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#Canadian (sorry). Being kind, empathetic and supportive to others, #vaccines, #vegans and #LGBT+ are cool; convoys and racists and *phobes are not. Computer Engineer, #software #developer, #technical #writer, #translation manager, reformed project manager and #SCRUMmaster, dad and boyfriend.

I like video games, programming, baking and cooking. While Im not #vegan, LawyerGF is, so I'm vegan-ISH.

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2026-04-30 17:25:46 UTC

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This happened to a company wide DL when I worked at RIM/Blackberry. It was.. interesting. A few years back, reminded of the notorious event I dug those emails out of an old Blackberry backup I had and wrote up a blog post:
https://awadwatt.com/tezoatlipoca/rim-job-blackberry-tales-the-story-of-sumit-b

2026-04-22 16:58:40 UTC

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> I was certain I was going to be included, but the person who said we needed to talk about my performance ended up being laid off themselves, and so no one ever rescheduled that meeting.
oh no! You're Milton (from Office Space). I hope they don't "correct" the clerical error in payroll.

2026-04-22 16:29:30 UTC

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Ill be curious (if you are let go) how much your tenure at Meta/FB helps.. or hinders your job searching (I could see it both ways, particularly in your specific moderation position). Specifically your "I fight for _whats BEST_ for people" stance. Depending on who/where you interview next that could be a + or -)
I _have_ been thinking of you, as only-person-I-know-at-Facebook, as news of layoffs and AI training on employees and as I slowly chug through Careless People.
Best of luck.

2026-04-13 16:10:57 UTC

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lol. I mean he is dating Katy Perry so he's kinda busy.
Also, no longer his job. Remember your pin codes yourself fella!
Srsly, isn't everyone's PIN for everything their student # from college?

2026-04-06 19:45:10 UTC

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Yeah. Grace Hopper, the women of Bletchley Park, the "hidden figures" of NASA like Katherine Johnson who did the math to put Glenn in orbit and Dorothy Vaughn who ran the computers (the movie is ok, but total white savior bullshit).
I want to see more women in charge of tech. I want more badass tech-sisters running things.

2026-03-26 21:43:32 UTC

"An ad blocker is preventing this page from loading."
No, my #adblocker is preventing your #ADs from loading. The fact that the REST of your page refuses to load if the ads dont load, well that sounds like a YOU problem.

2026-03-26 18:56:38 UTC

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I still have physical Mapquest printouts in my keepsake boxes of directions to friends cottages, going to that out of town concert or roadtrips from yesteryear. Good times.

2026-03-22 18:05:09 UTC

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As its unlikely that Gandalv is monetized by X, and I have no problem depriving X of eyeball revenue (fuck em), here's a static SingleFile copy of that post for anyone who doesn't want to X (it really is a good post):
https://static.awadwatt.com/Gandalv%20on%20X%EF%BC%9A%20%EF%BC%82Robert%20Mueller%20died%20last%20night._He%20was%2081%20years%20old.%20He%20had%20a%20wife%20who%20loved%20him%20for%20sixty%20years.%20He%20had%20two%20daughters,%20one%20of%20whom%20he%20met%20for%20the%20first%20time%20in%20Hawaii,%E2%80%A6.html

2026-03-20 15:26:58 UTC

Its #Easter coming soon, and while I don't go in for any of the #religious stuff, I do mark the return of easter candy. In particular #LauraSecord eggs.
For the non-#Canadians, these are like #Cadbury #CreamEggs except 10x better and they come in adult sizes.
The default size is 300g, so roughly 2/3 of a pound. Keep em in the fridge you can slice like a cake. Which is good cause you can only have a bit before you turn diabetic.
https://www.foodandwinechickie.com/2013/04/04/laura-secord-easter-cream-eggs/

2026-03-14 18:32:31 UTC

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Ironically, its the ultimate trickle-down ecnomic boost that the ultra-capitalists keep saying _should_ happen if you tax the wealthy less: do you know how many people you'd _employ_ simply helping to spend your money helping other people if you had billions? Think of how many more ppl would be employed if our healthcare was properly funded. Or social services. Fuck, even Make A Wish foundation.
The ONLY. Reason. This doesn't happen is the wealthy don't want to.

