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Thinking about a conversation with @silverwizard the other day where we chatted about how useful (and just nice!) It is that I know my fediverse instance admin personally (because he's it) because I don’t have to think about the trust issue or my admin doing something that I might not agree with.... it's a safe space

This was in a larger conversation about decentralization and community

@silverwizard

You can tell there's no punks in the GOP because no one ever made a MAGA zine

Finally got to run a tabletop exercise.

Several people left upset and worried, and a little afraid. But it was successful, and we have some action items.

Adding a "Best Before" tag to all my AWS resources

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I will never create a mastodon account!
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Becky
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Me neither! Not that Ihave much control in what you do but if you're committed so am I 😋

Been drinking a Pumpkin Espresso Porter recently, and I feel like that should be too much, but it's amazing

Wailing David

2022-10-26 18:10:20


@CityKitchener This statue was put up by the Daughter of the Empire, a white supremacist group who campaigned against immigration and tried to dispossess Black residents of land & property.

This statue does not represent our community and should be taken down.

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@City of Kitchener

I feel like I'm committing a crime by mapping a hostkey into a server, so each time I remake the server it has the same hostkey

My family is Irish, why did they never champ potatoes!
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Madness! Just eat it raw!
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Really!? Huh

My purchases in the month of October:
3 Host Bus Adapters
25 Lenovo HDD sleds
A Keyboard with Magic Circles instead of letters

I feel like this is good

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I bought stuff to make powered cars and do science and math experiments with kids at a school supplies store, so, oops, but I remain on brand

AWS EC2 Instance Connect seems like a complete mess? I cannot envision a case where it would be more useful than ssh-copy-id?

I am the kind of person who knows enough to know they know nothing about computers and yet I want a full set up to include little connected computer hubs all around the house with a plug inable "lapdesk" with a full clacky keyboard and a nice monitor and mouse so you can bring a full complete desktop setup around like a laptop
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Is it too much to ask to be able to bring my lapdesk computer to my future school and sync the files to home (yes, yes it is... but @silverwizard had some thoughts and I think it might actually work 😶😶)
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Just need to buy a lot of computers - which is mostly a thing

Thinking about ttrpgs again and how I never had "dnd damage" because I played for the first time years and years after starting to game. I'm highly influenced by fate (my first system) but I'm so violence adverse that sometimes I feel like playing with me is difficult. I don’t seek out physical combat, in fact I often play characters that will do anything to avoid a fist fight... this can make it very difficult to fit into group dynamics when everyone else has a "violence first" dnd attitude...
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To be clear, this is probably because I've never had to have a violence-first attitude in gaming and because I as a person am quite sensitive to violence

Shitpost only command line app called poTTY

Jade @ REBRAND IMMINENT

2022-10-11 12:05:48


Hello #PortfolioDay! My name's Jade, and I'm a senior comics student who is making weird sci-fi, horror, and fantasy work! Here's a few things I did in (and out of) school! Follow for more! 😁

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#PortfolioDay

Changing careers to Unix Hedgewizard
I live in a hut in the woods near a small town, trading refurbished laptops for potpies and broken tech, and am sought out by the Big Tech Nobility to solve problems they cannot fathom, and I demand a price that teaches them humility

boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentati…
Boto3's documents were written by a person who had done technical writing before?

The formatting would be better if they'd used readthedocs.io, a website designed to harm documentation

John Rogers

2022-10-21 15:23:11


"I ain't taking that COVID vaccine because the government's going to spy on me with microchips, and making me take it for public health reasons is a violation of my privacy rights!"
Can we have your kid's entire DNA profile instead in a dubiously secure database?
"Heck yeah."

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This is actually the actions of a monster
Text saying: My one coworker complains every time I give him a ticket to work on a printer so I just gave him a ticket and just replaced the word printer with peripheral. Looking forward to him finding out.

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And just the other day it felt like the English were mourning the loss of a monster named Liz

Being the English, they have all formed a queue and are taking their turns for their 15 minutes each in Parliment

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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

2022-10-20 01:38:58


@HippyWizard Y'all ever see a CDN cache the responses from the healthcheck endpoint?

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@Silverwizard

If all the servers say they are down, but it seems to be working anyway, it's fine, right?

Asking an older toddler a question do be like

Me: "do you want blankets or sheets?" (For making a fort)
Shæ: "I want paint! And glue! And glitter!"

