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2026-08-30 17:10:46 GMT

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i just used a burner under a copper coil with no pipe at first, but then someone gave me the heating element to a trailer-portable pressure washer, that's got the pipe inside a chimney with fiberglass or something. if you were closer i'd just give it to you since i haven't used it in years.

2026-08-27 23:52:08 GMT

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makes sense. I just wish handbrake used more CPUs when doing h.265

2026-08-27 23:17:31 GMT

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i'll get em, thanks. i like doing my own rips with subs burned in, i have settings for stuff shot on film that get the files real small.
thanks though!

2026-08-27 23:07:45 GMT

i'm watching law and order. again. I sort of want to watch star trek TOS and TNG but i don't have them. yet.
guess i'll start looking at ebay >.<

2026-08-25 23:33:53 GMT

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i do this, mostly. cursory glance, i like when there is a line graph with ranges. Vitamin D is one i ignore the chart and just aim for 105 - you're considered fine at like 40 or 50. I like not being sick though, a lot.
Last year i got sick three times during the summer, the *summer*, so i started slamming vitamin D, at least 10k IU a day, i average ~14000 IU a day. Haven't been sick all year, from something communicable.

2026-08-24 16:58:52 GMT

why does mastodon say "2 repliies" when it's a hellthread that is at least 15 pages long?
is this vibe coded?
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2026-08-22 16:52:27 GMT

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i saw tech nerds arguing this premise and variations of it last night on hackernews.

2026-08-21 13:58:33 GMT

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no key, it activates it with no key, yes

2026-08-20 23:48:49 GMT

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on windows https://massgrave.dev/
run the powershell command (windows key, type "powershell" and hit enter)
it will walk you through activation. If your computer doesn't already have office installed (i think home edition might not), there's a download link either on that site or in the tool.
if you need more help let me know

2026-08-20 23:43:12 GMT

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i bet male genital mutilation is just fine, though
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2026-08-20 22:42:29 GMT

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are we still happy with the drag?
The only thing i'd change is to ranked voting. My Ph.D. friend did his dissertation on various voting schemes.
I would like to vote for 3 people in ranked order, instead of for or against whomever.
I'm not really like, well-versed in the voting scheme, though. He made it sound excellent, though, and mentioned a few countries where they do it with ranked voting, rather than first past the post.

2026-08-20 22:37:57 GMT

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after hitting "nevermind" and deleting every aspect of it.
We know you didn't actually write it, so why would we actually read it?

2026-08-20 22:27:49 GMT

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wasn't that the point of the electoral college?
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/130/190/275/330/788/original/f6ba0a83ccf272ff.mp3

2026-08-20 22:16:26 GMT

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no offense to larry and darren but they're not doing "No Agenda", they lean real heavily anti-liberal; in a way adam and jcd didn't. they laughed at everyone, and it just so happened that the left is easier to laugh at.
Larry and Darren work "the left" into lots of things and it makes it hard to listen to.
Then again i was kinda getting sick of the show starting in january of this year, like i was growing out of it.
or my medicine is working
yum medicine.

2026-08-20 22:07:40 GMT

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i heard about this on @npub13p3…k087 ages ago

2026-08-17 22:15:43 GMT

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oh i grow lettuce on top. not to eat, just for fun. there's one lettuce stem that's like 16" long.
also can grow cat grass, wandering jew (i don't know the regular name, sorry), and something else i can't remember. In the tank i can take some of the native plants out here and they'll root in it from a cutting. I wonder if i can do a bonsai...

2026-08-17 22:11:10 GMT

if anyone remembers this tank when i was putting it together, and how it looked like coffee ground water when i started, and then put small plants in; the cheapest ones.
I just vacuumed the bottom and water changed and cleaned the single bubble filter.
Can't keep shrimp alive so it needs a filter, unfortunately.
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2026-08-17 16:08:41 GMT

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there is a way to scan books without damaging them but it requires humans to do work rather than putting the cut sheets into an auto-feeding scanner.
I've wanted one of the book preserving ones for a while but i only have two books i want to scan so it's not worth it. Maybe if the library near me had more interesting out of print stuff it'd warrant buying one.

