Pagan capitalist holiday festival lights: up.
Percent of lights broken since last year: 50%.
Movie on the TV: Wargames.
Drink in the mug: Irish/Kentucky Coffee. (bourbon and coffee and Kamora and cream)
Holiday feelings: 100%.
@acjay I've thought it would be great to have a way for other instances to know what your home instance is... So that if you're browsing on another when when you hit "follow" or "reply" it can automatically use your home instance URL. A browser extension might be necessary for that, but it would be great to have something that could work with just existing browser features. I'm not sure if any cross-domain data stores exist, that don't rely on a trusted third party.
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Hacking isn't like watchdogs, it's more like that montage/timelapse scene in Hackers where they're just reading code and drinking soda for hours and hours.
It can be frustrating and time-consuming and a lot of it is just research, but that's part of what makes the payoff so great.
I mention this because I recently got a #FlipperZero and I was looking at the discord communities and seeing a lot of very green folks there.
Frankly, I think one of the best things about the Flipper Zero is the fact that it makes a lot of these protocols more accesible to new #Hackers and #Makers than ever before! So it's a bit disheartening to also see how many people are there looking at it as more of a 'prank' device or a gimmick to impress their friends and who seem to have no interest in actually learning anything.
Don't get me wrong, there's a LOT to learn when it comes to a device like this. I don't expect a newcomer to jump in headfirst and start programming firmware, soldering up new modules, and generating bruteforce playlists in python. I'd be happy if people were just _curious_ about some of the things they were playing around with on the flipper and picked one or two of those things to look at.
The flipper, brilliantly, stores (almost?) all the captured data in various text formats, so newcomers can capture their tap card and then see the raw data in a text file that they can easily edit and experiment with sans coding.
Luckily, I can see that even amongst this demographic that there are people who have started to dive deeper. What may have started as a desire for a shiny gadget to chase tiktok prestige is turning some of these youngsters towards the dark arts, and I think that is absolutely a new positive.
Hacking _is_ a montage. It's hours, days, months of research. It's trial and error, educated guesses, and experiments. Hacking isn't a tour, it's unguided exploration.
Sure, it can be frustrating and time-consuming, I don't think we'd want it any other way.
Turkey: in the oven 30 min longer than online said it needed, still about 10 degrees away from done. Us: planned for that because it's turkey. Still... Ready to eat whenever it's ready 😆
@acjay if you go visit their profile from their instance (it's a pain sometimes but you can usually click their profile picture to go there), then you can find that toot. Then you can copy the link to that toot and paste it into qoto's search bar. That'll pull up the toot via qoto, and you can respond then.
That is painful, right? But it does get better once you follow them for a little while.
re: Pecan Pie
@kormorant not a fan? It's sweet sweet sweet, so I can see why it's not everybody's favorite...
@gpowerf I'm so sorry for your loss. Of productivity.
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My sysadminnery stretches into my personal life too where I do it recreationally, so hold that against me if I ever sound well-balanced or reasonable. Spent a lot of time in Linux land, Debian by preference, but I'm BSD-curious.
I like making food and mixing drinks, brewing coffee, getting around the city by bicycle - I ride a heavily modified Brompton folder - and getting very into movies.
Spent most of my life disliking myself a bunch and I've been working hard lately to fix that.
2/2
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terrible (but innocent) pun, follows on from the last one
Q: What has a lovely voice, contains no active ingredients and is pink?
A: Placebo Flamingo
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Review of "Code Name : Lise" (5 stars): Riveting look at the most inspiring spy story I'd never heard https://bookwyrm.social/user/finity/review/459756
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Holy Toot, Stephen Fry is on Mastodon? Wow.
Kid: I like this song.
Me: it's from Austin Powers.
Kid: I can watch that at home. It's on PBS Kids.
#kids
@artemai trying to upload to the hands project I get an error 500...
@redkcir https://electricsheep.org/ is a pretty great screensaver
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food. nonsense
potatoes, salt, oil, and heat... tastes better'n it has right to. you don't think you can eat three potatoes, then you cover em in olive oil, season em right, and bake em and then you can
@kisharrington @jkb @Gargron curious as to what you're after...
https://fediverse.party/ has a good display of other things available, misskey for instance. But you can also hugely increase post length and add markdown to a mastodon instance and use that to make "blog posts".
Then other people have a static HTML blog system (like what you might host on GitHub), and make posts using mastodon each time to announce and link to their blog posts. Alternatively I believe there are RSS->Mastodon bots that could automatically toot your new posts. The benefit of this setup, in my mind, is that static HTML is so simple very little can go wrong. Whereas an ActivityPub server is comparably complex. So any trouble you have on the ActivityPub or bot side stays where it is and doesn't spread.