2026-03-14 17:24:13 UTC

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goddamnit, I wish I had just 800 _million_ lying around.
Not only would I fund - in perpetuity - a dozen food banks around here, open a donkey/horse/farm animal sanctuary, build some affordable housing and establish a low/controlled rent co-op housing model, but I'd still have $100M left over for "fuck-you money" vanity projects, like start a pay-what-u-can/want sci-fi movie studio/channel.

2026-03-13 14:58:50 UTC

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You know what really pisses me off? These idiots losing all of this money, how did they get it to begin with? Meanwhile Im barely making rent, yet and while IM not an economist, I know enough that if you dump a shitton of a thing on a market the value of said thing collapses, Like _what the fuck_ guys.

2026-02-27 16:37:19 UTC

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If it had been in Wales the material should have been in Welsh, where "Green Party" is `Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch`
Kidding (but that is a town name), its `Y Blaid Werdd`

2026-02-10 19:00:35 UTC

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Steam Streaming is a criminally underutilized feature, $0.02. My gaming rig is in the basement so if Im playing Im antisocial :(
But depending on the game I can steam scream most games to my linux laptop in the living room.
Most games. Wouldn't want to try it with a reaction-time critical game like Arc Raiders.

2026-02-10 14:26:37 UTC

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yeah, I've heard good things of tailscale. Try that first, OP, before wireguard. (use that to tunnel your VPS to your homelab services)
Also curious to find out your progress. Keep us posted!

2026-02-09 18:05:29 UTC

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.. look into a VPN tunnel from VPS to home server. I've never used one of those (for tunneling traffic direct from host a to host b), but that allows you to tunnel multiple ports through a single, encrypted port so your home firewall only needs to expose the one for the VPN inbound traffic.
In these cases I imagine the VPN tunnel appears as just another network interface and all you have to do is route traffic accordingly. Like map that `proxy_pass` to be `http://ip.on.vpn.net:port`

2026-02-09 18:03:43 UTC

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But it IS adding an extra hop and the latencies that produces. For any self-hosted service I cant imagine it would be noticeable by clients, but its an extra step.
Mind you, if for some reason you fall afoul of some attacks or a DDOS at you, at least its your VPS providers's prob. So thats a thing.
Ok so then what you could do is confgure NGINX on VPS to map to <your hom IP> and <port>. But if your IP changes you'll have to update your NGINX config on VPS.
OR,

2026-02-09 18:00:18 UTC

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Ohh I see now. Have nginx (or whatever) reverse proxying on your VPS and redirecting to your box(es) at home.
Not being on the same LAN.. well it won't be as efficient. My way if we connect to pleroma.yourdomain its two hops, client->your ISP/modem->your.server
Your way its three: client ->your vps->your ISP/modem->your.server
I get the appeal of privacy; and NGINX when it does this doesn't tell clients that the actual service isn't local, so yay.
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2026-02-09 17:49:23 UTC

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A simplified NGINX config would be:
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name jelly.awadwatt.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://othercomputer:9800
}
}
all this says is any request for `jelly.awadwatt.com` (via https, port 443) redirect that to othercomputer on port 9800
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2026-02-09 17:46:56 UTC

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Likewise my Jellyfin server is at `jelly.awadwatt.com` and is hosted on a different computer and all NGINX on bob does is redirect all traffic for `jelly.awadwatt.com` to THAT computer.
Unless there's something Im not picking up there's no `tunnel` going on, at least in the VPN sense of the word, this is called reverse-proxying. Several services on same/different hosts but all being "proxied" behind a single responder to the outside world (that responder being NGINX)
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2026-02-09 17:44:07 UTC

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So for example, my Writefreely server runs on a computer `steve` in my basement.
My cheap ($10?/yr) dynamic dns provider maps `https://awadwatt.com/` to the IP address assigned by my ISP. I've configured my cable router firewall to allow inbound http ports to another computer `bob`. NGINX on `bob` gets the request for `awadwatt.com` and knows to redirect to `steve:80`, i.e. Writefreely runs on port 80 there.
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2026-02-09 17:23:16 UTC

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This is exactly what I currently do and would be happy to help or point you in the right direction.
I have several subdomains pointing to one box here in by basement and NGINX redirects those inbounds to several other box on my home LAN.
Low cost dynamic DNS via afraid.org.

