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Formerly unlofl@mastodon.technology
Mostly shitposting. The kind of nerd with a homelab.
Far left, trans rights, etc
"of all the quality posters on the fedi, unlofl is one of them" @sugar@goblin.camp
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The two biggest lies I was repeatedly told in school were that I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket, and that the United States government is a system of checks and balances.
I was about to give a homeless guy $5, but a passer by said he would just spend it on drugs. I reconsidered and said "ok, I'll give you the money, but you have to show me where you get drugs for only $5!"
"Why can't you be normal?!?"
"MRroOwwRr!" *cat hopping sideways across apartment at 3am*
Begging my cat to be normal and start begging for food and stealing it off my plate, instead of only being interested in eating hair ties and puking them up in my office.
I haven't done much with it, but I did actually manually build a kubernetes cluster on 3 VMs, named curly, larry, and moe.
Part of the vague architecture plan was to set up PXE booting of worker nodes, i.e. "LAN party super computer"
Turning on the smell-o-vision for my cat (its the screen door facing the patio)
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@flipper @pluralistic Exactly. I'm not impressed by a magic show because I think magic is real, I'm impressed because I know it isn't and still can't figure out how they did that. If magic was real then ok, whatever, hes just one of those guys that can teleport red balls between boxes, not even a lady or a whole car, pretty lame really, hes stupid for not just walking around teleporting wallets into his backpack.
If AI is so smart, why hasn't it made your company profitable yet? Pathetic.
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@pluralistic Or as I recently put it in scifi Star Trek terms:
We've finally invented a basic universal translator, and a bunch of idiots think it will be able to run the entire ship.
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@crimson_clouds23@normal.style I'd change the name to "Messages" just to fuck with meta and create mass confusion
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@pluralistic "You are absolutely correct, I did not raise the shields after detecting a hostile ship lock weapons. I should have followed all standard operating procedures as I was instructed to when taking command. Because of the heavy damage to decks 3-12, I will now activate emergency force fields, restore life support, and dispatch the damage control teams."
The damage control team was in 10 forward, the ship was destroyed 12 hours later when the enemy got main power back online.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @alice@lgbtqia.space I've got a sturdy 20+ year old sedan, and I'm realizing I should just plan to keep it running forever as long as the frame is intact.
Theres decades of compatible parts lying around in warehouses and junkyards, and I don't care if I have to swap an engine that isn't "compatible" and custom mount it. That sounds better than a new surveillance-mobile.
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures Ok, thats an awesome shot, took me a second to realize there was even a street light dangling off there.
And its a great example of how complicated "boring" infrastructure you don't think about can be. Utilities on, just some guys working outside, no biggie.
I'm sure they'll be back for their random log, probably.
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social I am fucking furious at the attempted murder of the world wide web and open internet, and I swear to god I will become the grumpy old man using meshtastic email over digital HAM if I have to!
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@cwebber Smart, in the sense that they are selling shovels in the dumb-shit gold rush, and they're even letting you finance it with some other suckers money!
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@maxleibman@beige.party
Privacy: surveillance by a different company, at least temporarily
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place It really is! Its greatest downfall was that people wanted it to be a serialization format, didn't understand the difference, and made giant messes.
I still wish XHTML was a thing, because people still think that what counts as "valid HTML" is well defined but it absolutely isn't
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@kate@shrike.club I'm pretty sure this is one of the guys who would call me a "mindless NPC," but he unironically posts with that dopey thumbs up avatar?!
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@aimaz@mstdn.social @low@lgbtqia.space @alice@lgbtqia.space This Suela Braverman?
UK politicians are even better at being smug pricks than their US counterparts, but I'm glad UK citizens are also excellent at taking the piss
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@low@lgbtqia.space @alice@lgbtqia.space Its absolutely about the phytoestrogen, and them not understanding biology or chemistry.
Some quack nutritionist included it in some book, some body builders started warning people tofu will make you grow breasts, and infowars and all the usual suspects picked it up as a "big ag/government is experimenting on you!" conspiracy
Hbomerguy has some very funny videos trying to find the original sources and making fun of everyone involved
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange "Single sign on" is a huge lie, I have to log in multiple times, everything takes an extra 10-30 seconds redirecting back and forth to a browser tab, and I have to jump around between a lot of apps and cloud accounts. I hate it.
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@fi@chaos.social I can't explain why, but the label slapping against the window is very funny
Consider the decimal number 15941
Converted to base 36, it is CAT
Converted to base 35, it is D0G
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Something I also liked about perl5, with all its terrifying flexibility, was that you could usually guess someones primary language or what style of code they wanted to write. Styles ranged from sh/bash-like, to C, Java, or "native-ish" perl that used different syntax in different situations
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange "Don't worry, everything is great, we totally didn't just set all our money on fire out of fear microsoft would be able to burn more money than us, this is all working out fine!"
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@davetron5000@ruby.social
Probably just fire more people based on IT surveillance like paranoid mad kings, but without HR they're a lot more likely to be sued successfully!
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I wouldn't argue against the position that "every IT department screws everything up" but this still feels a lot worse than average
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures hah, I thought that looked a little too wiggly, apparently the city agreed?
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@jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style @sexybenfranklin@smores.town Now I'm imaging some kind of dumb self-care AI bot, that actually helps a bunch of people who obey it because its just like "You should take a nap. Drink some water. You've been sitting for a long time, take a short 10-15 minute walk. Don't skip lunch again today, thats a bad habit."
And then at some point theres another big cloud outage, and all those people die because they forget to eat or drink.
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@esvrld@normal.style lots of people are abused by the cops, critical support for anyone who bullies the cops back and makes them literally cry in court and set money on fire
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures Times are tough, at least they're giving a bunch of people a free place to live
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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz Ugh...
But also, I'd forgotten about how much of an unknown that was originally, and didn't realize Apollo 6 measured it! Neat!
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@crimson_clouds23@normal.style critical support, and I look forward to Fox spending a month over analyzing years of shitposts
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@SapphicGiraffic @hannah The lighting on the floof also creates great contrast and texture.
I think the lower contrast on the eyes also makes it mysterious, or slightly menacing. It takes me a second to see the eyes, and then realize they're looking right at me!
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@phaedr0s@masto.hackers.town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerpikj%C3%B8t
"The mutton, usually in the form of shanks or legs (kjógv or bógv in Faroese, depending on which leg it is), is allowed to hang in a so-called hjallur, a drying shed ventilated by the wind, for five to nine months, with the process beginning in the colder fall months between September and October. It has a very strong smell, which may upset those who are not accustomed to it."
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Oh good, DNSSEC, the thing we famously don't rely on because certificates are better.
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@Z@jorts.horse I figured out how through my own research, but the system had me kicked out of my local pool to suppress the truth!
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures Spacious modern pod living w/ a view! Floor to ceiling windows, no commute, new appliances and amenities installed directly in your body, efficient floor plan, utilities/food included. No application fee or application required, you will be installed at our earliest convenience!
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@pastelexuvia@cathode.church Another clip for the otamatone thread, Killing In The Name by Rage Against The Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdepf8H4Lgc