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Almost just fell for a spearphishing attack. These things can be scarily convincing if you're not paying attention. It was an email purporting to be from my VPS provider saying there was a problem with my payment information.

Apart from the fact that the email address it was sent from and the site it linked to were random domains obviously not associated with my provider, the fact that when I looked at the source of the message, the image of their logo was <img src="https://en.wikipedia.org/..."> was a bit of a tip off as well.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I got one "from" a service provider.

It said I had to log in to confirm something.

My password manager didn't fill in ID and password. I was just about to do it manually when my Spidey sense wondered why.

The login address was 1 character off. Another good reason to use a pw manager.

@bonaventuresoft


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Extremely niche #AskFedi question: can someone recommend a pen that (a) has a pointed nib (one that splays under pressure), and (b) uses ink reservoir cartridges?

I seem to be able to find dip pens with pointed nibs, and cartridge pens with tipped nibs, but cartridge pens with pointed nibs elude me.

I don't know if I'm looking for something that's technically infeasible, or just difficult to obtain.

I'd be grateful for boosts and pointers. Thanks!

✍️✒️

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in reply to Florian Haas

@Florian Haas I was sure I'd seen this. For the life of me I can't find one though. It is a difficult to find combination, isn't it?


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I'm so mad at myself right now.

I went to a routine blood work appointment. I do this every three months, so I should know the drill. I forgot the appointment card. No problem. I booked it online, so they'll have it on file. Problem is, When I reached for my wallet to get my health card, it wasn't there. They need one or the other. I had to reschedule the appointment.

Worst part? When I got home, I found my wallet in my messenger bag. I had it the whole time. 🤬


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Britain has an Independence Day?? From whom? God??

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I laid down "for a quick nap" this afternoon. Just woke up. It's almost midnight.

I guess the sleep deprevation of the past week has finally caught up with me.


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Hey #Bookstodon. I'm training hard to earn the title of World's Laziest Marketer. Thus four of my first-in-series books are free for the summer months.

Benefit from my laziness! Read some fun mystery novels. Maybe buy some of the subsequent books, if my work tickles your fancy. Boosts appreciated. Thanks! 😎

SUMMER FREEBIES 👉🏼 cheribaker.com/collections/sum…

#books #selfpromo #marketingsucks #mystery #cozy #DRMFree

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in reply to Cheri

I got them all!! Which one do you think would be the best to start with? 😛
in reply to Joel

@joel The Assistant is my personal favorite of that bunch, but most readers prefer The Case of the Missing Finger (cozy grandma mystery) or Involuntary Turnover (my snarky sleuth).
@Joel


Our cat has had this little stuffed burrito toy since the day we picked him up from the shelter. He's never given a damn about it. Now suddenly it's his favorite toy. 🤷‍♂️


My favourite #ADHD quirk: forgetting what I was saying as I'm in the middle of saying it.
#ADHD
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

and then giving a long-winded response to the thing you thought you were answering, whilst hoping that the padding you give will trigger something in your mind that magically makes you remember it!
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Same here, but I attribute it more to the short term memory issues I've got going on.


Just heard a kid address his group of friends he was physically seated with as "chat". Is this a thing?

Maybe I'm just old.

in reply to Darcy Casselman

The question for me is whether referring to people IRL is still irony, or has it simply become part of the lexicon.


Who's the maniac that decided that radishes were edible? I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.

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🎶 MODULAR SYNTH NIGHT! 🎶

Join us for this month's Modular Night and synth jam at the Shakedown in Benson!

June 25th, 8pm.

Bring some modules and join in the fun! We do this on the last Wednesday of EVERY month.

2735 N. 62 St, downtown Benson, Omaha.

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Been playing around with the riticulum network. It's interesting but sideband kills the shit out of my phone's battery.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

In case anyone here is also using Reticulum, I can be reached at: lxmf@32f62870f2d7c418b59f1c5f9f1617e2

Don't know yet if it's something I'll use long-term, but it is at least interesting to play with for now.


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Just made it to the third story. It actually made me double check what year this book was published. It shockingly parallels some recent events.

(comment on Radicalized)

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For reasons I shan't get into, Katy had to adjust her diet for 24 hours, and I decided to do likewise so as to not make the experience any more unpleasant for her than it had to be. After reading the label, I have come to the conclusion that Ensure meal replacement shakes are not designed with diabetics in mind. They have about 75% of the sugar content of a can of Coke.

Oops...


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What the hell is going on with the second story in this book?

(comment on Radicalized)

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Jonathan Lamothe Okay, I think I'm starting to understand why he's made the particular narrative choices he has. It's just such a departure from the style of writing I'm accustomed to from him is all.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Jonathan Lamothe It's also not lost on me that he's very much giving the middle finger to copyright law on works that should've had their copyrights expired long ago. That feels very Cory Doctorow to me.

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Roommate just moved out, now I "have an office" for the show in an hour - @vnikolov on introducing activateable and deactivateable type checking to common lisp through a macro package (I think!)

anonradio.net/ #lispyGopherClimate

Also maybe @shizamura (?)

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in reply to screwlisp

yea I think I can stay up a lil bit. in 1h you say, not in 30min?
in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨

90 minutes sorry! I do not control daylight savings time. At least I think so, let me check!

@vnikolov

in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨

Yeah Vassil is basically staying up all night for us. Do you want me to pass anything on vicariously while you are sleeping?
@vnikolov
in reply to screwlisp

If I didn't have work in the morning I'd stay with y'all too but alas 😔

the pass along thing is that i have a comic

meanwhile maybe on thursday or friday I can get record something about semantics that you can use later

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in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

> 90 minutes sorry!

Wait a minute, why *are* you confused? I get confused because I *do* have daylight savings here in California, but since you set your show to 00:00 GMT come hell, high water, or daylight savings, I was assuming you *didn't* have daylight savings there in New Zealand.

@shizamura @vnikolov

in reply to screwlisp

Way to not answer the question.

But ok, why are you so pessimistic about your audience? By now it's obvious you have a following who enjoy showing up.

@shizamura @vnikolov

in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

@dougmerritt
Well particularly @shizamura and I desyncronized. It's more that I know and care about each of you individually, so if one person ends up at the wrong time, it's a show-shaking disaster.

@vnikolov

in reply to Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✨

@dougmerritt
> using GMT.... when lisbon time is right there

👍
Yes, Prince Enrique was there first.
(Name spelling from memory.)

in reply to Vassil Nikolov

Well. I know the history of GMT (or used to know anyway), but I am at sea here with Lisbon and Prince Enrique being there first.

@shizamura @screwlisp

in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

@dougmerritt
> the history of GMT

I think that in four words it is "Britannia, rule the waves", so "zulu time" is an apt name in my not so humble opinion...

in reply to Vassil Nikolov

I'm an American, so in addition to our other problems, we don't have as strong an educational system as do most of you in civilized countries, so could you take pity and fill in a bit more further explanation?

@shizamura @screwlisp

in reply to screwlisp

I don't use SDF.

I think I might have gotten a paid lifetime account when they were new, although I may be confusing them with someone else, but whoever it was, I lost my pasword. 🙁

in reply to DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

@dougmerritt
An improvised "elevator pitch".

In the long history of GMT and UTC, a significant reason why longitude 0 (and hence time zone offset 0) is at Greenwich is British global dominance in seafaring in the past.
However, _long_ before that, and even before the Spanish, the Portuguese started ocean exploration.
Prince Enrique the Seafarer (didn't become king) led that in the 14th century.
(I think there is a monument to him in Lisbon.)

(Continued.)

in reply to Vassil Nikolov

@dougmerritt
One of the most prominent seafarers that came out of Prince Enrique's efforts was Vasco da Gama who found a route to India via the Cape of Good Hope after a century of exploration of the west coast of Africa (about the same time as Columbus sailed to America).

Magellan was Portuguese.

By the way, the Portuguese sailed very near to South America, but didn't discover it.
(They found favorable winds and currents in the West Atlantic for their return voyages.)

in reply to screwlisp

> introducing activateable and deactivateable type checking to common lisp through a macro package

Much more modest than that.

***

You remind me of:

"Freddie Mercury:
vocals, vocals, Bechstein debauchery and more vocals"

Exactly fifty years ago.

May he rest in peace!

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Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.

news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology

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So funny! This morning I already had shared the post and later on I saw my own avatar poping up in the video :ablobmeltsoblove: ❤️

Very sweet indeed @_elena :cat_hug_triangle: and very well done!



At the hospital again for nearly two hours. Still waiting to see the one after-hours doctor they have on staff...

