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sillygwailo

@sillygwailo@mastodon.social

🎶 “Why your eyes well up? / Did you call me from a séance? / You are from my past life / Hope you're doin' well, bruh” 🎶

Lead Support Engineer for Acquia.

Current interests (you'll never guess which hashtags I follow): the PWHL, Toronto (as well as the DLWS), Moby-Dick, mapping and geolocation, Ingress, Drupal, Avro Arrow, EEAAO, microconfluences, Radiohead, TSS FC Rovers, Zadie Smith, OmniFocus, whales and exoplanets.

You'll also never guess what my handle is everywhere else.

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sillygwailo, to random
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“Git removed the friction from using version control; there was no excuse not to version anything of value anymore.” https://mmapped.blog/posts/28-enlightenmentware

sillygwailo,
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“A dive into Emacs internals also revealed the inherent beauty of its architecture.” #emacs https://mmapped.blog/posts/28-enlightenmentware

vga256, to random
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fellow geoworks lovers and related operating system outcasts:

does anyone know how/where the GeoWorks 1.x/2.x system bitmap fonts are stored?

i'm speaking specifically about the fonts used throughout the UI, and the one used on the splash screen for "Ensemble 2.0"

i've spent hours trying to figure this out, and i'm not much closer

#geoworks

sillygwailo,
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@vga256 I saw your followup post, so it looks like you found it. I just wanted you to know that there’s a fellow GeoWorks lover out there (me!) who’s following the hashtag. I re-visit this post every now and then when I want nostalgia-type feelings: https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/

sillygwailo, to random
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No sport has anything like overtime in Game 7 of a hockey playoff series.

sillygwailo, to random
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Will I miss the brain fog when it’s gone?

sillygwailo,
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I won’t miss the brain fog, because it’s never going away.

sillygwailo, to random
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My magic work phrase is “I don’t know, but let’s figure it out together.” https://ask.metafilter.com/379427/Your-magic-work-phrase

sillygwailo,
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That’s a variation on Jeanne’s magic work phrase. https://ask.metafilter.com/379427/Your-magic-work-phrase#5387092

nic, to random
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#Ingress is currently ‘celebrating Earth Day’ by giving double XM for recycling items in the games. This means that recycling power cubes is twice as effective than just using them, which is a strangely mixed message.

It’s just a bit of fun, but if they wanted to make a difference, they should make playing Ingress by car more difficult: reduce the speed at which the game locks down from 40mph to 20mph, for instance. 😈

https://ingress.com/news/2024-earthday

sillygwailo,
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@nic I’ve been in vehicles where the drivers are cargressing. Yikes!

It’s fun to imagine that Niantic could keep the speed limit in place but only for people taking public transit. A 20 km/hr limit would be fine for my streetcargressing! #Ingress

sillygwailo, to random
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It shouldn’t be too hard for me to boycott Loblaws, since I don’t grocery shop much anymore. Alt Grocery has me covered if I do need something for the pantry (or, more likely, snacks). https://www.altgrocery.ca

sillygwailo,
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The Steal From Loblaws Day poster is pretty ingenious. It’s a Rorschach test. People see what they want to see in it. Also, shout out to the people in the comment boards about it selling the “two wrongs don’t make a right” crowd on the compromise solution of the month-long boycott. “You can’t steal from a store you don’t go to.” #StealFromLoblawsDay

sillygwailo,
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No visual of a guillotine in the opera about the Loblaws boycott, but they did work it in to the song. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Wu915RPeY/

sillygwailo,
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Halfway through the May boycott and it’s been very…easy for me.

daringfireball, to random
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Mattel Makes New Version of Scrabble for Dum-Dums
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/11/scrabble-dum-dums

sillygwailo,
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@daringfireball Collaboration is more fun than competition.

sillygwailo, to random
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Is there a thing like a /now page, except for /never? As in, a movement for a page on your website listing the things you’ll never do (or never do again), updated periodically to reflect the current reality? What I’m referring to: https://nownownow.com

sillygwailo, to RSS
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I’ll subscribe to all of the feeds in RSS Club, which is a grouping of feeds with content that is only in the RSS feed, but so far, every feed I’ve checked has the content listed on their blog or journal page. #RSS https://daverupert.com/rss-club/

sillygwailo, to random
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“What do you do for fun?” keeps ringing in my ears whenever somebody asks me that.

sillygwailo, to random
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Something happened to me recently, and I think it might explain something else. Am I right?

sillygwailo, to random
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Would it be weird if I wore a headlamp and turned it on at the office space I rent a desk from once a week?

sillygwailo, to random
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What’s the worst hour of the day? I contend that it starts around 9 PM.

sillygwailo,
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@johnefrancis One of the falsehoods about timezones is that there’s someone who understands all the timezones’ subtleties. That person simply does not exist. I am now Googling “Does 9 PM exist on Rapa Nui?”

sillygwailo, to random
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Is anybody using those reply cards, or are they finding them too passive aggressive?

sillygwailo,
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It’s been about a couple of months: Has anybody used one of those reply cards, either on you or by you, and wondered if “Who’s the jerk here?”

sillygwailo, to random
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Finally some good news. https://gizmodo.com/peoples-joker-theatrical-release-lgbtq-dc-comics-wb-1851115758

sillygwailo,
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The People’s Joker is screening tomorrow night at the Fox Theatre, and I will be there. https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/the-peoples-joker/

sillygwailo,
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I saw The People’s Joker last night, and, well, let me just say that I do what I can to read about gender and queerness, but I’ve definitely never seen the topics expressed in that way. What a very, very strange movie. It’s definitely worth a rewatch since there a few rewindable moments and at least one “How did they get that shot” … shot.

sillygwailo, to random
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The Toronto Public Library is going to have to scrap their entire website and catalogue and start over from scratch, aren’t they?

sillygwailo,
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Spacing is going deep on the Toronto Public Library’s ransomeware attack in a five-part series. #Toronto

Part I: https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/26/spacing-investigation-toronto-public-library-ransomware-attack-part-i/

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