Like I have a plan because parenting but.... i still don't know about the sheets or blankets question

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Perfect rainy day activity to get sheets from the second hand store and decorate them with paint and glitter and other things, I think. We just need to make sure we get lots of glow in the dark materials

Day 2 of production outage:
Coworker who might be the only person who can solve the problem "This is only in staging, right?"

The nice part of Telehealth Ontario is that now you can effectively look up your symptoms on WebMD *and* be on hold

Anyone else know tfw you want to do a house task like 100x more than another house task but you must do the second task first so you feel paralyzed because the second task is hitting my executive dysfunction marker...

Just me? Ah, yeah :/

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I did manage to do it at least, just took a while

The reason Meta can't get their VR working until the legs is because the Block chain

Everyone knows it stands for Not For Torso

Using ssh like a weird bespoke inet - uh - that's the coolest shit ever
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Though it is the prelude to "those who cannot remember the OSI are doomed to reimplement it, badly, over HTTP SSH"

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2022-10-15 17:21:37


"you can't threaten to destroy priceless artifacts and artworks just to make a point about climate change" - people who say nothing about priceless rock art and sacred sites being destroyed for pipelines and mines

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I'm not a fan of throwing soup on art, and would have preferred it if they'd thrown the soup on an oil executive or one of their bought politicians, but I have to admit that the points about caring more about art than about the world are excellent.
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They threw the soup on glass near at

Also - wait until you find out what pipelines are doing to native art!

Wait until you find out what climate change is doing to galleries and museums!

Slowly watching Sean die internally while he reads something unknown on his feed
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MedTech VCs should at least know what the word holistic means and how it is differentiated from natural
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Any sentence containing the words "VCs should at least know" is, probabilistically speaking, just setting you up for disappointment.
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I spend every holiday dinner getting told how good at their jobs VCs are! The fact that my lack of faith is correct is *worse*.
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I mean, their job is "make a lot of bets at on-average-favorable odds", and (especially in environments where there's a lot of money sloshing around to buy companies at post-VC stages) it's not hard to be good at that without actually knowing anything useful.
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There are absolutely no requirement for becoming VC except money. The complete antithesis of meritocracy. Which they also are wrong about.
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I know

I really should be less involved in VC culture - but my life kinda makes it impossible to be

My full name is Rebecca

I said to Sean, "you have recently decided to call me by my full name"
Sean: "Robecca. It's now our sons name"
Me: "poor Rowan"

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Please for the love of everything lovely, Do NOT call me Rebecca
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Hypolite Petovan
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Duly noted. I also have a weird repulsion to being called my full birth name. Possibly because it was used by teachers to call me out in class.

chompie

2022-10-14 17:58:47


putting obscenities in your debug prints makes them work better

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Naming the Service Industry Language: Passive Autoaggression

Doing your best to blame no one, in a way where the listener can pretend you blamed yourself.

Policed when either passive or auto get too low, punished when they get too high.

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Talking with a coworker:
"I would show you my calculator but it's reverse polish notation so it probably wont help"
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Me, opening the HP-41CX emulator on my phone to do routine calculations
Principal Skinner meme. Top panel shows him thinking "Am I weird?" Bottom panel shows him responding "No, it's the neurotypicals who are wrong"
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See, my problem is that "dc" is really fast to type into a terminal!

Is there any good group cartography tools for RPGs?

We tried a few like hextml.playest.net/ but it got pretty stressful and the exports are hard to read


An online mapmaker - Hextml

Online hexmap maker and campaign manager for DnD and other RPG.
hextml.playest.net

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I really just wanna make my sessions be a lot of bad map making and graffiti on those maps!

email$ sudo find . -type f -exec dd if={} of=/dev/null \;

Ya'll ever wanted to put your entire Maildir into ARC to make your load times fast on the webmail?

I really want to think about the semantics of web index and search engine
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I'm looking forward to the "no results on 1st page" event happening.

@Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) just watched your video on cold brew coffee.... thinking this method might be exactly what I need in my life 😄 as my cold brew pitcher just shattered

Away to the dollar store (in the morning)!

@Jonathan Lamothe
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silverwizard
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Hilariously, that video is also how I learned to make cold brew. >.<

Throughout the pandemic, my sister's fam and I have been novid together, but now she has covid 😔

Slowly everyone I know except us has been hit at least once 😔

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