2026-02-05 23:39:49 UTC

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I mean the Fallout dystopia uses bottle caps so why not.
Did they ever explain in the lore, why bottlecaps?

2026-02-02 19:08:04 UTC

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My son and friends went to a concert in Toronto on the weekend of Masayoshi Soken, the music from the Final Fantasy series. (apparently it was really fantastic)
So I asked him "alright which is the BEST final fantasy game?" (I watched a housemate play a few hours of.. VII? VIII? back in college)
He said "Its complicated; and contentious." and then an hour long treatise about it that ur post reminded me of.
Im happy for those that enjoy FF, just seems daunting to me.

2026-02-02 17:55:57 UTC

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If you put medical residency into any other context it makes no sense whatsoever and noone would ever do that.
_Ok, journyman plumber assistant. You're gonna work 12 hr shifts, upwards of 80-90 hrs a week for minimum wage for two years. How bout that?_
How bout YOU fuck off?

2026-02-02 17:30:49 UTC

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shocked I tells ya, shocked.

2026-02-02 17:08:06 UTC

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If American survives (and I hope it does), I really hope there are Nuremburg style trials for every ICE agent and admin appointee even remotely involved in any of this.
Remember when the FBI put out calls for any online video footage or stills of the 1/6 capital hill riot/attack? And they threw gobs $$/people at being able to identify and track the movements of every indictee (and convicted nearly all). Im hopeful that all this evidence of all this ICE biz survives till then.

2026-02-02 14:09:29 UTC

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yeah I know my head is just stuck around the notion of tape being an analog thing (despite having digital content). omg, remember how tedious tape backups were?

2026-02-02 13:43:02 UTC

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What would that mean?
The closest I can think would be Hi-8 video cameras - the optics are analog (or a combination), the CMOS sensor is digital, but the compressed digital stream is written to tape? (what counts as analog.. to my mind tape, even if it stores a digital byte stream is still "analog".. because, well, its tape.)

2026-01-28 23:32:54 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115975323887989732
Uh, its not an accomplishment #Microsoft if people are _forced into it._
Its like `cake OR death` and they're all out of cake. #Windows11
#note1my6…zuh7

2026-01-19 15:22:25 UTC

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no mixin a batch? distributing free literature?

2026-01-08 23:05:51 UTC

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> The only reason they’re not Microsoft is because their OS didn’t take off. But it’s not for want of trying.
Sorry, I had a nice daydream for a second about if OS/2 had been a player.

2026-01-08 15:05:18 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115860072439977180
wow. we need more of this.
#note1s6g…kfcc

2026-01-06 18:13:38 UTC

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I assume you mean the people behind xlibre, not the people the xlibre people say are fascists. Calling other people facists is typically what facists say.

2026-01-06 17:30:16 UTC

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xlibre?
>Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups and enhanced functionality. This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products.
Ohhhhhhh. That sounds..... like drama. Nope

2026-01-05 16:11:41 UTC

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Definately the right ballpark.
The galling thing is that this special tier that we signed up for was meant for small companies like ours who simply couldn't afford the All-Bells-And-Whistles tier.
So, I mean, its great that we now get that for the same price, but...

2026-01-05 16:09:36 UTC

So I email our sales rep for a SaaS platform we use about getting a quote to add a feature we now need,
"Oh, you have <tier x>, you should already have that feature."
What?
Turns out, we signed on to a pilot program where we paid $x/yr for _some_ features, but after the pilot program ended they just rolled that tier into the All-Bells-And-Whistles Tier _and didn't fcking tell anyone_.
And we didn't SEE the new features because their support bungled OUR account migration.
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2026-01-01 16:44:28 UTC

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i make pretty good Kitchen Sink zsoup,where u just throw in all leftovers and perishables in ur fridge, and usually it comes out ok. Can u not do the same with a hodge podge of flours and the right amount of yeast/starter and water? (Im an idiot at baking)

2025-12-23 15:09:29 UTC

I bought a thing a month ago from a local retailer. I bought online and picked it up in person.
To this day, they keep sending me emails like "Be sure to rate your experience!" or "Tell us how we did!".. DAILY.
Mitch Hedberg in my head is going "I do not NEED to rate my experience. I gave you money, you gave me a donut. End of transaction. Survey Monkey does not enter into this. Like I need to proove to that skeptical friend, I enjoyed Canadian Tire. See? Its filled under T.. for Tire."

