Paul_IPv6

Just trying to spread the good word about IPv6. Member of an obscure technical group on the internet. Still remember when it was all the ARPANET. DNS/DNSSEC.

Love pretty much any musical instrument with strings and frets (and a few with just strings). Play/build/repair as many of them as I can.

Profile picture is a 1924 Gibson F-4 mandolin with a Virzi tone producer.

i do screen followers. if you are brand new, don't have any useful bio, or posts, generic avatar, etc. i will probably deny your request.

#guitar #mandolin #bass #music #cocktails #cooking #kumihimo #BadPuns

#SlavaUkraine #BlackLivesMatter 9X#CovidBoosters

github: https://github.com/pe-git
pronouns: he/him

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2026-07-20 03:31:47 UTC

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possibly, but some of the lyrics will definitely still ring true for most of us:
"when i think back on all the crap i learned in high school,
it's a wonder i can think at all."

2026-07-16 02:42:05 UTC

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learning sed (and ed) and regex's was like a super power for shell stuff. also made my use of vi/vim much zippier. and yeah, impresses linux/unix newbies. ;)

2026-06-24 23:25:48 UTC

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nope. sawzall and ladder seems like a bad combo.

2026-06-24 23:17:57 UTC

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for years, i used duct tape for anything *except* ducting work.
then, i was running ducting out to a work space in the garage from the main house. i was *so* disappointed to learn that duct tape was no longer code for taping ducts... there is sometimes no justice in this life.

2026-06-24 23:15:49 UTC

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vice grips, chain saws, sawzalls, hammers are all very fun to use, assuming you don't mind some collateral damage or part replacement. :)

2026-05-27 23:11:58 UTC

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engines were designed to take advantage of the lead in the gas. if you have one of that era of car, you need a special additive to not have the engine "knock"...
in roman times, they deliberately added lead to drinking water.

2026-05-09 00:08:20 UTC

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my partner is greek.
in our shopping list, i put this:
"garlic. enough for you *AND* enough left over for the rest of us..."

2026-05-01 15:02:08 UTC

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my first classical guitar teacher called that "progress". :)
"i don't want to see the same mistakes every week. i want to see new and different mistakes."

2026-04-30 22:32:04 UTC

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"a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" -- Waldo Emerson
something can be consistently bad or broken. a bad security "best practices" checklist is one good example. :)
you can't have security without consistent effort and processes, but you can be consistent while never achieving security.
"compliance == security" is right up there with "change == progress" in ways you can confuse things. :)

2026-04-30 20:48:54 UTC

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you do get consistency and at least a base level of security. the trick is to not fall into the trap that compliance == all the security you need to do.
i like to describe it as like the 4th grade reading level of many newspapers. that doesn't get you a college grad. you can't get to college without passing by 4th grade but you have a lot of work left. but at least if everyone reads at minimum 4th grade, you have a basis for publishing and sharing.
also, if you don't have at least 4th grade level, you already know the critical thing to fix first.

2026-04-27 20:15:14 UTC

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kiskie-diller? :)

2026-04-27 03:19:08 UTC

i've been thinking pretty seriously about getting a hurdy gurdy. been considering doing a kit. i have built a guitar, a mandolin, and a banjo from scratch, and did a short apprenticeship in instrument repair, so i don't need a beginner kit.
anyone have any experience with someone doing high quality hurdy gurdy kits?

2026-04-21 00:36:29 UTC

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apparently, that season was "stupidity season". :)

2026-04-20 18:59:34 UTC

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"'blood on the highway'. accept no substitutes. ask for it by name." :)

2026-04-20 18:50:47 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-page-91uottdbz/-/a-ExcKKWxHQnid9_7u9BKUzA%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
this reminds me of the "blood on the highway" drivers ed film that was supposed to scare us into driving safely but was generally viewed as a classic right up there with all the horror and slasher films.
#note1skk…xkas

2026-04-20 18:33:39 UTC

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i applaud this.
also, i've submitted vendor feature requests for way less than a cute pic of a really cute dog. ;)

2026-04-19 02:06:19 UTC

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isn't IT all about user satisfaction? ;)

2026-04-19 02:04:13 UTC

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well, if you insist on us checking...
<takes out rubber dishwashing gloves and heavy axle grease...>
can you turn your head and cough for us?

