A while ago my old temple clothing turned up. Just had an interesting conversation with Katy that made me realize something I hadn't before.
There's a specific bag that the church sells to put your temple clothing in. As far as I know, there's no rule saying you have to use it, but a lot of mormons do. I never really thought about it, but it's totally a dog whistle/status symbol. To an outsider, it's just a pretty ordinary (cheap looking) bag. To a mormon who's had their endowment, it screams "I'm worthy to go to the temple."
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Due to poor planning on my part, I'm going to run out of coffee before more discretionary funding becomes available.
Boo.
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@Todd on :mastodon: ain I'll survive. I'm not out quite yet, and I can switch to tea for a few days.
At least all the essentials are covered.
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Unexpectedly? One of the first things I learned was that my parents wouldn't let me watch the cartoons my older brothers watched.
That reason was explicit lewdness and graphic violent views of the world. Pretty sure when I got to violate those rules, my first intro was Akira. Not a huge fan of fan service, I'm in for the bleak apocalyptic stories.
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Well, booked my first appointment with the new doctor today. Haven't had my records transferred because I don't have $200 just sitting around for the digitization fee at the moment. Hopefully he'll be willing to renew my #ADHD meds using the previous prescripiton bottles as sufficient evidence of their necessity. I really don't want to jump through those hoops again.
It's not like I'll die without them or anything, but my life will get a lot harder.
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@Shae Erisson I do plan to eventually pay the fee to have the records transferred. That should help quite a bit. It's just that the supply of meds won't hold out that long.
I should've gotten my act together sooner to take care of this, but you know... ADHD. 🙃
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For me, turquoise is green.
You should answer the questions as if those where your only two color words, so that any color they can possibly show you is either "green" or "blue".
But, *of course* most of the colors they showed me I would *actually* describe as "cyan", a common color from my CGA roots.
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“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”
Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus” 
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@sunflowerinrain Ours had an issue a couple of years ago and thank all the deities we were able to get it fixed because it was impossible to find anything new that wasn't awful. And the repair person told us some choice things about the new fridges too.
Was the same thing all over again when our washing machine went. All these "smart" features now that will certainly break and no way to make it do what I actually want. At least it isn't collecting all our data. Supposedly.
I just put a loaf of #sourdough bread that I've been working on all day in the oven. Just realized that I forgot the salt.
I've made this mistake once before. It'll still be edible, but damn it makes me angry with myself.
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The untimely demise of an image upscaler
ML-based image enhancement models are great. Unfortunately, some of them are great only once.lcamtuf (lcamtuf’s thing)
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USB Floppy Drive
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Came across an old USB floppy drive. I plugged it into my machine and it shows up, but I can't tell it it's actually working or not. When plugged in, it sounds like it's continuously reading, so I kind of want to test it. Can you even buy floppy disks any more?
That said, if I don't have any disks, I guess the question of whether or not it works is moot anyways.
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I occasionally find 3.5" floppy disks at the local thrift stores. There are usually new old stock disks on ebay too.
The USB floppy drives usually only support IBM formatted disks and are useless for data recovery. For any other formats, a Greaseweazle will come in very handy.
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I recommend people to investigate used enterprise storage.
If it passes badblocks & SMART checking (don't rely on that too much, manufacturers do silly things), it is likely to work just fine, and depending on one's location it is possible to acquire triple-redundant 10TB for less than buying a single 10TB drive new would cost.
Unfortunately, you're pretty much out of luck.
The used ones are not a good idea (despite looking cheaper), they're often messed up in a number of ways. 😿
.par2 files) partitions, and use good old tar right to the raw partition block device.
If you ever get to the point of thinking about multi-drive enclosures/cradles though, don't go for USB.
At that point, anything less than SAS (an expander card & breakout cables in an old computer case can do the job quite well) will inevitably prove frustrating through all sorts of annoying issues.
Conventional Hardware & Software RAID has also been exclusively for stuff where you don't care about integrity ever since 520B sectors have stopped being used. (Those 8 additional bytes were for integrity-checking features.)
Now, such features are implemented instead in modern filesystems since awareness of the data structuring is necessary for sane & reliable recovery (conventional RAID assumes that the drive firmware will both detect *and* notify of errors, which is incredibly optimistic in a setting where general pessimism is the sane attitude).
1. TIL about 520/528B drives. According to one forum post they might even go back to the 70s ("someone on the Internet said it, it must be true!")
2. Integrity checking features? You mean extra space for higher-level checks besides the (40 or so) extra error correction bits used to protect the 512 bytes of data?
I.e. the wrong data could be correctly written to disk. ECC won't catch that during a read, but the extra 8 bytes could.
The amount of ECC the drive
adds is unspecified, but even before drives switched to 4K sectors with "512 emulation", the size of ECC was typically much higher than in early 5¼ ESDI/SCSI/ATA drives.
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The extra "tag bytes" were mostly intended for file systems that wanted additional metadata associated with the sector, as done e.g. on the Xerox Alto, Apple Lisa and early Macintosh, and IBM AS/400. This could include an identifier for the containing file and offset, but could also be used for filesystem-level error detection.
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It is not unknown for drives to erroneously write to the wrong sector, and when the victim sector is read later, the drive will return that _wrong_ content with no error indication. Using the tag in such a way as to detect this kind of error is obviously useful for the filesystem or RAID layer. In the case of RAID redundancy it may be correctable, but otherwise it's still desirable to report an error rather than blindly proceed with invalid data.