2025-12-14 17:16:05 UTC

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it has never occured to me in my 40+ yrs of baking to cut butter into pastry by freezing and _grating_ it. Nice!

2025-12-09 20:50:51 UTC

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> Investors have decided that Apple is a gravity-free zone.
For now, it is. There's no other way to explain why Apple users keep buying new devices other than "cultish lockin". They're the same as last year's model/version with a new # slapped on (and a new somehow worse UX). There hasn't been anything truly innvoative or ground breaking, yet at the yearly reveal party they add sparkles and double the RAM and everyone loses their minds like they just invented the transistor.

2025-12-05 22:35:45 UTC

"Tree! Document <title> is wrong! Specifically this <valueX>! Who is the ignoramus who specified that value? ITS COMPLETELY WRONG WHO DO I GET TO LIGHT ON FIRE AND BLAME FOR EVERYTHING BEING WRONG?"
<checks Jira tickets that produced the latest document revision; goes back 3 document revisions over as many years>
You did. See here (2 yr old ticket): "pls change valueX from <blah> to <blah> because <rationale>. "
"..... uh. ok its fine. kthx."

2025-12-05 22:24:22 UTC

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bet that smells wonderful.
Is there any moisture in it? Like will it harden with time, or if its soft its soft?

2025-12-05 18:02:49 UTC

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Trump: I want a peace prize.
FIFA: uh.. that's not a thing. I mean it IS a thing, but its the Nobel committee, we don't really do tha-
Trump: how quickly can you find alternative Mexican and Canadian stadiums for 84 World Cup games and associated billions in tourism dollars?
FIFA: ah hahah, look at what we just found under the sofa!? we've been thinking of creating this prize for decades, you're PERFECT to be its very first recipient.

2025-12-04 15:32:26 UTC

More #enshittification .. . #youtube won't let you watch #videos at other playback speeds without paying for Youtube Premium.
Like, I don't know how you can speedrun the ruination of a platform any faster.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/662/018/610/661/748/original/d4252639a3e37017.png

2025-11-12 18:44:17 UTC

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Yes, and outside of the techbrofluencers whose livelihoods depend on it being a success, it is being "accepted reluctantly, slowly, or not at all".
I have not heard - not once - anyone I know or work with go "oh man, <software> just added AI and its totes amazeballs and I like shifted SEVEN paradigms today Im so much more productive". At best, its "oh, Copilot helped me write this script faster".

2025-11-11 17:56:48 UTC

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I wonder if Lauren shaves his scrotum daily too, or if he has one of his delivery drivers/fulfillment pickers do it, like its your final test to graduate from a line worker to a manager.
TV producer: no no we meant `Undercover Boss` not `Uncovered Boss`

2025-10-24 21:48:07 UTC

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well, I mean @npub1fqg…7yvt could cause she already did. Be interesting to know if she were asked to do so again, could one write a browser engine from scratch in this day and age.

2025-10-23 20:36:58 UTC

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@npub1e9x…msz2 is setting up a #PeerTube Co-op as it happens:
https://atomicpoet.org/objects/4bda40c7-42ea-4a17-9d71-6c5737ae7e95

2025-10-19 21:48:53 UTC

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Thanks Tom. Stay tuned to Channel Six News for more breaking seat post developments throughout the week.
_Aaaand we're out. Good show everone._
<pulls out phone and speed dials> Hey Tony. Yeah, its me. Listen, you know that AI6YR Ben guy? Yeah, bicycle seat guy. Look, put me down for five big on he gets the post out _without_ liquid nitrogen. By Wednesday, latest.
#seatpostwatch #day5
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2025-10-19 21:34:08 UTC

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I saw this and my first thought was "should have asked that guy from yesterday who had the stuck bicycle seat post" and... well we're already here.