2026-04-16 21:09:19 UTC

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Winston Zeddemore: "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!"

2026-04-15 18:15:58 UTC

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if it can't span your attention, you wind up with an attention gap. :)

2026-04-09 22:48:32 UTC

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in the mountains, that's not sufficient distinction. :)

2026-04-08 18:37:50 UTC

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so true!
spices/herbs we found in one cuisine sometimes going into a more regular rotation in unrelated dishes or cuisines.

2026-04-08 18:33:50 UTC

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it's a slippery slope. my partner and i have been experimenting with a huge range of cuisines, all of which have signature spices/herbs. we have a wall of cabinets in the laundry room more or less full of various spices, herbs, or specialty ingredients.
does mean that we have saved huge amounts not ordering takeout/delivery and learned all sorts of things about various countries and cultures.

2026-04-08 00:33:05 UTC

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LOL.
i had a similar discussion about how a wooden desk wasn't going help either a nuclear bomb or a tornado. :)
my mom's ambition, never realized, was to be able to walk into a school office where my sister and i attended and not be instantly recognized by the entire office staff. :)

2026-04-03 21:49:40 UTC

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my favorite linkedin story...
in my decades long career, i've had one single "management" job. sr director. only 6 months at that company/job. everything else was SME/individual contributor for my entire career.
i got contacted by an executive headhunter for a VP of engineering job. i was already morbidly curious about what kind of supposedly executive headhunter could think i was a VP candidate, so took the call.
it was a startup company, first round of funding, yet had no VP of eng yet.
so, i ask innocently, what's the company's plan/product?
recruiter: "oh, we're building an AI based linkedin scraper to automate looking for suitable candidates."
i pause for a moment to try to figure out the least tactless response i could.
me: "huh... interesting. and did you use this product to find my resume?"
recruiter: "exactly!"
me: "i'd suggest you find and hire a qualified VP of engineering and some engineering staff and give them 6 months of coding work *before* you try using your own product to find any candidates. thanks for your time."

2026-04-03 21:39:45 UTC

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"i'm very impressed by your resume -- i have an opportunity that i think you'll be very interested in. it's a 3 month contract with no guarantee of followon employment, pays 1/3 your current rate, and requires you to be in office in small rural town in the swamps of Louisiana. i've contacted you several times with no response but i'm sure we can come to an agreement."

2026-03-31 17:42:33 UTC

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hey, that's the birthday of most privacy paranoid unix types! what a coincidence. :)

2026-03-26 20:19:02 UTC

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seems like a very expensive solution, using helicopters to drop coyotes. surely just a few decoy roadrunners would be cheaper and more efficient.

2026-03-23 20:22:56 UTC

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and i thought *PAGERS* were annoying/disruptive... ;)

2026-03-20 00:49:41 UTC

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if anything ever made someone wonder if the US was full in on war crimes, the refusal to cooperate with the ICC and this law should clear that right up.

2026-03-12 16:53:05 UTC

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with the apparent complete disregard for climate change by our govt, i suspect we'll be "discovering" all sorts of 16th-19th century building practices used to deal with high heat.

2026-03-12 16:48:31 UTC

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pre AC, this was almost standard in large/fancy houses in the southeast too.

2026-03-12 03:43:32 UTC

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someone i knew at micro$oft had this routine using their slogans in order.
can't remember them all but it went something like:
"making things make sense"
[... various less and less concrete slogans ...]
win95: "so, where do you want to go today"
and now it's recall, copilot, and AI slop...

2026-03-10 19:48:15 UTC

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definitely happening more often.
i order toiletries from someone in CA. post tarriffs and current border stupidity, even if i order from their web site, it's shipped/provisioned by amazon.

2026-03-08 23:50:27 UTC

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he would turn our whole planet into a burning cinder rather than admit he's an incompetent, racist, pedophile, with zero human empathy.

2026-03-06 20:34:00 UTC

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i was working for a large corporation during a time they were going through the due diligence for a merger. since both companies were publicly traded, there were some very strict SEC rules about access to the info from both companies.
in order for me to see said documents to do the techical review, it required that i used only windows explorer, disable all ad blockers, all security features, and authenticate over an insecure web link.
yay for security...

