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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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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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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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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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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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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!)

tallship,
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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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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.

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

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

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mike, to fediverse
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The network effect for is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.

We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the is going to be huge.

tallship,
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@mike

This is excellent news Mike. Following your original announcement many months ago, I actually thought this was the case and created a clipboard about for myself, lolz.

It took a bit, but eventually I figured out that such integration would need to wait for a later day.

Good to know that's now on the horizon 🖖

You can haz ! 🍔

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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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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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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 foss
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With the great strides achieved by the Champion , it has been increasingly obvious that needed an exit strategy of its own...

https://owncloud.com/news/owncloud-becomes-part-of-kiteworks/

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tallship, to Meme
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Ummm...

I dunno about you, but I've yet to meet someone taller than 8½ feet, lolz.

Stupid goes all the way to the 🦴 bone.

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tallship, to random
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Because there really isn't.

And remember... Ding dong the wicked bitch is dead!

God bless you all and remember not to take what you have or the people that love you for granted.

No alt image description necessary, just listen to the wisdom that Dorothy shared with us all, and set aside some time this coming week to give thanks for all the things you and yours have been blessed with.

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tallship, to random
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This plays out all too often in the world where domestic abuse is concerned.

This time, it's the "Nancy" character cast as the villain, rather than the "Sid" in the equation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/courtney-clenney-model-arrested-murder-charge-hawaii/

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thedaviddelta, to random
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⚠️ Important warning regarding Lingva:

The ML top-level domain has been removed from Freenom for almost a year, and is now a paid domain. For this reason, I was unable to renew it and moved the official instance to https://lingva.thedaviddelta.com

But someone has apparently paid and registered lingva.ml and is pretending to be the official instance. For the moment I haven't detected any suspicious activity but I wouldn't recommend using it just in case.

tallship,
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@thedaviddelta

Why would you even think about doing something like that? Running a production service under that shady TLD? With all those people and services depending upon it?

Well, no surprises here.

A hard lesson learned I suppose. It's not like you don't know this was likely to happen. The Lemmy project placed themselves in the same similar predicament for what many have pointed out is the result of ill advised reasoning.

hesgen, to random

My Mastodon instance, mstdn.media, is shutting down on 3 December. Time to quickly find a new home in the fediverse.

tallship,
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@hesgen

https://Firefish.Social

and

https://Vernera.Social

are Excellent servers to check out :)

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tallship, to random
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A nice, relaxing read...

https://research.swtch.com/nih

#C

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tallship, to TeslaMotors
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Well dang!

is really ramping it up again. just released audio and video calling, which is pretty kewl - had to actually login and test it myself; but what's really kewl is all the PayPal-like functionality coming to an #X near you, lolz.

It's about time he got busy finishing what he started off doing with a couple of decades back before bought it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934216/x-twitter-bank-elon-musk-2024

🤘💀🤘

He's on a roll, already evicting by charging a buck a year.

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lunarobverse, to random
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Anyone have experience setting up a wiki? My webhost (BlueHost) has four different wiki installs available and I have no idea which to choose: DocuWiki, MediaWiki, PmWiki, and WikkaWiki.

I'm reasonably tech-savvy. Not a programmer, but I understand shell scripts and basic HTML/CSS.

My goal is a wiki to organize and share campaign notes for my homebrew D&D campaign. Centered around a big map with links off to pages that expand on locations, people, factions, & history.

Feel free to share!

tallship,
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@lunarobverse

I can wholeheartedly recommend - easy peasy, you can just start using it, place the one file in your environment, etc.

https://tiddlywiki.com

Also, for the full featured big and bold, there's https://tiki.org/HomePage

I think if you just start off playing with the family, you'll be more than pleasantly surprised and it will grow and morph to your own requirements.

I hope that helps!

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maerlynofmiria, to random

The thing I don’t understand is, why on Earth or under it do sighted people seem to think that the only way to clean something is to scrape it with a fork, regardless of how they know that what they’re scraping with a fork is a non-stick surface, which can get damaged when scraped with forks. And they only seem to do this with someone else’s equipment, never theirs. I had to throw one Forman grill that didn’t have removable plates away thanks to someone doing that three years ago, this person being someone who worked in the apartment building I’m living in who should have known better, and now I’m having to figure out whether or not I can get spare plates for the grill I have now, once more because someone, this time a staff member at a hotel I was staying at during the time the lift in my apartment building was broken, decided “Oh, let’s get the fork out and scrape away, regardless of how a Forman grill’s plates are non-stick”. And when you confront them about it, they say “Oh I was in a hurry”, or “how was I supposed to know that’d damage the plates”? I mean, are george Forman grills really that uncommon these days, regardless of how I’ve seen them in multiple stores right up to the present day? And, of course, when you tell them they damaged the plates, they act like it’s no big thing. Of course not. At least not to them. They’re not the ones who have to deal with burger patties sticking to the plates, and they’re sure not the ones having to figure out if they can find replacement plates anywhere. Ok, rant mode disengaged.

tallship,
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@maerlynofmiria

If you like those George Forman Grills (um.... who doesn't like George Forman?), then considering I saw some here and there and these newfangled one's don't seem to much resemble the originals, perhaps scouring garage sales (or cough, cough, eBay) for those first generation one's might be a good idea.

But yah, using a metal utensil on a non-stick surface? hm... like those old Pace Picante Sauce commercials.... "Get a rope!"

So many went directly to storage for counter space.

tallship,
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@maerlynofmiria

You said...

> And they only seem to do this with someone else’s equipment, never theirs.

There's the crux of the issue.

No one ever takes care of our stuff like us.

It would be nice if they did, I always try to afford the respect for other people's shit the same as I would my own, but the reality is that other's don't respect our stuff like they would their own.

That's a sad social commentary my friend :(

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tallship,
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@maerlynofmiria

Yes, precisely why I listed it as a shortcoming of the originals - you really had to take good care of it and make sure not to submerge it.

Removable plates would be a welcome upgrade, but the one's they sell nowadays just don't seem as durable as the old ones.

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