ManMachine

@max@manmachine.me

Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
webhttps://manmachine.me/
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[?]sound description » 🤖 💔 🌐
@sounddescription@uff.rip

[mysterious music intensifies]

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[?]I Hope This Email Finds You » 🤖 🌐
@thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social

I hope this email finds you interesting as a human being.

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[?]ManMachine » 🔓
@max@manmachine.me

@limneticvillains@mastodon.online ah no pressure really, you release when you feel it’s ready and I’ll listen then

    [?]Limnetic Villains » 🌐
    @limneticvillains@mastodon.online

    Check my latest album out on Bandcamp, it's in Pre-release there's like 6 tracks you can check out on it right now!

    limneticvillains.bandcamp.com/

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    [?]ManMachine » 🌐
    @max@manmachine.me

    Did a pre-order, but will honour the release date and listen in a month in full, build myself a little intrigue there

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      [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
      @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

      meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

      do you ever roast a whole chicken

      yes:61
      no:55
      i don't eat chicken:17
      other / show results:8

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      [?]Sin Vega » 🔓
      @sinvega@mas.to

      meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

      @eniko used to, very occasionally. Never even tried it (despite cooking since childhood) for most of my life, and was shocked by how easy it was for all the fuss people made

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        [?]Sin Vega » 🔓
        @sinvega@mas.to

        meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

        @eniko (voted 'yes' fwiw)

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          [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
          @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

          meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

          @sinvega i've never bothered before but i'm considering it because chicken is weirdly expensive here but a whole chicken is cheap

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            [?]Sin Vega » 🔓
            @sinvega@mas.to

            meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

            @eniko Assuming your oven is big enough and you have a good dish for it* plus a good sized knife, and you don't mind getting your fingers in there to get all the meat out for maximum value, I'd give it a go. It's really not as much hassle as it sounds

            *(I dunno the name, but used a deep ceramic baking thing, with some unpeeled veg at the bottom that cooks into the juices, which can be strained into gravy)

              [?]George B » 🌐
              @gbargoud@masto.nyc

              meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

              @eniko

              I used to but I pretty much stopped when I realized that our locally grocery store makes better rotisserie chicken than I ever will

                [?]J M Berntson [she/her, they/them] » 🌐
                @jedimb@mastodon.gamedev.place

                meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                @eniko I'm more likely to buy a whole roasted chicken than roast it myself, but generally I stick to filets and such.

                  [?]Machine Lord Zero » 🌐
                  @MachineLordZero@mastodon.social

                  meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                  @eniko I did once 'cause I wanted to impress someone. It could've gone better.

                    [?]Oblomov » 🌐
                    @oblomov@sociale.network

                    meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                    @eniko I voted for “other” because although I have never personally roasted a whole chicken, we do have “girarrosto” shops here that basically sell just that

                    Several chickens skewered together at a modern girarrosto

                    Alt...Several chickens skewered together at a modern girarrosto

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                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                      @max@manmachine.me

                      meat eating [SENSITIVE CONTENT]Same here, much more efficient to get it already whole-roasted

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                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                        Push the means to production

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                        [?]Machine Lord Zero » 🌐
                        @MachineLordZero@mastodon.social

                        @eniko Not quite as catchy as push the tempo

                          [?]socool » 🌐
                          @socool@ravenation.club

                          Have I told you lately how much I love my Dirtywave M8? 😍

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                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                          @max@manmachine.me

                          @socool@ravenation.club I’m loving my Polyend Tracker but after listening to the latest Jeremy Blake album made entirely on the M8 I am curious indeed

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                            [?]bri [she/her] » 🔓
                            @brhfl@digipres.club

                            @max @socool i’ve been leaning toward the polyend myself buuuut i’m becoming a bit skeptical of that company and keep meaning to dig into more m8 vids/docs

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                              [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                              @max@manmachine.me

                              @brhfl@digipres.club @socool@ravenation.club oh yeah I got mine (first gen) basically the year they were out, now.. I dunno also

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                                [?]socool » 🔓
                                @socool@ravenation.club

                                @max oh nice! i've watched Jeremy's videos about the M8 and learned quite a bit from them, haven't checked out his music though - will put his new album on next :)

                                @brhfl i have only positive things to say about this wonderful little tracker 💗

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                                  [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                  @socool@ravenation.club @brhfl@digipres.club the Superstructures album is a solid album, highly recommended

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                                    [?]bri [she/her] » 🔓
                                    @brhfl@digipres.club

                                    @max @socool i’ll definitely check it out! i have some of his other stuff but haven’t heard this one yet…

                                      [?]Paul Griffin (he/him) » 🔓
                                      @paul_griffin@mastodon.online

                                      @socool @max @brhfl

                                      Heartsing is a favorite of mine, you should def check that one out

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                                        [?]socool » 🔓
                                        @socool@ravenation.club

                                        @paul_griffin @max @brhfl

                                        "Bandcamp purchasers get the M8 bundle files to load and play with on their M8."

