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you can call me

  • maple
  • maple syrup
  • maple "mavica" syrup
  • mavica

none of those are capitalised, ever

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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

is anybody keeping track of software versions from before they started using llms to write them

asking for my libreoffice install

i want to self-host an isolated recreational VoIP server people with internet access can log into with a VoIP phone or ATA and we can call each other. all guides for VoIP are overwhelming and expect you to want a trunk to real phone lines and i don't. is there a for dummies guide for something like this

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@davidgerard Even if this isn't that, at *some* point we're going to see a quick "everyone panic! Keystone tool XYZ is compromised!" 13kloc fix that fixes … something … then deliberately adds three more well-obfuscated backdoors.

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people would rather debate the ethics of begging for attention than give me attention

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little-known fact: the worst video game ever, E.T., was even more difficult to play on the HP LaserJet.

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there should be a service cheaper than renting a vps where you can rent a static IP address and join a VPN with a server (or otherwise get traffic forwarded) so you can host things locally in your own connection for those with internet access that blocks hosting traffic or doesn't offer an IP that isn't CGNATted

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network address translators were the beginning of the end of the internet. almost every cool decentralized technology would've been 1000% easier if we didn't have NATs on every residential connection to the internet.

do you think they'll have to cremate joanne rowling because of the amount of people who would vandalise her grave

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name for 4 bits (half a byte)

"polymath" feels like one of those descriptors you would be too pretentions to give yourself rather than it being given to you

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