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philsplace

@philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org

I have never been accused of being normal.

Not afraid of social justice. He/Him

I have been working remotely since 2002 and find it amusing that people have problems making it work. #Perl helps.

I do “full stack” stuff. No, not just that stack… the whole stack. Hardware and OS stuff too.

BTW, I am also https://mastodon.sdf.org/@philsplace on the bird site… tho I try not to post there any more.

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lauren, (edited ) to random
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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.

philsplace,
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@lauren

The cynic in me, who moved from the least populated state to the second least, thinks that they want to ditch all the rural customers.

Which would probably include the largest town I’ve lived in since the late 90’s of ~75k people… if it weren’t for it being on the interstate and having a college.

philsplace, to random
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I disagree with the idea of billionaires.

Wileymiller, to mastodon
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Hello #Mastodon! I’m reluctantly happy to be here after 5 years of staying off social media. Please don’t make me regret it! 🙃

philsplace,
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@GottaLaff @Wileymiller

Nice to put a face to the calendar.

jasongorman, to random
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Before you delete those temporary debugging print statements from your code*, ask yourself what you put them in there to check, and consider whether that should be an automated test. Then - and this is my favourite part - ask yourself if they could have been automated tests in the first place, and whether the thing you were checking for could have been made more easily accessible (e.g., in its own function).

  • You /were/ going to delete them, right
philsplace,
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@jasongorman

*Most, if not all of them will get deleted. Those that don’t will be turned into proper logging calls because we are not monsters and have different levels of info that can be spit out when needed. #Perl

Every project should have a way to log data when needed, imho.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Log::Log4perl

philsplace, to random
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As a programmer I find it interesting when people say they hate the sigils in the language… then use phrases like ‘$work’ or ‘$dayjob’ in a social media post concisely showing the value of a sigil.

philsplace, to random
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Funny name aside, (R)?ex is really cool if you need to do something on a lot of computers that have #Perl on them.

https://www.rexify.org/docs/guides/start_using__r__ex.html

philsplace, to random
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Today’s shirt

philsplace, to random
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Monday should be interesting. 🍿
https://sfba.social/@catsrule0000/112271568572939758

philsplace, to random
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Just got a notification: Airpods Case 5%

WHICH airpods case? There are 4 on my desk… and they all have distinct names!

Why doesn’t it use that name when giving the notification…

🤷‍♂️ We’ll never know.

philsplace, to random
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Make this an EV for sale next year you cowards!
https://mastodon.cloud/@DamnInteresting/112536934124761710

philsplace, to random
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That thing where you drank too much #coffee but still have a caffeine withdrawal headache because you drank way more than that all of last week.

philsplace, to random
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Some days it feels like the web is still as slow as it was when I had a 56k modem.

I really wish we could name and shame the techology stacks being used by those sites.

philsplace, to random
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Me, just now: Hey, that looks exactly like something I’d be interested in!

Oh, youtube… yeah… no.

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Seriously people. If you want your knowledge to exist in a hundred years you need another format.

philsplace, to random
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As a programmer I find it interesting when people say they hate the sigils in the language… then use phrases like ‘$work’ or ‘$dayjob’ in a social media post concisely showing the value of a sigil.

philsplace, to random
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My hot take: Nobody should use a programming language that you can’t debug by looking at a printed page of the code.

And, as far as I know… there is no way to tell the difference between tabs and spaces on a printed page. (by default)

IMHO, making an invisible character that you have to use so important to the language was a mistake.

Bython would be a HUGE improvement.
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112076070045646570

philsplace, to random
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I mean… trans people are real.

Gotta be an improvement…
https://lgbtqia.space/@jaelisp/112241428920686128

philsplace, to random
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Hm… might have to rewire my house if I get a new aeropress…

GottaLaff, to random
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Aaasnd my Internet is out again. Sigh. Yes, I can use my iPhone. It’s fine. It’s my Mac that dies.

philsplace,
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@GottaLaff

fyi, in case you don’t know… you can plug the iPhone into the mac and use the network on the mac.

(Or do it wirelessly)

Edit: That way you can type on the mac instead of the iphone.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/iphone-ipad-connect-mac-internet-mchl7594e36f/mac

philsplace, to random
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I’m calling a foul on the play: That is not sausage.

https://www.chowhound.com/1591213/sausage-brands-ingredients-quality/

philsplace, to random
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I’ve been doing this since the ‘90s.

Everyone gets a unique email address (and password).

I know about compromises at my bank and credit card companies* LOOOOONNNGGG before they admit it just by getting an email to the address only they have.

(The address I gave honda when financing my vehicle thru them started getting emails from other car manufacturers immediately after I paid off the loan… a good sign they sold it.)

*elsewhere too, but those are the most notable…
https://hackers.town/@RadicalEdward/112279986555140623

philsplace, to random
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Gotta say: I think the correct word is ‘shit’, not ‘slop’.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/08/slop

KrissyKat, to Indiana
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    philsplace,
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    @KrissyKat

    “Indiana is the Alabama of the Midwest.”

    I hate that my first thought reading that was “at least they aren’t the Mississippi of the Midwest”.

    Terrible is terrible.

    philsplace, to random
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    Mother nature: reminding us that winter is not over in Montana.

    Video of the view out my office window. There is a bird feeder with a lone bird. There is also near white out conditions as large fluffy snow flakes fall. The video starts out normal speed then switches to slow-mo while the bird eats and the fat snow flakes fall.

    philsplace, to random
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    This only works if they can match the data to you. And, they most likely do that by matching the email address.

    Number one reason to use a different email address for each account. And, hate to break it to you… using something like

    username+somebs@gmail.com

    Won’t cut it. That is easy to normalize to

    username@gmail.com
    https://milliways.social/@mcfly/112332061694272708

    philsplace, to random
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    Dropping some Perl right in the middle of some Template::Toolkit code is the best thing about TT

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