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heavyboots

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#IT, #coding, #cats, #bikes and #Mac. Mastodon Patreon. #fedi22

Does a pen float away if you drop it on the moon? (A lot of people say yes.) So why didn't the astronauts float away? Because they wore heavy boots!

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dangillmor, to random
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@dangillmor I’m an Adobe stock holder from the 90s, but as ever I will take this as a sign to pimp Affinity tools (30 day trial) whom I have zero affiliation with, lol. Perpetual license, can usually get all three for like $120 once or twice a year during sales.

You can read/save PSD and AI files. Can import IDML files too.

markgurman, to random
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Coming in iOS 18 and macOS 15: A dedicated Apple Passwords app that will rival 1Password and LastPass https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-06/apple-to-debut-passwords-app-in-challenge-to-1password-lastpass?srnd=undefined

heavyboots,
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@markgurman Given that BitWarden has been amazing so far AND fully cross-platform, I fail to see how this is an especially exciting announcement TBH.

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **

Tonight’s theme is:

🛼📺🎞️👾 TOTALLY 80s! 🕹️🎸💿💾


🎵 Like, gag me with a spoon! Another decade theme night?

Take a chill pill and post totally tubular bodacious music from the 80s along with what you’re drinking. 🎶

🍷 Axel F / Tears for Fears / DeBarge / Sade / Madonna / Simple Minds + Sex On The Beach🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Compilation of 80s music videos and ...I love them. People think the 80s had the worst music? 90s were meh with some flashes of brilliance. And has pop music even changed since the 2000s? Clear channel garbage: you're wrong.

heavyboots,
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@flexghost For those of us tuned into the alternate rock stations… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU

heavyboots,
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heavyboots,
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@flexghost Oh god, and Thomas Dolby… gotta throw him in the mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k

heavyboots, to climate
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Literally nothing except scheduling software could drop cargo ship emmissions by around 20%!?

This needs to be implemented on ALL shipping immediately! With global temperatures continuing to rise dramatically, every little bit helps and this is actually a huge benefit relatively speaking.

https://newatlas.com/marine/blue-visby-cargo-emissions/

#ClimateChange #Shipping

fribbledom, to random
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WAT?! 😵

I guess that's one way to ruin several classic films in just a single paragraph.

heavyboots,
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@fribbledom He’s a bit if a scumbag, unfortunately. I still love 5th Element, La Femme Nikita and The Big Blue tho…

christianselig, to random
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It's kinda wild seeing the scales tip so far that even the Tesla subreddit now hates Elon

heavyboots,
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@christianselig By the time it was revealed that he set up a department in Tesla specifically to gaslight people about battery range while falsifying possible range in the OS, it’s more wild to me that it took this long!

dangillmor, to random
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So you deleted those iPhone photos years ago, because you wanted them gone forever?

Apple obviously kept them around anyway.

And you trust Apple? Give that some thought...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

heavyboots,
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@dangillmor My understanding is there was actually a bug where some iCloud syncs failed, including deletes. So these items were in some limbo land with a cached event still attached to them for years until Apple fixed the bug and flushed the stuck event. But since they never fully executed the delete, they became active again.

Which is to say, the failure to fully delete was the bug, the patching of it returned the zombie photos to life, and if you kill them again they’ll really go away?

heavyboots, to random
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For all those who got one vaccine shot and wouldn’t go back… you’re missing out, people! https://universeodon.com/@mimarek/112468627384607650

arstechnica, to random
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Comcast, hemorrhaging subscribers, to bundle Apple TV+, Netflix, Peacock & cable

Comcast wants to tie its cable/Internet to your streaming subscriptions.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/comcast-hemorrhaging-subscribers-to-bundle-apple-tv-netflix-peacock-cable/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

heavyboots,
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@arstechnica Since the term “cord cutters” was coined specifically for people fleeing big cable bundles, I suspect this is a harder sale than they think it is…

heavyboots, to random
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This is fascinating stuff! Gates Pass and Mt Lemmon are prime candidates for this technology. Motorcyclists and cars love to do fast “canyon runs” up both those roads and blind corners become a huge issue if the car is going like 2x the speed limit around a blind corner with a cyclist using the lane ahead. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112407010282309595

flexghost, to random
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I’m a simple woman

When I see human garbage like MTG lose I get happy

Only 11 republicans voted with her to remove Speaker Johnson. Kek.