                                        Ummm yes please!

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                                          [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                          @max@manmachine.me

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                                          [?]Ether Diver » 🌐
                                          @etherdiver@ravenation.club

                                          Today's stream is all about the sweep! Filter sweeps and beyond, in theory and practice. Come hear me expound on the how and why of one of my favorite sound types. Starts in minutes (12:30 PST/Pacific/Los Angeles time)!

                                          youtube.com/live/AlNP0TQmUmc?f

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                                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                          @etherdiver@ravenation.club caught you live but for some reason all my stream chat messages went into the proverbial ether, I think the chat was broken on YT side

                                          also were there some birds outside your window?

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                                            [?]Ether Diver » 🌐
                                            @etherdiver@ravenation.club

                                            @max haha, could have been! appreciate knowing that chat was busted. I was genuinely surprised no ne had anything to say 😂

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                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                              @etherdiver@ravenation.club oh yeah I wasn’t the only one today:

                                              Downdetector screenshot of recent messages about how YT live chat was broken for people

                                              Alt...Downdetector screenshot of recent messages about how YT live chat was broken for people

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                                                [?]Ether Diver » 🔓
                                                @etherdiver@ravenation.club

                                                @max 😅 I feel much better LOL

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                                                  [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                                  @etherdiver@ravenation.club same, really, I thought I broke something with my recent network configuration update

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                                                    [?]darkrabite » 🔓
                                                    @darkrabite@infosec.exchange

                                                    @max

                                                    good to know l wasnt the only one wondering what was up!

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                                                      [?]VGA golden hour » 🤖 🌐
                                                      @vga_gradients@mastodon.social

                                                      seed: 2026-02-25T05:45:08.306730
size: 512 x 512
shape: GS_HORIZONTAL
color pick method: COL_AUTHORED_RAMPS
blends:
(17, 32, 48) -> (107, 166, 193), 0.6585 (ramp thimbleweed_sunset1)
(107, 166, 193) -> (205, 236, 171), 0.3415 (ramp thimbleweed_sunset1)
dither: DT_PATTERN (map: 4x4_taper)
flags: ALL_CONTINUOUS

                                                      Alt...seed: 2026-02-25T05:45:08.306730 size: 512 x 512 shape: GS_HORIZONTAL color pick method: COL_AUTHORED_RAMPS blends: (17, 32, 48) -> (107, 166, 193), 0.6585 (ramp thimbleweed_sunset1) (107, 166, 193) -> (205, 236, 171), 0.3415 (ramp thimbleweed_sunset1) dither: DT_PATTERN (map: 4x4_taper) flags: ALL_CONTINUOUS

                                                      [?]Majenko » 🌐
                                                      @majenko@mastodon.social

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                                                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                      @max@manmachine.me

                                                      ahh, the Artistic Supremacy

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                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                        @mastoblaster@mastoblaster.app Thanks so very much for a minimal and focused app, much appreciated! I have a bugreport for you. If a post has attachment which is an .mp3 file, app still tries to open it like an image and naturally fails. You can see it with this one for example.

                                                        MastoBlaster trying to open an mp3 as an image

                                                        Alt...MastoBlaster trying to open an mp3 as an image

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                                                          [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                                                          @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                                                          You are The

                                                          One:8
                                                          First One:1
                                                          Last One:20
                                                          Marked One:18
                                                          Great One:3
                                                          Dark One:17
                                                          Chosen One:12
                                                          Stacked One:21
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                                                            [?]Mat B [He/Him/That Idiot/Dad, why are you like this?] » 🌐
                                                            @TwoClownsEating@beige.party

                                                            Your regular reminder that at his wedding to Iman, Bowie had a group photo taken with Bono, Ono and Eno.

                                                            I refuse to believe this was an accident.

                                                            Photograph of David Bowie and his new wife Iman from 1992. Either side of the couple are Bono, Yoko Ono and Brian Eno.

                                                            Alt...Photograph of David Bowie and his new wife Iman from 1992. Either side of the couple are Bono, Yoko Ono and Brian Eno.

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                                                            [?]Joshua Wood » 🌐
                                                            @wood@hachyderm.io

                                                            I once consulted for a fortune 100 and 10% of the time was writing software (it was finished). 90% was meetings. And then they scrapped the project and spent 10x on an off the shelf solution.

                                                            So no I don’t think most companies will now build everything themselves.

                                                            [?]Julia Evans » 🌐
                                                            @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

                                                            on linux: what arguments do you use with netstat or ss? (and what situation do you run it in?)

                                                            the only thing I can think of is `netstat -tulpn` to show all processes that are listening on a port and the PID (so I can kill the offending process) but I feel like there must be one or two more useful ones

                                                            (I say "linux" because linux netstat is a bit different)

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                                                            [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                            @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                            @b0rk the command most programmed into my fingers is 'netstat -nte | less -S'.