2026-03-03 20:28:28 UTC

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gee, was just posting about that in relation to the ICE use of ad broker data. if you don't collect that data, it can't be illegally misused.

2026-03-02 21:40:15 UTC

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maybe for the yellow part of the bahaman flag?

2026-03-02 03:19:28 UTC

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so i've become trendy. :)

2026-02-27 22:06:33 UTC

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"but daddy, i *WANT* an oompa loompa!"

2026-02-24 17:05:58 UTC

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"we have hired a motivational expert for our troops. his name is 'AK-47'..."

2026-02-19 03:49:16 UTC

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really light front wheel drive driven sanely could get through all sorts of stuff.
the 80s crx's were a good car.

2026-02-19 03:47:50 UTC

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i seem to recall that the rear seat sat on the battery and could also cause a fire? :)
had a friend with one that needed work, so it ate brake drums. he got to where he'd just buy drums at a scrap yard and could swap them out in less than 15 minutes.

2026-02-19 03:45:50 UTC

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vw bugs could even float for a bit. they were a solid car.

2026-02-19 03:33:17 UTC

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i'll bet my stick shift 1985 honda civic, driven competently, could totally do better in all conditions than a cybertruck, regardless of driver. ;)

2026-02-19 03:24:02 UTC

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tesla drivers do seem to be determined to make a direct correlation between tesla ownership and potential darwin award candidates.

2026-02-10 19:23:24 UTC

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sunny days in seattle & vancouver the first three months of the year are semi-official holidays, with it being mandatory to get outside. ;)

2026-02-10 00:53:54 UTC

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indeed...
trump learned his lesson. ICE learned their lesson.
guess it's time for Maine to teach Collins a lesson...

2026-02-09 21:26:40 UTC

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XMPP!
i really miss the days where i could just run adium and have multiple chats in XMPP and IRC all in the same app.

2026-02-09 21:23:08 UTC

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when i was living in NV, the law was that if you weren't a company with at least 25 employees or a govt agency, there were no restrictions on how badly insurance companies could screw you. it was basically major medical coverage only at $15k/year...

2026-02-06 04:05:20 UTC

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playing a muzak arrangement of girl from ipanema.

2026-02-04 20:31:45 UTC

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apparently, bezos is ok with democracy dying in darkness. or at least dying in a spray on tan.

2026-01-26 03:01:53 UTC

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like diapers, winter snow is always better dry than wet.

2026-01-21 02:44:49 UTC

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utah philips was able to express deep, deep wisdom succintly and in elegant words.

2026-01-19 00:09:54 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115918765191160774
thread 🧵
#note17k6…xam3

2026-01-11 04:27:19 UTC

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i hear oracle virtual cloud stick is pretty sharp

2026-01-11 04:23:22 UTC

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you shouldn't ignore just a sharp stick repeatedly jammed into your eye socket if you're looking at these other possibilities.

2026-01-06 23:20:32 UTC

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i'm getting big "macgyver needs a caffeine fix" vibes from this project. :)

2025-12-24 00:27:47 UTC

in today's random "what in the world is going through paul's head":
have you ever noticed a kia in your rearview mirror and noticed the current logo *totally* looks like a NIN logo?

2025-12-21 01:06:37 UTC

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might be prudent to have WAYLESS WAYMOs on the road right now...

2025-12-21 01:04:01 UTC

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fire trucks at power substation below mission, traffic lights out, self-drive cars heavily confused, according to various folks in the bay area.

2025-12-17 17:59:42 UTC

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"two wrongs don't make a right but two wrights can make an airplane" :)

2025-12-15 23:42:55 UTC

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all sorts.
the one most of us have had at least once is the green bean casserole, with canned green beans, campbell's cream of mushroom soup, broth, and crispy onions on the top as a crust.

2025-12-15 23:38:47 UTC

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there were definitely some of the "entertainment" dishes from the 50s/60s still in my 70s version but gone by the later editions.
betty crocker went through a similar progression, according to friends weened on that instead of joy of cooking.
no longer starting recipes with "open a can of campbell's ___" too. ;)

2025-12-15 20:14:53 UTC

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my first cookbook, given to me by my mother when i left for college, was a used "joy of cooking" (probably 70s edition?). i bought a later version she redid with her daughter, which had much healthier recipes but just not as tasty.

