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Wait - did I just hear that Nintendo made a new RPG with Geno?
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I recognize this is a very long shot, but weirder things have worked out. Does anyone have any photographs from Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, or Palmer, Alaska taken between late 2001 to mid 2002 that might include lamp posts?

I know this is weird as hell, but there is a reason, I swear. I really appreciate the help and the boosts!

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Flickr might have I dont know what its like now its been a few years since I used it,but it used to have some very specific groups for things like lamposts and def for even small towns
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I went to sign up my kid for the local school's stupid SaaS product that, according to the school, has the main feature of adding a 2.9% transaction fee to all trips and other assorted school fees.

First, they tell me my password is too weak because it's over 20 characters
Second, school-day.com/en/terms-of-use

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@Kicou my main problem is that my browsers all replace http with https for me and then don't let me go back without real effort

Also the https version exists, just is a 404

@Kicou
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Eat the Rich doesn't mean fellatio
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This post isn't about the Meta Drama, obviously not, no one said it was and you can't extrapolate from context and past behaviour apparently
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people who are opining that Facebook joining the fedi is okay didn't live through Google killing XMPP. Or anything Microsoft ever did.

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I maintain that the _millisecond_ that some product manager at google believes that federation is no longer necessary for the gmail business, smtp interoperability will be replaced by some kind of (probably initially SMTP-shaped) "submit mail to gmail" interface that they can then extend arbitrarily.
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@Jason Bourne-Again Christian @Aurynn Shaw the fact that XMPP is starting to recovery is great. But when people say it was killed, they are referring to its community.
@Aurynn Shaw @feld
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I think we could go further than blocking project92 and also putting a ban on blink82 and sum41.

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The capitalist infinite growth mindset ruins everything

Sometimes, things are big enough to work well, fulfill their purpose and make people happy

"growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell"

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We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (vantaa.black/pact)

There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.

We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.

We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.

#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin

ANTI-META ADMIN PACT

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#fediverse #Mastodon #mastoAdmin #Facebook #meta #FediAdmin #fediblockmeta #p92 #project92 #FediPact

I just found Worms Armageddon on CDROM and I'm excited
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@BB :verified_cool: it's my CD from like 2000, so I am super excited to break out Wine and my wife and I are gonna have a LAN party
@BB

You'd think buying a monopoly stake in Malware Shitposts would make Google keep a product around
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So if Reddit is manually opening subreddits by replacing the mod teams

Do you think the scab mods are paid or doing it for clout?

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it would not at all surprise me if they were reddit employees

Problem: Absinthe is basically "a licorice allsort but burnier", and now I always want to drink it
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BB
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@silverwizard: it is like...all the bitter of licorice and none of the sweet. So like...I love it?
@silverwizard

Whoever wrote this must be stopped groupgreeting.com/

How to build an NNTP frontend that isn't too complicated for normal users:
Get funding from Y Combinator where it's just obvious it's got good UX

How to make one that's impossible for the average user:
Build the same thing but open source it

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We're seeing a large influx of new users, so here's some helpful Mastodon tips:

1. Liking a post does not affect its visibility. Instead, use the like button to let a user know that you find them to be irresistibly attractive and would like to become their internet soulmate.

2. Instead of saying orthodontist on here, we say mastodontist. This is important to know.

3. Tell us about yourself! Write either "pro-cannibalism" or "anti-caniballism" in your bio to avoid simple misunderstandings.

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David Crooks 🏳️‍🌈
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Oh gosh I didn’t clarify at the time but I’m anti-cannibalism, I hope that didn’t lead to any awkwardness.

Our legacy product's main thing it uses went down, AWS is being half down, and my power has been bad (one outage) all day

So that's great

How the fuck am I on the Spiderverse Hype Train?!
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Kitchener-Waterloo, #kwawesome, the Uptown West Neighbourhood Association has got word that a Syrian refugee family being sponsored, who have been waiting YEARS to get cleared to come to Canada, will be arriving July 11th!