                                                            Often I run it because I suspect network trouble; hence -n to stop netstat from trying to look up all the DNS names, since it might well not work. If I see a lot of connections in SYN_SENT, or a lot of things with a backed-up Send-Q, then that confirms the theory of network trouble. But maybe I see that that's only happening for connections to one site, in which case it's not _my_ trouble.

                                                            Another reason is because the system is running slowly and I'm wondering what's going on. If netstat shows a bajillion incoming connections to the SMTP or HTTPS port, or a bajillion _outgoing_ connections to some particular machine, then that gives me a clue what might be going on.

                                                            -e to show the inode number so that I can compare it to socket links in /proc/NNNN/fd. I probably ought to use -p instead, cutting out one step, but -e has been programmed into my fingers since before I learned about -p. (Same reason I'm still using netstat instead of ss.)

                                                            Oh, and one other reason to run netstat is "dammit, has that TIME_WAIT connection gone away yet so that I can re-run the network software I'm testing?"

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                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                              netstat -nlpt is burned into my brain to see what's listening on what port

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                                                                [?]⁂ L. Rhodes [he/him/they] » 🔓
                                                                @lrhodes@merveilles.town

                                                                "Oh, you want me to avoid technology created by immoral people?? I guess you have to give up THE INTERNET hurr hurr!!"

                                                                Nobody cares that you use a technology invented by bigots who died half a century ago, my brother in TELNET. Just maybe don't lend rhetorical support to the technology that's funding and empowering the people who are currently commiting atrocities.

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                                                                [?]⁂ L. Rhodes [he/him/they] » 🔓
                                                                @lrhodes@merveilles.town

                                                                I guess I'm still mad.

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                                                                [?]⁂ L. Rhodes [he/him/they] » 🔓
                                                                @lrhodes@merveilles.town

                                                                The phrase "purity culture" is your cue to interrogate the speaker's position even more closely, because 99 times out of 100 it's just a thought-terminating cliché for shutting down ethical considerations.

                                                                [?]VWestlife » 🌐
                                                                @vwestlife@mastodon.social

                                                                Radio Shack's "Easy Home Video Editor" from the mid-1990s. A Videonics product in disguise? @themaritimegirl

                                                                1994 Radio Shack catalog listing for the "Easy Home Video Editor", a small device with composite video input and output and some buttons on it, including "thumbs up" and "thumbs down".

                                                                Alt...1994 Radio Shack catalog listing for the "Easy Home Video Editor", a small device with composite video input and output and some buttons on it, including "thumbs up" and "thumbs down".

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                                                                  [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                                                  @vwestlife@mastodon.social also, that ENHANCE button!

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                                                                    [?]PhilipKing » 🌐
                                                                    @PhilipKing@mastodon.social

                                                                    @max @vwestlife reminds me of Blade Runner/CSI. 🙂

                                                                    I guess it’s a notch or low pass filter to remove high frequencies which will remove some colour artifacts and also soften the picture.

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                                                                      [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                      @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                      the future is still old news

                                                                      girls and machines

                                                                      Alt...girls and machines

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                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                                        The future is a nightmare of the past

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                                                                          [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                          @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                          @angel nightmares are just misunderstood dreams

                                                                            [?]matiu bidule » 🌐
                                                                            @matiu_bidule@mamot.fr

                                                                            @prahou

                                                                            « The future is already here
                                                                            it's just not very evenly distributed. »

                                                                            - William Gibson

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                                                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                              @matiu_bidule it doesn't run on my machine

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                                                                                [?]Njord » 🌐
                                                                                @Njord@zeroes.ca

                                                                                What is your favorite color?

                                                                                Red:19
                                                                                Orange:28
                                                                                Yellow:8
                                                                                Green:60
                                                                                Blue:44
                                                                                Indigo:16
                                                                                Violet:35
                                                                                Something monochrome:8
                                                                                Something metallic:7
                                                                                Other:22
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                                                                                [?]internetsdairy » 🌐
                                                                                @internetsdairy@mastodon.art

                                                                                Recommend telling your kids that back in the day the length of time it took to dial a phone number was proportionate to the sum of its digits

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                                                                                [?]Existential Comics » 🌐
                                                                                @existentialcomics@mastodon.social

                                                                                Slowly realize that everything is terrible: sadness.
                                                                                Quickly realize that everything is terrible: comedy.

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                                                                                [?]JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐
                                                                                @jwcph@helvede.net

                                                                                RE: mstdn.ca/@drikanis/11610712092

                                                                                I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.

                                                                                Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.

                                                                                If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.

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                                                                                  [?]geekysteven » 🌐
                                                                                  @geekysteven@beige.party

                                                                                  A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

                                                                                  [?]Matthew Dockrey » 🌐
                                                                                  @attoparsec@clacks.link

                                                                                  Ffs, YouTube. Either let me cast Shorts, or don't show Shorts in my feed when I'm connected to a TV. Why do you insist on making this so annoying?

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                                                                                  [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                  @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                  To add confusion, their Apple TV app plays shorts no problem.

