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nobody remembers it's "little a salami as a treat" and not "a little salami as a treat" these days

neat linux terminal trick of the day, to copy a large amount of files over the network:

$ tar cf - <files> | ssh -C user@host "cd /wherever; tar xvf -"

up at a time that i shouldn't be thinking about klasky/csupo animation

muting anybody who joined after 2017 making threads that start with "dear mastodon noobs"

except... now i can't dim the brightness or use a resolution other than 1024x768

what a quirk!

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it's a good thing i kept the original panel from when i did an SXGA upgrade on my X61t (before, with vinegar syndrome, and after)

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turns out thinkpad X61 LCD panels work on (some models of) the iBook G4

@omegabyte hi! the earliest email in my self-hosted inbox is from 2019. it's been going for 6 years. Hope I could help!

i think it's time to dispel the myth that is hard if a dumdum like me can set up github.com/docker-mailserver/d in a USD12/mo linode box (which also hosts my websites, so that's not USD12 for mail alone) in like 15 minutes

the hardest part is just getting the DNS DKIM, DMARC and SPF values right

FFS, please stop holding your conferences in places legitimately unsafe for a percentage of your members.

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You don't need a blog, despite what a lot of Mastodon posts would have you believe.

It's okay to feel like you don't have something the world needs to read. It's okay to save your stories up for when you encounter people in real life. It's okay to write things down in a private diary.

What's not okay is recording important information in closed-off spaces like Discord or Facebook. If you have knowledge that could benefit others, please do get a blog.

thinking about the time back when i was a prototype that i "reinvented" the radians to degrees constant of 57.295779513 by writing a program to draw circles in freebasic with my very limited geometry knowledge, tweaking the constant and re-running the program each time until the circles looked right

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