There is an urgent need for an affordable, 2-bedroom residence for this young family and we would like if at all possible to settle them in the Westmount Public School catchment, as the children have cousins already attending that school.

DM me if you can help or have tips!

#kwawesome
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@Memos from Lofwyr Have you ever received an Edible Arrangement? Asking for some runners
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@Memos from Lofwyr Is there a standard gift saying "we're sorry you woke up and had to chase us , but we also really don't want you to know who we are?"

preferably Evo/Russian dragons

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Memos from Lofwyr
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Usually, in the case of the penitent, I will accept the return of my property and one favor to be called upon at any time. -L

Thinking back to that time I saw a Fred Penner live show at a bar called Chainsaw
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I just envisioned the most Canada dish ever


1) you make some chocolate donut holes (and call them Timbits)
2) you make a lemon creamcheese icing
3) you drizzle the icing over a bowl of the timbits

You can it Timbit Poutine

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Anyone in Kitchener-Waterloo hiring a software developer? Someone I know is not having much luck and looking at their resume, they shouldn't be having so much difficulty. I see: Java, C#, Python, C, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring MVC, Vaadin, .NET, FastAPI, Processing, React, JUnit,
Mockito, Lombok, Checker Framework, JIRA, Bitbucket, Git, GitHub, Maven, Gradle, Postman, SonarQube, SourceTree, Selenium, Docker, AWS, a year of development with a solar monitoring company, and a handful or projects on github: github.com/EDemirsoz?tab=repos… Hoping to help this young person take the next step in their development journey.

EDemirsoz - Repositories

Software Developer. EDemirsoz has 16 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
GitHub

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problem: add the integer results of func1 and func2

engineers: what user data do i need to collect to solve this problem

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One day a week at work, nobody should be be able to ask us for anything, so we can actual work in the things asked for earlier.

This should probably occur on that mythical no-meeting day.

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On my teams I assign someone or someones to the job Questions every week so it's one week of no productivity
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People need to understand that "economic growth" is killing us, and we need to oppose it.

It's been a fundamental misunderstanding in much of the left for generations. Economic growth means greater exploitation, always, and that's the problem.

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FoolishOwl
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@PrincexOfCups Call it BS if you like, but Lenin and most Communists were pretty clear and direct about what they were doing.
@Princex Of Cups

Apparently no one in my org knew that "Beginning of June" meant "The beginning of June"
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I thought it went like this:
- Q1: January, February, March
- Q2: April, May, June
- Q3: July, August, September
- Q4: October, November, December

Although there may be difference between calendar year and fiscal year 🤷‍♂️

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As someone who really dislikes the mega-containerization approach and has been unhappy about it since Docker came in with a splash about a decade ago, I'm happy to see a pretty well written criticism of the idea that conatiner systems like Flatpak, Docker, etc are doing a good job of making things easier or more secure for users or devs. They aren't. blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-…

So here's me speaking favorably about Debian, Arch, Guix, Nix, etc. And all of those can use Guix or Nix as a userspace package manager.

But lord have mercy. Don't use these mega black box systems. You're just accruing a gigabyte sized ball of technical debt for every component in your operating system if you use those.


Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

A look at Flatpak madness
Martijn Braam (BrixIT Blog)

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fluffy 💜
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@astraluma 100% agree. I design my deployable software to be self-contained by avoiding the dependency hell and making external dependencies optional things to improve performance, not by bundling craptons of deployment requirements into it.
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Kit Rhett Aultman
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And I realize this is all about Flatpak, which I also loathe, but I will give the devil it's due with Docker-- it's great for making and distributing a common build environment on my firmware team. Before Docker, if firmware building required an ancient version of Ubuntu, you had to run that ancient Ubuntu on your machine. Now you can run a modern workstation distribution and keep the firmware build in a container.
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Me walking into a grove of trees, and immediately feeling like there's someone watching me, "What are you, a copse?"
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Oh but fuck

Hear me out

How did we manage to make:
Cool fucking VR facemasks
Private Digital Money
Interesting AIs and ML stuff

And make them boring and horrible and things I personally hate

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The new scorpion who stings you as you works seems like it would be a nogo for consumers, but I hate to bet against Apple
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I hate security people

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It's only a podcast if it was produced in the Podcast region of the RSS 2.0 Spec

Otherwise it's just a sparkling phonograph

No you're booting FreeBSD from a DVD on a Microsoft tablet

So there's a massive debunk of the "AI Drone Killed Its Operator In Simulated Test" story going around!

