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patterfloof

@patterfloof@meow.social

// manchester // europe // hired geek // aws // python // php // alopex lagopus // leftist furry // he/him

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patterfloof, to random
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and nothing of value was lost https://meow.social/deck/@raymondpert@mstdn.social/112048593568370277

(well, except for the the vast amounts of water & power consumed & CO2 produced by these virtual trading cards)

patterfloof, (edited ) to random
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bought a new hi-fi at the weekend & pleasantly surprised that wiring speakers is still "here's some loose wire ends, prod them in & screw the contacts down

Denon CD, bluetooth & radio unit. Probably never going to use the CD as they're all on spotify/tidal etc, but WFH music without linking work laptops to spotify :)

patterfloof, to random
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royal mail weirdness. using their "print at home postage & address labels", which I've done before for the odd family gift

but this time it's either free collection from my house by the postie or 16p extra for me to walk 10 minutes down the road to the one remaining post office in this town

Ninji, to random
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tired: looking at Confluence to learn how things work in the MMO you work on

wired: looking at the source code

inspired: looking at the player-maintained wiki

patterfloof,
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@Ninji I'm sorry you have to touch confluence, the only "wiki" worse than fandom

scy, to random
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I just saw someone rant about "people writing shell scripts" and, no hard feelings, but I have yet to find a mainstream programming language that allows me to build streaming data pipelines as efficiently and effortlessly as a shell script.

Sure it's not typesafe and can be hard to read and it's easy to build a clever solution that you yourself won't be able to understand anymore in three months…

…and that's when it dawned on me that this is how Perl programmers must have felt 15 years ago.

patterfloof,
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@scy I used to write perl (then shifted to php for work reasons) and there's still times a shell script, piping a few commands together would be sinmpler than pulling out a full programming language

yassie_j, to random
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Ugh some fucking idiot support worker found my internal email address and emailed me directly instead of using the shared inbox

And then shared that with a client??????

Jesus Christ

Some people genuinely have their intestines connected directly to their skulls

patterfloof,
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@yassie_j brb, setting up an autoreply filter of "mailbox does not exist"

tilton, to random
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My pizza box is trying to guilt trip me into recycling it, but we’re not allowed to recycle pizza boxes here. I must regretfully slide it into the trash.

patterfloof,
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@faoluin @tilton going with the parcels that can't be recycled 'cos they're covered in tape :/

patterfloof, to random
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https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112031993850794874 and this is still more valid than AI

patterfloof, to random
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watching Ran & while I can't keep track of everyone, I'm enjoying the jester

patterfloof,
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he's a sleeper character, feels like he'll become something

patterfloof, to random
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Bussing through Monton & damn, that's a lot of pubs

patterfloof,
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@Doveux that fits, it's like a place to go out if you don't want the full Manchester nightlife

patterfloof, to random
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watching Royal Space Force ... and I'd forgotten about that scene :/

patterfloof, to random
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House across the street has started hanging a set of overalls in the living room, so whenever I glance across while closing the upstairs curtains, it's like there's a guy just hanging there

arakin, to random
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"This bad boy can hold so much Pern in it." slaps top of moving box

(Plus some Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker)

patterfloof,
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@arakin attorneys at law :P

dpaldrich, to random
patterfloof,
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@dpaldrich all I'm saying is: if your crime's amusing enough, you shouldn't be proescuted

yassie_j, to random
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Fellas… Why is the icon for gnome a foot? What are you computer people into?

patterfloof,
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@sugar @yassie_j yeah, from reddit

HighlandLawyer, to random
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It's interesting how "Willy's Chocolate Experience" went out of it's way to avoid using the word "Wonka", but it's now being reported worldwide as a "Willy Wonka" event. Presumably because of the "AI" pictures, which seem to draw heavily on the imagery of the Willy Wonka movies.

Could that incentivise the big money media industry to start going against the "AI" industry on IP grounds?

patterfloof,
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@HighlandLawyer so we should flood the world with dodgy disney knockoffs

Bard, to random

Cause no trouble.

Glory to Arstotska.

patterfloof,
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@Bard

avon_deer, to random
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This whole YT channel..

https://youtu.be/P5IbWDzLTNA

patterfloof,
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@avon_deer thanks, I was expecting a different channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfk-H23Pld0

theresnotime, to random
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people stop making opt-out scrapers for fedi challenge 2024 (impossible)

patterfloof,
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@theresnotime I bet BS only made one so they can pad out their usercount with everyone from fedi so it sounds good to their moneysharks

yassie_j, to random
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Oh my god

Our case management system does not recognise 29 February as a valid date.

This means… I cannot do any case work at all. What…???

patterfloof,
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@Vierkantor @yassie_j to the UK-SS guy behind my webcam: "oi, wake up & consent"

Clygro, to random
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I think I have found the ultimate disc drive, 30 quid though and I don't have the money yet (I think I get paid next week thankfully)

patterfloof,
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@yassie_j @itzzenext @Clygro oh my, all the sigils & fits an internal bay (do they still make pc cases for those?)

lowqualityfacts, to random
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This blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

patterfloof,
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@lowqualityfacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BxWKuntYFQ

rootsworks, to firefox
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While I'm digging through my old watercolor work, here's my big fifteen-minutes-of-fame, frontpage-of-reddit-several-times comic that got retweeted into orbit in the days of Early Twitter, from around 2009-2010.

It's an open secret that if you get a cute fox involved, you're bound to get loads of traction with computer people.

#firefox #watercolor #WebComic #MastoArt

patterfloof,
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@rootsworks well, this is a wonderful classic :)

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