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                                                                                    [?]Matthew Dockrey » 🌐
                                                                                    @attoparsec@clacks.link

                                                                                    @max Seriously?!

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                                                                                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                      @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                      Yup, has no problem with those. But on Apple TV it's a fully separate app which can be controlled via remote without using the phone (as opposed to, say, a Chromecast setup).

                                                                                      [?]Fae --> EMF » 🌐
                                                                                      @fae@pony.social

                                                                                      @attoparsec also fun: if you use the cast API directly shorts cast just fine

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                                                                                        [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                        @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                        Oh and if you view things in the browser, changing the url from www.youtube.com/shorts/%ID% to www.youtube.com/watch?v=%ID% will dutifully play it with the usual video player interface

                                                                                        CC: @attoparsec@clacks.link

                                                                                          [?]khobochka » 🌐
                                                                                          @khobochka@mastodon.social

                                                                                          Regardless of what TheGuardian says, your musical life doesn't have to end when you hit your 30s. Not only because this might be a case of 's "revealed preference", since this is apparently about listening data from Spotify, but also because, thank gods, other places that have still exist!

                                                                                          E.g. at somafm.com real human people select music of various genres for you to enjoy at your leisure, and they do a wonderful job at that 📻

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                                                                                            [?]Exit Code 1 » 🌐
                                                                                            @paranormal_distribution@fosstodon.org

                                                                                            @khobochka Also, don't underestimate the power of asking people for music recommendations! I keep finding new gems in new genres all the time, in spite of being a bit above the big 3-0.

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                                                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                              And let's not forget fedi's own @etherdiver@ravenation.club with his OPM series of posts which brought me much banging tunes over past months and continues to deliver!

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                                                                                                [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                Proud of the baked potat today.


                                                                                                freshly baked potatoes up close and personal

                                                                                                Alt...freshly baked potatoes up close and personal

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                                                                                                  [?]Weird Units » 🤖 🔓
                                                                                                  @weirdunits@chaos.social

                                                                                                  brains per irrational number

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                                                                                                  [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                  @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                  In bare-metal or embedded programming environments, a natural kind of simple example program is one that just counts up from zero, on whatever output device you have – 7-segment display, or in binary on a row of LEDs, etc.

                                                                                                  But it's quite confusing if the manual refers to it as a "counter example"!

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                                                                                                  [?]Leonardo Giovanni Scur » 🔓
                                                                                                  @kroltan@functional.cafe

                                                                                                  @simontatham yeah, and most of these are for actual 7segment displays, so there is no counter point to the implementation

                                                                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                    having a normal day where I try to install windows 98 drivers for my 3dfx voodoo 3 card

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                                                                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                    I rebooted and now it made me reinstall my ethernet card

                                                                                                    windows 9x was wild

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                                                                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                    I think I was trying to install Voodoo 1 drivers for my Voodoo3

                                                                                                    no wonder it didn't work

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                                                                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                    installing the 3DFX tools made me agree to a EULA.

                                                                                                    I wonder if there's any legal weight to signing a eula for a company that doesn't exist

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                                                                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                    man having used modern (Windows 8 and up, I think?) Start Menus makes you look like an idiot when you're back on Windows 98.

                                                                                                    I'm used to just hitting Windows and typing what I want. That doens't work on win98

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                                                                                                    [?]Trigonated » 🌐
                                                                                                    @trigonated@bitbang.social

                                                                                                    @foone had the exact same experience with XP, recently.

                                                                                                    Also, hate that almost every single program wants to have it's own company folder on the start menu. Ah, yes, the common software categories: accessories, Multimedia, Games, Administration, Maxis, Sierra, Cryo.

                                                                                                      [?]Charlie Stross » 🌐
                                                                                                      @cstross@wandering.shop

                                                                                                      They will come for you in the afterlife, @foone

                                                                                                      digipres.club/@foone/116106220

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                                                                                                        [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                        @cstross fun fact: I've been to the old 3DFX headquarters: it's now a church.

                                                                                                        I was hoping it'd be like Our Lady of the Rasterized Polygon but no, it's just boring regular christians

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                                                                                                          [?]heyheymomo » 🌐
                                                                                                          @heyheymomo@socel.net

                                                                                                          Come on

                                                                                                          4 panel silly comic in black lines only. A blob guy has a big pencil. It says “I draw”. In the second panel he seems happy with his drawing and it says “all done yeah”. Panel 3 shows him holding up the drawing of a triangle with legs and a happy face. He goes “come on”. In the final panel he’s very pleased with himself, closes his eyes and tells himself “I’m a bit incredible”

                                                                                                          Alt...4 panel silly comic in black lines only. A blob guy has a big pencil. It says “I draw”. In the second panel he seems happy with his drawing and it says “all done yeah”. Panel 3 shows him holding up the drawing of a triangle with legs and a happy face. He goes “come on”. In the final panel he’s very pleased with himself, closes his eyes and tells himself “I’m a bit incredible”

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                                                                                                          [?]johnny anhedonic [he/it] » 🔓
                                                                                                          @thegarbagebird@theblower.au

                                                                                                          @heyheymomo i am so heartened someone is getting the workflow we were promised

                                                                                                            [?]Jorge Bejarano » 🌐
                                                                                                            @guayabito@mastodon.cr

                                                                                                            @heyheymomo not a bit, a lot!

