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vees

@vees@epistolary.org

Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. (he/him)

:baltco: :maryland: :react: :csharp: :bash: :radio_tower: :masonic: :vim: :BLM: :ally:

Work: Software Developer, System Architect.

Hobbies: #HamRadio Operator, #Freemasonry (PM AF&AM :maryland:), #Flashlights, #Scouts, #PTA, #RaspberryPi, #arduino.

Interested in: #React, #RubyOnRails, #Python, #DevOps, #ProjectManagement, #SocialJustice, #Equity, #LocalGovernment, #LocalSchools.

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vees, to random
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You Can’t Do That on Television (1979) was in retrospect the first indication of my mild face blindness because I genuinely thought Les Lye was like twenty different actors. I only finally realized that my brain works differently when I looked up the Austin Powers actors in 1997 and realized how many roles Mike Myers played.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Klasfeld:

's attorney Robbie
Kaplan reflects on posting cash in lieu of bond on the first $5 million judgment.

"I suspect it’s because he couldn’t get a bond."

vees,
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@Npars01 @GottaLaff The crown prince just had a friend in the U.S. buy 10,000 Trump shoes for delivery whenever, and made a notation in his hawala journal

ai6yr, to random

LOL. This plumber does great work, but man, does he have opinions.

"You really should get rid of this s*** in your yard"

"Yeah, I know, we JUST HAD OUR ENTIRE HOUSE FLOODED OUT and we threw a bunch of stuff out there."

"Well, I'm not like you, I am always moving and working, I would have hauled that stuff away by now."

(Left him to his own devices so I don't need to hear any more... last time he called me a "slumlord")

vees,
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@ai6yr I'm starting to think that maybe regular exposure to lead solder and PEX epoxy might not be that good for your rational thinking skills

vees,
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@ai6yr Would explain a lot of hams too 😬

vees, to random
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Trying to read through a paper copy of “Doom Guy” by John Romero at night in bed but it’s a struggle because the font choice and size are the opposite of “44 year old eyes in a dark room with a dim reading lamp.”

sundogplanets, to random
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The weather here is... hilarious? Low of -1C tonight, high of -1 tomorrow dropping to -30s windchill for 2 nights, then up to a high of 7(!) for one day, then back to average Feb temps.

This is undoubtedly exacerbated by climate change, but these temperature swings and ranges are well within historical normals - 40-50C range of recorded temps on any day of the year. (This is, again, part of the reason many people on the prairies don't believe in climate change... hard to see in the std dev)

vees,
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@sundogplanets Nope nope nope -26ºC is a made up temperature and you won't convince me otherwise 🥶

vees,
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@sundogplanets But you don't actually see it with your eyes because they are busy being cryogenically frozen to their lids

vees, to random
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Mastodon users:
“I don’t trust Twitter because it’s not distributed infrastructure.”
“I don’t trust Bluesky because it’s not real distributed infrastructure.”
“I don’t trust Bluesky because it’s not real distributed infrastructure.”

Mastodon’s distributed infrastructure:

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Testing images

vees,
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@BeAware Thanks for the boost, that was actually very helpful.

vees, to random
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Internet: What's a good, reputable source for lightly used SATA drives around 4TB? I don't want to pay retail if I can save money and reduce waste by giving it a retirement in my home NAS.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🤦🏻‍♀️ Via Anna Bower:

NEW: 's legal team wants Judge McAfee to consider addit’l evidence as he mulls whether should be disqual. The proposed exhibit incl affidavit from private investig who analyzed N. Wade's cell phone location data

Trump's investigator says phone data shows in 2021 Wade twice arrived late in evening at Willis's then-home in Hapeville & left in early a.m. hours.

Willis & Wade testified that they did not begin dating until 2022, but defense disputes that

vees,
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@GottaLaff Cell phone geo metadata from three years ago? FFS. This is the true "if they can do it to them they can do it to you" situation.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I got rid of my WaPo subscription for all the obvious reasons. Now, I can't even read gifted articles.

vees,
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@StillIRise1963 Why not?

vees,
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@StillIRise1963 What about in incognito mode?

vees, to random
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I wonder about two specific moments inside Mike Lindell's brain - when he thought offering a $5 million prize for proving him wrong was a good idea (was it "nobody will prove me wrong because I genuinely believe right" or "This is just a bombastic thing I'll never have to pay that bolsters my cause/grift") and when the judgement came down that he had to pay it out (was it finally, privately, on some level "Oops I fucked up" or still "no, its the children that are wrong"?).

vees, to random
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This was a good evening for upgrading and updating my toys.

Up side: Router and a few play test machines are now at their latest OS and app versions. IPv6 routing to those servers is a little more resilient.

Down side: The reminder that my home network and infrastructure is essentially a toothpick and bubble gum structure on a windy day in an earthquake.

Most things appear to be back online. I'm certain I've forgotten about one or two.

vees, to Delaware
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Hello , if you are a small (lets say under 100 active) instance in , , , , or and want to join my , follow the instructions at https://relay.epistolary.org/ and link to the "local" federated feed. Right now it's open-ish, hopefully people are generally good enough that we can keep it that way. 👀

jspath55, to random
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The saga continues in this town with no proof readers. Deed reversal of parcels A and B.

vees,
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@jspath55 You did all that censoring but it's trivial to find with the liber and folio numbers you left intact.

vees,
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@jspath55 Roland C. Dent, Esq., I'd imagine.

vees, to random
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Admins: Remember to check your emoji libraries for the words "windmill" and "friendship" and suspend any instance that allows Nazi symbols in their custom emoji set.

vees,
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@jens @target @cstross The key point to this discussion that we’re ignoring (to make a joke but I want to be clear anyway) is that every custom emoji is either approved by the instance admin or one of their delegates. Any random user can post an offensive image or ascii art but the owner might not be aware and you can report and block that person. Custom emoji represent the instance as a whole so you can feel confident to block that instance.

vees,
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@jens @target @cstross For sure not the participants but possibly someone just reading along that doesn’t know the tech details. Anyway bottom line is that Mastodon needs ANSI art code support.

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My novel is on sale as an ebook across all platforms for $1.99 in the U.S. this week!!! Check it out here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250228062/theterraformers

vees,
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@annaleen Love that you are on here. Loved your book.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Vantabeige.

vees,
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@NanoRaptor The token object in my home (came with the place) is this mechanical device sitting quietly behind the water heater. Netizens over forty may actually know what it is and does.

jmac, to random
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Dear / folks: Does the community have any experience or guidance about incorporating a nonprofit entity to manage a fedi server?

Building a charitable nonprofit to legally hold and maintain a medium-sized, community-serving instance strikes me as a good idea, along the lines of a charity that runs a small public garden. (We have a lot of these, in New York…)

I'm interested to hear any stories or advice folks might have about this!

vees,
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@jmac Sounds like you're going into this with eyes open. If it was just a distribution of responsibility and ownership I would say don't bother, but you enumerated a bunch of good reasons.

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