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trainguyrom

@trainguyrom@techhub.social
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I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

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Joined June 10, 2023

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Aug 06, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @ancient_catbus@jorts.horse
@ancient_catbus@jorts.horse building off of this, Americans collectively spend more in these betting marketplaces than they do on books, movies, art and museums combined! Shits' fucked yo! Sauce: https://fortune.com/2026/07/26/gambling-america-pastime-spend-sports-bets-movies-arts-museums-music/
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Aug 03, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @barberousse_bin@todon.eu
@barberousse_bin@todon.eu @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social in college, a $100 textbook I was forced to purchase digitally for a 4 week 1 credit course did a similar form of DRM (except the text was displayed as a low resolution image) and it was giving me a migraine trying to read it, so I pirated a PDF copy of the textbook I'd already purchased just so I could have a version that was actually readable
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Jul 09, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @fribbledom@mastodon.social
@fribbledom@mastodon.social the best part is all of this tracking results in useless data that fails to actually target any better than just guessing demographics that would enjoy the given content that the ads gets loaded around (y'know how ads were targeted back in the broadcast TV/Radio days)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Jun 24, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @maxleibman@beige.party
@maxleibman@beige.party instructions unclear: traveled to another country so I'm spending a lot of money buying food and nights in hotels instead of saving money...
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Jun 15, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @trainguyrom@techhub.social
@davidnjoku@mastodon.world @agturcz@circumstances.run @KolekNiewiary@mstdn.social there's a very dated documentary (cw: racist undertones) called, I kid you not "Chinese Takeout" from 2005 which is a collection of footage from a time period when China was dieselizing their passenger services. The commentary at times shows similar callousness but the 80 minutes of footage of gorgeous steam locomotives makes it worth mentioning: https://youtu.be/PvrCNBpKE3A After that DVD was released, China proceeded to replace the steam locomotives on their freight services and by the 2010s they had largely replaced all of their mainline steam locomotives Hilariously their steam locomotives are based on a Soviet design which is based on an American export design from WWII, and some were even purchased brand new and imported into America for excursion services taking them full circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railways_QJ
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Jun 15, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @davidnjoku@mastodon.world
@davidnjoku@mastodon.world @agturcz@circumstances.run @KolekNiewiary@mstdn.social the wealthiest countries where labor was most expensive (such as the US) transitioned away from steam in the 50s or 60s. Some parts of the world kept steam running as late as the 2000s, and China most recently announced it withdrew its last steam locomotive in 2023 (and we'll probably see a similar news story in a few years when they find another remote short line that hasn't yet dieselized) Also of note, there's a coal mine in Bosnia that still runs steam locomotives built by Nazi Germany: https://youtu.be/zXz2YSv-GbI But that line in Bosnia is basically the only revenue steam service left in the world now. On the upside, steam excursions and railroad preservation seems to be on a strong upswing right now, despite *everything else*
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Jun 13, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @davidho@mastodon.world
@davidho@mastodon.world I remember in school we had a fancy pants Novell network with 20mb network shares for each student. When they switched to Microsoft that expanded to 200mb. It wasn't until I was about to graduate high school that I finally started running out of space on that network share. My first computer which ran Windows 98 for the longest time had a 40GB hard drive. Now retro computing enthusiasts often have little binders of SD cards with various OS builds on them since you can fit an entire early 2000s gaming PC's storage on a 64GB SD card and it'll be faster and more reliable than period hardware
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Jun 13, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @GOKUSHRM@mastodon.social
@GOKUSHRM@mastodon.social @davidho@mastodon.world I'm sure others have warned you already, but these are often *not* anywhere near the stated capacity. They'll hack the firmware to start overwriting older files once it runs out of real capacity, so its likely in actuality a low quality 64gb or similar SD card. Also these scam flash storage devices tend to use the lowest quality flash that's even more likely to die suddenly and without warning than a regular SD card from a reputable manufacturer (which also tend to die suddenly, without warning and sooner than you'd expect) If you need bulk external storage for a backup I'd be looking at an external spinning hard drive or an external USB SSD from a reputable manufacturer and through reputable channels to avoid these scam flash devices that are all over the less reputable market channels (personally I only buy SD cards from physical retail stores because the scam flash devices are so prevelant on e-commerce sites)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 22, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party
@kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I've started reading The Space Between Worlds and it's absolutely brilliant writing! I'm anticipating this will be a 1-2 week read (and usually I take about a month to finish a book!) I'll have to dig into the authors other works as well. I also just received another inter-library loan that I wasn't expecting, I'd requested it last year but it was too new so I thought it was just cancelled but apparently not! It's a sequel to a YA novel I'd happened to find at a thrift store and read going "this is giving me young adult vibes" before I confirmed it was. Really cool world building, the YA aspects are eh. The book was called The Floating World by Axie Oh and now I have the sequel queued up to read as well (and a few new books on my e-reader after that!)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 09, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @eclectech@things.uk
@eclectech@things.uk @Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk also staycations encourage you to actually go to the hidden gems in your local community! There's a little museums just 2 blocks from my home that I've lived in for 5 years now and I've never been. There's a mine tour in town that I've also never gone on despite living in this town for a good decade now. It's so easy to never go to the local attractions because why would you? It'll still be there next weekend/next season/once the kids are older!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 09, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @eclectech@things.uk
@eclectech@things.uk but but...won't someone think of the poor Expedia Group or Bookings Holdings execs?! How will they make their yacht payments if the increasingly squeezed masses start staying home for some of their holidays?
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 07, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @lgsp@social.tchncs.de
@lgsp@social.tchncs.de Ah! It reminded me of my recent visit to Napoli, although the driving looks a bit more sane than what I walked through while in Napoli. Brilliant food and wonderful people though!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 07, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @lgsp@social.tchncs.de
@lgsp@social.tchncs.de Napoli?
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 04, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social