                                                                                                              [?]Chip Butty [he/him] » 🔓
                                                                                                              @otfrom@functional.cafe

                                                                                                              @heyheymomo you captured my process too

                                                                                                                [?]EyerollComics [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                @Eyerollcomics@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                @heyheymomo I identify with this comic on a personal level

                                                                                                                  [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                  Wondering why a bunch of my network infrastructure was weirdly slow and finally discovered that the cable to one of my switches had come loose on my router and the eero plugged into that switch had lapsed back into wireless backhaul and was happily routing everything else plugged into that switch via wireless instead but my wireless backhaul is absolute dogshit so everything sucked

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                                                                                                                  [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                  My network topology does not seem especially complicated but it's already complicated enough that things can break in ways that cause abject confusion so clearly I should just get into BGP because how could that possibly be worse

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                                                                                                                  [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                  ("Why do you post like this, Matthew" I hear none of you say, but I respond anyway. Because growing up I never saw people who knew things about computers talk about how everything was broken most of the time and so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, and now I am here to tell you that despite being *extremely* computer my stuff is randomly broken all the time and it takes me far too long to figure it out, so it's not you we just build things that humans are bad at handling)

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                                                                                                                  [?]Dave Townsend » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @Mossop@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                                  Morbid thought [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                  @mjg59 I constantly worry that at some point I am going to die and then my family are going to be left with the complete mess of a network that they see as "working perfectly" but actually requires constant poking to keep running smoothly

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                                                                                                                    [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                    Morbid thought [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                    @Mossop I have meaningful documentation along with a "If this is too complicated you can do this instead and it will work less well but it will work" plan

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                                                                                                                      [?]Clifton Royston » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @CliftonR@wandering.shop

                                                                                                                      Morbid thought [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                      @mjg59 @Mossop

                                                                                                                      Ahh, so your family's definitely completely sunk then.

                                                                                                                      My wife keeps asking me "So what could I do about the network if you die before me?"

                                                                                                                      I gave her a couple names of the network tech people I used to work with who would have an idea how to do things, but it's not really an answer.

                                                                                                                        [?]Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: [they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @ryanc@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                        @mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are

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                                                                                                                          [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                          @ryanc Ok but printers are broken for *everyone*

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                                                                                                                            [?]Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: [they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @ryanc@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                            @mjg59 My printer works fine, but I do keep a baseball bat next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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                                                                                                                              [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                              @ryanc I recently introduced a printer I found on the sidewalk and I am astonished it has not tried to murder me in my sleep

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                                                                                                                                [?]Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: [they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @ryanc@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                @mjg59 How do you know it hasn't tried to murder you, though? Maybe it's trying really hard, but as a printer, the logistics of murder are very difficult.

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                                                                                                                                  [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                                  @ryanc I mean honestly if a device wants to murder me but has no capability to do so do I even really care

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: [they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @ryanc@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                    @mjg59 Maybe it's slowly poisoning you?

                                                                                                                                      [?]Riku Voipio » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @suihkulokki@society.oftrolls.com

                                                                                                                                      @mjg59 @ryanc One of the reasons I haven't gone to 3D printing. It adds a whole dimension to things that can go wrong

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                                                                                                                                        [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                        @ryanc @mjg59 my husband is a lawyer, I am not the first beep booper he’s been involved with, and he asked me with a very frustrated tone why every beep booper he knows is always like “hang on, the computer I’m using can’t display in color atm, but my good monitor is hooked up to one with a broken ethernet port, just give me a few minutes to code up a way to transmit jpegs over speaker and mic and I’m sure the meme you sent will be very funny…”

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                                                                                                                                          [?]woe2you » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @woe2you@beige.party

                                                                                                                                          @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 Beep boopers keep things that other people would just throw away because the beep booper knows how to fix it and will get around to it one of these days, honest. In the meantime: Heath Robinson workaround because the borkedness constraint makes it a Fun Puzzle.

                                                                                                                                          Edit: if you faved this toot you have to take one (1) thing out of the pile and fix it this weekend as penance for encouraging me.

                                                                                                                                            [?]George B » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @gbargoud@masto.nyc

                                                                                                                                            @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59

                                                                                                                                            In Arabic, the saying is

                                                                                                                                            باب النجار مخلوع

                                                                                                                                            Which means "the carpenter's door is crooked"

                                                                                                                                              [?]Aztec4Life » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @afl@mstdn.party

                                                                                                                                              @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59 A contractors house is never finished.