2025-12-12 04:24:14 UTC

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one of the best things i've learned at this age is that there's always some new experience or treat. it's a feature.

2025-12-03 20:10:21 UTC

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never underestimate the boldness/stupidity of humanity.
one of the more memorable (but appetite killing) breakfasts i had working at a hospital one summer was sitting with an ER doctor/nurse crew. they were comparing things they'd pulled out of places you aren't suppose to put such things over the holidays. some did seem to defy the laws of physics, physiology, and good sense...

2025-12-03 00:34:28 UTC

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i think our "peak" at that stage was daquiri evening. we'd run out of every possible mixer, had way too many daquiris already, but still had ice, rum, and a blender left. at that stage, we posited that perhaps nacho cheese doritos might make a tasty daquiri.
narrator: it was not tasty.

2025-12-03 00:30:18 UTC

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in your 20s, you are both immortal and oblivious. i'm sometimes amazed i made it to 30.

2025-12-03 00:04:55 UTC

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ah, the "thank you, toilet bowl, for being cool on my face as i rest for a moment" ceremony.
one halloween, in my 20s, i was dressed as a drow elf, black face paint, etc. had a 42oz kamazi "shooter", then spent the evening worshipping a pink toilet bowl. trying to be a considerate drunk, i thought i'd wiped all the black face paint off the side of the toilet bowl.
next morning, hung over but sober, i saw that i'd just been creating a modern art finger painting all over it.
not one of my finer moments.

2025-11-19 00:28:38 UTC

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if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, bury them in bullshit...
code that no one can get all the way through, much less understand, since they didn't design and write it, is pretty much guaranteed to pass through without decent reviews.
a cabin in the woods with no electricity and no internet is starting to look like a viable option...

2025-11-17 05:22:45 UTC

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i can make my own custard... creme brulee too...

2025-11-10 02:43:47 UTC

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this is the kind of wheeling and dealing the aged and feckless democratic "leadership" used to get things done 40 years ago. they still haven't accepted that the current GOP doesn't *do* deals. they dictate terms set by TACO.
schumer needs to resign as minority leader and every craven soul who voted yes or supported this travesty needs to be primaried and replaced.

2025-11-09 00:04:05 UTC

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115516668868321353
if folks can't even afford mcdonalds, that's a pretty strong sign that the bottom 1/2 to 1/3 of annual earnings are hurting massively.
#note155v…cxxj

2025-11-04 20:29:46 UTC

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family friend had one of the continental mark IVs that got something like 4mpg on highway. even with the huge gas tank, he had to buy gas driving from charleston SC to columbia...

2025-11-02 01:31:21 UTC

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"i'm trapped! i'm collared!... huh. warm. fuzzy. could be worse."

2025-10-29 18:26:41 UTC

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yes. there is a huge difference between "this has never happened before" and "this has never materially affected you before"...
learning about privilege by having it taken away is a painful lesson but a useful one.

2025-10-28 17:14:48 UTC

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ability to read a map was never universal and it's definitely diminished with the ubiquity of GPS.
i dated someone in high school who told me of her dad's attempts to get his 3 girls to read a map on car trips. this led to lines like:
"is this a blue road or a red road we're on?"
"is it many inches to the next rest stop?"

2025-10-14 22:57:52 UTC

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you can tell chatGPT is *not* ground breaking tech from the fact that porn wasn't the first thing it did. :)

2025-10-02 18:39:54 UTC

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the rebrand to Dept of War, claiming "war on drugs", "immigrant invasion". it's all a transparent attempt to claim wartime powers for the Demento in Chief and his DUI of War...
this is yet another time i curse john roberts and his kangaroo court for failing to enforce balance of power and the constitution.

2025-10-01 22:34:49 UTC

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GOP really don't understand people. you want a war in chicago, say the cubs will never win the penant, hot dogs must be served with ketchup, or that thin crust pizza is the best pizza. ;)

2025-09-30 18:39:56 UTC

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our family cats were convinced that anything red being cut on a cutting board was meat.
they were highly disappointed when they managed to steal a few pieces of watermelon. worst meat ever.

