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Michael Vilain

mvilain@sfba.social

<p>recovering sysadmin<br />Certified Advanced Rolfer™</p>

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    @jerry@infosec.exchange Tried to access fedia.io and brave complained about the certificate. I&#39;ve never seen this error. Maybe brave is getting extra picky about certs or maybe the server needs some attention. Anyway, I hope you don&#39;t spend a long time on this. Or it&#39;s just a random &quot;Schpilkis in the Genekticazoink&quot; error (that&#39;s my Default Answer™)

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    @grickle@mstdn.social Color me old. I have no idea about Frogger. I vaguely recall MarioKart but only after seeing others play it. Pong and Zork are more my speed.

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    @aral@mastodon.ar.al As soon as the Github CEO left and M$ took over, I moved EVERYTHING to codeberg.org. I didn&#39;t want M$ AI slop enshitified LLM pawing over my stuff. Now I only visit. And wash my hands with soap and hot water afterwards.

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    @jerry@infosec.exchange Strange meetings at the Circle K.

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    @Robgbysea@mstdn.social @mattblaze@federate.social The great thing about LPL&#39;s videos is that I can tell when some actor is pretending to pick a lock vs. actually picking it on TV and movies. They usually get the turner wrench wrong.

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    @Robgbysea@mstdn.social @mattblaze@federate.social Just LPL&#39;s title is enough for any lock company&#39;s legal department think twice before sending him a Cease and Desist letter and asking Youtube to take down content of a lock LPL has deemed unfit. He&#39;s very careful about what he says about bad locks couching them as opinions which are completely legal and not libelous.

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    @arstechnica@mastodon.social I&#39;m so glad people have stopped using VT100s for terminals in pics. It was bad enough when they still used modems and teletypes.

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    @Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social @DGI@graeber.social Michael Chabon used this exact question as a plot element in THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN&#39;S UNION. Only some flunky in the FDR admin allowed that ship filled with Jewish refugees to land in Sitka Alaska and BANG!, it&#39;s the land of the Frozen Chosen.

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    @alternativeto This was exactly my reaction to Boing Boing requiring that I turn off my ad blocker some month ago. Or pay a monthly subscription. Enshitification has been lurking in the background of the site with their questionable merch vendor. When I came back randomly some 6 month later, they&#39;d removed the ad block ban and switched to a freemium model. But the artlcles were a lot crappier. Haven&#39;t gone back since. RIP.

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    @navi Isn&#39;t &quot;sideloading&quot; on Unix the same as &quot;compiling and installing from source&quot;. I remember building stuff before package managers. All those dependencies were a PITA.

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    @9to5Mac@mastodon.online I tried buying 3 pairs of pants on Walmart&#39;s web site. I got 1 pair and they were _really_ cheaply made. Definitely not worth the $20 I paid for them. The site just cancelled the 2 other pair and didn&#39;t send any sort of message acknowledging that. I&#39;ll never buy anything from Walmart&#39;s site again. And the local brick and mortar store just converted into a &quot;superstore&quot; with really cramped aisles. Two carts can&#39;t pass each other. And forget...