2026-08-17 16:00:49 GMT

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what?
Misandry, ageism, anti-white, non-LGBTQIAAIOP+ aligned (all but L are male-centered), unborn rights (it's there too regardless if you believe or condone it).
the list goes on.

2026-08-17 15:52:39 GMT

my cat is broken
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2026-08-16 04:41:29 GMT

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well, they can do what they want, i don't like much media made after digital non-linear editing and digital production (music), so i already have basically everything i enjoy on local storage. They can delete whatever.
it'll still be around.
or not. who cares. i can just make a bonfire and roast marshmallows instead of dealing with media.

2026-08-16 04:18:38 GMT

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wtf 50TB isn't even that much, what kind of idiot.... Disney did this same thing, they had the resources to do stuff in house but they paid millions to third parties to do stuff like literally ffmpeg.
50TB, i have twice that just on my local crappy network.

2026-08-15 18:38:11 GMT

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holy. shit. I am struggling to get my blood sugar down to like 130 and apparently you can still be alive at 400? WTF
i don't like sweets but come on

2026-08-13 15:41:26 GMT

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maybe recharge it? sounds like it's just a bit low on r-22. Usually though the "starts cool" means "ices up then blows the ice everywhere as it melts" but maybe that's just my split system.

2026-08-12 04:23:29 GMT

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I can pitch it as "Start Weapon Switcheroo" or something.

2026-08-10 23:03:20 GMT

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literally impossible to know if this is good or bad without a KWh billed amount.

2026-08-10 15:38:47 GMT

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failures like this are one of the reasons i am seriously considering switching everything to devuan.
I hope you get it sorted.
i'd force it
USE="whatever" emerge -1va =sys-libs/zlib-1.3.31 (or whatever my memory sucks as you see)
And hope they fixed it before the --depclean reaper came through next week.

2026-08-10 15:25:27 GMT

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i'm functionally stupid with gentoo even though i used it for twenty years. Does the virtual flags actually count? Or is this circular, where if you add the two it wants to sys-libs/zlib it'll throw an error that it should just have minizip?
basically i hate portage, but i make that everyone else's problem, since everyone else made systemd my problem.

2026-08-10 05:22:11 GMT

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we stayed with family there, the very old ones had a house in the country (as it were) and their kids (my dad's age) lived in apartments in the city (suburb of Amsterdam). And people who worked, too, so it wasn't a money thing, they liked where they lived.
I've lived in a couple of apartments but only 1 was more than 1 floor of units, in the US (California and Washington).
Even now in the forest i feel it is too crowded. I'm going to move to wyoming or something.

2026-08-10 05:08:27 GMT

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i live in a forest...
i could get behind this idea

2026-08-08 16:17:46 GMT

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Now Minecraft Dungeons, there's a game that understands diablo-like. Hellgate: London, another. Torchlight series (except 3 that one is broken.).
You know who else forgot how to make a diablo game? Blizzard! ;-)

2026-08-08 16:16:34 GMT

Darksiders genesis is ostensibly a Diablo-like but it does the same thing most bad diablo-likes do, which is try to improve upon the formula. Wall climbing, air maneuvers, dashing, combos, finishing moves (which take time and leave you open to attack), platforming.
I'm glad i only wasted $10. Game sucks as a diablo-like.

2026-08-07 19:27:35 GMT

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SSRI?
they don't work if you're bipolar i hear

2026-08-07 17:52:28 GMT

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it's just a shot what's the big deal, wuzzy

2026-08-07 17:52:03 GMT

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wear a mask to disguise himself

2026-08-07 15:44:55 GMT

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at least it isn't on fire...
right?

2026-08-07 15:33:38 GMT

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i'd have gone to a chipotle for this post but there isn't one within acceptable distance. We have the knock-off-knock-off chipotle in town.