How is there a spider with a legspan of greater than 1 inch clinging to the side of one of my N scale freight cars, that had no spider on it just 2 days ago when I pulled it off the tracks and placed it into a box, and was not disturbed by the process of me pulling it from the box, railing it onto the tracks and shunting it around for a good hour before I became aware of its existence?#modelRailways #modelrailroading #trains

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 04, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @zed@mstdn.party
@zed @Mimesatwork if it requires a fee to enter the bathroom, it isn't accessible to everyone because some people might simply not have change on them, or might not have enough money at all to pay to go to the bathroom. As far as I'm concerned, access to bathroom facilities is a human right and should be available to all, regardless of your ability to pay. Funnily enough this is an area that the United States actually does pretty well at. Almost every public space has a public restroom. I've gone to the bathroom at the freaking state capital multiple times for the simple reason that it was the nearest public building so I knew the restrooms would be available to me.
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 04, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social

Damn horny plants...

#spring #allergies

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 03, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange
@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange I'm still reeling from learning that the ice cream trucks in Britain play Greensleeves. Are we sure Britain is real?
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 03, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz
@rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange That's just a consequence of cultivating the sugar crop. Toothbrushing wasn't really needed before sugar and fruits became so readily available via the Atlantic slave trade. Diets before then didn't have enough sugars to damage teeth within a normal lifespan, but suddenly sugary sweet fruits that were only available a few weeks out of the year could be had year round, and ground sugar could be added into anything to make it sweeter. In fact, regular toothbrushing itself was not a common habit until after the World Wars as veterans returned home and continued the practice. Fluoride toothpaste was only introduced in 1955, and before that most toothpastes were made with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide (yuck!)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 02, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social

My To Do list for today kept growing so I finally wrote it out. I'm sure there's something witty to add but I don't have the energy for it yet

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · May 02, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @juliancday@writing.exchange
@juliancday I think I've stumbled past the same error in the Railroad Tycoon 2 GameFaq walkthrough like 4 times. There's a couple of missions that I have to rely on the walkthrough for because they're just...weird
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 30, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @GamingWithEars@mastodon.stickbear.me
@GamingWithEars best I can do is a QR code to a PDF on Google Drive with the permissions set incorrectly
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 29, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party
@kimlockhartga@beige.party Since I didn't say it already, thank you very much for the suggestions!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @401matthall@mastodon.xyz
@401matthall@mastodon.xyz @kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I got back into reading when I was trying to sort out my sleep. I stopped scrolling on my phone before bed and switched to reading. Started with a few books I'd read when I was a teenager, and I've branched out from there. Thriftbooks has been a nice in-between of spending money on books I own so its no pressure to read immediately, but not spending $20 a book on books I may or may not like. That and sometimes I get lucky at the thrift stores! I hope you can find your way back to joy of reading!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