2025-10-14 17:35:43 UTC

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last time our hornets saw combat was in Kosovo if Im not mistaken. So too early for drones. So cruise missile? one from the first gulf war (our planes are THAT old)

2025-10-10 13:38:41 UTC

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https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/350/144/253/635/693/original/257d50f5659f250c.jpeg

2025-10-09 20:41:11 UTC

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The Explody McBoomFace Awards just don't have the same cachet.

2025-10-04 17:52:40 UTC

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Hrmm.. well if its been "Canada's Oil" all this time, then I guess AB should shut the hell up and stop complaining about how all that oil money was siphoned off to Ottawa for redistribution to other provinces then.
Also, as co-owner of BC, the mountains and the pacific coast I hereby revoke my permission for any more fucking pipelines.

2025-09-29 14:52:02 UTC

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Part of my struggle is that I've been here for 15 years - I've seen coworkers come and go, and an inordinate amount of relearning the hard way. I and a few other Oldtimers keep pointing out "that's gonna be a problem" but since the newcomers never suffered in the last implosion, they get distracted by $sexier$ features. Our engineering arm is hostage to our product management and sales, none have a sw background; we are bereft of technical product ownership and UX experience.

2025-09-29 14:28:05 UTC

oh fck me. Two years ago I identified a problem and raised it w/ everyone important. "This will become a problem if we don't address it now". Then watched as the remediation ticket was deferred, and deferred again.
Well now its a problem, shits on fire and I find myself in meeting after meeting a) explaining WHAT the problem even is b) WHAT the solution is c) how painful it will be d) why did noone raise this before? And then its escalated so new meeting, new ppl, rinse and repeat.

2025-09-26 15:46:22 UTC

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You know how we have the Overton window for left/progressive - right/conservative political skew? We need something similar for good - bad/evil designation. Hitlerian Window is an obvious choice but he's had his 15 mins, fuck that guy.
How about the Kissinger Window? Netanyahu Range? Trump Metric?

2025-09-24 17:12:06 UTC

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Can we start a kickstarter to infiltrate Summer into the White House or onto Air Force One where she can bite that guy's nuts off?
On second through, as much as Im sure Summer would appreciate biting any douchebag, having to bite Trumps nuts might be cruel and unusual. If she could find anything that is.

2025-09-23 18:51:10 UTC

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in any case, even as the most staunchly anti-nazi Ukrainian, what is the biggest priority at the moment? rooting out nazis in my country? or fighting to _keep_ my country?
You can't root out nazis in your country, if you _don't have a country_.

2025-09-23 18:47:49 UTC

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The "nazis in Ukraine" excuse is so easy to dispell.
Are there racist white-supremacists (the nazis) in Ukraine? yep.
There are nazis in every country. Heck, we have em here in Canada, they came out to protest wearing covid masks.
Difference being, you fight nazis at home through anti-hate legislation and shaming and social ostracism. Until your nazis gain control and spill outside your borders, its an internal affiar. If Russia is on a nazi crusade they should invade the USA.

2025-09-19 19:57:16 UTC

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If the Dems who were "Present"++ or absent had bothered it would have been 215 to 213. Well within range of enticing a few Rs to cross the aisle. Srsly what the fuck are they DOING?
++ I assume this (saying "present") is some lame Congressional protest measure like spoiling a ballot?

2025-09-18 20:06:15 UTC

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If this was Star Trek we could just fuckn fly into a wormhole or something and go visit the alternate timeline, steal a whale and if we eject our warp cores we make it back and suddenly everything is green and the President is a 79 yr old grandma who spends her term crocheting toques for premies because everything is going just fine dearies, why don't you pull up stool and tell me about your day here's a cookie.

2025-09-10 16:45:43 UTC

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If you're not out there telling the world how many paradigms you shifted or how many minions you sacked for AI before lunch, then you just don't have upper middle management written anywhere on you. You gotta HUSTLE. You gotta be up on those TRENDS bro. How could any industry shaking CEO bro take you seriously unless you're up every day at 3 AM working that grind?

2025-08-31 16:42:44 UTC

New Rule: if you own a spice company, don't name it this. (I knew we had cloves somewhere but all I have is Thyme.)
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/124/375/635/855/538/original/1756b7c514e17e36.jpg

2025-08-22 12:39:54 UTC

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train them to do what, shoot unarmed civilians?

