If you are going to try out Mastodon, try and avoid mastodon.social and mastodon.cloud. They are far too large and have far too few moderators. That is often why the ham-handed moderation incidents happen.
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Seriously though, the term Exit in businesses is one of the most horrifying parts of modern capitalism.
You don't build a business to be a good business, you build a business to run until you find a way to squeeze all the money out as raw cash.
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I am not sure if this is very good, or apocalyptic
Seems @flockingbird is taking up the challenge of building a “#fediverse #LinkedIn.”
TIL that my instance advertises its block list and block reason.
Lol - the number of times I just put "Fuck 'Em" in there.
Though the one time I just used "vibes" is pretty funny
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I just realized that my 392 word message to someone could be summed up by the line "GM killed me but was mean about it, so I didn't enjoy our victory"
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Slverwizard and silerwizard are the common bad errors
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I've been listening to a lot of anarchist music recently - and the amount that it reminds me of when I was deeper in Christian Anarchist spaces. And I miss it so much.
I really hope that things last long enough I can bring my kids into that space.
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Drinking whiskey from a mason jar, causing a prod outage, and playing Blades in the Dark, while sitting in front of 3 computers
The full Sean experience
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My son just grabbed me and said "You're mine forever!"
So I'm gonna be over here, killed by joy
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Amazon did an obvious thing after only 20 years!
This is, I admit, better than I expected
@HippyWizard @awscloud You can now have more than one #MFA Check out the feature announcement here aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…
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Fuck you bitbucket! I win this round!
Some fucker listed the public key for our keys as a "secured variable", so I can find out which public key the repo is using and I can't see it in outputs!
So if I add the keys to a file, then cat the file, bitbucket is clever enough to mask the key!
So I just got the repo to list all the public keys for the deployment account - and it masked the public key it was using!
FUCK YOU BITBUCKET! SPITE IS GOING TO WIN!
Also - BitBucket entirely did the right thing here - whoever setup the repo was BOONKERS
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If someone forgets to do something important two weeks in a row, that wasn't their fault, that was the system designer's fault
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I got to learn about how connecting over cable to the internet worked tonight with the power level indicating 1s and 0s very very quickly, how packets can be confused and how tcp and udp work from @silverwizard .... but then I asked the age old question: how does wireless work
And friends, let me tell you that I'm amazed it works at all but also... why did I need to ask, because I think I'm more confused now, at the same time.... like I think I understand it in theory but uh, I feel like my theory of wireless must also be wrong because uh... wut
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The worst part of testing the new "Delete everything associated with this account" script for the first time with prod data is that if it fucks up, there goes the prod data.
I tested it a whole bunch in staging and a dev environment though?
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Fediverse instance that picks and chooses who it talks to, so only certain people can see its posts, everyone else can't see it, hosted at Polka.Ru
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I also grew up without cable - but uh - OTA TV ;)
Shæ has seen Polkadot Shorts on youtube and therefore kinda knows TVO Kids. And knows Polkaroo from his later days after he learned to speak.
Do - Polkadot Door was a #TVOKids original for mostly toddlers and it had a budget of approximately "Anything you brought to work with you" and so had ~4 actors, probably 3.
And two were not in costumes all day, and one was. But uh... Polkaroo (the polka dotted green kangaroo that was the show's mascot) needed an actor. So literally the male host would dress in the costume, show up, do the scene with the female host, and then leave, then walk back on without costume and be like "Polkaroo was here?! I missed him again?!"
On the left hand side of our home page is a pull down menu of the 180+ publishers whose products we carry, and clicking the logo on their publisher page will take you to their website, where they should have links to places you can find them.
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This weekend I invented a thing, that probably dozens of people have invented
Step 1) Make bread dough
Step 2) proof the dough
Step 3) take a slice of cheese and cut into 3 pieces
Step 4) wrap a little bit of dough around the cheese
Step 5) cook ~20 minutes on ~350F
Becky calls them Cheese Volcano rolls
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Ok - everyone - calm down
Mastodon DMs are more secure than twitter DMs.
Also - having a direct message functionality is useful.
If you are so scared of your admin please contact me at silverwizard@convenient.email and I'll help you find an abandoned bomb shelter to live in surrounded by MREs and you can curl up in the fetal position and weep without needing to pollute conversations with people who know the words "threat model".
Sorry, I'm in a bad mood, and I've seen multiple people suggest removing mastodon's DM functionality *today*.
Friendica's DM functionality is, of course, perfect and has no problems
Accidentally tarpitted prof's office hours by asking a question about one of the assignment problems. Turns out the obvious approach gives a non-physical result and he can't figure out why.
This sort of thing just follows me around, I'm not trying to cause trouble, I swear.
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Does not follow the laws of physics. In this case, the electric field has a nonzero curl even though there are no changing magnetic fields, which violates Maxwell's Equations.
(If any physics nerds want details, I can give a description of the problem and why the result is non-physical, but I'll hold off on that until somebody asks.)
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Based on what the prof said today, it sounds like I accidentally tarpitted his whole day, not just office hours.
In summary: The answer key for the textbook he got it out of has the naive, non-physical solution. He and the TA got far enough to confidently say that the correct solution is absolutely not an undergrad E&M problem.
Thinking about my middle name, which I passed on to both my kids, since my partner passed on his last name... but it feels really perfect that I have this middle name which can be passed on, used as a backup name or primary or placeholder name if my kids ever decide they hate their (more gendered) first name. I love that it kind of works in all these ways (plus it can make your first name an adverb for better or worse)
My middle name is Leigh
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Cw covid19, isolation and other associated costs
The isolation that comes with the pandemic at this point in time is unlike the times before it. I'm not enough to support my partner on my own and vice versa. We're both feeling dejected and trying our best but anyone who might have been safe before to let in our group no longer is, because they've all decided that covid might not be that bad
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And since it's now at least tangentially related, I never miss an opportunity to share this article (which you may have read already) by Charlie Stross on companies as alien entities; one of my fave pieces of all time. So here ya go: antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…
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Alexandre Oliva's Home Page
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