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  I know you're all desperate for #BandcampFriday recommendations, so how about obscure #PostRock from Nottingham, England? In which case may I present the suitably epically named '...and Stars Collide'? I only know about this band because one of its members was a friend and course mate. He gave me the mp3s years ago, and they occasionally come up, and remind me that they're really nice. The pricing is also fire sale cheap (I'm guessing someone found a box of unsold CDs in th...

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  So it might be #BandcampFriday, but first to enjoy some #CDFriday with a past purchase; Thyacine's 2015 #Electro #ambient album Transsiberian.

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  Yesterday's #BandcampFriday haul was relatively modest. It would have been more/worse, but a number of releases I tried to buy repeatedly failed to accept payment, but others worked with the same payment details. Anyone else have that? The whole Red Means Recording/Jeremy Blake back catalogue which was on offer, and I've recently also been enjoying his YouTube videosOST for Outer Wilds, and the expansion 'Echos of the Eye'OST for the game Thomas Was AloneSlime City's Nation R...

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  Unbridled laughter is echoing from our bathroom. Today Child A bought an old joke book for 1€ from the #library, and is reading it on the loo. Apparently sh-t's funny. #parenting

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  Me, using shampoo the first few days after a long overdue haircut.

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  Frooty enjoying some tunes. #Plushtodon

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  Today's #1001albums is the Red Hot Chili Pepper's Californication. This was everywhere as a teenager; TV, radio and computer games. I owned the tab book and tried to learn a few of the songs to moderate success. In that sense I don't think I'll ever escape it. After all the these years I still feel it is a very mixed bag; the title track plus Parallel Universe, Scar Tissue, Otherside and Road Trippin' are great. But a lot of the rest just feels like a manic mess. Perhaps tha...

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  @annaleen thank you for selling your #books DRM-Free. That means I could easily buy Automatic Noodle from ebooks.com, download the epub to my 2012 laptop, and load it onto my 2011 ebook reader with a replaced battery, in minutes with zero problems¹. Nothing unnecessarily thrown into landfill for being too old, using the devices and systems I want, without being locked in or tracked. Now I'm looking forward to enjoying the story. 1: Yes, that is a painfully Mastodon sentence.

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  We're out of coffee filters. A week later I'm squeezing two more packets of filters into the cupboard where we already had a packet. 🙄 #DomesticBliss

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  Today's #WTF moment is brought to you by trying to figure out why 404 pages in my #homeLab coming via a reverse proxy were all mangled and weird. I've tried every combination of gzip on and off, headers, encoding on the #nginx proxy and backend. Then I check the actual 404.html page. I have no idea how that happened. #CaptainItsWednesday #websites

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  Modern #mobile phones are too big for normal sized hands, and the buttons are too small to accurately tap with giant fingers.

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  Good News! my favourite obscure #swedish small town #stoner #metal band¹, 10,000 Years, have just released a new single. And it's very good. https://10000years.bandcamp.com/album/two-million-stones-single ¹ Don't tell me you don't have a favourite obscure Swedish small town stoner metal band? In which case you do now. #StonerDoom #music

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  At the playground my children made me a "Very sticky ice cream". #parenting

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  Not me, every time I set off a `zpool scrub` (with apologies to TLC): 🎵 Yes, I just want to scrub, A scrub is a kind of check that gets love from me, Countin' out the checksum of your best friend's drive, Trying to verify at me #FreeBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS #90s #RuinASong

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  1976: MIT's COMSYS/MSGDMS messaging system allows sending of files via 'enclosures' 1986: the easiest and most reliable way to share a file with someone is an #email attachment 1996: The MIME attachment standard is officially released, making email the easiest and most reliable way to share a file with someone 2006: the only way to reliably share files with other people is as an email attachment. 2007-2026: Dropbox, Bluetooth, GDrive, WhatsApp, Signal, AirDrop, NFC... 20...

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  Our local supermarket has been remodelled, so now I can't find anything, and going there takes twice as long as before. 80(ish?) year old lady on the phone in one of the aisles: "Yeah, the one where they've changed everything. Yeah, exactly, where they've put the washing powder opposite the breakfast cereal. No. No. It doesn't make any sense. Pickles next to the toilet paper. Utter madness. I have no idea what's up or down anymore." Sam...

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  It's not "2-Factor Authentication" if you're sending me an email with the code in it, which I then look at on the same computer where I'm trying to log in. That's just sparkling #security theater.

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  Me using the new #signal member labels correctly.

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  Sigh. I was just reading a post on #FreeBSD secure levels, as I'm trying to understand them more, at https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20251002, and in the last paragraph: "Would you like me to also add a practical demo section (commands showing...." And now I don't know if any of it is believable or not. The rest of the site and #blog doesn't look mass produced, and so I'd be inclined to think it's a real person writing about real expe...

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  After two hours of trying to flatten and rake out the molehills, our lawn has so many black patches that it looks like it lost a bar fight. It's probably a bit flatter, and there was intermittent help from the children, but I'm knackered. I don't really care about the lawn being perfectly flat. It just needs to be flat and smooth enough that our robomower can cut the grass, and the children can play on it. #gardening #parenting #DomesticBliss

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  Narrator: What are you doing on a Saturday night? Me: Perfectly normal things, like sorting my googly eye collection into new bags.

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  Ahhh that's better... #coffee

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  Every time I start my #Windows11 work laptop plugged into its USB-C doc it can't find the network. It briefly sees the WiFi, then realises it's got a wired connection, switches to that and then can't connect. Unplugging and plugging it back in again solves the problem every time. When will it finally be #YearOfTheWindowsDesktop?