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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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I believe @GossiTheDog 's line here is "pass the bong"
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Just managed to get the HP printer I bought in 2011 to connect to new wifi router, thanks to finding a web page that explained how to do it without any HP software
Also recently set up my wife's new work-supplied HP printer and had to use THE SAME GUIDE, as HP's software didn't work for that either
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UNIX includes a command to deal with your cat walking on your keyboard. When your cat is coming, you just type "cat" and press enter, and your cat's input won't mess anything up.
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I lived long enough to see a President of the United States sweatily try to sell me a new car. Everything around me has finally completed its transformation into a Paul Verhoeven movie
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Ten years ago today we lost Sir Terry Pratchett far too soon - here's the show I did in tribute to the great writer -
https://hypnogoria.libsyn.com/hypnogoria-09-a-tribute-to-sir-terry-pratchett
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Therapist: Guinea Pig Tony Blair isn't real, he can't hurt you
Guinea Pig Tony Blair:
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Oops! All mirrored goverment source code repositories. (Well, probably not ALL, but MANY)
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The unforced errors and unnecessary pain makes it so much worse.
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Crufts is on, so we're remembering the time a photo of the hound was on TV
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It really has been a delightfully springlike weekend. Found flowers on a riverside walk, the first of the Mossy Lawn Primroses, and managed to start the post-winter garden tidying. The sun is setting now, and the garden is glowing. All very satisfactory and restorative.
I am aware it's not due to last, but we have to appreciate the moments.
Have a good evening all (or morning, or afternoon, or night).
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The best application of AI is to use it to identify and filter out AI generated content.
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@evilstevie when the US had a "joint landing exercise" with the Portuguese military, their landing craft, tanks and troops were stopped by the sandy beaches around Grândola (in Portugal, the name of the location was used in song as a symbol of the fight against the Dictatorship that ruled the country between 1933 and 1974, and that song was used as a code to start the Carnation Revolution). It was funny to watch the marines get stuck and needing sappers for a simple landing exercise. Go sand!
[Edit: Since people might not know, the Grândola vila/small town is purported as a Portuguese Communist Party stronghold, in Legislative elections no other party has won there yet, so the newspapers said "the Communist sands of Grândola stopped the Capitalist marines" and things like that]
https://www.dn.pt/arquivo/diario-de-noticias/areias-de-concelho-comunista-bloquearam-marines-dos-eua-4845055.html
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@cstross most of us probably have some internal list.
that list's also likely to contain places that would see invading tanks up on bricks with the tracks gone after a mile tops...
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