2026-08-07 15:10:48 GMT

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i never saw the point, it looked like facebook where people put their job title instead of their relationship status and hometown. A lot of "articles" posted, that i couldn't care less about.
I was talking to Linda Lupatkin and she said LinkedIn is important for upper management and C-level. and that merely having an account with the right things was probably enough for a regular employee. I think.
i have an account, i just don't use it. Ctrl-alt-shift-windows-L

2026-08-07 13:55:16 GMT

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i think i learned FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90 would have been too new at the time. Just goes to show i'm retarded.

2026-08-07 13:54:17 GMT

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there are gaming-centric distributions like bazzite or whatever, too. I just wanted to ensure the older hardware was really able to utilize it, rather than having to haul systemd around in system memory.
Best of luck!

2026-08-07 13:41:19 GMT

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that's in houston, above, this below is Brooklyn, NY
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2026-08-07 13:39:51 GMT

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2026-08-07 01:52:07 GMT

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i only have heard eyelid movies and they're good, sure

2026-08-06 22:42:52 GMT

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it's also supposed to be allcaps FORTRAN isn't it? that's what my teacher said in high school. i just assumed that was correct.

2026-08-06 22:39:16 GMT

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good, may i recommend Devuan if you like debian-likes? It doesnt have systemd, so it won't tax an older system as much
And i hate systemd a lot.

2026-08-06 22:15:33 GMT

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idk about the 6000 series but the 3000 and the 7000 were fine (i have 2 i3-7350k that still run windows *just fine*, for example).
new fan time?

2026-08-06 20:35:10 GMT

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agree to disagree, you think that every 100 days, every machine will be touched or serviced or replaced.

2026-08-06 20:25:17 GMT

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the facebook dc outside albequerque new mexico is one of the largest DCs in the world, and only has 50 full time.
The AWS G cluster had 1 guy that maybe showed up once a week.

2026-08-06 19:47:15 GMT

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lol ok man.
Your own argument is you need a constant stream of people fixing the machines, like that's worth the time when they're under a contract warranty.
I won't bother sending pictures.
950 servers is "hundreds of servers" and lot more than 2 racks, lol; just as an example.
i almost wonder if you're talking about VMs.
I'll find my AWS contact and ask them if they fix their machines in place or unrack and re-rack.

2026-08-06 19:27:57 GMT

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I also rent to drive cross country! and i own my car (2012 lexus 8-cyl, it's very comfy and fast), no desire for something new. I do want a beater truck, though. If i could get a hilux....

2026-08-06 18:50:20 GMT

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we had hundreds of servers and when something went wrong we moved the software to another server and sent the bad one to dell for replacement. They have thousands now, and i haven't heard any different story now.
And we had 2 rack monkey, but neither lived in the datacenter.

2026-08-06 15:37:36 GMT

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what, why?
If you want a "large, linked repeater system" those exist, they're called 2 meter and 70cm repeaters and they can be linked nationwide.
The difference is GMRS is $80 for a license with no test (afaik), and ham requires a test but is only like $25.
I don't care one way or the other, but it's against the part rules so whatever.

2026-08-05 14:36:14 GMT

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those don't overwinter for me (not hardy, just normal), i wonder where i can get the hardy ones to test. My neighbor just got a bunch of short ones, i wonder if those are hardy?
i want hibiscus because it is a good tea and good for you and prevents covid.

2026-08-05 01:06:44 GMT

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i'm just putting it in the ether so i don't have to accidentally one with a car

2026-08-04 20:47:50 GMT

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oh, intact is ideal

2026-08-04 20:43:01 GMT

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all three are fine choices

2026-08-04 20:25:44 GMT

i need a flock camera for reasons, on my bench.

