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Dick Armoire

diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt

<p>I&#39;m D; white British cis bi guy he/him.</p><p>I like information security, systems administration, DevOps. I&#39;ve been around the IT industry for decades in various roles; now I&#39;m not sufficiently specialist to do anything other than be a manager.</p><p>I used to do politics but got better. Still a liberal. I enjoy video gaming, and quite a lot of Marvel stuff but I hope I&#39;m not too boring about either.</p><p>I live in Manchester, UK with my partners E and V, and near my partner P.</p><p>I mostly post puns and selfies.</p><p>Also <a href="https://scrim.social/sassquatch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">scrim.social/sassquatch</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> when I&#39;m helping run that

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    My #BandcampFriday recommendation is the new #ParisPaloma album &quot;The Fatal Flaw&quot; which releases today: https://parispaloma.bandcamp.com/album/the-fatal-flaw Amazing feminist bops spearing Generative AI (&quot;Miyazaki&quot;), the alt-right / manosphere (&quot;Good Boy&quot;) and more.

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    Fun to see #JukeboxFridayNight doing #Royalty as a theme today, after #Doof spent an hour last night picking banging tunes on the theme of #RoyalRumble Check out the playlist at http://wasp-factory.com/sites/doof/?p=1994 And if you like the idea of picking themed tunes in real time, join us every Thursday from 7-11pm UK time at https://twitch.tv/lee_chaos with our glamorous hosts @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny!

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    Coming up from @lee_chaos@mastodon.social and Duracell Bunny, the weekly musical shenanigans! Chaos Emergency Doof Broadcast Network 334: Friendly Dog Whistles at Paperback We revert to Thursday to wrap up July&#39;s offerings, which have been uniformly wonky regardless of what day of the week they&#39;ve been on. Join us as we see off the hottest month on record with more dubiously-selected music and conversation that makes you question your sanity. Live on air, 7pm BST, Thursday 30th July...

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    The Indelicates - &quot;Waiting for Pete Doherty to Die&quot; Not actually a wish for death, but a reflection on celebrity death culture (see Cobain, Whitehouse, Phoenix, Joplin and many more). #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting https://youtu.be/u6JnJGMDe0I

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    It&#39;s great to burn the effigy of a tech billionaire at #EMFCamp in protest of the exploitation of people, labour and natural resources in the pursuit of endless growth. It&#39;s great to highlight that many EMF attendees are bright, curious, creative, and hardworking. But we&#39;re not unique in this. There are people out there fighting against fascism, fighting against exploitation, fighting against racism. People who can&#39;t afford a ticket to EMF. People who aren&#39;t (by and large) m...

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    Yesterday I made dinner on my camp stove with no problems. Today, a small Rule Zero violation. Watch your stoves, get them off the ground if possible #EMFCamp

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    DuoLingo wants to know about computer touching...

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    Genuine question, I&#39;m not a full time developer - is there a way to put some kind of container around stuff run through pipenv, cargo, npm etc. which could help limit the impact of all these cred stealing malwares?

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    Why do they call it checking in with your partner after sex, and not a post-petit-mortem?

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    I once heard someone say &quot;Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough, I bet &#39;Driving Home For Christmas&#39; is about a traffic jam on the M1.&quot; This amused me as a bit of folk etymology for years. Tonight I discovered via Wikipedia this is literally true - it was 1978, Chris Rea had just finished recording at Abbey Road studios in London, and his wife drove down from Middlesbrough to pick him up because he was out of contract and the record company wouldn&#39;t pay for his train ticket home....

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    Spent some time watching a BBC compilation of Bruce #Springsteen appearances on The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops and others. Now I&#39;m down a Bruce covers rabbit hole, currently listening to Roger Daltrey covering &quot;Born To Run&quot;.

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    New year, new password reset at work... My new password is &quot;NCSC advises against regular password expiry&quot; Actually TBF that was my old one, my new one is &quot;NCSC advises against regular password expiry2&quot; #NCSC #passwords #InfoSec