2025-08-21 15:47:10 UTC

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are you just wishing this were a thing or is there actually this thing in which case you can't just drop that and not link to that thing my dude.

2025-08-20 17:23:02 UTC

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To clarify the missing context from the pictures, the one on the right is a famous picture from Northern Ireland during the troubles, but it matches the message. The message has been around for ever and is frequently (and erroneously) attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but it is still (my $0.02) a truism.

2025-08-16 16:47:44 UTC

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And there are now TWO ads at the top of EVERY discussion thread you open.
Which, depending on the device take up well over half of your screen.

2025-08-13 14:52:00 UTC

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wasn't he just white water rafting?
HOW MANY VACATIONS DOES THIS ASSHOLE GET?

2025-08-08 14:48:10 UTC

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forget the curtains, _why are those balconies crooked_.

2025-08-03 15:06:08 UTC

As much as this scratches the cool itch (and I wish I had a laptop that had a usb-c power-in connection), I can't keep from thinking we're all eventually going to be like Tony Stark in that cave (pre-mark1 suit) lugging that car battery around.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7nklagz3myw736dfjmcbmanh/post/3lvix2butns2i

2025-07-29 23:03:02 UTC

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oh so THATs why I've been seeing all these JT+KP posts.
whoa.

2025-07-13 16:13:17 UTC

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Love your photos. Also love https://zhhz.cc <-- is that static or what platform drives that minimal form?

2025-07-06 20:34:46 UTC

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at least u made it right away. I frequently don't until I'm trying to go to be- awww come on!

2025-06-30 19:26:19 UTC

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omg tons.
In most big grocery chains there is our household daily, Kicking Horse (w/ such varieties as Kick-Ass, Three Sisters, Grizzly Claw (and they're fair trade!).
Here in town (Kitchener/Waterloo) there's Smile Tiger, Balzacs, Pyrus, Matter of Taste - although one's availability to get these outside of mid-sw-Ontario might be more difficult (tho they're in many retail locations here).

2025-06-27 17:31:57 UTC

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Alright, who had McCarthyism on their sheet?

2025-06-14 16:50:44 UTC

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Moores Law - its an order of magnitude or two more than Binders Full of Women which is still way more than the original RFC 1149 protocol: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

2025-06-12 15:54:08 UTC

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That ad just drips with Market-speak. I particularly liked `maximum perception control`.
Like, Maximum Perception Control is so fucking _Orwellian_.

2025-06-12 15:23:04 UTC

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"Fee paid in cryptocurrency"
lol.

2025-06-10 14:22:40 UTC

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"Federal permitting is done" lol
Does one typically require federal government permission to (re)build houses? I thought that's usually done on a municipal level and with the help of ones bank/insurance.
See, I can Trump too: "I hearby declare, that do two the incompetent states keeping our children in school for too long, when they could be in the farms learning valuable life lessons, that school is now OVER for summer. All these kids want is to pick tobacco and earn $."

2025-06-03 17:10:27 UTC

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Has a point. HDMI never had this problem - could you imagine the strife if your TV had 4 HDMI ins, but only 1 of them supported 4k, 2 did 1080 and one only did 720?
I have never heard of that. The capabilities of the source or the sink are applicable to all ports of that type - the chipset whose capabilities matter generally is only going to be dealing with one port at a time, but it will never know which one. USB chipset has to deal with all simultaneously.

2025-05-30 18:00:09 UTC

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this got posted the other day (sorry couldn't dig up original OP) and while I don't think it was posted in a similar topic, it illustrates the point. For every dude that is the 1/10 who is openly Hitler, and 1 is the goodest, how many of the ones in the middle think bad but just don't do bad openly? Makes you go hrmm.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/598/085/077/153/891/original/01f33cdb79edeacd.png

2025-05-30 14:33:14 UTC

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An extended relative works at a digital forensic company where they are using LLMs to scan message bds and chats looking for child predators. Apparently their models are amazingly good. (the investigation, indictment still done by humans w/ subpoenas ofc, !minority.report yet)
If I had $fuck.u$, I'd hire them to write anti-racist/bigot/misogyny/phobic version that moderators could use. One click on a suspect account and it scrubs their post history for banvidence.

