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For the last few month my mother in law has taken my kids to the park for 3h to give me opportunities to do other things

Most days I clean frantically in that time

Today I have an appointment an hour and 15min later but right now I feel like doing absolutely nothing

So I texted my partner: "Gosh I feel like just not being productive"

His response: "You can be"

Just a gentle reminders for others like me in the world.....

You can... just not be productive sometimes.... it's okay.... you deserve rest sometimes too ❤️

in reply to Becky

Maybe I can give you my wife's mobile number and you can tell her that? She won't listen to me :)
in reply to Jonathan

I honestly think it's really important to rest but hard to dismantle the messaging from society that we must constantly go. I hope your wife gets rest tho!! She deserves it!!
in reply to Becky

think working from home during the pandemic was the worst thing for her. She has such a hard time disconnecting from work when it is always right there. Now she works a "hybrid" schedule, which I think is the worst of both worlds for her. As someone who has worked from home for 25 years, I'm pretty good at disconnecting.
in reply to Jonathan

My partner is in the same mood: "I can't believe you, you said you love me". 🤷‍♂️


I officially think I can list as my job qualifications:
1) Constantly terrified of realistic threats
2) good at regex
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silverwizard

Oh, I 100% think these are easily my most marketable skills quite seriously.

Being terrified of realistic things is INCREDIBLY hard. And a solid regex can save millions of dollars for the right company.

I once found a bug we'd introduced 6 months ago by going through 1.5 TB of logs and constructing useful graphs, using nothing by a t2.large and grep/guplot.



I love making playdough with the kids, because you can do any colour trivially (at least with the food colouring we have 😅) and it makes so much! We were out of cream of tartar but the internet tells me vinegar works well in replacement
2 bowls of playdough - bright purple and green


My Burning Wheel plot arcs have now hit the point of 29 NPCs that need to share spotlight. There are 6 cliques, only 12 of them have beliefs written - but the other 17 have a lot of important narrative that need to engage.

It's a complete mess, toooo many people to manage



Will anyone accept money to write me a short sea shanty?

It has to be *singable*

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in reply to silverwizard

I have 3 commissioned shanties in the pipeline, so uh, sorry

If you want to make sea shanties for money in the future please put them on this thread but I will probably not be buying *today*

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silverwizard

Cool! Thanks so much! I've been enjoying the input.

I feel bad for how deeply you've dived into the wiki!



How do people figure out what new people to follow on here.... at this point I've relied solely on
-recommendations from @silverwizard
-people who followed me
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Becky
Might participate anyway tho 😊, thanks!
in reply to Becky

"they" say you can follow your local timeline and also follow hashtags you are interested in and check out folks who make posts that interest you. That's usually how I do it.
in reply to Jonathan

I should figure out following hashtags! That's a great idea 😊, thanks!
in reply to Becky

On this page: convenient.email/search?tag=ph… click either the "Follow" link (on vier) or the Plus button (on frio).
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Thanks! Can I just switch out the word photography for other cool topics too?
in reply to Becky

Have you never used hashtags links before? It's a straightforward way of finding related content, however it requires people to have some discipline tagging their posts.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

No, but I don't have a lot on my feed with tags
in reply to Jonathan

Part of it (a large part) is that she's on an instance of 4 people).

She's also on friendica where we have Community timeline and various forms of your follows. But her Community tab is all hackers because her instance is mostly me.

in reply to silverwizard

Ha! Yeah, for the Local timeline to work well, you need to find an instance that shares some of your passions. Luckily, it seems to be easy enough to change your "home" instance. And this site helps pick one:

instances.social/

in reply to Jonathan

I appreciate that! Although, I am inclined to stay where I am... @silverwizard is my partner so I trust him as my admin more than anyone :)
in reply to Becky

ha! Good point 😀 Luckily, there are plenty of ways to find interesting content on Mastodon


youtube.com/watch?v=fXGjwf6zUW…

This video is a horrible video where someone is mean to Postel and 100% wrong. It is bad



I don't get the concept of the Battlestation pic

Though I am a Minimum Viable Computer type for local usage. Gotta make sure your exocortex is distributed.