2026-08-04 19:43:19 GMT

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it wasn't in my book at hand, although this implies that shot came from scot (schot) and scotch whisky has been a thing for a while i imagine, at least 100 years.
I'd need a book from about 1929 to actually figure out where it came from.
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/117/038/943/281/410/937/original/c6c839c78b665da9.jpg

2026-08-04 19:39:16 GMT

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gosh darnit now i gotta look it up.
> Another original meaning, "payment" (perhaps literally "money thrown down") is preserved in scot-free; also see scot (n.). The notion of "throwing down" might have led to the meaning "a drink," first attested 1670s; the more precise meaning "small drink of straight liquor" is by 1928.
1928!
I've also heard it called a slug, so it seems it is completely unrelated to pistol rounds ;-)

2026-08-04 18:42:21 GMT

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that's a bit, right? well 2 bits is a quarter, so it is a bit off. I find it pretty hard to believe that a single bullet was 12 cents, though. Possible.
gumball machines used to be a penny and i am sure the parents giving up a penny for a gumball thought that was outrageous at the time.

2026-08-04 06:02:16 GMT

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between 2011 and 2021 everything basically doubled in price, and it's trying its damnedest to double again recently.
THANK GOD WALMART IS GETTING BILLIONS IN TARIFF RELIEF.
like they suffered, they just raised prices and stocked shrinkflation items.

2026-08-04 01:21:00 GMT

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i'm sure one doesn't go from heading a tens of billions dollar hedgefund to homeless overnight, no :-)

2026-08-04 01:18:21 GMT

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he was 4:1 leveraged on 10 billion, so i don't know. sorry.

2026-08-04 01:06:06 GMT

you guys hear about the overleveraged 20-something who lost 35 billion dollars overnight?
Aschenbrenner

2026-08-03 22:31:42 GMT

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same color as romex, then? lol

2026-08-01 19:51:46 GMT

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this was literally the recommended way to do this around 6 months ago

2026-07-29 23:39:24 GMT

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if void for whatever reason can't or won't host, i will, it can't be that much bandwidth and we have more than enough.
i just double checked and we can handle the highest mp3 stream numbers at 320kbit/s so yeah, lol.
however, Nick the Rat will have to apologize for banning me for harasssing robots. of course.

2026-07-29 23:02:23 GMT

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tiktok framing is the future

2026-07-29 21:43:16 GMT

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i have never really liked any of the star wars films/media. I liked Knights of the Old Republic, that's about it. The old movies are old and long and old, the 2000s ones are long and dumb, and the new ones, who cares about disney milking an IP they bought.
There's infinite expanded universe novels if someone gets a hankering.

2026-07-29 20:59:33 GMT

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i was already on the fence, i'm not really sure why anymore, but if it isn't mimi and adam i forsee donations petering out as soon as the grief goes away.

2026-07-27 23:50:35 GMT

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i have this with a rifle, but i have no idea how to find it in polite company

2026-07-27 23:42:01 GMT

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i can't find my tea candles to start mine up! i went looking and found a power supply i was looking for last week, though. i already bought two replacements, though.
where are my candles????

2026-07-27 22:43:39 GMT

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i don't name stuff like this but i get the vibe, lol.
I do like v2, v3, v3-downmix v3-downmix.mp3

2026-07-27 22:12:51 GMT

how do i find a fediverse instance that takes a hard stance on CP but generally leaves everything else alone? and when i say CP i mean loli and anime images *as well*. i don't need to see kids' bits, drawn or otherwise.
it's like the one thing that makes me hesitate about recommending this whole experiment to anyone else.
I personally can do without the racism, too, but whatever, that's easily mutable. having children's crotches show up every 10th post is grating

2026-07-27 21:53:59 GMT

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is bread a staple?

2026-07-27 21:19:57 GMT

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i don't get why it was allowed. my only hope is that there's some catch that means it won't work right. I'll get into amateur rocketry if i have to

2026-07-27 20:58:33 GMT

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that guy is in everything, he's a regular Cameron Mitchell of this era

2026-07-27 20:55:53 GMT

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hydroxyzine!

2026-07-27 20:51:01 GMT

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it's about damn time

2026-07-27 20:48:56 GMT

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new to Nevada?

