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Thinking about the day that Google tells us that Analytics or ReCaptcha are going down in the next 30 days

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in my next D&D campaign, four elemental songs are sung to keep the world in harmony. four complementary rhythms provide the key to balance. but recently, a fifth song has raised, reverberating through reality. portals to other, dangerous dimensions are torn open; buildings collapse as mortar turns to water; the air catches flame, incinerating an entire town. players must hunt down the chaotic bard Lubaiga, Conductor of the Fifth Mambo

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it is not so easy to stand face to face with this skilled bard! many servants dance to his tune, and before you face the Dread Trumpeter, you will have to get past Angela, Pamela, Sandra, and Rita--

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Given the maxim "fuck around and find out" it seems eminently logical to only fuck around a *little bit* and then find out and correct.

Honestly that's the heart of agility.

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I just found this on Newegg

We have strayed from the light of electronics that don't start fires

newegg.com/p/17B-0461-00011

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Been playing Baulder's Gate because BG3 was just released and reminded me I have the game

And the fact that my travel is like "1 day" and I travel and show up at the dungeon and my characters are like "I'm so tired" - fuck - camp while you travel


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I broke a coffee mug over the weekend, it was new, I wanna fix it.

Looks like stake of the art is Epoxy and most epoxy isn't food safe?

Art Resin brand Resin is FDA certified food safe (they say FDA certified and in Canada and Great Britain and 13 other countries, which is a claim you can't make without getting in very fraud, but also worthless), but it only allows up to 50ยฐC before that's worthless.

The MSDS on other resins and epoxies seems to be not food-safe?

Anyone know how to fix a coffee cup?

Was thinking maybe finding some non-PB tin?

#ceramics
#repairability #repair

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@semiotic_pirate @artcollisions you canโ€™t use the gold to eat out of tho. Itโ€™s not food safe. Just decorative. And not strong enough to hold a handle.
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@semiotic_pirate @artcollisions thatโ€™s a good question. Iโ€™ll ask my dentist in two weeks!

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I came across a first-hand account of somehow who escaped the fire in #Lahaina and she noted that many roads out of town were privately owned by sugar plantations and were chained shut.

She says people died in their cars trying to escape.

These people were murdered by #PrivateProperty.

All of those sugar plantations were enclosed by the Hawaiian monarchy and sold off to American colonists, who in turn overthrew the monarchy and cemented their control of the islands and their lands.

Dying because of a chained gate on land that was stolen from the Hawaiian people is as surely murder as if theyโ€™d been pushed into the flames.

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I am once again posting that i need a new job! I'm an experienced full-stack web developer, focused on PHP and CMS work (CraftCMS, ExpressionEngine, even Wordpress (for my sins)). Also Laravel! I love Laravel! My JS skills are solid, I'm extremely nitpicky about semantic HTML and high-quality CSS, and I'm passionate about accessibility and the WCAG standards. I've got great SQL chops and i love data, too!

Please let me know if you have an opportunity!

#FediHire #FediHired

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So thinking about openai.com/gptbot-ranges.txt

Hear me out:
We need to make a project to make a site with infinite links all of which are autogenerated garbage, just for those ranges

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@Hypolite Petovan yeah - basically

In university I wrote a tool called The Eye of Argonizer (makes text more like The Eye of Argon) and a wikipedia dump and the Eye of Argonizer ported out of ancient java, easy to do

Put OpenAI on a tarpit that serves the Eye of Wikipedia on the fly, and and distribute it as a plugin service



Fuck - holy shit - Datadog! Don't rescale my percentile graphs!

If I suddenly see a DB capping out utilization I *panic*.

If I realize a second later it's because the Y axis tops at 50% I am so angry.



I should do the courses, become a certified SOC/ISO/whatever auditor, and then dye my hair blue

I have some of my most fun work conversations with auditors - but ... uh... the auditor stereotypes always make me laugh

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@Hypolite Petovan It's just

I love talking to auditors, they seem so refreshingly dedicated to work. And yet whenever I talk about audits people are like "auditors are boring" and so ...

I would make a normal audit person - right? Make people being audited explode



A horrid thought entered my mind, and the internet delivered
etsy.com/ca/listing/1523389419โ€ฆ


One thing I am noticing in my auto-complete location bar, and my searches, is that top level pages are getting ignored.

If I go to "example.com" it will show "example.com/blog_post" but will only fill example.com at the last minute.

It feels like we're being dragged by automation toward the less Destination Web and more the Search Web.

(to be clear this is with DuckDuckGo and Firefox not even with Google/Google)



Ug, I wrote an #UnknownArmies module about a group of ex-coworkers from <closed news service> infiltrating a rave run by a cult in order to out magic for a <billionaire trying to drive traffic to social network>, but uh, Sleepers, Cultists, and personal Drama.

And then I never got to run it!

