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dgar, 1 month ago to random

2050 is closer than 1990.

CakesOfPan, 1 month ago to random

Coworkers and I were cracking up over how we hate certain email closings like "Best" and "Warmly," so we tested out some alternatives:
"Moistly"
"Indifferently"
"Relentlessly"
"With gravest concern"
I know there are some brilliant ones out there. Tell me your best ones.

dgar, 2 months ago to random

Mac users swear by their Mac.

PC users swear at their PC.

stopthatgirl7, 4 months ago to random

If buying isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing.

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/funimation-dvds-included-forever-available-digital-copies-forever-ends-april-2/

frainfostudent, 4 months ago to random

Does anyone in the #fountainpen commune know a nice looking ink pot generally available? I'll probably be hunting flea markets and antique shops, but I wasn't sure if there are any good ones sold regularly in Europe.

Apiary, 4 months ago to random

Why do I have to figure out vi? Isn’t there a better way to do this?

frainfostudent, 4 months ago to random

@evelynefoerster was posting sarcasm & wit. Which reminded me of the mug $Spawn(0) gave my wife for Christmas. "Ich bin ein verdammt Lady. Du Arsch!" "I am a damned lady. You ass!" 😃

evelynefoerster, 4 months ago to random

#sarcasm
The whiskey tastes like I’m about to tell you how I really feel.”

lauren, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

AT&T is sending out letters warning they want to kill virtually all landlines (and perhaps related data circuits where fiber is unavailable) across essentially their entire coverage area throughout California. This would have devastating effects. Related CPUC meetings will be taking place through March.

Landlines provide crucial services for individuals, businesses, and other organizations in a wide variety of situations -- not just emergencies when cellular and Internet service tends to rapidly fail, but also for vast numbers of people in areas with poor, unreliable, or in many cases (even in large sections of major cities!) NO cell service, NO fiber, etc.

Landlines often provide the only available communication in a wide variety of security and safety situations, from elevators to interior spaces of all sorts where cell service simply doesn't work.

Many disabled and other persons have crucial equipment that depends on landlines. Often they are not tech-savvy and do not have friends or relatives to help them through forced technology changes.

AT&T has been shirking its public safety responsibilities for years, while still leveraging their effective monopoly on services in so many areas.

Their new effort must be stopped. I'll have much more to say about this as the situation progresses.

Edent, 4 months ago to random

🆕 blog! “Gadget Review: Vehhe Ionic Shower Head”
★★★★☆

Look, here's the deal. Sometimes companies send me products to review. I usually try and make sure they're interesting, useful, or delightfully weird. Mostly they're electronic gadgets or cool books. But someone offered to send me a shower head to review. And our old shower head had got a bit gunked up. So I said […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/gadget-review-vehhe-ionic-shower-head/
⸻
#review

mattblaze, 4 months ago to photography

Ruins of HF Radio Antenna, AT&T WOO High Seas Radiotelephone Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009

A boatload of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

#photography

kennwhite, 5 months ago to random

This recipe pisses me off so much I'm tempted to create an account just to dunk on the author and the commenters who claim to have made it themselves. Which there's no way any of them did.

da_667, 5 months ago to random

CoolerPseudonym, 6 months ago to fountainpens

Most controversial opinion BY MILES.

I had to block someone because I don’t like TWISBIs.

Sure it’s slightly pot-stirring to say you don’t like a cult pen company.

I don't love writing with them and I've gotten a couple lemons. I don't like the way they look. It's not the pen for me. I don't think they're that great.

But why would you go beyond “lol”?

All gear-geek communities are like this and I keep forgetting.

Kitchen knives? Way worse. Terrifying.

#FountainPens #FountainPen #TWISBI

Lockdownyourlife, 6 months ago to random

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frainfostudent, 6 months ago to random

omgomgomgomg. Diamine has an advent calendar of their inks!

https://www.penstore.nl/inks/diamine-fountain-pen-ink-1030283751/diamine-2021-inkvent-calendar-red-edition

https://www.penstore.nl/inks/diamine-fountain-pen-ink-1030283751/diamine-inkvent-ink-calendar-2023-purple-edition-limited-edition

#fountainpen #bottledink

jerry, 7 months ago to random

Some sunset shots over the Gulf of Mexico. The silhouetted boat is called the Sea Screamer. If you are ever in the Panama City Beach area, I highly recommend it.

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jerry, 7 months ago to random

I opened work slack and thought I had either been fired or had a stroke and wasn’t seeing right. But no, they just changed it without any fanfare.

frainfostudent, 7 months ago to random

A cacophony of calamitous catastrophes. Much of the Cloudflare AAR for Thursday’s outage is speculation but, at this time, a couple of things stand out:

• PG&E was doing unplanned service to one of the feeds into a Flexential DC.
• batteries weren’t maintained to spec causing the DC to fall early
• HV step down xformer ground faulted on the only active MV feed
• new DC Tech un(der) trained on the generator manual bypass/restart procedure

Oooof. https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/

Viss, 7 months ago to random

go to the cloud, they said.
it'll be fine, they said

hacks4pancakes, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Polling y'all IT and security people for my own amusement and frustration -

The very worst tech sales pitch you got this week: