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Welp, the car broke down and our emergency fund is pretty tapped out. I guess it's transit for a bit. I'm not as mad about that as you would think.

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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.
[<3 manlethotline To anyone wondering if it's worth it to tear down fascist posters or whatever. | spent a few months last year engaged in silent battle with another student at my school who was putting anti trans stickers up everywhere. | had it down to a system where every night | would walk the five block radius they went up in, and tear down all the ones | could reach, and use a stick to put duct tape over the others. Like, within hours of the stickers going up. | would have already purged the whole zone. | knew the basic schedule of whoever put them up based on when and where the stickers appeared. | probably could have found them in person if I'd wanted to. And | told all my classmates and friends what the stickers looked like and got them to rip them down too. And after a few months of this, the stickers slowed, and then stopped forever. My point is, a lot of this fashy or right wing stuff is one local weirdo. And if you pay attention, and do a little light organizing with your friends, you can basically make their efforts into a giant sisyphisean exercise in misery. You control your streets! [A alleecatblues Remember: It costs money to keep printing those stickers, but ripping them down is free.
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tho, for situational awareness, the fash have been known to put razorblades and other harmful objects behind their posters.

Please exercise caution and wear PPE if you engage in this activity.

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (cyberpunk.lol alt)
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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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@vfrmedia Oh yeah, they are definitely obsessed with being manly men in the man-o-sphere. It's exhausting just thinking about it.
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@vfrmedia Also, did you say "straight razor," as in the flip-out thing that can slit your throat? I could never. I live in earthquake country after all.
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I had a similar experience in the Covid pandemic. A bunch of conspiracist anti-vax stickers appeared on lamp posts around town here. I took to tearing them off, or if stuck down too well I'd apply a marker pen. The next week I found someone else had got there with the marker before me, and a couple of weeks later they stopped appearing.

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Okay, I'm done making pen rolls. This is the first one I actually didn't eyeball and am reasonably satisfied with the finished result. Made an identical one for Katy. #FountainPens
Another pen roll. This one is made from a fabric with various cats on a bookshelf. There are six pen slots which are all filled. There is a fold-down flap on the top.
#fountainpens
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@Judy Anderson True enough. It was also difficult to line the patterns up when I put the pockets in.
@Judy Anderson

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I have never once received an invoice from my therapist without bugging them for it. How do they ever get paid?

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Learned from the last pen roll and have significantly upped my sewing game. I made this one out of an old shirt that no longer fit me. (I swear it shrunk.) #FountainPens
A pen roll made out of a denim-like material. It has six pen slots which are filled mostly with LAMY Safaris as well as a caligraphy pen and a small eye dropper pen. The pockets and flap are both lined on the inside unlike the last one, and the pens have considerably more vertical space.
#fountainpens

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It's not at all uncommon for our car to sit unused in the parking lot for a week at a time. Why is it that when we get the worst snow storm in recent memory that we for one reason or another end up having to drive in it every single day?
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We value your privacy, now try to navigate these maliciously compliant dark patterns to avoid being spied on by 867 companies.

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I'm so fucking sick of these attacks on human rights.

I propose the following course of action:

We pick a specific target and trash its value.
- Do whatever we can to make it lose money, customers, resources, employees, reputation.
- Do our best to make it toxic waste that investors won't touch.
- We make it easy for anyone to join the carnage.
- We keep hammering it until it dies or we get protections

Then we collectively pick another target and do it again.

And again.

Until the dying screams of US corporations reach the ears of those with the power to call off the attacks on women, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and everyone else this administration is going after.

When they stop, we stop, negotiate, and stand ready to start again if they don't follow through.

I suggest Tesla be the first to burn.

electrek.co/2025/02/13/tesla-t…

#ResistEverywhere #CitizenSabotage #HumanRights #USPol #FuckCapitalism #FuckFascism #EatTheRich


Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend

Tesla is being targeted by protests organized at its stores around the globe. The demonstrations planned for this Saturday appear...
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#humanRights #uspol #eattherich #FuckCapitalism #fuckfascism #citizensabotage #resisteverywhere
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Stickers that says: Swasticar
(Not my invention! But I think it's a very good idea.) Make them easily removable so you can't be held liable for damage. But have so you can do it again, and again, and again, and again.
@alice @punissuer @lednaBM
@Peter Brown @punIssuer @🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) @👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵
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I can live with that.
Golfo Del Gringo Loco

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Dear @Benny,

We have provided you with many cat toys that you may play with any time you like.

My razor is not one of them.

@Benny
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Benny doesn't like this.

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one of these days, the meow-letariat is going to rise up and give us what’s we’ve got coming…

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Woo hoo!

I jusy fixed a seam that was going in one of the pairs of sweatpants I wear for bumming around the apartment.

Was it a neatly done fix? No.

Will anyone ever see it though? Also no.

Hoping to keep working on stupid little stuff like this with the sewing machine to build up my confidence/skill to be able to tackle stuff that actually matters if it's done well.

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Why do people obfuscate hashtags? I think they've missed the point of a hashtag...

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Been looking for an alternative to Google Maps. Organic Maps (OpenStreetMap) is great, but it doesn't know the bus routes in my city.

I remembered that the GRT (local transit) website had a trip planner that I used to use in the pre-Google days. Decided to give that a go again.

Turns out they're just using Google Maps now. Understandable, but disappointing.

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The Transit app is good, and while closed source is Canadian.

transitapp.com/


Transit - the best app for buses and trains

The world's most accurate transit app. Never miss a bus or train again on our 600+ supported cities, including New York, Paris, London, Montreal and more
transitapp.com
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i use transit.app unfortunately it uses navigation via google so if i use it on e os or on a devolved android it will tell me stops but it can’t tell me how to get there. i found it to be okay when i knew where the stops where but annoying when i didnt. would love an alternative too
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If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.

F*ck off Doug Ford.

Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.

Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.

#OntarioElection

Register to vote, confirm update or add your information to the register at elections.on.ca by February 17. If you’re registered to vote, you’ll receive your voter information card in the mail with information about when and where to vote. You can still vote if you have not yet registered. Add your information in person when you go to vote visit elections.on.ca for information on eligibility and registration.
#Ontario #ontarioelection @Carolyn
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I have never before in my life touched a sewing machine, but now that I have one, I decided that the first thing I'd try to make was a pen roll for my #FountainPens (one of them is a ballpoint, but we don't talk about that). There are definitely some things I'd do differently the second time around, but I freaking love this machine!
A (somewhat shoddily constructed) pen roll made of fabric with a wiener dog pattern. It holds three pens, a Parker GT Urban, a TWSBI Diamond 580, and a random ballpoint.
#fountainpens

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I have acquired what I believe to be a high-quality hand-me-down sewing machine from my mother-in-law. Now, apart from thread and fabric I only need to have one more thing...

...any idea whatsoever how to use it.

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It’s really not hard to get started. Something on it makes something spin. You do that a bunch of times or hold a switch so a motor does
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PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains

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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
Unknown parent

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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.
@Krafting

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Imagine being the sorry excuse for a human being who wrote this.

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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

an old computer
#unix #retrocomputing #vintage
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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II
A Decwriter II printing the Mandelbrot set.
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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

#Linux #Terminal #unix #tui
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are you certain? It could last I checked!

[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt

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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
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@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:

Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
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@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt

Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.

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