#ttrpg

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HOWTO Security: Throw everyone's data in a shoebox labelled Secret Docs protected by a techobro who knows NodeJS and AWS

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Hey - uh #mail #admin types

I am spotting mail getting into people's spam folder more as my users use ChatGPT to write their emails, anyone else seeing this?



Digging, washing, and drying dandelion roots because my kid wanted to make "kid coffee"
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After this year I think I need to submit a talk to BSDCan entitled:
I'm An Idiot And So Can You:
A Guide For Homelabs

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Hi there, I am Cris from Italy, a freelance illustrator and character designer. I'm new here, in search of a good social where to share my artworks and make mutuals!

This is a personal piece I painted some time ago. "Sky Dancer".

#cruart #digitalpainting #fantasyrealism #fantasyart #artistsonmastodon #cruportfolio #MastoArt

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Listen, I am your sysadmin - but if an issue is urgent for me - it gets to be urgent for you.


Ug - I need popup blocks for the web.

Why the fuck did JS thing drawing over a page was a good thing to allow?!

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It's the whole history of the web.

SGML was intended to overcome proprietary file formats for documents, marking text semantically, leaving it to the user to decide how to display it. HTML was originally an instance of SGML.

From the beginning, people were trying to thwart the design of HTML to force people to see pages specific ways. The early books on web design were mostly about how designers could abuse the standard with "tricks" to control the experience of users.

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I had a job in a bookstore in the 90s and remember getting into an argument with two customers. One wanted to get in to web design, so I recommended some O'Reilly textbook that starts with explaining the underlying principles of HTML. An older guy got angry at me pushing pedantic nonsense, and recommended some glossy book on creating websites for advertising, how to create entrance and exit tunnels, do everything with image maps instead of text, etc.
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Of course, I was making $7.50 per hour working in a bookstore, and I'm not a web designer now, so the market decided I'm wrong.


I am the office Windows expert. Also the Office365 expert.

This is maddening, strange, and annoying.


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I am in the market for a new remote job.

I'm an experienced sysadmin of many years and an OpenBSD developer with lots of ports experience. I have lots of OpenBSD and Linux experience along with a fair amount of Windows Active Directory along with interoperability with BSD/Linux via Kerberos and LDAP.

My resume (in HTML and PDF formats) is available at kurt.mosiejcz.uk/

I'm in the greater Rochester, NY area but I am looking for a 100% remote position.

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@joe Yup. Was just polishing the resume with the current job but wanted to get the ball rolling.
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I wish you the best of luck! I hope the next place you go will be great for you!

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I just realized that my gopher phlog has null.hosts over its gophermap because I put it in a chroot.

I should be more responsible and write a less defaulty gophermap



There's a theme in my Burning Wheel game that our spellcasters have:
Read
Calligraphy
Symbology

but not the Write skill, it often ends up leading to very funny situations.

Our belief is that Wizards can Spell but they can't spell

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read + calligraphy is a very powerful "i can write one letter every ten minutes" combo


They should modify USB-c so that there's a host and a client version - that way I can tell which way some adapters are designed to go and make the standard a little more robust and simple


Completely seriously starting to think that if I ever got super high and did E or Molly - I'd probably end up in the middle of rave - dancing as hard as I could trying to explain network failure domains to someone


I wish I had a tool to manage my webapps separately from my web pages. Maybe a way to launch individual services and update them separately from my reference tool.

#sarcasm

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@silverwizard I donโ€™t quite get it. Are wishing web apps were standalone programs?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan yeah - I am

I am wishing we wrote standalone software rather than just being like "let's make the web a complication target because driveby malware is too hard and installed software is too easy to learn and get used to"


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Management: "Users are complaining about more quality issues with our product" ๐Ÿ˜•

*rewind 8 months*

Management: ".. with other workforce reductions we are eliminating the QA department.."

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Wikipedia deleted their article on dolphins disappearing

Every claim was marked [Cetacean Needed]



My son just gave me a piece of his food so that he could ask for a bite of it

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Server ran out of space and broke - as part of maintenance updated to latest friendica.

Federation might be weird until tomorrow morning



One of the interesting things about ChatGPT is that I think most people who think it's smart deal with ChatGPT and not prompting a model directly.

ChatGPT is very much the most obviously designed to look human.

I rememeber GPT2 and people being like "whoa, this is cool" and then kinda... nothing. After a bit OpenAI had to be like "oh we have GPT3 now! But.... uh... if we release it, it'll end the human race. So uh... better not...."


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Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.
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Also Hollywood: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the words everybody else has ever created, and feed them into our tools to make movies and TV shows without needing writers.
Everyone: Hang on, wasn't it you guys that made sure all those words you're using are covered by that same copyright rules you tall us makes downloading your movies illegal?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: Copyright laws are for _us_, not for _you_!




I've realized the signal that I'm most mad at work is me repeating the exact same message verbatim

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My son has been playing he has a magic sword recently and he says "Daddy the sword turned us into different people! I'm a knight! What are you?"

I respond "I'm a wizard!"

He responds "No daddy! You have to be something different"

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