'm on my phone at the moment.

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tallship,
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@dimkr

Yes I would recommend ditching that idea and go for contracting with a print shop (There are thousands), then self-hosting with , OpenCart, Magento or Drupal Commerce - Whatev, but . And keep ALL of your money.

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tallship,
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@dimkr

Not at all. My basic golden rule is: Always self-host and always use FOSS wherever possible. Here's just one of dozen's of providers that print on demand and will dropship with your own company logo and return address, and they work with WooCommerce too.
https://printify.com/print-on-demand/

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@dimkr

And you can set up your own merchant account in 5 minutes at stripe.com.

Thanks for tootik I love it! and I hope that helps :)

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dansup, to random
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I’m exhausted and I only wrapped one gift so far, it’s almost 2024 and we don’t have self wrapping gifts wtf

tallship,
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@dansup

Perhaps due to my own ineptitude at wrapping gifts, one of my fav techniques is to drop the gifts into a grocery sack, drop that bundle into another grocery sack, and use that indestructible fibrous tape to tightly bundle up the sack with a ridiculous amount of wraps of the tape.

You literally cannot rip open the gift-wrapping with your bare hands - you must enlist the aid of a pair of scissors and even then it's a bit of effort.
Unwrapping is fun again!

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tinker, to random

Can we bring back web rings?

Search engines really suck right now.

(Seriously. Quit bringing up results with words that I didn't search for! I am spelling it right!)

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@tinker @andre
I miss https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine

No real info on what precipitated its vaporization earlier this year after so long valiantly serving the community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigablast

I suspect it may have been somehow related to the fiasco with freenode and Crown Prince Andrew Lee, but that's a reach.

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karlauerbach, to random
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I've mentioned various missing movies, such as Dogma. (Which is apparently being held back by the Weinsteins.)

There's another one - a film that we voted as having the best (and funniest) sex scene ever filmed - The Tall Guy. It's not available. And what other movie contains a musical version of "The Elephant Man" with tunes such as 'Packing His Trunk To Go"?

This is another data point in my evolving belief that copyright protection ought not to be afforded to works that are not openly available under fair and reasonable terms and prices.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098436/

tallship,
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@karlauerbach

Hi Karl,

I think the funniest sex scene in the history of film is contained in the film, "Bad Words", where Jason Batemen and Kathryn Hahn are going at it in the hotel's broom closet...

"Don't look at me!"

Careful, or you'll break a rib!

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jon, to Iceland
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Some details. The length of the volcano is said to be 3,5 km at this time and the flow between 100 and 200 m2 / second.

The strokes are said to be as high as 150m.

tallship,
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@jon

Hoping that everyone remains safe, Jon.

This might continue for quite some time.

gabek, to random

It seems like Owncast’s bot located at @owncast isn’t as welcome there as it once was.

Should I find a new home for it? Should I leave it? Should I remove it completely?

tallship,
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@gabek @owncast

I think that, and just speaking in generalities here Gabe, "botsin . space" is pretty much considered the defacto host for robots.

If nothing else, it's easier and more decisive to remove all bots from one's stream than placing the "nobots" hashtag in one's profile. One merely needs to block the host and be done with all bots - it's a shotgun instead of a mousetrap solution but hosting prominent bots elsewhere does complicate things for n00bs :)

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claudiom, to retrocomputing

🎉 ! 🎉

Nice to be here on this instance with my fellow members! Looking forward to connect with friends old and new! 😁

Now, an , As it says on the tin, I'm just your run-of-the-mill graybeard geek who loves tech, music, and the babies they make. 😝 I'm also into and , so I'll try to post some pics from my stash. I run Linux, but I also . 🐧 😈 🐡 🚩 I don't do Windows unless I have to. 🙅‍♂️

tallship,
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@claudiom

Wow, all this time, and I thought you had vaporized or something!

Yes, well, a belated welcome to you on this particular instance, not knowing hitherto that you had retired your account on the old instance that filled with cacophony during the and the ensuing mess.

This instance, fortunately, is just for us folks - much nicer :)

Anyway, I got inspired to boost your post on -current, yah, ya gotta run the script or use .

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tallship, to chess
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This one's for all of you aficionados out there, I hope it serves to brighten your day!

All the best!

tallship,
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@Drew

OMG, a Bishop!

I didn't even catch that one lolz!

tallship, to random
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Christmas is a time of renewal and brand new things... Here's with another "brand new key" with tidings of great joy for us all, sharing and spreading the cheer. 🎅🎄☃️

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=mlAtdvCygcE&si=ntMQbyGEWWtCz5mg&local=true

💗

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tallship, to foss
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Shame shame shame on , Dr. Evil, and his evil .

Evil is as evil does.

Even Google, at one point, could not proclaim their tagline, "Don't be evil", because it had become evil itself.

Straight from the Wiki, and hot off the press, old news is still news it seems:

https://fediverse.wiki/wiki/The_Great_Wall_of_Mastodon (hint: It's more like a parking bump, but it's still used by juveniles to erase and cancel themselves today).

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tallship, (edited ) to random
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I could compare the price per Grade A Large eggs between the dozen and the 36 pack egg cartons to see which one is the cheapest - That's basic Algebra, that every fricken' housewife has leveraged since the dawn of time...

WTF, Chuck?

Tell me folks, who were, have been, and likely are still the mathematicians in the average family?

https://toobnix.org/w/xbuq13ajunyUWSig417tLy

://toobnix.org/w/xbuq13ajunyUWSig417tLy

🤘 💀 🤘

I hope that helps!

The cold, hard, truths

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tallship, to foss
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Boom Shakalaka BOOM! 🧨 💥

You no can haz ! 🍔

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play

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Be kind, not because of who you might meet, but just because you can.

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tallship, to accessibility
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I thought I'd just take a moment to say hi to everyone - 2024 is off to a wonderful start 🤘 💀 🤘

Not that 2023 wasn't totally, awesomely kewl either, but it is in the rear view mirror now, and we're looking down the road before us with optimism and glee!


@silverpill @RyunoKi

tallship, to random
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Birth of BASIC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw&si=hnwK8adFX13ybU0p

> Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.

tallship, to random
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@tallship

won banana too potato free tomato fore.

tallship, to random
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You think?

Stupid goes all the way to the bone 🦴

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