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elithebearded

@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

He/him of Usenet fame, if Usenet can be said to have fame. Diverse interests that tend away from "new"ness. Non-fiction reader and art appreciator.

Icon is from a "Signs of the Times" art project decorating traffic control boxes in Emeryville, California. Profile banner is my Dr Monocle character, a one-eyed spy using his small size for stealth.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

jon, to random
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They have a handy map of where I’m going tomorrow 🙂

elithebearded,
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@jon
Those can be angle grinder hardened by what you fill the tubes with.

I have seen news stories (but cant find them now, thanks 2024 web search) about techniques for improving those. I recall something about aircraft cable (wire rope) inside to make cutting much more tedious.

elithebearded,
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@jon I have not heard of that. I would have thought concrete Myself, but maybe something that's normally solid yet becomes a gooey sticky mess when heated would be good. You know like tar or pitch.

elithebearded, to random
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Macos $HOME/Library is really fucking determined to make my Unix-y "find ~ -conditions" habits miserable.

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking
Besides sticking a bunch of stuff that would be in a dot dir in a regular Unix in ~/Library (which a straight "find ~" but not a "find ~/*" would search), the stuff in there has weird permissions generating pop-ups and error messages. It's slow and noisy and feels like "find /var" as a regular user instead of like looking through my stuff.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Most people on earth can’t remember anything before 1997.

elithebearded,
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@MLE_online @NanoRaptor
How about the B-52's?

Or the airplanes either band was named for?

elithebearded, to random
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Never Kink? I've seen the Internet, I'm sure someone has this kink.

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking
Technology?

elithebearded,
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@nitpicking I had not looked at substrings. Wondering now how that's pronounced. Does the "X" give a "st" sound?

Cornellbox, to random
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TiL, Tradle edition

There is a country with over 60% of its exports in the category "Planes, Helicopters, and/or Spacecraft" and that surprised me.

I'll give you 4 hours to guess, and schedule a reply here with the answer for 19:00

elithebearded,
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@Cornellbox
No real idea, so a wild guess. Chile?

HEX, to random
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I’m considering offering discounts on fonts for websites that are not annoying. 10% off for each of the following:

  • No cookie/privacy consent is needed.
  • No pop-ups or other dickbars.
  • The homepage uses less than 1 megabyte of data to load.
  • Basic functionality doesn’t require JavaScript.
  • The layout works in a small 320px-wide viewport.
elithebearded,
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@HEX Do people with sites like that buy fonts for their sites?

ifixcoinops, to random
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Every winter: 🦝 ah, time to make the annual "Here's how to DIY an anti-SAD lightbox" post
Every summer: 🦝 oho, time to make the annual "Here's how to suck cold air in" post

elithebearded,
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@ifixcoinops Don't want to leave it running all night here. Even on a hot day the nights are usually cool enough to chill things down in an hour or so with the 8000 CFM drum fan I have.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The AI hype sometimes reminds me of 1970s foods.

People actually thought dishes like “Avocado Jelly Waldorf with Mayonnaise” were decent and a good idea.

elithebearded,
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@KanaMauna @thomasfuchs

Just two days ago I was talking about my gelatin fears.

https://fed.qaz.red/@elithebearded/112452392221558216

elithebearded,
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@mikey @KanaMauna @thomasfuchs I can't say I've tried them. I have had other agar based jellied confections. My impression is agar works but can't get as stiffly gelled as the meat based stuff. It's a small sacrifice overall for avoiding prion diseases.

phranck, to random German
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Very interesting: Since I have adjusted my profile (picture and text), a lot of followers have dropped off. But the rubbish I publish is still the same. They were probably rather superficial personalities... 🤔

elithebearded,
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@phranck The avatar is unflattering and looks AI generated. The bio says:

elithebearded,
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@phranck Even misspelled "enthusiast"?

SimonCHulse, to random
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Via @richardhulse

elithebearded,
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@SimonCHulse @richardhulse
Driven by my daughter.

A four foot (120cm) diameter cupcake car drives by an ivy covered wall. The base is aluminum folded like a muffin paper, the top is blue fabric. A head sticks out wearing a whipped cream hat.

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

elithebearded,
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@siracusa @MichaelWhelan I had that book and I remember the cover well, too

thomasfuchs, to random
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Just typical southwestern US desert things like Auroras

elithebearded,
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@thomasfuchs I'm still thinking of that "how to tell heat exhaustion from heat stroke" thing you retooted and thinking "maybe not for me"

elithebearded, to random
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"I like capers."

Later clarification after the robbery:

"I like those salty green things sold as capers on my pasta."

glennf, (edited ) to random
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I am down to 28 copies (as of May 28) of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a letterpress-printed book in an edition of 425. The book traces printing with type before Gutenberg through the present day across all technological developments. Typeset in hot metal in North Yorkshire, printed in London, bound in Germany, the hardcover book is covered in green cloth and comes in a slipcase of the same fabric. https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress Some copies remain with Tiny Type Museum slipcase stamping.

elithebearded,
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@glennf Down to at most 39 now since I just saw my shipping confirmation email.

elithebearded,
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@glennf Well I stand corrected then

NanoRaptor, to random
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It appears I have radiation burns.

I spent an hour and a half with unsatisfactory shielding just minutes away from a G2V class fusion reactor.

elithebearded,
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@NanoRaptor Hereabouts the common recommendation for that sort of thing is aloe vera applied topically. Not sure if thats the local (to you) cure. For all I know the Aussie cure is dettol and a pint.

Either way, do be careful around those reactors. They have been known to cause cancer.

elithebearded, to random
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Overheard spoonerism of truth:

Salty Faultware

elithebearded, to random
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Tried to use "identify" from imagemagick to find out some details about a .mkv video file. It failed but left a 18G file in /tmp filling the partition and causing strange errors in other programs until I figured out what happened.

Nice job there.

elithebearded, to random
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Today's spammer of note

Uses a gmail From line address
Uses a gmail Reply-to address
Solicits responses via forms.gle (Google Forms)
Sent mail through Google's servers with DKIM and SPF tests passing
Is selling advertising

So wonderful that Google is so great at spam filters.

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