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The wizard studied the inscription on the door. "The script is ancient Elvish...."

"Ooh!" the dwarf said. "I know this one! Speak 'friend' and enter!"

"No," replied the wizard. "It says: downloadeth the Gates of Moria App, for this is how you open the gates."

The hafling nodded. "Makes sense. Everything's an app these days."

"Just what I need, another useless app on my phone." The wizard stared at his device. "Well, crap. I can't get cell service in these mountains...."

#microfiction

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@pseudonym @Unixbigot @LapTop006 when I broke my arm, I got home and realised there was no way I could get my DESFire fob out of my pocket to get in to the house. Thankfully there is a way to log in on my phone, which I could just about manage left handed!

Internet was dropping packets like crazy (up to 50% packet loss). My ISP's tier-1 tech support didn't even know what the ping tool was.

I've worked tech support for a telco before, I know what the quality of the training is like because of the ridiculous turnover, so I get it, but geez...

Fortunately, it's all been resolved now.

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This begs an ettiquette question: what is the correct response to the following conversation that doesn't involve being an asshole?

Tech: Your connection seems fine on my end.
Me: It can't be. I'm getting about 25-50% packet loss.
Tech: How do you know that?
Me: The ping tool.
Tech: What's that?

After a long pause, my response was "a very basic network diagnostic tool." That came across more condescendingly than I had intended, but I couldn't come up with a better way of saying it.

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Attackers have time and budgetary constraints too.
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razorblades were discovered behind fash posters at a station just outside London a few weeks ago (a lot of fash are also "tradmasc" types so may be buying the blades anyway for the "grandad" safety razors they like using)

There are also various scrapers you can get cheaply (sold for removing stickers from car windscreens) which can be used to attack suspect stickers without putting yourself in danger..

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@vfrmedia This is good to know, because I haven't seen any nasty stuff like this yet, but I'd probably reach out with my bare hands if I hadn't just been warned. 😅

Incidentally, I'm super lefty and I use an old steel "mid-century" razor with double-sided blades myself, a choice I made some years back to avoid putting all those plastic disposables into the landfill. 🪒

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@mpotter @vfrmedia

lol, you don't have to be a nazi choad to use a safety razor, but they -are- somewhat masculine coded, hence their use by those posers.

Which makes my use of a straight razor all the more ironic, but I'm waiting on the appointment to fix the "more balls than the manly men" problem.

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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.

I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.

Edit: typo

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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.

ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org

Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.

#retrocomputing #unix #vintage

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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:

1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command

2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)

3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal

edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one

This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".

#terminal #tui #linux

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