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First edition of Microsoft Encarta. Windows 3.x, 1993
i remembered that dream(?) because just now it took me an embarassingly long time to decipher what "POA" means in a Harry Potter context.
I think I had a dream about not remembering what initialisms stand for o.O
in the dream there was a tweet about "CTF" and I was like… "what is that? is that some medical thing? no like… a philosophy thing? no wait that person I know does that! it is some geek thing! it is… ooooh!"
also this might not have been a dream but just tired!me reading actual twitter/mastodon, oops.
(also i didn't know up to now that this also refers to a sports thing, thanks wikipedia)
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Fuck Amazon
I only wanted to write some programs for a home assistant to automate some of my care needs but everything has to use AWS, which demands a credit card up front with no mention of what it will charge you, when or what for and I'm too poor for that
So I'm left with my hopes dashed and a frankly useless Echo Dot because Amazon did a really bad job with this one folks, let me tell ya.
Can someone who is smart at this please tell me if I can jailbreak it or something?
@shekkiesqueaks thank you! I've already looked at man hier briefly, but reading information like this is kind of hard for me, so I jump onto everything that is more than a list m)
Oooh I didn't know that I needed a "which files are where"/"which of these weird folders contains what kind of stuff" flowchart in my life but I definitely do https://askubuntu.com/a/551931
(is #linuxnoobs a hashtag that is a thing, i think I could learn a lot from it) https://computerfairi.es/media/lG7aPyT14hqMs5Ep8xI
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Thought: The "registration closed" message on instance homepages should prominently include or even redirect directly to joinmastodon.org (?)
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How to Free Your Android - oder: Kontrolle über das eigene Smartphone wiedererlangen
Wann: Fr., 23.06.2017 19:00
Wo: FAU-Gewerkschaftslokal, Grüntaler Str. 24
Dieser Workshop soll einen Einstieg bieten in die Befreiung des eigenen Smartphones und dabei helfen einen ersten Schritt Richtung digitale Freiheit zu tätigen. Dabei sollen Applikationen vorgestellt werden, die nicht nur auf den kommenden G20-Demos, sondern auch im Alltag nützlich sein können.
Oh ok but Librarything has an app that I didn't know of yet. I'm going to try this… it can't be worse than the Goodreads app, lol. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.librarything.librarything
I think not long ago I said that using Goodreads and Librarything worked ok for me…
Actually, I'm back to hating both. Why are they so terrible. Librarything is one huge compromise and really only ok as "I don't want to be ONLY on Goodreads", and I don't think Goodreads is even trying to be good at anything beyond the very necessities of book reviewing.
(Tell me of any alternatives that you might know, please.)
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tired: shadowban
wired: shadowbun
do not forget to water your cat
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Anyone have recent news of the national-level Elsevier boycotts in Taiwan and Peru?
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i don't know what i did to my fonts, but man pages now show 
where a `*` is supposed to be…
…and i'm fine with that.
@ghost @b_cavello ooh, cool! i didn't know that one!
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@maunzikation @b_cavello you might also be interested in this: https://upsided.github.io/DescribedInstances.html
Oooh I didn't realise the instance picker at https://instances.mastodon.xyz/ already exists! nice *goes post at birbsite*
oops I accidentally thought about my future *goes hide under a rock*
@ThatVeryQuinn oh and you might find something on https://www.coursera.org/, if that's something that works for you. it's at least… interactive-ish and usually video based.
smol cat learning about the cyber machines. EN & DE. they, it / per, es, ersie, xier. @maunzikation @maunzikation
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