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  @stephanie we've been a couple of times. I think it's cheap because the nicest thing you can say about the food is that it's "good value"

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  @stephanie yeah I had "okay" ribs last time we were there. My opinion is that ribs are so unhealthy that if I am going to pay the metabolic price then they have to be really good. The price doesn't really matter 😀 and I don't want just "okay".

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  Somebody needs to tell Trump that Obama said he isn't humble.

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  @djfiander the bus I would take if I hadn't been on the bike today currently shows as 27 minutes late, so it's nice to see that campus traffic when students return is one of those traditions that never changes

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  Followup: after blocking public scraping of a #Gitlab instance we waited for a while to see if the #LLM botnet attacks would reduce; finally (after about 3 days) one of them finally realized it was getting the sign-in page instead of actual content and seems to have given up. At least one other botnet is still trying, but load is much reduced. So there is hope! Block access and they eventually go away.

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  Weird #security thing with #discord Couldn't log in to the phone app because none of my second factors worked. Was already in on the desktop browser so tried to add another factor... nope, demanded an existing second factor to do so, and they wouldn't work there either. But... was able to remove all factors and disable 2FA without any further authentication. So... that makes sense.

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  @cstross apropos absolutely nothing: "enrichment chapters" is an anagram of "The Merchant Princes" and "mega premise" is an anagram of "Empire Games"

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  Look, if the government legally requires us to wear clothing in public then they can pay for them

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  Local pet shop has a joke on their board outside: "What do you call a fish with no eye? A fsh." Sorry but that doesn't work if it's written down.

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  Finally, one I actually knew! #pastpuzzle en-577 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) ▪️▪️▪️▪️ ▪️▪️▪️▪️ ▪️▪️▪️▪️ 1/4 🥇 https://www.pastpuzzle.com

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  Pleasantly surprised to find there is now an ARM build of the #CrystalLang compiler, so I can run Crystal code in #Termux on my phone

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  My favourite #astronomy fact is in this article https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ Which is brighter, a supernova seen from the distance the Earth is from the Sun, or a hydrogen bomb detonated while resting directly on your eyeball? The answer is the supernova, by 9(!) orders of magnitude.

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  Was just in one of those natural green hippie stores and they had "96% natural dishwasher pods". What's the other 4%? Witchcraft?

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  Don't ask: What's the cheapest X? What's the easiest way to do X? What's the best way to X? Instead: What are some budget-friendly X options? What are some options to do X for non-technical people? What are good ways to do X with their pros and cons? Everyone has different skills, experience and perceptions of cost.

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  Even the floor can be comfortable #Caturday

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  We heard a strange ticking noise. This little shithead had managed to turn on the piano and then the metronome. #CatsOfMastodon

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  He's tired after spending all day watching the birds outside #CatsOfMastodon

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  I think Newton may be comfortable with us now #Caturday

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  This guy just ate a fly! #Caturday

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  So I decided to do a 10-minute test of the UPS on my NAS and turned the power off 6 hours ago, then wondered why it was down, in case you're wondering how my brain is working today

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  Idle speculation this morning: can't help feeling that recent reports of Trump regret by MAGA folks and AI regret by orgs that went all-in are ultimately the exact same phenomenon, for the same reason, by the same people, but I lack the background in social sciences to articulate it properly.

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  Imagine all roads were toll roads and tolls were based on road stress. Stress goes up as the 4th power of vehicle weight. Let's say we charged e-bikes 1¢ per km. A big ebike (35kg) plus a big person (100kg) weighs 35⁺100=135kg. The smallest current Ford F-150 (1993kg) driven by the same big person would weight 1993+100=2093kg. So the equivalent toll would be 1¢×2093⁴÷135⁴ or $577.75/km.

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  Tried to change credit card on #Britbox but couldn't get to the account page, so asked the chatbot. Useless AI so submitted a tech support request. Email back from same useless AI with same wrong response. Solved problem myself (main page loads on a VPN, account page will not, with no error). Ended up so pissed off about the support and VPN bullshit that I cancelled the subscription instead, Fuck 'em.

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  Is "pillow" a suitable occupation for LinkedIn? #CatsOfMastodon

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  I just lost situational (situGUInal?) awareness and accidentally deleted two entire photo albums from my phone gallery thinking they were just two images. And #Syncthing replicated the deletion to all my computers. But, happy ending, not only do I take regular #BorgBackup backups, I also use #btrbk so recovered everything via the snapshots on the laptop within 60 seconds, and of course Syncthing copied them back to the phone immediately. Check your backups.

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  Wake me up once all this AI stuff is gone #CatsOfMastodon

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  He has actually started to hug my arm. I must be nice and warm. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon