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Broke the #bicycle out for the first time this summer. I got this thing second-hand from Facebook marketplace a couple years back and never really had it serviced. I know I probably should.

Anyhow, the brakes were feeling kind of off, so I decided to have a look at them to see if it was a simple enough problem that I could fix myself. I don't know the first thing about bike repair, but after a few moments of following cables and using my eyes and brain, I was able to determine that whoever last did the brakes on this thing knew even less about what they were doing than I did.

Long story short, my rear brakes actually work now—though I should probably have someone who knows what they're doing have a look at it. I just lack the funds to do so at present.

Also, bike repair is less scary than I originally thought.

#bicycle
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Matthew Skala

The mere service of creating certificates isn't an issue - you can do that yourself. I did before Let's Encrypt existed.

The problem is that you need to use a service that is authorized by an authority trusted by major browsers - and all of the major browsers have strong US ties. So even if you could replace Let's Encrypt as such with a service that, in itself, isn't US-based, it wouldn't really solve the problem of being dependent on US-based entities.

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CW: ph, mention of blood

Had to replace my glucose monitor because it turns out that they expire (who knew?)

Anyhow, I officially hate the new one. It's clunkier, has a worse interface (everything is pictographs instead of text), requires more blood, is slower, and the first reading I got from it was very decidedly wrong (presumably because I hadn't applied enough blood). It said 3.2 mmol/L. I'm pretty sure I'd be, if not dead, at least feeling a little off at that reading. Did a second test (with more blood) and got a more reasonable result.

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#Monsterdon You know, schools are just buildings.

If there's a lawless zone surrounding the school building, you could just hold school somewhere else.

#monsterdon

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#Monsterdon This is such an old-man premise for a movie.

The kids these days. They're out of control! Not respectful like we were back in the olden days.

If this continues we'll need to use institutional violence to keep the kids in line!

Who is this movie for?

#monsterdon
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Andy L.

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#Monsterdon If I was in charge of converting war robots to teachers, I'd probably have removed the ammo from their rocket launchers.

To prevent damage to the facilities if nothing else.

#monsterdon

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Jonathan Lamothe

@Ben Ramsey @Andy L. Yeah, that made zero sense to me too. I mean, it's not exactly as though there was a whole lot about this movie thay made sense to begin with.

Jonathan Lamothe

2026-06-08 02:00:48

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Now that we've set them at each other's throats, rather than letting the problem resolve itself, let's just kill them all.

So, what was the point of this whole ruse then? I take it all back.

#monsterdon


@Ben Ramsey @Andy L.

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Hey fedi,

I want to do some experimentation with #sixels. What's the simplest graphics format that I can export from #krita that I can then write a tool to convert into the sixel format?

My naïve guess would be bitmap, but knowing the formats of that era, I'm willing to bet there are at least a half dozen different incompatible .bmp formats.

#krita #sixels

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"You know that #ADHD meds are addictive, right? They're basically speed!" 🤡

Listen... if I were in danger of getting addicted, I wouldn't need daily reminders to keep me from forgetting to take them. 🤦‍♂️

#ADHD

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@Katy Lamothe and I went out for a walk in a little wooded area near the apartment, because... you know... health. We were immediately eaten by mosquitos, so we pulled the plug and came home with an emotional support pizza.

This was kind of the antithesis of what we were going for, but hey, I get to eat pizza. Thus, I'm going to call it a win.

@Katy Lamothe
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🎶 SYNTH WEEK 🎵

Did I mention that this week is SYNTH WEEK on Dubious Goals Committee?

Tune in every day at 19:30 UTC to anonradio.net/ and hear live patching and music!

In North America:

1:30 pm Eastern time
2:30 pm Central time
4:30 pm Pacific time

And:
20:30 London
21:30 Berlin
01:00 Calcutta
03:30 Hong Kong
16:30 Montevideo

#radio #synth #modular #live

// aNONradio // – [LIVE]: Language Soup w/ DJ Supersalad with handyc

schedule
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#Radio #modular #live #synth

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"AI" bullshit

Interesting article on the whole phenomonon of AI replacing human workers:
cbc.ca/news/world/ai-agents-te…

I loved the marketing spin from an AI company that said:

She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise


What this really means:

We don't have to ask for a raise. We'll just wait 'till you're dependent on our product and then jack up the price because you won't be able to do anything about it at that point.


If it weren't for all the people who are going to lose thir jobs over this nonsense, it'd be amusing to watch.

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Darcy Casselman

"AI" bullshit

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So, I've struggled with restless leg syndrome for years. It always happens when I'm getting tired, and, frustratingly, makes it difficult to sleep. I thought it was something I'd just have to live with. It turns out, sleeping with a weighted blanket makes a huge difference.

Maybe that can help soneone else.

Also, it turns out I just really like the feeling of sleeping under a weighted blanket.

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Jonathan Lamothe started reading Shadows Have Offended

Shadows Have Offended

The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony.
Cassandra Rose Clarke

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I'm reviving my #gopher project. It initially died in the early stages because @SDF.ORG wouldn't allow me to run #commonLisp in my .../cgi-bin. I've recently discovered that I can run #awk there, so I'm building a minimal DSL in awk and building it with that.
#awk #gopher #commonlisp @SDF.ORG
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"If you dress sexy, you invite objectification and harassment."

