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tezoatlipoca

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to

#Canadian (sorry). Being kind, empathetic and supportive to others, #vaccines, #vegans and #LGBT+ are cool; convoys and racists and *phobes are not. Computer Engineer, #software #developer, #technical #writer, #translation manager, reformed project manager and #SCRUMmaster, dad and boyfriend.

I like video games, programming, baking and cooking. While Im not #vegan, LawyerGF is, so I'm vegan-ISH.

#tootfinder #searchable @waterlooregion #fedi22

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shortridge, to Cybersecurity
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zealots often shame humans for writing down their passwords, but as someone who just had to excavate the digital remains of a loved one who died suddenly:

please write down your credentials somewhere a trusted human can find them, especially your phone passcode and any primary passwords (like for email accounts, password manager, etc.)

the humans who care about you will need that access for many reasons; a "badass" threat model will only add helplessness to their grief

tezoatlipoca,
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@shortridge @Donatella Our extended family and now several of our friends use "Oh Shit Folders". Plain manila folders placed.. in bookshelves, front hall closets, on top of the fridge etc. Labelled "oh shit" + some inside joke, but everyone will get it. And then everyone gets told where said folder is.

In each folder are listings of accounts (bank, online, email, 2FA), pwds, pins (more often hints not full), safety boxes, storage units, where the keys are etc. Update once / year.

nixCraft, to random
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

tezoatlipoca,
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@jeruyyap @Pajo_16 @nixCraft Support the micro-brew search engines that are trying to make Search Engines Not Suck Again!

(new slogan #SENSA)

DZGrizzle, to random
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    tezoatlipoca,
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    @DZGrizzle What horseshit. But what a good game. We played this this summer. #boardgames #votesforwomen

    If you wanna find out more about its gameplay, @legendarytactics has you covered.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0hnagl5JSY

    Solo playthrough:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgqqmzTY8PM

    Interview with the creator Tory Brown:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bDwlLGoBTA

    tezoatlipoca, to random
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    Am I the only one who thinks that utilities shouldn't be for-profit?

    https://globalnews.ca/news/10078806/hydro-one-q3-profit/

    Like... I taxes. Give me water and electricity please. Why are you earning profit? water, electricity, sewage, garbage, emergency should all be COST centers for municipal/regional govs not fucking profit centers.

    get out of here with your bullshit about "without investors we wouldn't have the capital to build new infra-" no that's horseshit. Ask a bank like the rest of us.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

    So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @RickiTarr We have a saying around here for when someone asks if they can go ahead and do something (and you are otherwise indifferent to it), you say "fill yur boots" like "go ahead, whatever."

    I can only imagine that you're either peeing your pants while wearing rubber galoshes, or you're about to fill The Boot for a drinking game.

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @RickiTarr We also have one for when you say something embarrassing and it comes back to bite you, instead of putting your foot in your mouth you "eat crow". And I can only imagine it means something Mr. Jones says was really awkward, you have offended Sheryl Crow, or you are a cannibal and you are eating Russel Crowe.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

    Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

    I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

    Pros:

    This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

    Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

    It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

    I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

    We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

    Cons:

    Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

    While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

    We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @RickiTarr I live in mid southwestern Ontario Canada. We're a ~90m train or drive away from Toronto which is nice, but we're just far away to not have megatropolis woes like Ultra-Traffic to deal with. While I live in a mid-sized metro area of about half a mil, twenty minutes in any direction gets you into farm fields where they all talk and behave like Letterkenny, which frankly is more accurate than most Canadians want to admit.

    1/

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @RickiTarr While there's a bunch of nice things about Canada (like not paying for healthcare, still a rather progressive (freedom and rights) and protective constitutional, legal and legislative system) and we have gobs of nice nature to enjoy, we like some of our cousins south of the border are fighting a wave of conservative populism that is (trying to) dismantle a lot of the good things for $profit$. And while we don't have quite the same money in politics problem,

    2/

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @RickiTarr we still give our big corporations way too much leeway (oil+gas, groceries, residential income trusts) and in the past 20 years especially they've been gouging and screwing us and our environment. Unless we bought our homes in the mid 00s, noone I know under 50 can afford to buy a house anywhere practical.

    But, all things considered, still not a terrible place to live.

    3/3

    tezoatlipoca, to random
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    Edward Hoppers slightly not as well known work "Scrollhawks"

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I love when the public bathroom toliet is in a fully enclosed little room, so no one can look at my feet or peak through the cracks. Stay away you bathroom voyeurs!

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @dan613 @RickiTarr And gas stations too I've noticed.
    It also means bathrooms can be ambliviisex again.

    Why did we get rid of these again? was it because of the rampant drug problem that turns out doesn't actually exist?

    tezoatlipoca, to random
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    You know how your dogs look at you when they're peeing/pooping? They're making sure you got their back.

    See, unlike us, if a lion or.. velociraptors attack, they just can't pinch it off and run like we can.

    They're vulnerable. Defenseless. They're looking at you to make sure you got their six.

    So next time your dog is doing their biz... put your phone down. Scan the horizon for threats (laser raptors, coyotes, Jordan Peterson). Be a pet bro.

    acarson, to random
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    Everyone keeps talking about bringing back the old web, and honestly maybe I'm missing something, but it never went away. I'm still using it thanks to an RSS reader and a personal website.

    Granted, it's way less popular than it was when it was in its hayday, but it's still here. So go use it.