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Replying to @fskornia@glammr.us
@fskornia@glammr.us @kimlockhartga@beige.party @JaneinNJ@newsie.social I got an obscure history book from a university library via ILL a few years ago. Regrettably, I did not finish reading it before my time was up but I thought that was pretty dang cool just requesting a big $50 book and just having it show up at my local library a week later, with the book traveling over 200 miles just for me, and at no cost to me at all!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @Rhube@wandering.shop
@Rhube@wandering.shop @bookstodon@fedigroups.social That sounds super interesting! The political intrigue definitely interests me as do the fantasy elements. I've also placed a hold for an ebook at some point (and will review if I can still immediately order the physical book for a loan after The Space Between Worlds that @kimlockhartga@beige.party suggested!)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party

@kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social Sorry got busy with work. Looking up these books, here are my initial reactions:

  • Broken Earth sounds right up my alley, if perhaps potentially more depressing than I want right now. Placed a hold for an ebook to circle back to in a few weeks
  • Night circus just did not pique my interest
  • Starless Sea looks really interesting though
  • Space Between Worlds Sounds brilliant & I just ordered from a neighboring library to be my next read
  • Dark Matter also sounds interesting, but my immediate reaction is mixed. Also placed a hold for an ebook to circle back to in a few weeks

Regarding your followup questions, alt history piques my interest more than time loop (I don't think I've read any timeloop books though!). I recently read an interesting alt history/secret society book called A Clockwork Dynasty which I thoroughly enjoyed. Surreal/trippy sounds less enjoyable to me, but again, I'm not sure I've read any books that fit that description

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @trainguyrom@techhub.social
@kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I should also add right now I'm leaning towards standalone books and short series. I have to take breaks between books in a series otherwise I feel like I get too stuck in one authors' headspace and I don't like that, and while I read quite a few books, I don't read quickly enough to go through a big multiverse series with a dozen or more books in a reasonable timeframe, especially if I'm spacing them out like I like to
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party
@kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I've been mostly reading SciFi recently, but I've found the running theme that really gets me invested into a book is good world building. I've read books that are not my thing purely for the world building and enjoyed them quite a bit. Honestly I do need to branch out from SciFi more too A couple of big franchises I've enjoyed recently and would love to find more like would be The Witcher and Asimov's Foundation series
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party
@kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I need to find people to recommend books to me! Of my friends only a couple read and they mostly read young adult fiction, which good for them but that's not really my thing
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 28, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party
@kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social my local library is pretty small, so when there's a specific book I'd like to read I'll happily go through the interlibrary loan system, but I usually walk in just looking to check out my next book and just look around in a couple of specific sections until something calls out to me. Interlibrary loan doesn't work so well when you don't know what you want yet!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 23, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @cmconseils@mastodon.social

@cmconseils I was recently in New York and happened to take a wrong turn and walk directly through Times Square. I'd never realized from all of the photos I've seen that all of those screens are playing videos constantly it was visual overload and I couldn't really take in a single thing because of it!

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 23, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay makes me think of a couple of interestingly translated signs I saw recently while in Italy: Beware the stairs - posted on an old church staircase with odd but in no way treacherous stair geometry Beware the gulls - on a "no feeding the seagulls" sign in Venice that was mostly written in Italian. I did encounter any gulls that seemed worthy of such a warning on my trip
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 20, 2026
trainguyrom
@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

techhub.social
Replying to @jilleduffy@mastodon.social
@jilleduffy I love how this new paradigm of remote work is causing managers to grapple with the fact that even your best employees don't work 100% of the work day, whether that's in person or remote. It's just where previously it was idle chit chat at the water cooler, solitaire and doodles at the desk now it might be the person going for a walk, painting or even quickly switching a load of laundry during downtime between tasks. it's very important for anyone who does mental work to take brain breaks however that looks for them! Your brain is a muscle and no muscle should be overexerted 40 hours a week for 50 years straight
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 17, 2026
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