You see, the simulated test was simulated!

I have a PinePower Desktop on my desk - and my headphones refuse to say if they're charging, but the thing says how many amps the port is putting out - so I can just *see* if they are charging - and this is one of the most convenient parts of the device
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Bad at posting and dropped off the face of the fediverse for a good 6 months, but excited to be making a book for my 4 yo starring him and based on his current favourite book series. This is a picture of the cover I've made so far. Seems to warrent a post :)

the title at the top of the picture reads dragon masters and library of the book dragon, with a forest bleeding into some of the title underneath, a single tree on the left side with a kid reading a book at the base of it and another pointing to a dragon flying in the air. There is also a small stream and some rocks in the foreground at the very bottomof the picture

Somebody please tell me if I did alt text correctly or tell me what I'm doing wrong if I didn't... I have never managed to get it right 😞😳

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard La la la I don’t care, I want Dragon Maters to be real, and @Becky your art is lovely !
@Becky @silverwizard
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@sungo oh hey! You're still around
@sungo (fading aspect)

I understand it's really easy to build a lil' car out of a disposable camera using the motors for film winding or whatever - but I've never done it. I've looked for guides on how to do it - but I mostly find the dumb like "here's a tazer from a camera" instructions.
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The first #ProhibitionOrcs tale is now free everywhere. Bootlegging over the Detroit River! Elves that need a punch in the face! Orcs at breakfast! Frozen feet and hot lead!

Yes, this is a shameless teaser to try to get you to buy the duology. But if you hate the story, you won't like the books. If you like the story, readers assure me they get better.

Grab it from:

My store: tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc…

Google: play.google.com/store/books/de…

Kobo: kobo.com/us/en/ebook/spilled-m…

Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/id1037…

Amazon US amzn.to/43x4EK3 - UK amzn.to/3qibGnC - AU amzn.to/3MFLo6l - CA amzn.to/45BuMp1 - DE amzn.to/3qj5JH8

(Edited to add: If you choose to buy the duology from my store, you'll get a bonus exclusive cookbook of orcish recipes! Real recipes, that regular people have cooked, eaten, and mostly survived.)

Cover for "Spilled Mirovar, a Prohibition Orcs tale" by Michael Warren Lucas, showing a watercolor painting of an orc charging through surf

Free – Tilted Windmill Press

Stories you can get for free, direct from me or from other sites. They all stand alone, but lead into other books. I hope you'll love one of them and come back for more. (You can get tales that I n…
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#prohibitionorcs
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Wild Card
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Why does your name sound familiar? *checks book list on Amazon* Oh, you wrote "git commit murder" which I got at PenguiCon this year but haven't read yet. Now I need to bump that book up higher in my reading pile.

Apparently since the release of ChatGPT our emails from our sales people are getting blocked for being spam.

Almost like writing weird generic spam instead of an email gets your domain blocked

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Kicou
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are we talking about general emails (like direct communication with customers and prospects), or marketing campaign/mailing lists?

If the latter, you may consider using a service that is dedicated to this type of messaging (Sengrid, Mailchimp, whatever). It will have its own DKIM signature and a different origin (of course present in SPF records), and would make human, hand-crafted artisan messages written with love less likely to be blocked by a blanket RBL listing.

If the former, then maybe you don't need salespeople after all. Just an OpenAI API subscription and a couple of scripts.

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silverwizard
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@Kicou This is emails directly to prospects - rather than like, a mail blast...

So yes, fire 'em all

@Kicou
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