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Back after giving myself a month away from Fedi.
I'll attempt to curate my experience much more, starting with this account and instance.
I want comfy things in my life - I don't need to be adding stress and angst from my online interactions. We can do better. We should do better. Including myself.
My interests cover #tech, #photography, #biking, #motorsport, #fountainpen, and other things I will no doubt need to add here when I remember.
I touch computers in my spare time and self host things. Oh yeah so #selfhosting I guess.
In my other spare time I renovate my house and do #DIY stuff.
Oh and I (used to?) play music. #Guitar I still have and sometimes play, #Saxophone I used to have a couple of decades ago, I had 6 months of Drum lessons, and played Bass for our school band in Rockquest in the late 90's.
I have never done anything that cool since.
Oh I live in New Zealand, Aotearoa.
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Profile pic by @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-bird-fenestar-abstract-avatar-generators
#nobot #NoBots
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾
Gammitin@mastodon.social
Happy Friday Folks I hope you have a magical weekend. Remember, whatever you're up to, throw a little retro in there! 💾
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Street Art Utopia
streetartutopia@mastodon.online‘Rustle in Feilding’ – Cat mural by SwiftMantis at Manawatū Street Art Festival in Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.
More cats! 👇
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Max GEISTman
maxleibman@beige.partyUnfortunately, the position you have applied for has been filled, but we will keep your resume and information on file so that if an opportunity opens up in the future, it can be released publicly in a data breach.
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Got mad at Amazon breaking the ability to decrypt my library books via Kindle for PC and resurrected an old technique:
- Screen recording of Kindle for PC
- hit the space bar as fast as humanly possible to page through the entire book in like a minute
- use ffmpeg to remove duplicate frames from the resultant video
- use ffmpeg to dump out each frame/page to a separate file named after the page number
- use tesseract to do OCR on each page and dump that output into a single text file
This works ridiculously well.
(Simply holding down the space bar slows down page rendering, resulting in captures of partially rendered pages, which thwarts the duplicate detection. I'll probably improve this by firing my own spacebar press event sequentially.)
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Ralf Wentz
ralfwentz@pixelfed.social#greyheron #heron #birdphotography #wildlifephoto #naturelovers #birdwatching #waterbird #sunriselight #peacefulnature #avianbeauty
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LindenShieldARTs 🏳️🌈
lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social“Eldritch Spirits”
Painting nr.3 for the challenge I host over on ig.
#TraditionalArt #MixedMedia #Gouache #ColoredPencil #DarkArt #FolkHorror
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Saustrup
saustrup@mstdn.dk"Hey, I've got a really cool idea for a mandatory requirement in the corporate login flow".
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Everything breaks. Nobody can log in. The wheels of commerce grinds to a halt. Good thing it's not critical infrastructure or anything. Ahemn.
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JA Westenberg
Daojoan@mastodon.socialCynicism is the only worldview that guarantees you’ll never be wrong -
because you’ll never risk being right.
The cynic always wins the argument.
And loses everything else.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-cynicism-is-just-moral-cowardice
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akkoma stuff
akkoma@ihatebeinga.livegood luck with your integrations
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Having an IVR message that says "Did you know we have a website?" Is so 2003.
Put a banner at the top of your website that says "our call centre is staffed with human beings and we are not experiencing a high volume of calls" you cowards.
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LikesOldMacs
likesoldmacs@bitbang.socialA very inelegant SC2K experience in Windows 95, but this Toshiba Tecra 510CDT is a total beast. It's from 1996 (early PB1400 would be a good comparison) and has so many ports, lights, buttons, and latches 😅
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T. J. Bombadil
c_dan4th@mstdn.socialAfter racing neck-and-neck for an hour in their last regular-season race, after four years of riding together and competing in the friendliest possible manner, Joe and Gavin decide to finish with class.
#colorado #mountainbiking #biketooter
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