"If you dress cute, you invite infantilization and pedos."

Your dick's poor boundaries shouldn't be our problem.

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Gen Z accidently reinvented Purity Culture by Bryony Claire

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
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propapanda

Women also victim blame other women. This is a problem among conservatives and not limited to dick-owners.

HOWEVER: Men are the most vocal about it.

Source: I've been raised by a conservative family and I've heard this shit all my life, whenever something related made it into news, or something happened at my school or so.

It's disgusting and I hate it.

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ph/mh/ADHD

Been having some weird symptoms for like a week now. My casual resesrch reveals that it's in all likelihood nothing serious, but potentially not.

It's been going on for long enough that I should probably discuss it with my doctor, but I really don't want to because I know he'll use it as an excuse to take me off #ADHD meds again.

I'll probably wait until I've got my prescription refilled first.

#ADHD
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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justJanne

I want to buy software on CD with nice packaging and printed manual.

I want to go back to an era where you buy one release of a piece of software and can use it forever, and updates are another boxset with new features released two years later.

I want software to be tested by an actual QA department, and manuals and CHM help files to be created by technical writers that get paid as much if not more than the developers.

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So I have an older netbook-esque laptop currently running Windows 10, and I'm sure it's not upgradeable. I've toyed with the idea of slapping #Debian on it to give it new life, but I've also been thinking about giving #BSD a go. Were I to do the latter, which BSD would the fedi recommend for an underpowered machine?

CC: @silverwizard

#Debian #bsd @silverwizard
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"When the people who built and operated your cloud would rather knead dough than touch a terminal again, that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response."

seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-…

The enshittification escalates...

I walked away from tech almost four years ago with a case of burnout you could see from space.

The intervening three years have only made me more grateful that I left when I did.

(I wish all my friends and colleagues still chained to the oars had my opportunity.)

#aws #layoffs #burnout #ai

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

Remember Tarus Balog, the AWS employee who rescued my deleted account when nobody else would? AWS just fired him. His proudest accomplishment in four years was saving my data. Leadership didn't care. The finale of a trilogy nobody asked for.
Abdelkader Boudih (Seuros Blog)
#AI #AWS #burnout #layoffs

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oldguycrusty

Very nice post about #humanity in the age of #AI and the #Inhumanity of #AWS #Amazon and #Corporations generally.

infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/11…

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2026-05-29 01:38:54

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"When the people who built and operated your cloud would rather knead dough than touch a terminal again, that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response."

seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-…

The enshittification escalates...

I walked away from tech almost four years ago with a case of burnout you could see from space.

The intervening three years have only made me more grateful that I left when I did.

(I wish all my friends and colleagues still chained to the oars had my opportunity.)

#aws #layoffs #burnout #ai


AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

Remember Tarus Balog, the AWS employee who rescued my deleted account when nobody else would? AWS just fired him. His proudest accomplishment in four years was saving my data. Leadership didn't care. The finale of a trilogy nobody asked for.
Abdelkader Boudih (Seuros Blog)

#AI #humanity #Inhumanity #amazon #AWS #corporations
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I haven't done one of these in a while, so here goes!

Hey #Women, #LGBTQ+ and #BIPoC folx! Are you an expert in something? Do you have a fancy degree or a lot of experience in some field/hobby? Do you like to infodump about it? Then out yourself in the replies below!

I'll start. Hi 👋 I'm Alice. I'm multi-queer (pan/bisexual and nonbinary). I'm an expert lockpicker and data scientist, and I have an education in computer science, psychology, and statistics.

Your turn 😊

#FollowFriday #AMA

#followfriday #Women #lgbtq #ama #bipoc

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Dawn Tåke 🌙

Hey hey,

I'm Leia, a trans, pan gal. I've got my MLIS, which is a log set of letters to say I'm a librarian. My forte is in genre fiction, (sci fi and fantasy,) because that's what I like.

I'm also a very advanced amature computer toucher. Running Linux, got my own server, etc. I'm the one everyone at work comes to before calling IT.

I've also been really into photography and photography equipment recently. My being cheap is the main thing keeping me from making a lot of regrettable purchases from goodwill. As it is I have a fungusy lens older than me and a younger one that smells like its been sitting for a while in the bottom of an outdoor ashtray.

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Doing some more #art practice. I've read a bunch of stuff/watched a bunch of videos on how to draw decent looking anatomical proportions. They say things like: the body should be so many heads tall—though not all sources agree.

The thing I'm coming to understand though, is that the best tool I have for judging proportions is my eyeball. Does it look right? If not, it doesn't matter what the tutorial says. I need to trust my own judgement more.

#art
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I hate that the word "degenerate" has come back into style, even among young people, even uttered by otherwise woke antifa types who ought to know better.

(It's a fascist, eugenicist word. It means someone or something that is moving the gene pool backwards or destroying humanity's progress.)

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