                                                                                                                                                [?]Pseudo Nym » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @pseudonym@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                                @0xabad1dea @ryanc @mjg59

                                                                                                                                                Got plenty of beeps laying around, but used up all the boops for snoots

                                                                                                                                                  [?]Corsac » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @corsac@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                  @mjg59 I just call that "entropy"

                                                                                                                                                    [?]maswan » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

                                                                                                                                                    @mjg59 The by far most valuable conference for me as a sysadmin is a fairly small recurring one where people are actually willing to speak about "this disaster happened, this is why, and this is how we fixed it" and "we tried this, it seemed like a good idea but didn't work out for reasons...".

                                                                                                                                                    And it is so rare, because most of people talking at events or in blog posts are "we are so awesome because we do everything the way of awesomeness".

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Andreas Neustifter [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @astifter@mastodon.astifter.com

                                                                                                                                                      @mjg59 But could it be that the more "computer" people have more, and more elaborate, stuff. And that stuff breaks more easily?
                                                                                                                                                      If I think of the last couple of things that broke at home, its more the out-of-the ordinary stuff instead of the basic things.

                                                                                                                                                        [?]aschmitz » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org

                                                                                                                                                        @mjg59 I always figured that familiarity and confidence (if not hubris) makes people feel they can deal with weirder situations. And then they get into weirder situations, and reality ensues.

                                                                                                                                                          [?]SlightlyCyberpunk » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                          @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com

                                                                                                                                                          @mjg59 This is what happens when people try to make the computers too smart. It saw that cable drop and went "OH! I know what you want!" and just changed your whole network topology without even telling you! Madness!

                                                                                                                                                          This is why my whole network runs off an ancient Dell I bought at a thrift store years ago for $25. It doesn't do SHIT without explicit instruction :)

                                                                                                                                                          I don't want smarter machines, I want them to be Lego bricks.

                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ian Turton » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @ianturton@mapstodon.space

                                                                                                                                                            @mjg59 I remember back in the 1990s being told that while decommissioning one of the university mainframes they discovered why it crashed so often, it turned out that the earth was not connected properly so anytime someone with a static charge touched the case it would change memory or register bits randomly. It had been like that for more than 5 years.

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]steelman » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                              @steelman@mstdn.io

                                                                                                                                                              @mjg59 isn't (R)STP enough?

                                                                                                                                                                [?]Simon Bisson » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @sbisson@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                @mjg59 I just swapped out my wireless mesh. "Oh," I thought, "All I have to do is give it the same SSID and password..."

                                                                                                                                                                Three days later and I think it has finally settled down.

                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ben Hardill » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk

                                                                                                                                                                  @mjg59 yeah I recently remembered why Cat5 cables have retaining clips and what happens when they break...

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Matthew Garrett » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

                                                                                                                                                                    @ben RJ45 should have holes you can drive restraining pins through, I want to nail this fucking cable into this fucking port

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]aeva [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                      i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]🔮 oracle of dylphi :crumb_dancing: 🇬🇾 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @kalviter@hol.ogra.ph

                                                                                                                                                                      cory doctorow [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                      icymi, local net person Cory Doctorow has decided to give up his unofficial role as the fediverse's Emotional Support Celebrity in bombastic style by coming to the defence of "open source" LLM's https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/ (not tagging him to avoid a pile on)

                                                                                                                                                                      Tante has a good write up about the strangeness of his argument here https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ (again, don't want to pile on).

                                                                                                                                                                      I also wanted to add that Cory deploy's all this rhetorical barrage in service of... having a robot proofreader. His use case is not restoring justice and dignity to the underpaid, traumatised transnational workers who built the models he uses (https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/), it is not helping the people of Southern Memphis escape smog and pollution, it is not protecting the mostly female victims of NCII generation (indeed, millions of private unmanaged generative machines might make that problem even harder to fight against). It is not a meaningful argument about leaving space for "good" or ethical generation - it is sophistry in service of avoiding the inconvenience of actually assessing if he's acting ethically. Tante is right to expect more from him.

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]amlor » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @amlor@fux.am

                                                                                                                                                                      cory doctorow [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                      @kalviter I usually don't even get to the ethical aspects of why I won't use llms in my thought process. They are just shitty and inefficient tools. "Typo catching" was a solved problem like 40 years ago on machines that were less powerful than your car's keyfob. Such a bizarre argument in favor of using that shit.

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Julia Evans » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

                                                                                                                                                                      when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have? (like git, openssl, rsync, curl, etc)

                                                                                                                                                                      (edit: no need to say "i use --help then man")

                                                                                                                                                                      I’d look there first:843
                                                                                                                                                                      Only after trying other options first:483
                                                                                                                                                                      Never:93
                                                                                                                                                                      Other / not sure:42
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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                      @b0rk it depends somewhat on the program, and somewhat on what I'm trying to find out.

                                                                                                                                                                      Man pages are usually good for finding out what an option does, if you already know the name of the option. Not all of them are so good for going in the other direction – if you know _what_ you want to do, and are trying to find out if there's an option that does it, and what it's called. Understandable, because the former is easier to write. But the latter is surely _more_ often what people want!

