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Ben Cox
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@ben@s.djehuti.com
@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange The Darh 'Vator in my old building had a Scots accent.
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@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange
@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange Yeah I also do look at the certificates.
My favorite elevators, though, are the Thyssen-Krupp elevators, since their logo looks like Darth Vader. I call those Darth 'Vators.
There are a hell of a lot of tools that exist only because someone didn't learn Make.
Being a developer in 2001 and not knowing Make would be like becoming a C++ programmer without knowing C++.
Oh. I get it now.
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@ben@s.djehuti.com
The phone ceases to be a convenience when every time I go to the grocery store I have to open the app and log in to use my perks card.
This goes for web apps too. The PA gov SSO site has a 6 month password change policy. I visit that site once a year. I have to change my password EVERY TIME I used that website.
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@ben@s.djehuti.com
"But that would introduce an unnecessary setting and customization for the user, which is inconvenient for non-power users!"
Is it more inconvenient than being signed out of every app on your phone every few weeks?
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@ben@s.djehuti.com
And yes I understand that a developer can turn bad, or a dependency can go bad.
a) That's my problem, as the owner of the phone and the one who decided to update the app, and
b) What's the VERY FIRST thing I'm gonna do with the new version, if I get signed out?
Due to our lovely weather, I have to hose out my trash cans every week after collection because of nasty things growing in them. I've just done this week's iteration and I feel like I'm gonna need another shower before I can sit down, even though I can't really say I touched anything but the hose. Eww.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange
@cR0w@infosec.exchange This notebook exists and we bought it for a friend last year as a gag gift.
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@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space
@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space Yeah I always heard people saying good about the CoCo but never really got to use one. I was intrigued by the 6809.
I had used (and enjoyed) a TRS-80 Model III, and later I worked at a Radio Shack Computer center for a couple of months (during which I sold a Tandy 4000 Xenix system for a nice commission), but I was mostly a Commodore kid.
But the Amiga was, up until about 1998, the machine I was really after.
So, last night I fired up AmiBerry and created a couple hard drive files ("System" and "Work") and installed AmigaOS3.2 and then Picasso96 (booted just fine for a while) and then later I edited my user startup script and now it simply doesn't boot anymore. Black screen, not even a kickstart splash. Booted from another disk, edited the change back, no help.
Half of the preset configurations on the amiberry quickstart list don't actually succeed in booting, even when paired with appropriate Kickstart ROM and Workbench.
Is this simply the state of #Amiga emulation these days?
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@ben@s.djehuti.com
@ifixcoinops@retro.social And now one kid is a medical assistant and the other is a data science major, so the school seems like it worked out.
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@ben@s.djehuti.com
@ifixcoinops@retro.social My kids went to a curriculum-free school. They already knew how to read when we took them there, but in the info session before enrollment, they had a FAQ and the first question was "How will my kid learn how to read?" And the answer was that if you give them books about stuff they're interested in, they just do.
And when I was there for the observation session, a little kid came up and interrupted the adult I was talking to and asked how to spell someone's name so they could go kill them on the school's (student-run) Minecraft server.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social
@ifixcoinops@retro.social A detail paintbrush is also great (use the handle end).
My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."
Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?
I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.
This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.
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@PapyrusBrigade@cosocial.ca
@PapyrusBrigade@cosocial.ca @jeffowski@mastodon.world In Indiana, where I turned 16, that was indeed the case. It was an optional summer session, but it was at the school and free.
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@katelouisepowell@mastodon.scot
@katelouisepowell@mastodon.scot Is the collective noun for Kingfishers "an Escher of Kingfishers"?
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
@TheBreadmonkey To be fair to them, this opinion is literally why he's "former."
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@HailsandAles@metalhead.club
@HailsandAles You think that's bad, my wife gave $10 to ActBlue.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
@futurebird@sauropods.win This was the most important discovery I made in the 7th grade.
AIUI, current theories are that the development of human consciousness is an emergent result of humans living in groups and learning to communicate with each other.
You know how to buy enough bricks for your herringbone sidewalk because somebody figured out a long time ago, building upon earlier discoveries like how to count and language, and then used consciousness, language and intelligence to teach that insight to others.
Why would we defeat the very mechanism that brought about civilization (not brought about our civilization, brought about the idea of civilization) by creating fences around ideas so that people could keep them secret?
Intellectual property isn't just a bad idea, it's completely absurd.
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@xinit@mastodon.coffee
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@WeirdWriter__dup_23482@caneandable.social
@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Accessibility is for everyone.
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@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot
@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Yeah, that's one of the things that struck me about that sentence.
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@Natasha_Jay__dup_31065@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
wiþouten merci or pitee as of a man þat haþ no rewþe in his herte
wow
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party
@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party The computer is a laptop Mac (PowerBook Duo) though, so no soundblaster or vga. The "rest" of it is the DuoDock.
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@FallsMom@mastodon.coffee
@FallsMom@mastodon.coffee @phaedr0s@masto.hackers.town @pluralistic@mamot.fr See also "There are two kinds of people. Those who have lost data, and those who are going to lose data."
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@phaedr0s@masto.hackers.town
@phaedr0s@masto.hackers.town @pluralistic@mamot.fr When I was employed by a certain large company, we needed a feature in our applications that wasn't provided by the OS, so I had to implement it in the app(s).
The next OS had the feature, but we still had to support older OSes. So on the day we ended support for that old OS, I gleefully deleted 7000 lines of code that took me months to write. Best day ever.
The only code with no bugs is code that doesn't exist.
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@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social Endorsed. My GoToSocial server does markdown and it's like a secret superpower.
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@charleekress@mastodon.social
@charleekress It has certainly all been downhill since then.
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@benjohn@todon.nl
@benjohn@todon.nl @mattblaze@federate.social I think you managed pretty well.
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@paulisci@mstdn.ca
@paulisci@mstdn.ca If they start fighting with each other over it, does that make them tally whackers?
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@Em0nM4stodon__dup_1827@infosec.exchange
"I don't have anything to hide! I'm not doing or saying anything illegal."
You mean, you're not doing anything that is currently illegal...
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org You cannot reuse any of your three previous genders