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vsp

@vsp@mastodon.world


‎Personal account (he|him). Calgary, 🇨🇦. Giant nerd. Hangs out on #MastodonWorld :mw:. See pinned post for longer introduction.

⚠️ : May tweet about politics from time to time. Formerly @vsp.

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vsp, to random
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A little rainbow. With a little rain.

vsp,
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vsp, (edited ) to fediverse
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Meet Haai.

They're the mascot for , an instance powered by @Sharkey (cc: @ruud). It's a community of roughly ~120 members, and part of the rapidly growing squad of instances based on this fork.

Haai is also the Dutch word for shark, and also is a homophone for a greeting (Hi!).

ruud, to random
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I've changed sharkey.world's branding; @vsp has created some nice images and our new mascot: Haai

Thanks for the cool images, Vincent!

I'll check if I have uploaded all the right images in the right places. Also I'll try to figure out how to change the site's theme (colors) to match the images.

vsp,
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@ruud pleasure was all mine!

:BlobHajMlem:

vsp, to 3DPrinting
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Oh, wow.

Hot ends are very fragile.

Did not know that. The moulding around the hot-end on my printer was packed-in with filament, making it very hard to print — it harmed the adhesion to the print plate rather terribly. The interior of the module (the plastic casing for the hot-end) was also slathered with hardened plastic, breaking the z-sensor of the hot-end.

Also, in news... I learned how to replace a hot end today.

vsp, to microsoft
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I accidentally clicked CMD+C rather than Ctrl+C today.

And co-pilot started up.

🤢

#Microsoft #Copilot

vsp,
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@TheWillofAvis memory hog, basically. It's one more Microsoft service, on top of Teams, Cortana, Office 365, OneDrive, McAfee and more.

Sadly, I cannot uninstall it without editing the registry. Which... is something I'm a smidgen scared to do.

vsp,
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@TheWillofAvis Well, white elephants, if I recall the origin of the idiom, are rooted in malice. I'm not sure it's malicious -- just... a terrible way to push a feature, without consideration for the end-user.

vsp, to 3DPrinting
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So, I have business cards.

And, I need business card holders, obviously.

So in my ongoing journey to re-learn @Blender, create .STL files, and use this 3d printer of mine...

... I present to you a prototype for my Fueling Brains & Academies business cards. Now I just need to figure out the stringing and cleaner prints around the curved logo and text.

vsp, to random
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Hour. Three.

🚭

RustyBertrand, to mastodon
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.social is a Zionist site
.ie has no one running it and no way to export.

has been a complete shitshow as far as I'm concerned.

Is there anyone decent managing this site, or just another troll attack site?

vsp,
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@BrianJopek @RustyBertrand I also recommend .world.

As a side note...

Creating communities (online and off) is hard. It's a little rough going sometimes. My advice? When looking for those admins, keep particular attention to those who are building teams and networks of support.

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Alright.

I had two cigarettes tonight.

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Key question: do I... reset the counter (771 hours ↘️ 0 hours)?

vsp,
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Also, I walked by not one, not three, not four, not five...

... but twelve people who were lighting up while I was en route home this afternoon after work. Like, wow. It didn't occur to me until I was back in my neighbourhood after walking off of public transit.

vsp,
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@bjb reset it is!

Bearschateaus GIF

vsp, (edited ) to random
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So, here is my semi-regular update on the home office setup.

Note the addition of a KVM, which allows me to switch from a laptop to my desktop at a click of a button. And the new lamp.

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I have learned how to make garlic noodles in my instant pot.

I will be so very, very round... very shortly.

:blobcataww:

Beau GIF

vsp,
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@BrilliantIdiot no cheese, but a metric tonne of hoisin sauce, butter, and, well, more butter.

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vsp, to random
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:vinyl: :apartyblobcat: :ablobcall: :ablobcatrave: :dancingpenguin: :blobcatheart: BODO WARTKE & Marti Fischer - Rhabarber-Barbara-Barbaren-Bande Song.mp4: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oJVdiki1zWk&feature=share

vsp, to random
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Had a bad craving today. Finished a shift. Was tired after a long week.

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I have to remind myself... that being tired is human. If I wasn't tired, if I didn't have that sense of expensed energy, I'd be ignoring what my body is telling me.

And smoking didn't even replace that tiredness with energy: just masked it for a moment, without adding anything positive.

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@TheWillofAvis pretty much.

vsp,
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vsp, to random
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It's...

It's a pager.

#Humane #HumaneAIpin #Pager

vsp,
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Like, it's a beeper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager

It's mobile, limited feature set, and has connectivity.

vsp, to random
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So every 3 months I redo my resume. I've been doing it for close to 15 years (I have copies of my resumes from high school).

And, well...

I just realized my resume hadn't landed me a single job.

Ever.

Papa John's? Paper form. Working for politicians? Referral. Non-profits? Referral. Current gig? I was recruited!

Do... do resumes work? Like, I've been giving advice to folks on careers (once in a while), but, well, do resumes actually get folks jobs?

vsp,
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@TheWillofAvis like... who am I making this piece of paper for?

Anyways, what a world we live in.

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