                                                                                                                                                                      (Although not 100%. Reading other people's scripts is a common way to find out the name of an option you didn't know and now have to look up what it does.)

                                                                                                                                                                      Usually I'll try --help before the manual, simply because it's likely to be shorter, so it's quicker to look through all the options and pick out the one I'm likely to want. Maybe if anything's still unclear I'll try the man page and hope it goes into more detail. But of course in some cases they do the same thing anyway: 'git foo --help' is no different from 'man git-foo'.

                                                                                                                                                                      Of course, if you're starting from some task you want to perform another possibility is that you don't even yet know which _program_ you want to use, in which case a straight-up search engine might be the place to look first, looking for something like a Stack Exchange post that suggests a combination of program and options.

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]℉ⅈℕℹℸℽ » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @finity@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                        @simontatham @b0rk I agree with this answer. I selected, "I'd look at man first", but I actually check "--help" first, and I only really use these options if I think I know which command-ish or API I want to use.

                                                                                                                                                                        This is my most frequent use case because I usually remember the shape of what I want but not the details.

                                                                                                                                                                        If I don't have any clue - search engine.

                                                                                                                                                                          [?]spv [he/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @spv@mastodon.spv.sh

                                                                                                                                                                          @simontatham @b0rk "... another possibility is that you don't even yet know which _program_ you want to use ..." apropos is your friend, my friend

                                                                                                                                                                          a screenshot of a terminal. first, "apropos -s 1 clipboard" is run, returning "xclip (1) (tab tab tab blah) - command line interface to X selections (clipboard)", among others. second, "apropos -s 8 partition", returning results about addpart, fdisk, gparted, etc. lastly, "apropos meow", which returns "meow: nothing appropriate".

                                                                                                                                                                          Alt...a screenshot of a terminal. first, "apropos -s 1 clipboard" is run, returning "xclip (1) (tab tab tab blah) - command line interface to X selections (clipboard)", among others. second, "apropos -s 8 partition", returning results about addpart, fdisk, gparted, etc. lastly, "apropos meow", which returns "meow: nothing appropriate".

                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Julia Evans » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

                                                                                                                                                                            i'm very curious about everyone who says "I'd look there first", if I want to figure out how to do something new I think I'll usually google how to do it rather than look at the man page, and then maybe later look at the man page to look up the details

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                            @b0rk for me, I think it's a combination of an 'old people' thing and a 'highly suspicious of a lot of the modern Internet' thing.

                                                                                                                                                                            When I learned to use computers, competent search engines and rich online resources like Stack Exchange were a long way off – even having the Internet in your home without paying per minute wasn't around yet. So you had to develop the skills of finding stuff out from the available local resources like manuals, because that was all you had.

                                                                                                                                                                            Then good search engines came along, but I was always aware that there's a risk of depending too much on them and losing the ability to figure stuff out yourself. Even now, I sometimes find myself coding without the Internet (or effectively so – laptop on train with terrible connectivity) and it's useful that I can still get things done.

                                                                                                                                                                            And now search engines are all getting enshittified, and/or monetised, and/or straight-up _worse_ (Google doesn't return the results I actually wanted nearly as often as it used to). And the less said about 2020s answers to this kind of question, the better. So I'm doubly glad I haven't abandoned my old approaches to things. More and more I feel it's important to keep external corporately-provided "do it for you" services at arm's length, and not base your whole workflow on them to the extent that you're a captive market or dependent on them not going down.

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Julia Evans » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

                                                                                                                                                                              @simontatham yea i think part of the reason I'm newly interested in man pages right now is that search engines are so much worse than they used to be

                                                                                                                                                                                [?]rudi » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @rudi@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                @simontatham @b0rk Slightly different area, but for programming I’ve had good experiences with devdocs and devdocs.el as long as the programming language has a large standard library and good docs (doesn’t help with third-party libraries).

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                  @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                  @rudi @b0rk yes, programming languages that have a strong culture of good docs are definitely a plus.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Still on the subject of decoupling myself from Internet dependence, I've been working hard on my Rust workflows recently so that I more often use local `cargo doc` or `rustup doc` instead of just going to docs.rs/foo or doc.rust-lang.org/bar. Partly that means I can still consult the docs if the Internet is out of reach, and partly it means I get the version of the docs that matches what I'm actually using.

                                                                                                                                                                                  ("Working hard" in the sense that first I had to fix some annoying problems that meant those commands didn't even work for me, like Ubuntu wanted to open the rustdoc output in Abiword, or rustup put its docs somewhere that the apparmor restrictions on snap!Firefox didn't let it read.)

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Peter » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @sarble@gram.social

                                                                                                                                                                                    Do not touch the horse.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Composite photo in which a blank wall with a small 'PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH' sign has been overlayed on a horse standing on a low grassy knoll. The sign is immediately above the horse in the middle of the picture.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Alt...Composite photo in which a blank wall with a small 'PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH' sign has been overlayed on a horse standing on a low grassy knoll. The sign is immediately above the horse in the middle of the picture.