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @acarson I self-host #Yarr (yet another rss reader), which is like a minimal #Feedly and I have perhaps 3 dozen feeds I follow. Between that and Mastodon I get my #news, my trending etc.

    Down with paywalls and subscribe to our mailing list and mashing subcribe button bullshit! Bring back the #RSS

    blogdiva, to Fashion
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    so apparently cisgender, heteronormative Zillennial women haven’t had their moment in the sun until 2023 & the movie.

    of particular interest to me is this one image they added to the article as proof of how girly fashion is inherently an act of rebellion.

    given the ugly & conservative, only your evangelical aunty would wear, clothes hawked to Zillenials, it’s not shocking they feel this way.

    ❝ From Barbiecore To Bows: How The Girls Won Fashion In 2023
    https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/girl-trends-fashion-2023?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @RickiTarr @blogdiva remember the cool cutting tables with the big groove where the rolls went and youd climb in there to play while mom got her fabric or patterns or stupid buttons?

    tezoatlipoca, to twitter
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    A year since the implosion... the and my account start. Not only have I stopped checking all thems other sites for and , but accounts in my have completely supplanted even my habitual 2+ hrs of scrolling; haven't been back there since THAT implosion.

    so... well done everyone. good hustle. keep doing.... <waves finger in your direction>... whatever it is you're doing.

    p.s.. donate to your .

    janvhs, to fediverse
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    Does someone know a nice blog post explaining #ActivityPub

    Prototyping something based on it but the activity pub homepage doesn’t have much resources

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @janvhs same. Ive been following through the resources on thos page: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers/479

    tezoatlipoca, to random
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    I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm pretty sure at this point that if you start your post off with I don't know who needs to hear this, you actually do, in fact, know who needs to hear this.

    tezoatlipoca, to Waterloo
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    NEWS FLASH: transphobe "parents rights" idiots are protesting nationwide Wednesday morning!

    ASSHOLE WEBSITE: https://handsoffourkids.ca/

    ALLY WEBSITES FOR COUNTERPROTESTS (add more!):
    https://ofl.ca/event/no-space-for-hate/

    https://www.labourcouncil.ca/all_out_against_hate_no_space_for_hate_in_ontario

    https://opseu.org/news/no-space-for-hate-in-ontario-province-wide-action-on-wednesday-sept-20th-%F0%9F%8C%88/199801/

    #NoSpaceForHate @WaterlooEvents @waterlooregion #kitchener #waterloo #ontario #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtq

    tezoatlipoca, to ai
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    This shit is ridiculous.

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/carv-raises-10m-series-a-to-help-gaming-and-ai-firms-monetize-data

    "Hey, we want to help you earn money on your #data when #AI models are trained on it."

    Uh. Im playing Candy Crush dude. Exactly what of my data are you using, and do I get to know whose using it?

    <awkward silence> "We'd rather not say."

    Ok, how much do I earn?

    "$0.000012 per blidgiflet"

    What the fuck is a blidgiflet?

    "Its when a neural layer absloms your home addr-"

    Wait, what did you s-

    "Oh look at the time gotta go!"

    tezoatlipoca,
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    You know, I used to think, perhaps naively, that when you downloaded a mobile app and it asked for permission to access your contacts or your files that it was lazy programming. i.e. the API for contacts or your photos has a method in it that the developer needed, but you have to give permission for the whole API.

    But now, I'm convinced that its because they're blatantly asking to steal our shit and we've been dumb enough to say "sure, why the fuck not".

    So how do we unnormalize this?

    tezoatlipoca, to eggs
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    Ok well, two in the in a mug of water will leave u with zero eggs and a microwave to clean, good to know, good to know.

    In my years of cooking I'd never thought of trying that. News; it's for a good reason no-one does this.

    tezoatlipoca, to ai
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    "Why yes, we DO use an to generate our images how can you tell?"

    If I were a pro in I'd be really pissed about this shit. In fact I'm pissed about this shit. Its like "CMON, YOU'RE NOT EVEN TRYING... all you had to do was re-run the prompt and say This time without Musk in the middle of the table." Any designer I know could have done a much better job in about twenty minutes.

    shoq, to random
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    LOL Kagan has boxed Sauer in. Now she’s punching him in the face with an ungloved hand.

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @shoq What time was that at? ~35:00?

    I had no idea the audio was being livestreamed this is great.

    tezoatlipoca,
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    @shoq If I just heard right,

    KBJ: without the threat of criminal prosecution what's to prevent a sitting president from doing crime?

    Saur: oh well there are protections.

    KBJ: but being impeached just means you lose your job. There are no true consequences.

    Saur: oh don't worry about it. It hasn't happened in 248 yrs IM sure it won't happen.

    tezoatlipoca, to random
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    lol. Ok who had "Metaverse is a dismal failure" in 24Q1?

    The problem with any metaverse implementation is none of them are open. The server infrastructure is $spensive. The scripting and modelling and art resources are extensive. Open protocols and FOSS that shit and the metaverse (how Stephenson invisioned anyway) will happen. Remember? Hiro Protagonist and his friends programmed the Black Hole club and the bouncer bots. Map the existing VR world addresses into it.

    https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/startup-investors-metaverse-funding-falls-aapl/

    tezoatlipoca,
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    Second Life was - as far as I've been paying attention - the only VR worldspace to even come close; at least they were friendly to modders and avatar modellers and scripters.

    If Facebook had just setup shop in Second Life and breathed new $life into Linden Labs, I betcha we'd be cybering on the grid right now. But noo, Zuck wouldn't make as much monay that way.

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