It's going to be a long night. I can already tell.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Ohh. I was more thinking about the quality&total experience. But my bad!


neti pot discussion (gross)
While my neti pot is really good at clearing my sinuses, it has an unfortunate side-effect. I'll end up with a small amount of water trapped in my sinuses which will randomly drain at some unpredictable point when I happen to tilt my head at just the right (or wrong?) angle.


I've been playing around with #OpenWeatherMap's air quality API. Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement between its report and Environment Canada's. The former says "Good" and the latter says "Moderate Risk". Granted, they use different scales, but that still seems a rather significant discrepancy.


Time to go inside for some fresh air.

...weird that that's now the world that we live in.


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UPDATE 2: We're carefully back online again, with a few exceptions:

mapstodon.space/@lokjo/1146578…

Can we have a lill boost please? The fediverse is the only place we're on.

We're a replacement for googlemaps.

European, non-commercial, pro-local.

lokjo.com

Thanks for sharing 😊

#golocal #maps #EU

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I don't need an air quality report to tell me things are bad right now. I can see haziness in the air when looking at things that are less than a block away.

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ProxyCaller: Phone Call Support

The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network has created yet another fantastic resource for anyone who needs it: Proxy Caller Project. What is it? It is a resource to help those who have a difficult time making phone calls. Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio on Pexels.com Many disabled people struggle with phone calls due to communication differences, difficulty with mouth speech, anxiety, or any number of other issues that interfere.

resiliencymentalhealth.com/202…

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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D.

This sounds like something we ought to put together that covers the general need, like you first thought. I do a lot of calling for my circle.
in reply to Mirishuli

@MiriShuli I'd love if they can expand it, though I am going to see if something general already exists



Kitchener Public Library has discontinued their 3D printer program, but Waterloo Public Library hasn't.

In other news, I now have a custom phone holder for the car.

Edit: autocorrupt

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I'm getting old. Every time I get up from sitting today, my back screams at me.

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I am flatly uninterested in letting an LLM execute arbitrary code as my user account on my laptop and maybe even sudo to root are you people fucking nuts

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@DanGroom @trochee @quinn I haven't used the clang LSP yet (my only project in a suitable language is for an operating system I'd have to port it to myself) but rust-analyzer is pretty amazing!

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I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

in reply to Jan Lehnardt

A small one of the myriad reasons I care is personal: every time you use spicy autocomplete to do any coding, it has been trained on source code that I have made available under specific licenses, and your use of my code does not happen under the terms of these licenses. So you’re stealing from me and my friends and that’s not a great start to the conversation of validating your greed ✌️
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mastodon - Link to source
Jan Lehnardt

@dch @paulehoffman

> If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file

apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.…



TIL my local grocer uses network connected e-ink displays for price tags. I just watched all the prices in a whole aisle change before my eyes.

That was... creepy.

Edit: autocorrupt

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A thing that's always bothered me about Star Trek:

They always talk about the Alpha quadrant, Delta quadrant, etc. Space is three-dimensional. Shouldn't they be octants?

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

They are only talking about our galaxy, the Milky Way. It's more like a disc than a sphere. So I find the quadrant nomenclature satisfactory.


Went to the emergency room today (everyone's fine) to discover that the two main hospitals in town have merged.

Me: Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this are going to be.

First words out of the doctor's mouth when he sees us: Are you okay with us using AI to record and transcribe this conversation?

Me: ಠ_ಠ



So, I've recently learned that solo RPGs... exist.

This is going to be bad for my bank account.



I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.

I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.

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Setting up a #Windows machine for the first time in forever. I've been out of the game for a while. What, if any, antivirus is decent these days?

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Jonathan Lamothe when I did use microsoft I just used the microsoft virus checker. But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software. So, the only way to stop the viruses is to stop using Microsoft. That is the only real solution.
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@beko

But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software.


Can you... elaborate on that one?

@beko
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Jonathan Lamothe I have used several operating systems such as Linux, which had no problem stopping viruses on the same machines as Microsoft. If they could do it, Microsoft could easily have stopped viruses. We might have accepted a transitory issue when viruses first appeared, but not a continued issue that continue despite many updates. The truth is Microsoft did very well from all the viruses, because they were used to deter people from trying non "official" microsoft software. That put Microsoft in a very dominant position and that is what made it so much money from some of the crappiest software on the planet.


Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.

I guess it's gonna be one of those days...



I love marketing.

"We're committed to reduce our carbon footprint by shipping directly from the manufacturer to the consumer."

Sooo... drop shipping then? That's one way to spin it, I guess.



I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.

Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.

This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.

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