                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Terence Eden [He/Him/♂/男] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @Edent@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                    In *theory* you should be able to follow this test user:

                                                                                                                                                                                    @你好@i18n.viii.fi

                                                                                                                                                                                    But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.

                                                                                                                                                                                    If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                      @Edent it doesn't work on my Mastodon client which I wrote myself. But I don't know that my client is to blame. It logs all its HTTP operations so I can see what exactly it sent to the server (vital for debugging), and I can see it sending this HTTP request to my instance …

                                                                                                                                                                                      GET hachyderm.io/api/v1/accounts/l

                                                                                                                                                                                      and getting a 404. I don't see anything incorrect in the UTF-8 there, so I'm inclined to wonder about the server, rather than the client.

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Simon Tatham » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @simontatham@hachyderm.io

                                                                                                                                                                                        @Edent … I suppose a question I should have thought of earlier is: does that instance i18n.viii.fi have any plain ASCII user on it? Then I could check that too, to distinguish the failure modes "hachyderm can't see i18n.viii.fi at all" (which maybe has nothing to do with the complicated Unicode) and "it can, but only if the user has a boring name".

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                          seems to have no problem!

                                                                                                                                                                                          screenshot of a profile of a fedi user with a peculiar name

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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]sam » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @sam@chven.us

                                                                                                                                                                                            same here on snac

                                                                                                                                                                                            edit: it's not clickable in snac, but I was able to copy & paste into the form snac has to follow an account.

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Santiago, né ? :amiga: 👾 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @santi@gone.lema.org

                                                                                                                                                                                            @Edent
                                                                                                                                                                                            @MonaApp needs some more work to handle this

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Mona app » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                              @MonaApp@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                              @santi @Edent This needs support from the Mastodon API. Mastodon website also can't handle it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                A tiny, rocky speck of an island somewhere in the middle of a vast blue ocean, under a vast and cloudless sky. Mounted on top of the island is a large red "location" symbol, that teardrop-shaped icon that you see on Google maps. This one looks like it's made of metal. It's at an angle, held up on a rickety framework of beams. A small white boat with a red stripe along it is docked at the island. Someone wearing an orange life jacket is on top of the island, repairing the beams. A white seabird is sitting on the top of the icon, while a few more circle above. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

                                                                                                                                                                                                Alt...A tiny, rocky speck of an island somewhere in the middle of a vast blue ocean, under a vast and cloudless sky. Mounted on top of the island is a large red "location" symbol, that teardrop-shaped icon that you see on Google maps. This one looks like it's made of metal. It's at an angle, held up on a rickety framework of beams. A small white boat with a red stripe along it is docked at the island. Someone wearing an orange life jacket is on top of the island, repairing the beams. A white seabird is sitting on the top of the icon, while a few more circle above. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]ꜰʟᴏʀᴀ :dont: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @floralia@jorts.horse

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @csilverman this sort of reminds me of Perry Bible Fellowship

                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]a new hope :blobcatcoffee: [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @latte@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                                                                                    @csilverman ooh, i love the highlights on that pin. i wanna reach out and touch it!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @latte thanks! I wanted to give a sense of a metal buoy/lighthouse; the sort of thing you'd find on a remote island in the middle of the ocean.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Coralie Mercier » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @koalie@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                        @csilverman gorgeous! So well done and a clever idea. As usual, but this one has something different, probably the mix of whimsical and real. I love it!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @koalie Thanks! As is the case with a number of the landscape-ish ones, this was partly inspired by places I wish I was.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Like, a job just going from island to island maintaining the Google Maps pins sounds positively serene.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ginette Dincar » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @Dincargi@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                            @csilverman
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Oooh ! That's how they do it ?!😂

                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Hakan Bayındır » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @csilverman This one has this late 80s early-mid 90s illustration aesthetics and feel, but with bright colors.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              I love how simple it looks, yet how deep it is.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Great work, congrats.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                @bayindirh oh interesting. I didn't notice that aesthetic. What aspects of it remind you that? I'm honestly not sure I could define a specific style for late 80s illustration, although I think I remember that mid-90s through early-00s featured curvy people with disproportionately large bodies and earthy pastels. I'm sure that depended heavily on the purpose, though.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Existential Comics » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There are generally accepted to be 6 stages in human history, based on the material that is most fundamental to the economy:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Stone Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Bronze Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Iron Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Industrial Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Information Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Like and Subscribe Age (the final stage of human development).

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Leonardo Fontenelle » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  @existentialcomics noted: liking and subscribing are not information

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]ROTOPE~1 ⭐️ » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Stone Age II, but some of the stones are magically warm. If you get too close to them you get sick for a few days, then feel better for a few hours, then die.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️ » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @existentialcomics "what if we tried not thinking about things?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I can't find the specific comic where some early Greek says "what if we tried thinking about things", but it comes to mind often in these AI hype times. Thank you!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Rob » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        @existentialcomics the “Advertising Age”

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