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What ever happened to that weird mess of uzbl, xombrero, surf and so on. I've heard so little about weird minimal browsers. Might be that I'm out of university - but I thought the Fediverse was filling that hole.

I never got into uzbl or surf - I was a Xombrero user due to the OpenBSD package being easy - I wonder how stable those are? Kinda the inverse of LibreWolf.

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@silverwizard: i used to be partial to luakit if "as minimal a browser as humanly possible" is a goal. Maybe still good?


Fuckin' Drata rolled out a support AI and now their support doesn't appear to look at tickets. Who the fuck.



So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.

For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.

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@silverwizard This sounds absolutely dystopian to me, but I've been blessed with a kid who mostly follows rules, so I'm in no position to judge.


So I gave up coffee until Lent back in November, and I've been chasing the dragon of something that tastes half as strong as coffee


So I spent all of the weekend with sick kids and then yesterday with a sick family. So, during this, I bought Mario+Rabbids - and holy crap - how did Nintendo let such shitty people control their brand?! So much misogyny and unkindness
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It's almost completely avoidable. But you'll be going along, and then suddenly it'll make a joke about Rabbid Peach being super vain because she takes selfies.It's like 3 hours of good gameplay and then one little 4 second joke that reminds you Ubisoft sucks


Honestly, with my startup job starting to fall apart, and my CISSP exam, and my kids sick, and me not really sure what the purpose of the economy is - I just

I feel like things are in chaos, and I need to figure out stability for the next little bit, somewhere to ride this out



some people's parents bring them computer problems

my parents message me with DeltaChat to tell me SSL is broken and I realize someone *else* deleted the nonprofit's DNS entry for their domain



tann.itch.io/slice-dice

an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!


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@jhx Luckily I have a job. I just had the meeting that was "Oh, oh no, this meeting's topic is that I need to job hunt"

So yeah - thanks

@jhx
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Ah, gotcha.

Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying

Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂

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The amount that Absinthe tastes like a burny delicious liquorice all sort is probably bad for me

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@Patch Arcana That makes a lot of sense, my previous weakness was sambuca


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That's a awesome keyboard

whats the switches and keycaps or is it custom from ground up?

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@m8ic621 it's just this maxkeyboard.com/max-nighthawk-… a very boring build, but I wrote some magic circle generating code and got glowing magic circles and I love it





First post from a Unihertz Titan, the only phone I've ever thought was cool

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@silverwizard This is unhinged, and likely if Pokemon was real. How would you know your catch chance is lower than you expect?
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@Hypolite Petovan Listen - I parent by playing Pokemon with a 4 year old. I had to name two pokemon "y67u" in order to make him happy. My mind wanders!

But yeah! You sold pokeballs painted as ultra balls, no one would know



Microservices where every service is just different inputs into the same container, and if any of them fail, it's just a blank screen.

I love microservices, but we need to stop making that



Why have I been sick as hell since September when my first kid started school?!


Important language question:
If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?


I found a band I love (thebeths.com/ - very much Love At First Note of Expert in a Dying Field! Check it out!), and now I need to wait to find out if there's gonna be any more Bandcamp Fridays :'(


I wonder what the hardware cost of Miro and Slack are in terms of companies who need to increase the RAM and CPU of their hardware orders due to knowing their employees will run Slack so can't just work from a raspi.
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I know that the only things I do at work that wouldn't run on the first computer I ever bought (in 2002) are:
1) use Slack
2) use Miro
3) use Kumospace (a video chat hellhole)

Everything else would have been just as easy on that old Pentium 3



I ended up grabbing a serial to USB adapter while sick to the point of sleeping 16+hours in a day

In order to call in sick to work

(My router just.... stopped and didn't come up, luckily before I got my energy together from panic, it came up)



I see so much bafflegab about how Mastodon DMs are readable by admins, do people not think that's true of Discord and Meta?
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@silverwizard I don't host my own, but I do have my own domain. I often get people thinking I'm backwards on my actual email when I tell them its [organization]@[myname].com
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu I... don't understand the value of this really - right? This feels like it strongly values an attack by an ephemeral attacker? I guess?


The problem with having 10+ highest priority items is that I just lock up and do nothing
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@silverwizard Then decide on whose opinion you care about the most. Or who you care about the most. Or pick a different issue that you do care about.


Well, uh, I guess Dell just burned all of their good will.

They place a meeting in my calendar, and then when I rejected it, they did it again. Tried to claim we already had a business relationship.

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@Patch Arcana Yeah, but I don't think this sales person *wanted* that relationship.

And yeah - their email is /dev/nulled




I need to write a novel called Do Not Wear Your Body To The Internet apparently



I was trying to explain a security situation to a coworker in order to design an auth flow, and I got to send them the security incident response from 1password to the Okta breach, since it was exactly the kind of issue we were attempting to prevent. So thanks so much to 1Password for publishing


Keeping a Root Cause Analysis a Blameless Root Cause Analysis sucks, and stopping people from blaming *themselves* is included in there



So I think I can combine my two current projects and get Hannah Montanna Linux up and running and use that to play qSpaceHulk


I feel like I'm the only person on earth who puts their laptop to the right of their monitor
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@Rivetgeek Yeah - that's a different beast! One day I'll be all monitors no laptop


I just got an invite for a meeting at "Wednesday 10-11" and I was like "wait, isn't that in the past.

The fact that it was next week dawned on me a second later. That tells you everything you need to know about my meeting schedules



My discord friend just pointed out that Scott Pilgrim is Night In The Woods for people who graduated

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@taco, bird/cat :verified420: you're allowed to like both

But I think there's some level of empathy with Scott that gets lost if you didn't spend your whole life stuck in school until 22, Scott's inability to be a whole adult feels very tied up in that, and I think a lot of people kinda mess that up trying to empathize with him



The true value of being a Sysadmin these days is that your job description is futzing with broken crappy software, so you get paid for it rather than have it block your work

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