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I think I now have a list of things that aren't in # base that I can't use a computer without: git and rsync.

Of course if I want to use the computer *for* something, that's a longer list.
It's probably noteworthy that base includes tools that occupy the same space as these. The ones in base don't quite meet my needs but come close enough that they'd do if they were all that was available.


Just what I need, another computer.
At least I only have myself to blame for this one, whatever that's worth.


only kids born in 1988 know the curse of needing to change your email once you figure out the mistake you've made
lol, seriously.

It's funny, I assumed everyone would just *get* the joke - but everyone except you not born in 88 has been like "Uh, my email as a kid sucked too".

So thanks for getting my terrible joke for only kids born in 88
terrible jokes are sometimes the best ones. 😅 I love getting an eye roll or groan out of someone for my terrible jokes.



So #TCAF is right around the corner again, and of course that also means another tiny booklet giveaway! I’ll give away 5 booklet/ sticker pairs on June 18. Just comment or retweet to enter

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The nice thing about the pandemic is that Telehealth doesn't send you to the emergency room every call now!

The worst part is that they send you an ambulance



Fascinating cultural differences

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Ninth rule of credentials: If you can't write down a common password comparison side-channel from memory, do not implement your own authentication. Yes this is gatekeeping. Sorry, but no.

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Does anyone else say "David Copperfield" instead of "Abra Kadabra" when doing magic tricks?
I see, thanks ! When did this magician live? According to wikipedia, the first known use of the word dates back to around 200 AD



Why do I have 3 browsers open?
You cleaned up your desktop today and quit all the other ones?
I think I have 5 installed, but I try to not use most of them!


My friends have started to view my game design threats as warnings
"I will build a Powered By the Apocolypse game for invading Shadowrun Mage TikTok"
"I will make a project management system based on the tactics rules to make extended tests more complex"
"Oh, you want a skateboard? I wrote a subsystem for skateboarding and have a half dozen statted boards, here."


Oh, look at that. Another course I need to talk to an advisor to enroll in because there's a bug in the calendar.
(Unlike the last one, this one might at least have a reasonable excuse.)


My macbook keeps whining about energy usage.
What's this iTerm2 and why does it keep using battery?!
Now, I'm suspecting iTerm2 to be the culprit for all my CPU usage woes and not Teams.
Apparently it was running the same subprocess which made hundreds of network calls a second for over a week? What a dumb program, who would do that?!


I want a word with whoever invented the idea of a raid controller


mostly - stay out of the 2020s



Comment if you're interested

I'm curious how many people and in what way people care about opsec

Personally, I am pretty certain my opsec is awful and I kinda wish I could have better opsec because I am generally, clinically (sometimes) paranoid but I also, in my clearer head, think it's too much work to bother with and more than likely nobody will do anything with information I post online


The giving your toddler an ice cream cone to filling the kiddie pool and not making them change into swimsuits pipeline


I really hope I don’t associate Sean & Ro's birthdays with the upsetting events that transpired this year but I imagine it's going to be such a salient memory attached to very specific dates, I really don’t know how I'm going to avoid the natural association

For context, a family member I was once close to, went into palliative care and then passed. Which is it's own thing I'm not going to get into


The worst part of recommending someone software to help them manage admin tasks is that they get really mad at you when they ask you to help out and you go "This software is beyond a trashfire"
VirtualMin is better than cPanel, but trying to get me to figure out how to use a server using Virtualmin is pure pain


Wayland is just X that doesn't work yet or have documentation about how it's supposed to work, right?
@SaddestRobots But but but!
Why wouldn't it!?

Not even multiheaded devices, what if you just want to be able to force some things to go to a place and misbehave there in peace!

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@HippyWizard i think someone went through and just removed the parameter from most of the functions, somehow

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I saw a huge bumble bee in our garden today and took some time to explain to Shæ why it was something exciting to me

He looks at the bumble bee and says "he's so cutttee" 🥰


The problem with buying the new Marvel RPG is that I got excited about the last one and then it got destroyed before I could be excited

(Destroyed in the sense of "Remaining Product Must Be Pulped")


Congratulations, you solved Redactle #!
You solved it in 13 guesses
Your accuracy was 53.85%

Whoa, that was lucky
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Wait - the chat for JJMumbleBot is a discord...?


Thinking about it very hard, the words "shit show" is one of the most horrifying idioms in English


1 Province Wide Power Outage we got caught in the middle of
1 Death in the family
3 Birthdays
5 day weekend

This has been a... long weekend


Discussing an online purchase from a company whose location unexpectedly turned out to be relevant: "In hindsight I guess their willingness to quote me a price in CAD was a pretty good sign that they weren't from USA"


Somehow our first ever family vacation with the kiddos ended up with a massive province wide power outage, no water, and then my grandmother went into palliative care so.... hmm...

Sean thinks it's because I'm cursed (thru no fault of my own, he insists)


pip apparently has a feature called 2020-resolver

Damnit - get on that! Resolve 2020! I'm tired of all this pandemic shit.

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I’ve been using that feature since last summer, only I call it “therapy”

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Figuring out how to not be helpful is one of the weirdest parts of being a lead.

I can't just help everyone immediately, I need to figure out how to help people by connecting them to the right people. I just want to do it!


I have a list of actions to do and dumped them all in a file and am just repeatedly running `head -1 list ` and this feels like I'm either being smart or dumb

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`ls` every few min is "the clack tongs together every few min" of CLI work
If you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going!


Ug, I love writing software and software tools to support RPGs

I wish there was a way to support people in that action without money changing hands, and without weirdness



The boring things are what will save your bacon: password managers, physical security keys for 2FA, choosing to ignore SMS messages + random emails that seem a little off, verifying information out of band, building a security plan to protect important assets

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My toddler is in that toddler mood where you blink and he's draining the bottle of baby shampoo all over the a piece of wooden climbing equipment. If I'm not careful I might be tangled in a web of tape

This is not shade on my toddler btw, he's just very busy and that's good and fine


Up for review at day job:
18 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 476 deletions(-)

I've done better absolute line deltas before, but that ratio might be a personal best.


Today in easy to misuse interfaces: "Read the documentation and you'll get it subtly wrong in a way that causes an entirely different tool to dump core"


Someone just asked me if I could do something "in code", and after confusion I found out that I they meant *VSCode*

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New stickers from @J T ! Now anybody familiar with my interests will be able to tell my computer apart from all the other Macbooks out there. #openbsd #aikido
A badly lit photograph of a space grey Macbook Air that, for now (at least in better lighting), looks just like almost all the other space grey Macbooks in the world.  On the Macbook is a pile of stickers, with one of them positioned in the corner where it will soon find a permanent home.  The sticker art shows Puffy, the OpenBSD mascot, wearing a gi and hakama and ready for a night at the dojo.

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