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sysop408

@sysop408@sfba.social

Early Internet/BBS Posse (86). Full-stack Drupal developer, almost competent server admin, marketing specialist for downtowns. Semi-professional Photographer.

TechCrunch Disrupt Alum. Non-24 (sighted). Wife has ME/CFS. Enjoyer of when the good news is also the bad news.

Former: Physical Therapist, Hospital Design Analyst, CRM Admin, Boston U Alumni

Fella. Slava Ukraini.

#Drupal #SmallBusiness #LongCovid #RetroComputing #Photography #Ukraine #PhysicalTherapy #Ergonomics #Non24 #AtariST

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ColesStreetPothole, to random
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So my spouse and I are both looking at the weather app on our iPhones and even though it appears we are accessing the same weather location, we are getting completely different forecasts—different temperatures, different rain percentages, etc. WTF?

sysop408,
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@ColesStreetPothole are you on different iOS versions? The older iPhones are stuck with the older Weather app that uses more traditional forecasting where the forecast is the forecast.

The newer versions of the app only work on more recent iPhones. They have a more dynamic algorithm based weather forecasting engine that will change as current conditions change.

atomicpoet, to random
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So basically, Xi is Putin’s daddy.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/05/533e57d6979e-putin-xi-meet-to-affirm-unity-in-countering-west-boost-cooperation.html

sysop408,
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@atomicpoet NYT Chief Washington correspondent, David Sanger recently published a book, New Cold Wars, in which he discusses the troubling implications of a China-Russia pact. In his telling so much of the underlying motivations for many of the things we've done is to impede this alliance from happening going back to Richard Nixon opening up economic ties to China being much less an economic move than it was a geopolitical move to impede a China-Soviet relationship from solidifying.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710053/new-cold-wars-by-david-e-sanger-with-mary-k-brooks/

adhdeanasl, to random
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Being angry about politics is fine.

Being so angry about politics that you argue with your allies and shit all over peoples silly joke posts is not.

Handle your shit, friends.

sysop408,
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@adhdeanasl I think people often subconsciously read the next message in their feed as a continuation of the previous message in their feed or they just had a heated conversation and they're reading everything as a continuation of that discussion.

I've done this plenty of times myself. We all gotta make sure we remember that every interaction is a fresh history.

sysop408, (edited ) to random
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Exhibit 921 of what it's like to work with . I asked some people for their logos converted into one color images for screen printing purposes. I also offered to do the conversion for anyone who couldn’t do it themselves.

I just got a logo back that looked like someone printed it out and then meticulously colored it in using a black fine point felt tip pen… an impressive effort to be sure.

The absurd and difficult parts of working with small businesses is also what I love about it. You'll never be bored and if you thought you've seen it all, just wait a minute.

sysop408,
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And while I'm on funny stories...

I once had to do photos of a shop owned by a woman who was probably mentally ill. Her store was kinda a disaster so it was impossible to photograph.

I had never met her before, but on the first time meeting her, she said she remembered me.

I told her that no, we had never met before, but we knew some people in common. She just repeated, "No. I know you. Your name is Fidel."

Uh, no. I'm Sheldon.

"Fidel."

No, really I'm Sheldon.

"Well, what are we doing today, Fidel?"

sysop408,
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@mjausson it was, but I'm going to redo it for them because it's just a little bit rough. It looks fine from afar, but something just didn't look right about it so I zoomed in and saw that it looked like someone had hand altered the image.

ai6yr, to zerowaste

Recycling tip: It looks like the primary collector of old eyeglasses in my are is the Lions Club. They have eyeglass donation boxes around the city. #recycling #glasses #eyeglasses #ConejoValley https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/conejo_valley/page-6.php

sysop408,
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@ai6yr ok, I’ve always wondered how recycled eyeglasses work. Are they able to somehow find someone with your prescription or do they just harvest the frames or what?

sysop408, to random
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Oh, the next few years will be frustrating. Have you started on progressive lenses yet?

sysop408,
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@flyingsaceur lol. The post I replied to was deleted so my comment is a hanging non-sequitur.

sysop408,
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@flyingsaceur I'm just amused that this ended up being an entirely different conversation than I expected because the original post vanished.

kcarruthers, (edited ) to random
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Looks like I’m going to be filling in another box on my 2024 : Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of virus

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

sysop408,
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@kcarruthers

"Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

I will never think of ancient civilizations as bizarre for worshiping the sun again. Clearly, people will worship toe fungus if you put a little effort into persuading them that toe fungus gives you super healing powers.

sysop408,
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@otte_homan only because you're doing it wrong. Buy my book and I'll show you how! 😆

sysop408, to sysadmin
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DNS gurus, am I correct in believing that PTR records are primarily used for mail sending servers and servers that never send mail do not need one?

sysop408,
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@flyingsaceur where I was running into an issue with PTR records was in that I had the same IP address set as the PTR record for more than one virtual host.

I had always been in the habit of setting a PTR record for everything, but recently I started seeing email get rejected from Gmail if the first result it got when it looked up a PTR didn't match the hostname of the sending server in the mail envelope.