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@justinto This one is essentially what I do, but I also add in grated cheese both into the batter and on top of the batter once it’s in the loaf pan. But the cheese isn’t needed.
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Classic Beer Bread
This classic beer bread recipe, with its four simple ingredients, requires nothing more than a bowl, spoon, pan, and oven in the way of tools.King Arthur Baking
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Until yesterday, I had no idea that the Osmonds were an actual rock band! And those boys had chops!
What kind of bizarro world do we live in where they made a song like this? This is unreal!
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- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Ugh, I'm sorry.
Toxic family is hard to endure, hard to break away from, and hard to be reminded why we broke away from them in the first place.
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Serial Ephemera
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I've been working through some #soroban exercises try to actually become reasonably proficient in its use. Interestingly enough, I'm doing much better with multiplicaiton/divison than I am with the addition/subtraction questions, but that's because the latter involve summing a column of values rather than just multiplying two numbers. There are more places to screw up.
Still, these questions seem designed to deliberately screw me up with things like multiple carries, changing the value on a rod just to immediately revert that change, etc.
Still, it's probably that way for a reason.
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I don't want this place to be a "Twitter replacement". I came here (in the pre-Musk era) because I wanted something better* than Twitter. The fedi certainly has its shortcomings, and we need to work to improve it (especially regarding the treatment of marginalized people), but Twitter should not be the yardstick we measure ourselves by.
* "Better" is of course subjective.
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Dear everyone on the Fediverse who posts anything political...
If you're not going to put your post behind a "political" content warning, then please at the very least use FULL NAMES instead of nick names like "Orange man" or "Kama" or "Vice Daddy" or whatever.
It makes it hard for those who are trying to filter out political content from their feed.
Thanks.
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I am neither for nor against AI, mostly because it's essentially a meaningless word. What does bother me is the number of people who are shoehorning it into their products because investors lose their minds and shovel boatloads of money at them.
It's not that I have a problem with fools taking other fools' money; I'm just really sick of them trying to sell me their magic beans.
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My father was going through a bunch of stuff in my old room and came across my old temple clothing (among some other of my stuff). He brought it over.
I wonder what I should do with it.
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If your staring point is asking someone to ‘prove’ bigotry in the fedi exists, it is fair to assume you are a bigot.
Period.
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Your SSH honeypot fakes a Linux system and logs the threat actor's commands.
My SSH honeypot hijacks the threat actor's terminal to play the music video of Rick Astley's 1987 pop hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" while ignoring Ctrl-C.
We are not the same.
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Thought we'd come up with a life hack to keep the dishes from piling up: just buy the minimum necessary, forcing them to be washed regularly.
This works until you accidentally break a dish. 🤦♂️
Edit: typo
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I fear that people have become desensitized to seeing teachers asking for help with wishlists.
Each year we are inundated with teachers essentially begging for help. I see it and feel it too.
I am one of those teachers who would not be able to run a classroom without the kindness of strangers.
I apologize & thank you in a single message, because I know many are struggling too. A boost is equally appreciated. The students come back tomorrow (9/5) and I’m so excited!
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@EdCates You have zero (read zero) reason to apologise. The folks in charge of implementing a system that leaves teachers in such a predicament should be the ones hanging their heads in shame (I won’t hold my breath).
You exemplify everything that’s good in the system despite the system. I hope your students know how lucky they are to have you.
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Anytime 😀 (And if I ever miss one of your appeals, please feel free to ping me directly)
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PS. Me too (on the real change thing) 😀
Sometimes I think being a teacher in Norway is hard and unappreciated by the masses. (Hah, I first misspelled masses as "asses", and found it quite fitting)
Then I think of the working conditions of teachers in the US and realize things could be a lot worse..
I really hope the US finds a new way forward soon, a way where teachers don't need to beg strangers for help to get basic equipment to do their jobs, and get decent wages..
In my day we had buttons.
We had switches! Sliders!
And what do we have now? Glass rounded rectangles of various sizes.
"We can make it do haptic feedback."
No just put me out of my misery. Send me to the farm upstate. Your haptic feedback is a mockery of the elegance of the latching switches and potentiometers I have known.
Robotics is hard. Mechanical engineering is hard. The glass rounded rectangles are magical, yes, and lovely, but they also prisons for the imagination.
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Press and hold to turn on, press and hold longer to pair bluetooth, press once for play/pause, press long to turn off... Oh, you pressed it too long and now it's gone from on straight into BT pairing, or maybe off, I'm not sure.
Just press and hold till something happens again.
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yeah lol i'd absolutely eat nectarines before i'd peel a peach
Unless I'm going to a farmers market where they have the good shit I end up buying nectarines more than peaches anyway just because supermarkets tend to have dogshit peaches but okay nectarines.
my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥
“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.
— Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission]
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J’ai juste entendu dire qu’il y avait des bobettes particulières (que j’hésite à qualifier de bobettes sacrées!), rien de plus!
J’avoue que ce que je trouve le plus intéressant, c’est que ça ne se voit pas. D’habitude, le but des vêtements religieux, c’est justement de montrer son appartenance. Mais là, c’est tout sauf ostentatoire!
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