2026-07-27 20:43:18 GMT

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helpfully the AI backups are intact!
On second scan it appears no backups exist. I am very sorry about that and i will fix it so it doesn't happen again.

2026-07-27 20:18:28 GMT

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more than catholics and that's saying a LOT

2026-07-27 16:09:19 GMT

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lol, i love hypotheticals. I bet you could get to a pretty high court on that.
and you have a good reason, too. "i don't want to forget the wipe pin, even if i forget the unlock pin"

2026-07-27 16:05:38 GMT

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i know 4 and 8, but i have to eat at bedtime (about 30-60 minutes before), there's no way around it. and i'm hungry by noon, regardless. Usually i can eat around noon, then have a final meal at like 6 PM, and be good, that's 18 hours.

2026-07-27 02:38:00 GMT

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intermittent, i thought. Although that's not this, this is fasting all the time except for "several hours" each day. I've heard 4 hours, 6, and 8/9 like this.
i'd love to fast 16 hours a day but i can't, a medicine i take requires i eat at night before bed. it's my biggest complaint.

2026-07-27 00:55:45 GMT

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what's wrong with IRC (or matrix) and mumble/TS/ventrilo? the only thing this doesn't allow is fullscreen sharing, which, whatever; but that's solvable with matrix or other means.
no one will move off discord until some other service is about as large and then that service will start to suck as they need to earn money, too.

2026-07-26 20:31:29 GMT

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that's easy, just get a new phone, set it up, and wipe it at the border.
I didn't know "there was nothing illegal on my device so it was illegal to search it and legal for me to wipe it" was a thing, but here we are.
The interesting thing is what constitutes a "border" in the US.

2026-07-26 18:53:26 GMT

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right, i understand all of that. but if some border agent asks for "my pin" and i give them a "pin" that wipes my phone, i don't see anything illegal about that.
Maybe they claim there's a legal obligation to preserve evidence or something, but there's no indictment or supposition of illegality prior to the request for a pin.

2026-07-26 18:34:53 GMT

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secure in my papers and effects, if i want to destroy my papers, why is that illegal?

2026-07-26 18:20:18 GMT

why is it illegal to wipe my phone?

2026-07-26 01:31:10 GMT

navidrome makes some decisions i don't understand, but whatever. new stuff. been adding a lot of darker stuff lately
https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/116/983/689/238/565/370/original/9dee55ae4ed4157d.jpg

2026-07-20 21:33:01 GMT

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one-off proof of concept (it is possible to do this thing with this code) and vibe-coded tools that are used locally are 100% fine, who cares if they can be maintained, as that's not the point. The issue is when Amazon is vibe coding billing estimation, for example, and the AI switches bytes for GB and suddenly people owe 5 quadrillion dollars (a real value amazon sent an email about this morning to someone)

2026-07-20 18:20:41 GMT

OH HERE WE GO
Adam Curry is gunna defend AI for writing code, after playing a clip of AI saying 3 different months of the year have an X in it.
Trust me, every vibe coded thing is going to be a shitshow if it's in wide use.

2026-07-17 21:21:42 GMT

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will CBN work

2026-07-05 22:21:11 GMT

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no, but i have an ssh client, i think. the phones that let you have command lines are $$$. I have a Nokia N800, that has a command line and runs a variant of ubuntu called maemo.

2026-07-02 23:02:03 GMT

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my dr says that if ssris don't work but you have depression that you're probably bipolar and SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT USE SSRI
you need to use anti-psychotics.

2026-07-02 19:59:45 GMT

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how much is that worth? i am curious how calibrated my gun values are

2026-07-01 15:21:35 GMT

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that is good

2026-07-01 15:19:18 GMT

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that python isn't source available is it? I have a cricut i can use and i'm always looking for interesting things i can do with the pen tool. Getting up 40 times sounds like a blast!

2026-06-29 15:31:03 GMT

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you accidentally plucked too much?