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hedders

@hedders@mas.to

Rarely entirely serious. Fond of otters and dogs, scarily obsessive about music and old videogames. Boosts absolutely are endorsements; it's why I boosted them. He/him.

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purplepadma, to random
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Last boost: I find taking notes by hand makes information stick much more readily than taking notes in a virtual document. But I wondered if that’s because I am Gen X and I took all my lecture notes at uni by hand. Maybe there’s more to it than that

hedders,
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@purplepadma Nope, me too. If I'm working with a big document, I pretty much always print it out too, so I can scribble on it as I go. I just concentrate better with a pen in my hand.

I'm (just) GenX too.

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    hedders,
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    @RickiTarr ... and presumably therefore all cats are Slytherin?

    hedders, to random
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    A small observation in light of the furore re kids and social media and so on.

    I think I’m part of the last generation to have grown up without access to the web (the first time I used it was at university), and I’m every bit as vain and distractable and miserable and anxious as any Gen Zer.

    historyofpunkrock, to punkrock
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    39 years ago today
    Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English post punk band the Smiths, released on this day in 1985.

    #punkrock #postpunk #thesmiths #history #postpunkhistory #otd

    hedders,
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    @JoshuaACNewman @historyofpunkrock the depressing thing about this is that I’m old enough to remember when Morrissey was just a tedious arse who was far more pleased with himself than his actual talent would seem to warrant, rather than the cheerleader for the far right nationalists that he seems to be today.

    hedders,
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    @JoshuaACNewman quite. I guess that slightly laughable superiority complex of his finally metastasised into full on white supremacism sometime in the 00s or 10s.

    tychotithonus, to random

    Tell me you've never helped seniors with tech, without telling me you've never helped seniors with tech.

    And I don't just mean the person answering this question. I also mean whoever decided to remove this option.

    hedders,
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    @tychotithonus I don't want to trivialise what is a fairly serious accessibility issue and a lack of regard for it bordering on ableism, but modern scrollbars (on all platforms) are just so bad. For the love of God can we please just have proper scrollbars back? It would solve so many problems.

    hedders, to random
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    So, I bought one of those Lexmark "the toner cartridge is cheaper if you send the old one back to us to recycle" deals. They sent me the box to send it back in - it's huge. I could fit my dog and at least one of my children in it. Apparently I have to fill it before I send it back. I go through about 3 toner carts a year. This could ... this could take a while.

    purplepadma, to random
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    Tomorrow will be 19 years since my first date with Tom. To think I almost got off the train and bailed! I just felt at the time that I could not stand one more awkward first date conversation. Good thing I pushed on through!

    hedders,
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    @purplepadma congratulations! Sliding doors, huh?

    hedders, to random
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    Had one of those sobering moments today when I spun out on a patch of black ice and crashed my car. I’m not hurt but looks like my car might be a write off. I was incredibly lucky to walk away.

    hedders,
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    @Gustodon Thank you.

    hedders, to random
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    A few things commercial lawyers say, and what they meant by them:

    "We seem to have one or two unmarked edits in this clause" --> "You're a crook."

    "I don't think we're very far apart on this, but I'm not sure what's on the page at the moment entirely reflects what we're aiming for" --> "You can't draft."

    "I wonder if we're over-complicating this?" --> "I'm on a fixed fee."

    hedders, to random
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    Is it bad that my juvenile little self is delighted that @fesshole is now on Masto? It's one of the things I genuinely missed from the old bird site.

    hedders, to random
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    Sudden random thought: the UK's relationship with alcohol is not unlike the USA's relationship with guns. And exists for similar reasons.

    hedders, to random
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    Firstborn just referred to cocaine as “no-no snow” and - in one of life’s little ironies - it made me snort water out of my nose.

    llamasoft_ox, to random
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    Some of the effects coming out of the synth are too intense for the game.

    I'm thinking those ones will be just fine for Space Giraffe 2 though...

    Pleased with how nicely the synth player module has fit into the game. I can author presets on the big synth and bring them into the game really easily.

    This is turning into the excellent replacement for our old Neon engine that I hoped it would be.

    And it is nice to have (an early version of) one of the components of eventual SG2.

    hedders,
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    @llamasoft_ox record scratch noise

    Space Giraffe 2, you say? Yes please!

    hedders,
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    @llamasoft_ox that is very good news! Absolutely love Space Giraffe.

    (I’m terrible at it, mind, but being good at it has never really felt like the point.)

    aallan, to random
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    The only reason not to demolish every bit of brutalist architecture we built in the post-war period is to serve as a reminder to never build any more of it. Because people will forget how awful it looks, and more importantly how cold and awful it is to live and work in.

    hedders,
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    @aallan except Cumbernauld. That whole town centre ought to be below sea level.

    hedders,
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    @aallan amen. Ghastly place. No idea what they were thinking.

    olimould, to random
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    Just had the most epic 'would you rather'.

    Would you rather speak every language on Earth fluently, or play every musical instrument on this Earth perfectly?

    hedders,
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    @olimould This is difficult. Either would be wonderful. But music is really important to me and it's always frustrated me that I'm not much good at actually doing it, so I think I'd go with that one.

    alexanderhay, to uk
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    Put simply, #CamilaBatmanghelidjh was the victim of a hit job. something the
    #UK establishment is very good at.

    "The hidden life of Camila Batmanghelidjh: why was her exoneration so widely ignored?

    "For 20 years, the founder of #KidsCompany was feted by pop stars and politicians. Then the charity collapsed and her reputation was destroyed – even after she had been vindicated in the high court..."

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/09/the-hidden-life-of-camila-batmanghelidjh-why-was-her-exoneration-so-widely-ignored

    #News #Politics #Media

    hedders,
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    @alexanderhay thank you for posting that article. I’m ashamed to say I did not know about the final outcome of all the outcry when Kids Company collapsed.

    pinskal, to photography
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    Low Tide
    Photographer Jon Pinter
    Embarcadero, San Diego
    #getlost #gramslayers #optoutside #discoverearth
    #earthfocus #ourplanetdaily #photography #fotografie #fotografia #coast #coastlife #beachlife #meer #california #olympus #californiacoast #californiabeach #californiaphotography #image #olympus #olympusphotography #lightroom #lightroomedits #lightroomediting #madewithlightroom #vsco #vscoedit

    hedders,
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    @pinskal Beautiful colours!

    webmink, to random
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    Chutzpah: When RyanAir claims of online booking sites that "many of them overcharge customers with extra fees."

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/03/ryanair-ticket-sales-hit-after-travel-agent-websites-delist-airline

    hedders,
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    @webmink wow. There’s not enough Brasso in the world for that neck.

    hedders, to random
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    Does anyone with expertise in Raspberry Pis know why the command sudo rpi-eeprom-config -e would throw a timeout error?

    lauren, to random
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    So many of the toys and such that kids brought openly to school in my day would get a kid instantly expelled now. Hell, I must have carried a pocketknife from 7th grade onward. Somehow, we survived. Hell, a kid can get expelled now for pointing a finger at another kid in an ostensible "pistol" position. And some people wonder how the evil Right is able to leverage the term "woke" so effectively.

    hedders,
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    @lauren This has reminded me that for a time when I was 10 or 11 or so, every boy in school walked around with a Swiss Army knife on their keychain or in their pocket; the fatter and the more spronglers attached to it the better. This would have been the late 80s. I'd completely forgotten about the Swiss Army knife craze until now.

    hedders, to random
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    “AND NO CANNIBALISM!” is a thing I just said to my children.

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