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Geez, I just updated my @system76 #Gazelle that I bought in 2013 and that's been sitting on a shelf for three years to #Ubuntu 22.04...

Geez, I just updated my @system76 #Gazelle that I bought in 2013 and that's been sitting on a shelf for three years to #Ubuntu 22.04 #LTS (up from 18.04 most recently, but it started life on 13.10, IIRC). Sure, the graphics card is dated after a decade, but the thing still runs. These things are tanks!

I'm putting a shiny new #Serval on my list for an upgrade sometime soon, since it may cost a bit, but these things definitely last long enough to be worth it.

This is why I don't want to program any kind of realistic game. People try to do this kinda shit with the USS Enterprise, but...

This is why I don't want to program any kind of realistic game. People try to do this kinda shit with the USS Enterprise, but there's no Star Fleet that's gonna rendition my ass to Gitmo for espionage.

Reminding myself that the first few chapters of @pluralistic's new book, The Internet Con, are laying out the problem and that he's...

Reminding myself that the first few chapters of @pluralistic's new book, The Internet Con, are laying out the problem and that he's building to the solutions. Just finished Ch. 3, and it definitely looks like we're fucked. I'm taking a deep breath and getting some sleep, since I know things can get better if we work at it. 😅

That's the core of my Reluctant Optimism: if I don't believe things can get better with effort, WTF is the point? 🤷‍♂️ I'm an optimist, because I can't stand the alternative.

@Randomfrequency I found the thing we were talking about at the party, btw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_ExperimentNever...

@Randomfrequency I found the thing we were talking about at the party, btw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment

Never underestimate the trouble bored but driven nerds can get into, eh? And that was before the Internet!

I swear to $diety[*], if you see me use a SuperReact, it's because Discord switched the order of the buttons, again. I really hate this...

I swear to $diety[*], if you see me use a SuperReact, it's because Discord switched the order of the buttons, again. I really hate this feature, and they need to stop trying to make it a fucking Thing, already. 🤬

Can any native #German / #Deutsch speakers tell me if this is what they would actually say in a conversation? I think #Duolingo has this one...

Can any native #German / #Deutsch speakers tell me if this is what they would actually say in a conversation? I think #Duolingo has this one wrong, **aber mein Deutsch ist schlecht**. 🤷‍♂️

I **think** my answer translates as, "I must go, now," which leaves out the "unfortunately," but that seems like a mouthful to add in a conversation. How much is this didactic vs. actual usage? How would an actual German speaker translate this in conversation?

Shamelessly lifted from a friend:"Remember the remote control cars I had that could only go forward until they hit something or back up...

Shamelessly lifted from a friend:

"Remember the remote control cars I had that could only go forward until they hit something or back up and turn right?

"That's conservativism."

Aww! This was in my backyard a minute ago

Aww! This was in my backyard a minute ago

Because they may have been powerful politicians, but they're also petty middle-schoolers. 😂

Because they may have been powerful politicians, but they're also petty middle-schoolers. 😂

Just finished a tour of the US Capitol. We learned that the Turnbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was painted...

Just finished a tour of the US Capitol. We learned that the Turnbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was painted by Turnbull, a friend of Jefferson. Jefferson paid him $20 extra when commissioning the painting to add the detail of Jefferson stepping on Adams's toe:

One of the most frustrating features of the Mastodon app for Android is the "timeout" message it flashes for about two seconds if...

One of the most frustrating features of the Mastodon app for Android is the "timeout" message it flashes for about two seconds if a Favorite or retoot doesn't go through. It doesn't retry, and it doesn't tell me which action failed, so I have to hunt through the most recent toots I saw recently to see if I can figure out which one was undone and manually retry it.

I wish we had a better way to indicate or handle timed-out actions. (And no, "Buy an iPhone" isn't helpful... 😜)

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#US #Politics #CSPANI’m so happy to report this is a real t-shirt sold on the C-SPAN website. I can’t imagine how many have been bought...

#US #Politics #CSPAN

I’m so happy to report this is a real t-shirt sold on the C-SPAN website. I can’t imagine how many have been bought in the last 48 hours. 😆

https://c-spanshop.org/collections/shirts/products/c-span-chill-light-blue-unisex-tee

Suffice it to say, this is #US #House #Speaker speculation

Suffice it to say, this is #US #House #Speaker speculation

So, the wording that the Clerk of the House is using is "majority of votes cast."If 13 Rs take a walk on the next vote, that'd...

So, the wording that the Clerk of the House is using is "majority of votes cast."

If 13 Rs take a walk on the next vote, that'd put the count of the votes at 422, and 1 more than 50% is 212 votes, the number of Ds that have been voting for Rep. Jeffries.

A group of moderates just interested in getting on with it may not even need to vote for a D; they just need to not be in the room to vote, so the count is low enough that the 212 votes for Jeffries constitutes a majority of the votes cast.

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Happy New Year! May this one bring us all more of what we wish and less of what we deserve! 🤣😜❤️

Happy New Year! May this one bring us all more of what we wish and less of what we deserve! 🤣😜❤️

I thought I was doing pretty well in #Duolingo when I unlocked Unit 12 in #German / #Deutsch. Turns out there are 114 units, so I'm a...

I thought I was doing pretty well in #Duolingo when I unlocked Unit 12 in #German / #Deutsch. Turns out there are 114 units, so I'm a little over 10% through... 😂😭😅

I've only been working on it since July, 2013...

Bluh... Logged into work last night after the kid went to bed, got into "the zone," and was on until 1AM. Woke up at 7, hit...

Bluh... Logged into work last night after the kid went to bed, got into "the zone," and was on until 1AM. Woke up at 7, hit Lowe's for some plaster picture anchors and a stud finder, filled out a must-be-physically-signed-or-else form at my doctor's office, and I'm about to log back in for the 90 minutes or so of productivity before I'm on-call for 2.5 days. Whee!

I can do all things through caffeine and Ritalin, which sustain me... Let's gooooo!

Checked in on my friends on the bird site, and getting serious #vibes:https://youtu.be/pkSRF-uHlWk🤣

Checked in on my friends on the bird site, and getting serious #vibes:

https://youtu.be/pkSRF-uHlWk

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This was the first coding exercise I've done outside of an interview or class since ... geez, the coding competition I did in my...

This was the first coding exercise I've done outside of an interview or class since ... geez, the coding competition I did in my undergrad during the first Bush-43 administration. It's been ... a while. 👴

It was fun! And it gave me an excuse to exercise my Rust skills a bit, since I'm otherwise only writing shell, Python, and Ruby at work.

I just completed "Calorie Counting" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/1🎉

I just completed "Calorie Counting" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/1

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