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Replying to @bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place
@bitinn I'm in a wonky spot in this regard. My company doesn't require AI use, but the CTO is extremely excited for the possibilities it presents to save people time on tasks, and given how close I work to the CTO that means I should be using it. It's also become my play to get a job offer from being an independent contractor, as AI appears to be the only project that is getting enough new capital greenlit to bridge the gap on getting me a job offer as someone who's run local models at home. The problem of course is, I'm becoming increasingly jaded on AI and increasingly believe most of the applications of AI in the org will be replaced either with a human or with traditional code as soon as the license cost starts balooning (which it will sooner or later!)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 17, 2026
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

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Replying to @stux@mstdn.social
@stux babe wake up new RFK Jr copypasta dropped
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 16, 2026
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social

I'm a nerd, railfan, and a dad. I fix servers for fun and profit! I've been biking a lot, and sometimes I manage to say something witty

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Replying to @grumpy_website@mastodon.online
@grumpy_website having assisted a number of "not computer people" with learning how to do something on the computer, o rapidly learned that anything that isn't a clearly defined button is greatly confusing to those who already struggle enough with computers. Any kind of interaction that requires a gesture, scroll, hover, swipe, long-press, and sometimes even right-click greatly increases the difficulty level of the interaction for many users (and makes it harder to perform on over a very slow remote connection or on a very slow system, as well as more likely to fail if it's accessed in a manner not initially anticipated) I'd honestly argue it's just bad UI practice at this point
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 09, 2026
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Replying to @Binks@kind.social
@Binks @mo @vagina_museum yeah I really want to know the full context between that exchange that folks love to dunk on. Yes many men have zero clue about anything related to a uterus, but I could absolutely see it as some engineer calculating the mass budget for the question of "do we have sufficient payload budget for any menstrual products this astronaut may need?" And the answer being a half-joking "well is 100 tampons sufficient?" There's so many ways that often-reported quote could have been entirely reasonable and not entirely based in poor understanding of women's anatomy. There's also the distinct possibity that it was in fact an incredible level of misunderstanding uterus-havers
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 09, 2026
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Replying to @kottke@mastodon.social
@kottke for those who aren't at all close to farming, John Deere's anti-repair practices have actually inflated the value of antique tractors to the point where many smaller farms rely exclusively on tractors and equipment from the 50s and 60s because it's equipment they can actually fix themselves or call out someone local to fix instead of waiting days or weeks for a "certified" mechanic to drive out from hundreds of miles away, thereby potentially delaying extremely time-sensitive processes like planting or harvesting (where even delaying by a day can be make or break for the year's profitability!) Choosing to use less efficient pre-computer farm equipment has been far more of a risk management choice than a financial or sentimental one for many farmers for quite some time now
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Apr 09, 2026
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Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social
@blogdiva @Mastodon @imanijoy this was my first thought as well, it should probably default to "ask me every time" before adding a given user to a collection (with of course options to opt out and opt in to inclusion in collections), and probably include the collection name/info in the follower request/notification if the new follower is following via a collection. Probably should also be easy for a user to see a full list of what collections they've been included in and to remove themselves from a collection if desired, maybe even including a message sent to the collection owner when they do so? I'm just thinking through all of the potential abuse scenarios and how to best mitigate them without completely gutting functionality
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 28, 2026
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Replying to @loganer@mastodon.social
@loganer@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social yup that's basically how deepfakes work! With enough tuning you can get a really believable result on a recorded video but live video is still really hard to consistently achieve since the machine learning models produce so many errors and you can't just edit around them or rerun it for different results
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 27, 2026
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Replying to @FossThought@mastodon.social
@FossThought @nickofnz the oil we're burning is actually older than that. Usually dating back to the Carboniferous Period about 300MYA. So many giant trees and such an oxygen rich atmosphere but without the microbes yet to decompose the dead trees, literal tons of organic matter piled up and eventually became buried and over millions of years and is now oil and coal. There will be more oil, it just takes a few million years for the processes that produce it to do their thing. Not super relevant to your post but just I find all of that so fascinating. We're literally burning dead bugs and trees from 300MYA to drive our kids to school and commute to our offices (all concepts *we invented*) and we can invent an even better more pleasant world that's cleaner and more sustainable for us to live in!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 24, 2026
