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  New neighbors moved into the apartment below mine, removed a built-in closet and found that the back of the closet also held a bunch of cables coming out of the wall from the floors below and going back into the wall to the floors above a few feet further. One of those cables seems to have been the phone wiring carrying my residential internet connection, which is now in pieces. And so, from one moment to the next, I find myself in hell between a technically incompetent (and miserly) landlord,...

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  Middle age is when all of your young adult favorite bands released the last song of theirs that doesn't suck ten+ years ago. Some people age quicker than others.

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  My residential internet has been restored, but I lost some 10 Mbit bandwidth in the process. DSL rules. 🙄 But now that we found out where the wire runs, we can get to work and get all those crumbling terminals fixed, eventually.

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  Seriously thinking about getting an e/OS Fairphone 6.

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  I now have experimental proof that pleroma_ctl database prune_objects --prune-orphaned-activities actually terminates. Eventually. And it really does significantly reduce database size.

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  I found Jamie Paul's substack / blog the other day, and the only thing I don't like about it is the somewhat cringe name, "American Dreaming". The 'Memory-Holing "Wokeness"' series of articles aligns so perfectly with my perspective on all of the issues discussed in them, it's uncanny.

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  I just heard a *pop* followed by a *sizzle* from my kitchen and it turned out an olive somehow popped off the top of my pizza and made it all the way to the bottom of the oven. My oven physics glitched out. 😵‍💫

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  Damning with faint praise

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  In many ways, I'm such a natural born normie, I could open an "ask a normie" booth, Lucy van Pelt style. Like, I made it into the 3rd decade of my life thinking that when people talked about their "porn collection", surely they were exaggerating, or joking, speaking metaphorically. Like me, as I would refer to my always-changing, never more than 50 favorited videos on big-porntube or a bookmark folder with like max 20 entries as my "porn co...

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  They shared experiences are dead and the atomization spiral is irreversible, but did you know that LIDL sells almost the exact same varieties of fresh bread in all of its stores world-wide, including the U.S.? Sure, you won't be able to talk about whatever shows you're watching anymore, but those pretzel rolls? They are the same everywhere.

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  Thank god for Academia

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  Tfw u read about something and it's equal parts bleak and attractive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazi_culture

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  I don't even remember how it happened, but I got sucked into loneliness epidemic content a little bit. Pretty bleak. And all of the content is either useless, at best, or just goads people into driving themselves even more insane.

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  So ... I can upload mp4 videos and gif images (animated or otherwise). png, webm, jpeg simply don't show in the editor and are never posted. The stuff that does work shows up in the configured folder for uploads ... but I'm noticing the uploads folder now seems to get populated with a hashed directory tree, in the previous version I ran here (2.7.0) it was still just a flat directory and files had very long hashes for names. Anyway I think that rules out a permissions issue. A...

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  I guess until I or somebody figures this out, I will have to convert everything to gif. Old skool, baby

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  I rewatched Mezzo Forte the other night and as if the sex scenes weren't hilarious enough in their own right, the subtitles felt like one-upping the dialogue by typo.

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  More image dumping for testing purposes.

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  New neighbor moved in on the ground floor, but I'm still the only person in the house who understands the concept of a trash bin compartment with a tipping aid.

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  Test

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  Would you rather

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  There's a first time for everything: In an act of utter desperation I clicked on a YouTube video that promised a solution to some stupid Microsoft shit problem, and it was narrated by a man with a very Indian accent and ... ... it was the correct solution and it was shown within the first 15 seconds of the video.

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  All these 19th century economists whose works still haunts us today in various ways had so many children

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  I finished Caravan SandWitch, a wonderfully chill relaxploration game, whose by-the-numbers-DEI cast of characters and rather generic solarpunk-scifi scenario, more by (I suspect) unintentional implication than conscious intention, ends up transporting some pretty radical messages for a video game ("rainbow capitalism won't save you" and "eco-terrorism is good, actually" among others).

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  Bent down to pick up some littered garbage, phone fell out of my breast pocket and there it is, first crack in the screen. No good deed goes unpunished.

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  Guys guys guys guys guys guys there's a new Boards of Canada album out and it doesn't suck 😱

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  I have largely ignored generated music up to this point, because music is the art form I'm the most snobbish about, and I'm also pretty picky about sound mix and production, but after checking out Suno 5.5, I would rate it pretty likely that a competently prompted and refined song made by that model could end up in my collection. Even more likely if the model is just used for editing and touching up an already well-made traditional recording. And if the next generation of that...

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  Repost from https://x.com/keshiAIart/status/2060542082843115556

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  Oh great, uploading attachments on my shiny up-to-date Pleroma does not work anymore and no errors are logged.

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  Fedi is never going to beat the German cringe allegations now RT: https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115576270601199442/statuses/116515226272605669

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  Weird flex, bro. RT: https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116465928198154803