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glitch girl

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mcc, to random
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Wait so like… there's going to be a Windows 11 update that just removes WordPad? Like you have a program on your computer and Microsoft just straight up deletes it? https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/news/goodbye-cortana-wordpad-tips-apps/

mcc,
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Maybe next gonna just go through your selfies and remove any they think are unflattering

mcc, to random
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Watched two videos debunking "free energy" devices today and so now the YouTube algorithm is trying to show me videos advertising "free energy" devices

Yelling "CONTEXT COLLAPSE!" at the end of the post in the same tone as "THE ARISTOCRATS!"

billyjoebowers, to random
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"I'm looking for a thing..."

Mastodon: "Have you tried building your own out of a cargo bike, a rasberry pi running linux, and Lego?"

mcc,
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@billyjoebowers "I was looking for a sandwich"

mcc, to random
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Doing my taxes

I like the wording of this question because it seems to imply a scenario where I joined the army sometime last July and got kicked out after three days

mcc, to random
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listening to ambient record

hm, this is kind of boring

puts on second ambient record at the same time

ahh, much better

mcc,
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streaming has been bad for music in very real ways but I'll say this, this DEFINITELY would have been a lot harder with CDs

mcc,
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(YES I have attempted to listen to "Zaireeka". NO i did not ever fully succeed)

mcc,
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@tef omg i tried this and the videos both segued into Laura Palmer's theme and Laura Palmer cutting into the bookhouse theme worked well well

mcc, to random
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I wish there was a variant of sftp that used ssh for authentication and then dropped the encryption for transfer. I am transferring files over the local network and I do not care that our smart TV¹ is sniffing the packets. But what I do care about is that when I'm logging in my password not be sent in the clear²

¹ DEFINITELY compromised by at least three nation-state actors

² Where it will be captured by the nation-state actors which have compromised our smart TV

mcc, to random
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YouTube thumbnails with ominous energies

mcc, (edited )
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Watched another one of this guy's videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdU7AkH6QM ) and they're really good but also at the very start of the other video he disassembles a microwave to remove the transformer so he can use it to demonstrate something, and I was just like "ah… I see… your Thing as a YouTuber is casually doing things that if I tried to do them I would immediately get myself and probably at least one other person killed"

mcc,
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Oh god

I watched the next video in the same series, also at the beginning of second video he begins by disassembling a microwave to remove the transformer, but this time once the transformer is out he stops, holds it up, looks directly into the camera and says "If you ever want to get a LOT of comments on YouTube… bother one of these guys"

mcc,
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@xgranade So to be clear I am confident he has the appropriate qualifications to do this but,

mcc, to random
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Hm.

So my cell provider has no good plan for roaming to Europe. So the last time I was in France, I got a local phone number and a SIM card so I could use Internet while I was there. It was a bit of a pain to get the SIM so I put it somewhere I'd be able to find it* when I next needed it.

Now I can't find it.

Can anyone think of a way to get a French cell phone SIM either without leaving Toronto, or without leaving Charles De Gaulle?

  • Probably in that one purse I threw away a few years ago.
mcc,
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@dotstdy Hm, my main phone supports that, but unfortunately my main phone is in for repair so I'm using a burner :/

mcc,
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Ok thank you to everyone who replied to this I now have a plan

mcc, to random
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I am thinking about installing Dropbox on my Linux machine. Is the official .deb package the best way to do this? Does anyone want to convince me that I am making a mistake doing this?

mcc, to random
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A really minor problem I have with Mastodon is that you can't block someone you're not federated with. This is a problem because you don't know if the non-federated server was intentionally defederated (meaning it's probably redundant to block a single person on it) or simply hasn't been federated yet (meaning it would be worthwhile to queue up a block if they federate in future). Not sure if this is worth making a feature request for.

mcc, to random
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I am currently upset at the Toronto Transit Commission

mcc, to random
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Shout out to the World Naked Bikeride

mcc,
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(The World Naked Bikeride just biked past)

mcc, to random
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Should I read "Water Margin"?

mcc,
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Got a hold on "The Water Outlaws" from the library, opened it up and found an explanation at the beginning that it was a retelling of "Water Margin". Wondering if it would make more sense to read the original first

mcc,
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@distinct I have definitely had the thought that reading one or more of the classical Chinese novels would make a LOT of Japanese/Sinophone media suddenly make a lot more sense to me. Christine read Dream of the Red Chamber at some point and she pretty frequently spots characters from it interpolated into other stories.

mcc, to random
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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc, (edited )
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What I'm listening to today: "Ghosts", 潘PAN

Taiwanese trap music. On this track Pan Wei Ju raps in Mandarin about generational trauma and domestic violence*, over booming, ominous beats produced by Clams Casino. Just a really grippingly chaotic piece of nightmare music

  • It was only after I listened to this song a bunch of times I realized the official music video, linked below, has an English translation in the expanded YouTube description. It hit me really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIedFzs-8s

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