Sam Oldman 🐀

Former Reply Guy. Things will never be the same.

Too many interests, really

Ex-Twitter: nvm, I closed it
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Pronouns: he/him

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2026-07-21 20:35:31 UTC

From CTV today:
“I feel sorry for Americans,” said B.C. Premier David Eby.
“If you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.
“And that is a very lonely place to be.”

2026-05-25 23:50:05 UTC

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The second of those doesn't work in my mobile browser 🤡

2026-05-21 00:57:07 UTC

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Today I learned about Korean Fan Death, so I'm relieved to see that you have all the windows open. Better safe than caught in an urban myth.

2026-01-27 00:44:39 UTC

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I picked my kid and friend up after a day in a week long first aid course, and the back seat conversation was something about "Did you see the eyeball! Was that ever cool!" and I was thinking I could have used a bit more of a warning.

2025-12-07 18:05:13 UTC

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I liked the story from the original 1960s Star Trek where an assistant was sent out to buy futuristic salt shakers to tempt the salt sucking monster and came back with things that didn't look much like salt shakers.
For the filming then, they stole salt shakers from the cafeteria and later used the futuristic things as medical instruments.

2025-11-12 20:33:04 UTC

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One major benefit for generous use of swear words in social media is that this makes life more difficult for the mass media plagiarists. Some editing is needed when they steal our words or take screenshots.
#swearing

2025-08-18 00:52:13 UTC

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As much fun as that story seems, it looks like the fire started in the diesel tractor under the Tesla cars.
I was hoping otherwise.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/047/009/765/648/199/original/66c6f916d6ff6039.jpg

2025-08-11 17:15:59 UTC

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Cory Doctorow @npub1fdr…lvhs was posting today about how measured things become goals and targets. Yours is a perfect example.

2025-06-17 23:17:02 UTC

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We are going to need your entire summer itinerary so we can know where the rain will be falling. Have you thought about visiting some drought-stricken areas?

2025-06-12 22:09:52 UTC

TIL that Utah has tar sands which were being mined a hundred years ago without any concern for rehabilitating the site. The tar seams are a few feet wide and as much as a thousand feet deep, leaving a huge trap for unsuspecting people and animals.
Gilsonite mines, Utah http://www.geospectra.net/kite/gilsonite/gilson.htm
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/672/659/933/005/453/original/eee292d50977a23d.jpg

2025-05-22 20:33:42 UTC

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I'm pretty sure that the FireWire name has already been copyrighted.

2025-04-10 00:18:19 UTC

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I was repeatedly checking the url thinking this *had* to be a parody site

2025-03-27 00:16:32 UTC

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The threats are getting pretty boring really. Next week, or maybe the week after. Yah, whatever, it's not working any more.

2025-03-06 19:35:19 UTC

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Also just for auto manufacturing from Mexico. Apparently Canada is still treating him badly.

2025-03-05 21:45:29 UTC

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One month is a bit of a tight deadline for building a car parts factory, installing equipment and finding/training skilled workers. Several factories really, and without disrupting the current just-in-time manufacturing. They're screwed.
#uspoli

2025-03-04 18:13:39 UTC

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I wasn't actually talking about you when I wrote this, I was thinking about the unwanted dick pictures.

2025-03-04 18:06:13 UTC

Some of us don't mind seeing dick pictures and some of us might want to read news from America, but hashtags would help a lot to let us filter and view these things **after** we've had breakfast.

2025-02-05 19:42:33 UTC

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You should change your display name in your mastodon profile so we might remember.

2025-01-27 00:19:53 UTC

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I feel like I've seen this from the evil emperor in Star Wars.

2025-01-18 18:16:28 UTC

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Glitch has an option for grouping boosts to reduce duplication in your timeline. You can also put people onto a list and set it so you only see them on that list.
Turning off boosts can (only) be done for individual accounts one-by-one. This option can be found on your view of their profile page.

2024-12-22 23:54:38 UTC

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I realised that I had skipped the part about it being an ESP32-CAM-MB and found some instructions here. It names a board library, so you've probably done all this
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/upload-code-esp32-cam-mb-usb/

2024-12-22 22:59:41 UTC

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Can you post a picture of both sides and see if anyone else has seen one like it?

2024-12-22 22:53:51 UTC

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Then you should first try a simple example from the board library that comes with the IDE.
(I still think your board maker should have something up on the web that can be downloaded)

2024-12-22 22:36:40 UTC

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I'm presuming that you're using the Arduino IDE and hoping it's on a Linux desktop.
It is important to set the correct library for your esp32 card vendor and model.
For seeing the serial output, I look on the IDE's pull-down menus to see which usb port is being used and then open a separate term window to cat /dev/USBa – note that this changes on reset or when it is plugged in.
The IDE has an option to watch the serial output but it starts after the esp32 boots.

2024-12-22 22:21:53 UTC

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The serial output will be coming back on the USB connection, and will usually have useful information in it.
On Linux, I just cat /dev/usb-whatever before the ide tries to load the esp32.

2024-12-18 16:46:29 UTC

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I had some trouble getting a credit card from my own bank, because I didn't owe money to anybody. I was a credit score ghost because we had deliberately put every credit thing in my wife's name.

2024-11-23 15:42:16 UTC

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Our government tried that; ordering everyone back to work a following week.
Several problems:<li>day care arrangements had not been made</li><li>parents were still driving kids to school bc not enough bus drivers </li><li>the city transit system wasn't prepared for it</li><li>office building food services hadn't a chance to ramp up</li><li>building facilities staff hadn't ordered enough toilet paper</li>

2024-11-18 18:57:50 UTC

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the bridge claims to work both ways.
https://fed.brid.gy/

2024-10-16 23:35:27 UTC

"A police investigation has concluded that an unknown substance a suspected drone was allegedly dropping on homes in a small Ontario town was just bird poop."
#police
Police conclude investigation after realizing alleged drone was just a bird | Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/10813701/ontario-drone-bird-investigation/

2024-09-29 11:59:26 UTC

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The video for the salt water exposed electric car is excellent https://x.com/i/status/1840042408832045266

2024-09-17 16:59:47 UTC

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The grackles have longer tails and are nowhere near as pretty as the starlings.
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/113/153/951/596/289/979/original/5cadb50a2a49af28.mp4

2024-09-17 12:47:27 UTC

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I bet that bloviation would be hard to translate into French.

2024-09-06 13:54:56 UTC

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For the next one, I suggest turning the boiler off, closing the valve supplying makeup water, and waiting for the system to cool a bit.
Then use a bunched up bath towel to unscrew the old valve.

2024-08-09 17:54:38 UTC

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Daniel Dale claimed it wasn't that difficult, because the guy kept using the same lies repeatedly. After a while he had them all memorised.

2024-08-07 20:11:53 UTC

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I knew my tiny backyard corn field was ready when the raccoons 🦝 🦝 came in the night and stole all of it.

2024-07-05 15:22:37 UTC

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We have a commercially made one that just runs full time. As much as anything we are running it to trap pet hair and all the dust the dog brings in.

2024-06-21 17:41:10 UTC

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There's often a small gap between the window frames and the house itself, which can be more easily drilled through for coax cable. Later repairs can be done with caulking.