2025-09-25 17:22:19 UTC

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PFB is so prevalent that we had training on it both in basic training and in NCO prep school.
i can't imagine anything being more racist that this. DUI pete knows *exactly* who he is targeting and the likely results...

2025-09-24 22:59:58 UTC

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could i get a bus transfer to the other timeline? the one where it's not useful for me to have a geiger counter with me at all times? thanks!

2025-09-24 21:57:39 UTC

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i'm kind of bummed all the rapture loonies didn't get raptured yesterday. does that count?

2025-09-15 03:14:37 UTC

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i read my email with xemacs/mh-e, which doesn't previsit links, so doesn't work for tracker links in emails. also lets me see exactly what URL they are trying to get me to click, regardless of how they try to obfuscate it.
depressing how much email uses stupid tricks that work with gmail/outlook...

2025-09-14 22:39:38 UTC

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we've kept it down to the bear minimum.

2025-09-14 17:22:45 UTC

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personal experience. i was at a music camp in the mountains in CA. bear country as we found out.
i had a tube of sun screen in my tent. apparently bears liked the fragrance. i came back from dinner to see a bear retreating off into the distance and what was left of my tent completely flattened and the cordura bag with the sunscreen shredded.
turns out that the area we were in was where the rangers dropped bears from tahoe that had gotten too comfortable foraging in human areas.

2025-09-14 17:20:12 UTC

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smoky mtn natl park used to have an exhibit showing all the things bears had gone through for food. it was quite impressive and scary.

2025-09-14 17:14:53 UTC

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"will that be to go?"
"nah, i'll eat it and pass out right here, thanks"

2025-09-12 00:49:18 UTC

finally had time to serve the duck confit i'd made. did it with a roasted vegetable mix of carrots, fennel, and potatoes. made a canne cruese cocktail to go with it (calvados, punt e mis, pernod).
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/188/571/226/482/274/original/7cc858f3ef4b2492.png

2025-09-08 00:09:26 UTC

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"google plans to trick users into using AI by making AI calls seem like HTTP links"
there. fixed that headline.

2025-09-07 23:01:19 UTC

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doctor to armored knight: "so, what do you do for a living?"
knight: "i rescue maidens in distress"
doctor: "that's not a dress. that's a suit of armor"

2025-09-04 23:20:22 UTC

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i've been a reader for life. my folks read to me my whole life and i was reading for myself by 4 or 5. summer vacation meant trips to the library every week for a new bag of books to read.
the major i stuck with longest in college was literature.
i primarly read fiction or how to-s, but the fiction spans sf/fantasy/mystery/historical/spy/classics.

2025-09-04 21:16:33 UTC

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"Tesla releases Jetson jetpack app. there are none available and they won't fly, but at least you can give your PII to Tesla!"

2025-08-27 20:24:13 UTC

have enjoyed using vintage and modern flex nibs to do calligraphy but lately i've been wanting even more line width variance. diving down the brush marker rabbit hole, including FB pitt, akashiya sai, kuretake real brush. anyone else gone this route? good/bad experiences? brands you really like/hate?
#fountainpens #brushmarkers

2025-08-26 17:36:49 UTC

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man to bagpipe player: can you play over the hill and far away?
bagpipe player: afraid i don't know that tune. can you hum a bit of it?
man: no. can you play over the hill and far away?

2025-07-30 16:48:28 UTC

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all sorts of apps leak more things less transparently than a web browsers. browsers aren't perfect either but you do have a bit more control.

2025-07-30 15:28:54 UTC

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ah, paypal. and linkedin. and so many others.
web nag: "your experience would be better in the app..."
me: "and whose fault is that?"

2025-07-27 16:40:33 UTC

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as a kid, you just get used to how you're living but as i've gotten older, i bemoan the lack of repairability of so many things, houses and the stuff in them.
it amazes me how many of my very technical and intelligent coworkers have no idea how to "fix" much of anything.
the "right to repair" trend is a step in the right direction, as is some of the EU effort to cut down on dead software, ewaste, etc.