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lewdpol 

At last, it's erection day in Murr-ica! Unless you vored early, make sure you get out & vore today!

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Not unusual: I just talked a customer through updating their computer.

Unusual: I talked them through doing it by opening a terminal window, running the command `sudo apt-get update`, & running the command `sudo apt-get upgrade`.

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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin

The maiden looked at the dragon's hoard. "It is certainly... not what I expected."
"One of a kind," the dragon said, sitting proudly on the pile of papers.
"You should organise it."
"Oh, thanks!" The dragon wrote 'organise this" on a paper and added it to the pile of to-do lists.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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I'm quickly coming to understand why the dark magic arts of GNU Make, Automake, & Autoconf exist, even though what I'm compiling is markup-language code, not programming-language code. (I'm not using them or learning them, just coming to appreciate why they exist.)

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I'm still alive, just racking my brain. 

What I wanted to do: Finish writing a Makefile & m4 macros for building a static website.

What I did instead: Threw away the Makefile, & wrote & debugged a shellscript doing part of the build process.

It took me most of the day to figure out that's the better way to tackle this thing anyway: Don't add a build step to the Makefile until it's actually working as intended from the shell.

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Command Line Magic

espeak "I want him in the game until he dies playing. Acknowledge." --stdout | play - tempo 0.8 bend 0.1,-500,0.5 chorus 1 1.5 20 1 3 8 -s echos .7 .7 100 .5 10 0.1 reverb # Make espeak sound like a sci-fi movie villain. #tron

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It's illegal as hell, but employers are so desperate to keep every penny they do it anyway. Employers can't legally get a free hour of work out of you just because your workplace changed from one time zone to another.

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Misty

I can’t believe it never even occurred to me that some employers would try to use a DST change to get a free hour of labour out of their employees. reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comme

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random colour contrasts

Sisal #DACFBE
Deep Blue #01016D

(Contrast ratio: 11.1:1 | AAA)

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Command Line Magic

Ctrl-B :set repeat-time 1 # If you use tmux and find it annoying how it waits 1 sec for you to press an arrow again after the first time, you can reduce the repeat-time variable. This way arrow-up/down after switching panes immediately gets passed into the program (ie. less)

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Command Line Magic

openssl s_client -connect smtp.example.com:25 -starttls smtp # If you used to use telnet or netcat to test protocols, but are stumped by SSL/TLS connections. Try using openssl s_client with --starttls and the name of the protocol.

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Trivia: In the arcade version of Berzerk, if you leave a maze while any robots are left, the game taunts you with, "Chicken! Fight like a robot!" Do that enough times, & the game randomly replaces "intruder" & "humanoid" with "chicken" during a maze.

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Tom (tired of the computer)

Boost this toot if you're done with being normal human

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Tahajin

Before we get all 'The Sky is Falling' with Alt-Right knuckleheads migrating to specific instances that cater to them, remember:

1. The block feature actually works here and should be used liberally if you see bad faith arguers or worse.

2. Instance-level personal blocks can be executed on the web client by going to the user, opening the additional […] menu and clicking 'Hide all from this instance'.

3. Petition your local moderating team to ban and suspend instances outright. We'll listen!

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random colour contrasts

Fresh Eggplant #951376
Golden Fizz #F6FE3A

(Contrast ratio: 7.3:1 | AAA)

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Reeve who walks among the rows

Behold the Stabacus! :blobcat:

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Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

liberals: what the hell, this company fucked us all over!
leftists: yeah that happens a lot, huh
liberals: yeah! they don't care about anything but profit!
leftists: mhmm
liberals: well i guess the only option is to switch to another company
leftists: hmm but what if it happens again
liberals: ahh what can you do
leftists: mmmmmm
liberals: yup there's nothing that can be done
leftists: mmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Walley World now has Arcade 1up cabinets for sale. I want one, but they're a bit expensive, & I don't have a place to put an upright arcade cabinet.

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retro handheld games (-?) 

It's a fun little thing, but it's not what I thought I was getting. What got me so upset are the less than authentic collision detection, such as shots passing right between segments of a joined centipede & being killed by a flea without being touched by it, & the fact that poisoned mushrooms aren't restored to normal like partly-shot mushrooms are between lives.

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retro handheld games (-?) 

Those "Arcade Classics" mini retro games (about 6" or 15cm) in the toy aisles? I should've known I wouldn't get an authentic arcade-version experience from any of them when I saw the Pac-Man one: fixed-position LED style.

I got Centipede, & all I know is it's almost but definitely *not* the arcade version. (Maybe it's the Atari 7800 version? I only had the 2600.) Yay for retro games being the in thing, but I still feel cheated.

Another review: nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2

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