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wtwagg

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Gen-X Dad, husband, pharmacist, tech enthusiast, into box turtles and carnivorous plants. Too boring to follow, but I might boost something interesting.

Like life, posts are ephemeral.

Empowered by Linux.

DMs usually open.

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Mrfunkedude, to random
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I just want you all to know, that I just typed this using Linux.

Am I an official Fedizen now?

wtwagg,
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@Mrfunkedude it couldn't hurt

wtwagg, to random
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tofu?

wtwagg, to random
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Moderators here get a bad rap but I think maybe they are too good. Did you ever think maybe I wanted to chat with the scammer?

wtwagg, to random
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Looks like the block is ruined on X

erictopol, to random
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Details of the first documented human case of H5N1 bird flu in the dairy cattle pervasive outbreak
http://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405371

It's possible/likely that other people have been infected but are not being diagnosed https://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/02/1248538298/
the-u-s-may-be-missing-human-cases-of-bird-flu-scientists-say

wtwagg,
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@erictopol that was fast

ajroach42, to random
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Man fuck a snap, I'm going back to debian.

wtwagg,
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@ajroach42 You don't have to go Debian. You can go almost anywhere besides Ubuntu.

wtwagg,
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@ajroach42 Not at all, that's what Linux is all about. Choice! You do you.

wtwagg, to firefox
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wtwagg, to random
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I suppose so

thelinuxcast, to random
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Add on top of the tech woes, I got a notice from the IRS today that they mis-applied my tax payment. So not only do they already have my money, now they want me to pay that money again.

wtwagg,
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@thelinuxcast ugh, what a nightmare!

Okanogen, to random
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I never liked Phil Collins voice.

wtwagg,
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@Okanogen you're lucky this isn't birdsite

wtwagg, to random
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What's for lunch?

RickiTarr, to random
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That Novelty Cup you had to have on vacation, you'll never use it again.

wtwagg,
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@RickiTarr those shot glasses

rstevens, to random
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i don't want to hear anybody talk shit about siri until someone fixes the execrable mess which is google calendar

wtwagg,
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@rstevens Google calendar actually works pretty well for my purposes. Is there an online calendar you prefer?

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

wtwagg,
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@RickiTarr everyone enjoys a good mystery

realjuddlegum, to random

Tucker Carlson went on Joe Rogan and said the theory of evolution has been proven false and supernatural beings in the ocean are killing people

wtwagg,
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@realjuddlegum

video/mp4

shoq, to random
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A typical example of why the tech industry drives me nuts on a daily basis. It’s not just Microsoft. It’s EVERYONE!

How many error messages have you seen in you life THAT COULD NOT BE COPIED from the message window? HOW HARD WOULD A “COPY THIS” button be? Well?

wtwagg,
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@shoq I hate that kind of shit. My computer at work has fields that would be so useful if copied but someone thought it would be a good idea to prevent that.

Another thing is unmovable windows when I really need to see something that has been covered by the damn thing.

wtwagg, to random
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@chase_the_high I guess you gave up here, huh? Too bad I found you 18 months too late.

Scorpiosoul9, to random
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I just finished rewatching avengers infinity stone.

Marvel really needs to go back to basics.

What they had was golden and they really fucked it up.

wtwagg,
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@Scorpiosoul9 It took years to build up to that movie and now they have been trying to start over ever since. So far, to no avail.

RickiTarr, to random
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Truly and honestly, I have a great time here, because you all make it great. You boost, you reply, you encourage, and inspire! It is crazy to me that I get to talk to people from all over the world every day. I get to be friends with people I'll probably never actually get to physically meet. I was born into a pre-internet world, and this still feels a little like a miracle to me.

wtwagg,
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@RickiTarr I had it on my home and work computers before I had a cell phone

wtwagg,
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@RickiTarr I can say my setup was 2002 because I know it was between my firstborn and the next two

RL_Dane, to random
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Someday I want to design an OS that eschews all the things in modern OSes I find annoying/overrated.

So, something like:

  • Monochrome only
  • Roughly XGA resolution
  • No or limited networking, like maybe only telnet/BBSes
  • Only one CPU, maybe 24-bit addressing
  • Absolutely no JS/WASM/rust/buzzword compiler
  • Bitmapped fonts only
  • Lots of underappreciated languages: Pascal, Forth, maybe a good BASIC implementation 😆
wtwagg,
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@RL_Dane commodore 128?

wtwagg,
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It's my all time favorite. I don't care about the cp/m though. I wish the new Mega65 looked more like that C128 and had the numeric keypad.

waldoj, to random
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I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in.

If you wanted to force people to create crappy passwords and cause them to accidentally siphon money out of strangers' bank accounts, this is how you'd do it. And somebody went to extra effort to make it be like this!

wtwagg,
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@Meyerweb @bdruth @octothorpe @waldoj I've been using this for years. I don't understand why anyone thinks that disabling paste on a field is ever a good idea. I have never come across a page where blocking paste actually provided a benefit to anyone.

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