2025-05-23 15:24:22 UTC

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its like no one is even trying to hide it anymore (the grift, the corruption, the servitude to the Orange Turd)

2025-05-21 17:23:07 UTC

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I tried Makers Mark once and while enjoyable and easy to use, I didn't get much work done.

2025-05-17 16:39:22 UTC

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Interestingly enough, not only does the ring serve as a reminder of one's professional societal obligation, it can also save your fingers - I had my hand slammed in a car door once and that ring saved two of my fingers from being mangled.
If you work with high voltages tho, you gotta take it off.

2025-05-17 16:34:48 UTC

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When a Canadian engineering student graduates, there is a ritual called the Calling of an Engineer(written by Kipling no less) where they are presented with an iron ring to be worn on the pinkie of their writing hand as a reminder of their obligation not to screw up. Rumor is the steel these rings are made from is from the wreckage of this bridge - that's FALSE, sadly, but its such a metal story I can't help but perpetuate it, ironically (heh) in violation of my oath.

2025-05-16 14:07:48 UTC

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I know, I know!
Has 86 been a kitchen thing since like forever and its only been a thing since it got used in S02 of The BEar? or is it a thing now because of The Bear?
(I've never worked in a commercial kitchen, wouldn't know)

2025-05-16 13:35:17 UTC

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Hrmm, just watched the episode of The Bear where Josh got 86'd on soft opening night because he was smoking crack out back.

2025-05-15 14:11:57 UTC

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happy birthday sux's mom.
Uh.. would it be weird / overwhelming if six thousand ppl suddenly followed your mom?

2025-05-09 19:05:05 UTC

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curious - what sw platform IS Adamsdesk? (it looks very nice)
(im so old school where the bottom of every page had an attribution to what _served_ it - e.g. this is phpBB-6.7.1 running on NetBSD on a toaster oven)

2024-12-18 21:14:57 UTC

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Official or unofficial, associations, unions or professional accreditation or regulation bodies should be apolitical.
I might be a Liberal voter. I might not be. Am I concerned that the official stance of a public safety organization that my tax money pays for is obviously politically biased? Absofuckinglutely.
"Yeah, Im sorry your house was burglered, but... that picture of you and Chrystia Freeland from 2009 clearly you're a Liberal so.. well good luck finding your tv!"

2024-12-05 18:59:33 UTC

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This is awesome.
"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. And then the murders began."
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. And then the murders began."
"'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. And then the murders began."

2024-12-03 16:48:27 UTC

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Curious y not do oldschool method: compile markdown -> html, use ftp/sftp to slurp static html to webserver. What _is_ your webserver platform?
cause then you can just add the sftp as a post git commit hook.

2024-11-27 18:18:31 UTC

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But if you think of an AI engine as just another application you can run on a computer then running distributed cluster of AI nodes on physical servers or in a cluster of VMS makes little difference to the AI engine.
The BIG power consumer of AI engines is in the CPU and (more importantly) GPU power - AI models are a lot of math crunching which GPUs are very good at. But a big power draw. While virtualization adds a teeny overhead, its ~0 compared to base AI usage.

2024-11-27 18:18:07 UTC

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Running applications in a virtual machine (i.e. emulation of a computer and OS within another computer) technically requires a little more electricity due to the emulation and management overhead. But the flexibility virtualization gives you more than makes up for it. If your one server is at capacity you can scale quickly by taking a snapshot of that VM and starting up clone VMs (I'm over simplifying a bit).
1/

2024-11-20 20:53:03 UTC

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"Help me you idiots! The aliens are taking me!"

2024-11-11 16:07:03 UTC

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I really liked Firefox (before Mozilla shit the bed) - but I spend too much of my work life in cloud applications that just crush Gecko (the Firefox engine). They crush Ffox because the developers of these apps don't test against Gecko and they don't test against Gecko because Ffox only has what 4% browser share and sinking?
Vivaldi for the win. Though, I hate the fact that there are only two browser engines out there. I can't help but feel we're setting ourselves up.

2024-11-06 04:11:13 UTC

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I lol'd at that.
I think baseball guy is most appropriate.