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Replying to @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I've had to keep reminding myself that this is the experience of everyone who's job hunting right now. I got laid off at the end of '24, managed to snag a new role which ended up literally making up reasons to fire me (probably because I don't hate myself, women and minorities like the owners do), got brought back on by my old role as a part time contractor, except old/new employer has been talking about wanting to hire me but keeps having changes in C-suite (the only layer of management that hasn't approved getting me a job offer) so I've just been in limbo for the last year or so now. I've had multiple brilliant interviews that in any other job market would have resulted in a brilliant job offer, except either someone else looked slightly better, or the org flat out decided not to fill the role after all! I just have to keep reminding myself that I'm making good money while literally working part time doing easy-for-me work and to enjoy it while it lasts. It's the uncertainty that gets me!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 24, 2026
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Replying to @zeldman@front-end.social
@zeldman@front-end.social oh shit that's what the em-dash is for! I've always used parentheses but knew it was wrong! Welp, I guess that's a handy nugget of knowledge for 5-10 years from now when AI has passed out of the collective forethought of humanity
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 15, 2026
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Replying to @zzt@mas.to
@zzt@mas.to the more this AI bubble grows the less and less I can be convinced that the underlying technology might have useful applications. If you would've asked me 6-12 months ago I'd say "yeah LLMs are kinda silly but the underlying tech clearly has value and we'll eventually find where machine learning tools shine" but now I'm sliding more and more into "machine learning is just a crappier and more expensive replacement for existing software"
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 15, 2026
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Replying to @ajroach42@retro.social
@ajroach42 @djsundog @alyx @vfrmedia @rey I'd offer to drive a leg across the Midwest if I didn't already have other imminent travel right now Edit to add: please feel free to ping me if you end up arranging a pony express style transport plan. I could donate a day of my time to the cause if the timing works out. I also have a minivan I can put into freight mode if we're trans loading, or I could invest in a tow hitch like I've been strongly considering for a while and tow a small trailer (emphasis on small)
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 12, 2026
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Replying to @ThreeSigma@mastodon.online
@ThreeSigma@mastodon.online @DelilahTech@tech.lgbt @RickiTarr@beige.party I support users who work in industrial facilities. My predecessor had orchestrated the systems to use a shared login per site shared amongst all computer users at that site. The password is almost always [our generic temporary password]+[slowly iterated number that gets increased by 1 every password change] needless to say we've been slowly ungumming things in part by starting to migrate away from shared accounts but there's a number of custom processes which require only a single account at the site to do something so it's quite a project to unpick this previous poor decision
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 11, 2026
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Replying to @RickiTarr__dup_16900@beige.party
@RickiTarr@beige.party good thing I use Password.1
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 05, 2026
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Replying to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social won't somebody please think of the shareholders!
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Mar 02, 2026
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Replying to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange when I worked a customer-facing support role I got exposed to some of that as well. People who would interpret any bug or unexpected behavior of their devices as some hacker trying to cause chaos in their life, so they'd install a bunch of random crap from the Internet that doesn't do what they think it would, and of course they get the sketchiest possible versions of this software so now their computer does in fact act quite oddly as it has a bunch of stuff running 24/7 in the background popping scary notifications to try to milk more money out of them. This was all pre-ChatGPT for better and for worse, but I always wondered what could ideally be done for these poor folks who are clearly suffering
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trainguyrom @trainguyrom@techhub.social · Feb 06, 2026
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Replying to @dnavinci@genomic.social
@dnavinci@genomic.social @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @dalias@hachyderm.io The traffic light analogy is pretty good, although some cultures do feel differently about some colors, and colors are easy to associate with specific brands and things which can get in the way, especially if you're for example implementing this in an organization who's main branding involves the color is red Personally I just go with "allow list/deny list" even when talking about software which hasn't updated to similar terminology because it's accurate, easy to translate and doesn't require any analogies. "I've added [user/domain] to the deny list for [service]" clearly communicates even to non-technical users exactly what has changed. I suppose you could also substitute "block" for "deny" depending on the context but that's a bit less universal since "block" colloquially suggests a complete and total denial, where that may not be the real world effect of the deny list in question
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