Though Post Keyboard!



With the current YouTube weirdness I might need to resume work on my YouTube frontend


I have a very technical feed

I don't consider myself to know nothing, but nothing makes me feel like I know nothing more than being surrounded by technicality 😂

I find this amusing, I mpre so find it super cool! I do not feel sad about it!!





Be careful about what you see in your kid's candy, you never know what horrible things people sneak in them. I saw a mars bar and it was made with child slavery

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Second assignment marks are out. (Looking at the calendar, I'm starting to think there won't be an assignment 4.)
First midterm (of two) is written but marks aren't out yet.

If I get a weighted average of 43.9% on the coursework for the rest of the term I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.

in reply to Dave

(For clarity, that's the number to meet _or exceed_.)

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silverwizard
Yeah, two clauses, likely independent though


Thinking about this because it feels like a thing that I should communicate.... but I can get pretty bad social anxiety so if I like your post but don't respond, it could very well be because I'm panicking in one way or another, but often about "being too much"....
in reply to Becky

Not exactly sure where this expectation of yours comes from, but nobody I know expects people to comment after they liked a post.

A naked like is a perfectly fine social media reaction, nobody I know would take ombrage if a comment doesn’t follow. Sure, a comment is nice, but not everybody has something relevant to add and it’s fine.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Thanks!

I think that tells me all this is all in my head. I think I just worry a lot on social media, more so than in real life even




Giving out these tubs of cotton candy this year so as not to use chocolate. Hope the kiddos love it.... my dream is to be the house in the neighborhood with the best candy and Sean's is to have big sized candy that's he feels it's a cool thing as part of the infosec community

40 tubs of different flavoured cotton candy

in reply to Becky

I didn't want to say anything not to ruin your moment, but I was pretty sure 40 tubs would be a little light. I guess your plans for neighborhood candy domination needs some refining for next year.


Dr. Who reunion episode parody staring all the British PMs from this year

Call it The Five Doctors or something


in reply to silverwizard

From the Wikipedia page:

Rishi Sunak is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022


I thought Wikipedia was using the present for currently serving officials, only using the past tense when they leave office, so I briefly thought his tenure was already over.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I am glad that Wikipedia has all British PMs as permanently in the past tense from now on

Or, at least, I assume



I found out today that there's an Oracle Linux
I went to the webpage ,and a blocking Cookie Consent Banner, and I decline, and I get "We are processing your request, this could take up to a few minutes to process."

WTF

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silverwizard
Yeah - apparently it's a wannabe CentOS - which makes sense. But it's the root of the MySQL docker container, which I am sad I need to touch it.


It's unfair the one of the greatest makers of consumer grade computing is Microsoft
in reply to silverwizard

Microsoft has for a long time been a company whose software arm made the world a better place by keeping senior management from pushing their hardware arm into bad decisions.
in reply to Dave

But that's not true! TPMs and other crap leak into their hardware all the time. Proprietary drivers and other crap do too!

It means that their hardware is always slowly reclaimed.

Or the fucking Microsoft Mouse, the greatest mouse ever made



Finally all set up for Halloween and these pumpkins are done! Only took me an hour and a half 😅

One pic of a car, one of a spider web with a dangling spider beside, one of a pumpkin and the last is a silhouette of a cat's face

in reply to Becky

I love these :pumpkin_laugh:​ especially the pumpkin one


I wonder if new shoes would help my back issues

Though I also just need to unfuck my back from two kids



My follow policy seems to be "follow everyone who might be interesting"

I'm gonna have DB size issues again...

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silverwizard

I'm not even following back, I'm proactively following

But I also am pretty OK with a *massive* feed, and want more fediverse side people



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



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.




I will never create a mastodon account!
in reply to silverwizard

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




@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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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

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silverwizard
Madness! Just eat it raw!
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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



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
in reply to Becky

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 😶😶)
in reply to Becky

Just need to buy a lot of computers - which is mostly a thing