heavyboots,
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@flexghost Marginalized Taylor-Green, lol

dangillmor, to random
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Amazon's pollution of video with ads accelerates. To avoid ads you have to pay Amazon more money.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/new-amazon-prime-video-shoppable-ads-1235891243/

heavyboots,
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@dangillmor Vite with your credit card, folks. Unsubscribe from Prime.

billyjoebowers, to random
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Looking for some new neck gaiters. I do not understand why these cost $30-40 or more for name brands.

heavyboots,
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@billyjoebowers If it’s for biking I tend to use Halo skull caps with flaps as my summer sun defense. Mostly because I sweat so much I need the little drainage thingy at the front that protects my sunglasses from getting rained on on the inside of the lenses.

https://store.haloheadband.com/Halo-Solar-Skull-Cap-Tail-p/msol.htm

heavyboots,
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@billyjoebowers Gotcha. Different use case then!

heavyboots, to random
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I got in an online argument today with people who claimed I was supporting the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world because someone painted a Palestinian flag on A Mountain and I said it was for a better cause than the usual sports vandalism. Fuck that. Israel is destroying itself, and people around the world don’t want to be a part of it, that’s all. Thus the protests. (1/3)

heavyboots,
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No one arguing with me denied that Israel has killed 35k Palestinians, destroyed basically all medical and education institutions and put close to half a million more civilians at risk of famine. Instead they came at me with rationalizations about why it’s OK.

THERE IS NO WAY TO MAKE THAT OK. (2/3)

heavyboots,
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It has nothing to do with anti-semitism, it’s simply about actions speaking louder than words, especially actions that are straight up evil. Hamas is evil too, but this whole rationalization that it’s ok to be as bad as them because they started it?

Nope. You cannot kill 35k mostly civilians and keep the high moral ground.

#palestine #ceasefire (3/3)

dangillmor, to random
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On a multi-person video call this morning, we were asked what podcasts we listen to.

I didn't get a chance to chime in but here's my answer:

None regularly. I don't have the time, even at fast playback, to listen to something linear that I could scan much more quickly if it was text.

Podcasters, please post transcripts.

heavyboots,
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@dangillmor This. And also why YouTube tutorials are my weapon of last resort too.

heavyboots, to apple
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Argh, this is driving me crazy.

Does anyone out there remember the specifics of the Apple engineer that got fired when he got caught trying to hide an image of Britney Spears in some Macintosh ROM? I think I probably read about it in a MacWeek article, but it seems to have sunk beneath the waves where even search engines can't find it anymore…

EDIT: Maybe it was Paula Abdul? At any rate, some singer he was obsessed with!

flexghost, to random
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Let’s chat

Do you feel you have less interest posting about politics / current events lately?

Why?

Do you notice the same responses over and over again?

Do you feel headlines and events seem to go nowhere or seem to repeat?

Do you think people are more polarized or less polarized?

Are people beholden to their sides’ ideology— the kind of people where if you looked at their profile you would know exactly what they think on most issues without nuance?

I just wanna hear where you’re at…

heavyboots,
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@flexghost I think a large part of it is for-profit news organizations are in a desperate war to gin up some sort of BS headline that will make you click their stories. So they will cover anything clickworthy rather than newsworthy. At this point the exhaustion is real.

MTG shouldn’t be worthy of coverage. 90% of what Trump says shouldn’t be worthy of coverage. They have NO track record of credibility. But… they can get clicks still so they’re headlines.

charliejane, to random
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It should be illegal to send anyone an email

heavyboots,
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@charliejane @cstross @pluralistic Literally filed a bug report asking for filters on iMessage last week. Give me a regex filter list screen and a big on/off switch in the main Message GUI to hide all filtered matches when it’s on. Because it’s political season and holy hell does everyone and their dog want a donation.

gruber, to random
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“Argylle”: 👎
https://boxd.it/6hbiKz

heavyboots,
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@gruber Amen. It was SO terrible.

christianselig, to random
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Recommendations for a daypack that A) is able to be stashed into a larger carry on backpack, and B) can carry a MacBook around during the day? Ideally packs and smushes quite flat when empty, but a bit of padding for the laptop

Thinking Osprey Daylite/Arcane, Aer Go Pack, etc.

heavyboots, (edited )
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@christianselig I randomly got this Mountainsmith day pack with a separate padded laptop pocket and I love it, especially because you don’t have to open the main compartment to get to the laptop area. Fits my 2021 MBP 16” perfectly.

EDIT: It’s called the Divide although today’s version looks slightly different.

https://mountainsmith.com/products/2021-divide

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