I went through and removed all PTR records for anything that's on a shared IP and isn't functioning as a mail server. Just wondering if there could be some unintended consequences for those hosts not having a PTR.

sysop408,
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@pemensik OK basically you're saying always have a PTR record for every IP address, but only one PTR record?

@flyingsaceur

sysop408,
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@adrake in this case it was caused by a different domain being returned for the IP address. It's a shared server with multiple services on the same machine. There were a few hosts that had the same IP address as the mail server's IP. Most of the time the PTR record returned the correct hostname, but on some infrequent cases one of the alias domains was first to respond.

@flyingsaceur

sysop408, to random
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Now that I’ve installed my new air conditioner in anticipation of hot weather, the weather forecast has turned cool.

I can’t believe how well this thing works!

sysop408, to photography
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Every time I'm in a large crowd, I try this shot where you raise your camera over your head, steady it, and snap a few shots of the crowd in front of you.

It NEVER works, but I got lucky this one time.

Usually there's not enough separation between people for any one person to stand out above the others and even when you manage to highlight just one person, they're usually not doing anything interesting.

This time was different.

#photography

skinnylatte, to LosAngeles
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The best tips people gave me about visiting LA:

  • if you have to fly, fly into and out of Burbank. It’s worth whatever extra $ even with fewer flights, simply to NOT go through LAX

  • don’t plan a to criss-cross LA too much. It’s just so vast. Every time I go I do part of my trip on the west side, and the other part on the east. That way it makes it easy to get to places I want to go

  • Monterey Park has a huge density of many types of Chinese food! Tacos in East LA!

sysop408,
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@skinnylatte I would have similar flying advice for Boston unless you plan to only use public transportation while you're there.

It's been years since I've been back there, but I always preferred to fly into Manchester, NH or Providence, RI. Leaving the airport is less stressful, they'll have the rental car you want, and the rates will be cheaper.

Whenever I flew into Boston I'd get stuck with a "free upgrade" to a gas guzzler.

Free_Press, to random
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Nope...never...nada...zilch...

video/mp4

sysop408, (edited )
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If anyone remembers the American Gladiators "reality sport" TV show, they had a clever way of ensuring that the contestants that got on the show wouldn't be massive hulks who could just plow right through their gladiators.

I tried out for the show and felt out of place from the second I got there. I was the tiniest guy in my tryout group of 20. I couldn't even see with all that beef surrounding me.

I was also one of only two people to emerge from that group. On the first test, they made us do 50 fingertip push-ups in 60 seconds with a task master on us to make sure nobody got any freebies. All the way down and all the way up on the tips of your fingers.

The only people who could support their body weight on their fingertips were lightweight athletes.

In the next round, everyone was close to my size. I didn't make it on the show, but I made it farther than over 90% of the try-outs largely because they designed it specifically to select people like me.

@Free_Press

TonyStark, to random
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I’ve said this before but apparently it hasn’t sunk in but if you say “Biden has lost my vote”, don’t expect anyone to listen to you or be surprised he’s not out gunning for it. The election is 6 months out. If there’s no way you’re voting for him, nobody fucking cares what you want.

You can enjoy likely a 7-2 or 8-1 conservative SCOTUS that will be grinding down our rights for the next generation or three. Enjoy that.

sysop408, (edited )
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@TonyStark being active on Twitter in the OSINT circles in February 2022 and October 2023 was an eye opening experience.

October 2023 was deja vu with some of the exact same disinfo plays used to sow confusion about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Videos from Ukraine and other conflicts were hastily relabeled to represent something else with some to rile up hate against Israel and some to rile up hate against Palestine or hate against students.

Many of the accounts were the same accounts pushing Ukraine disinfo just 24 hours before and their post history showed it. Now they were suddenly chirping in unison to muddy the waters on Israel-Palestine.

Israel-Palestine is a much more complex conflict and way harder to parse. It's ripe pickings for chaos agents and it's not just Twitter that's failing the test. I keep seeing people here platform fake peace activists like Caitlin Johnstone and Code Pink who somehow have rather pro-aggression positions when it's Russia or China instead of the US.

@Snowshadow

Alice, to random
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Bad news: One of my coworkers just followed me on Mastodon.

Good news: My watch is letting me count my panic attack as a workout.

sysop408,
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@Alice anxiety attacks landing as workouts actually did happen to me before!

burritojustice, to random
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omfg TEXTURE

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sysop408,
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@burritojustice oh that’s so bad it’s good!

Wileymiller, to random
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It's SO obvious. The Deep State planted the worm in RFK jr's brain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.NUj_.8YmHTC3F9nfd&smid=url-share

sysop408,
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@Wileymiller the Times reached out to the worm for comment, but we did not get a response probably because it had starved to death.

anthrocypher, to random
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Online conflict is one of the scariest things about building something that matters in an internet age

but it doesn't have to be.

Pulling from a lot of firsthand experience, I wrote a guide to help leaders make tense moments with extended constituencies more constructive.

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/make-decisions-to-defuse-online-conflict/

sysop408,
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@anthrocypher
"Don't be fair to unfair people."

If I ever get a tattoo, that's what it's going to say.

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