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  COVID-19 and flu shots acquired! 💉 Not usually a delightful process, but this time we went as a group after brunch with pals, and ran into other friends at the pharmacy by sheer happenstance! (Also, Lindsay Wong at Pharmacare on Broadview remains unchallenged as the best person to do that work.)

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  @riastradh psst where am I mailing your new Brompton grips

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  Yes...

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  spray cheese is a crime

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  One of the excellent consequences of deliberately building and maintaining a system that prioritizes conceptual and concrete simplicity is that you can make true, verifiable, useful statements without paragraphs of disclaimers and qualifiers. E.g. here are the complete instructions for mitigating the eMudhra SSL/TLS debacle under #NetBSD 10 & 11: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/emudhra_tls_ssl_ca_compromise

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  Revisiting a favorite from 2024¹ (& 1964), tonight's #monsterdon feature is "The Last Man on Earth" featuring Vincent Price's impressive throwing arm. Get your copy of the film ready to go in about three minutes, or set up your timed mutes for an hour and a half! ¹: https://mastodon.social/@gnomon/112866512292988388

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  Oho, our mystery author in residence is hitting a little too close to home! However shall our cold-blooded man Price outmanoeuvre her without letting on that they have become adversaries, wit against wit unwittingly? #monsterdon

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  Get your #monsterdon on and on and on

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  Anyone want to guess what time it is (almost) #monsterdon

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  It is possible I went a bit overboard this #BandcampFriday . 👀 😅 ...nevertheless,,,

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  Psst, reminder that this Friday is #BandcampFriday

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  I cannot wait to watch Sting of Death (1966) tonight with the #monsterdon crew. This was one of the rare titles that my local video shop didn't have on hand for me to rent, so it's the steaming version for me instead! Uhhh I did mean "streaming" there but I think the autocorrupt adjective might turn out to be apt. TUNE IN AND WE SHALL FIND OUT TOGETHER

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  I simply do not understand how anyone can vote against "a bloodthirsty jellyfish-man-monster" https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/117231097491131658 / @Taweret@timeloop.cafe VOTE STING OF DEATH #monsterdon

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  May it never be said that a #Brompton cannot haul cargo. #mastobikes #biketooter #BikeTO

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  All right, #monsterdon, we need to get this sorted out sooner rather than later Boost for reach, please. When nine hundred monsterdonians crack the same joke within 30s of each other, is the line:

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  Woke up to a headache and rain this morning, so it turned into a household chores kind of day. Took out all the trash and recycling, cleaned out the fridge a bit, replaced a troublesome lightbulb, migrated to a new phone, took down and replaced some curtains _long_ past their best-before date, tidied up a bit. The the weather let up in the evening so we walked up the street to Atomic 10 for (decent) cocktails and (excellent) tacos. Missed #monsterdon, but it was a good evening together.

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  All right, #monsterdon, let's get ready

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  Happy #sysadminDay to all sysadmins, sysops, site reliability engineers, devops people, admins, members of the wheel group, holders of root, and people with a flashlight/screwdriver/multimeter in your desk-call pouch. It may not be a glamorous calling, but here's the thing: setting up and running the machine so others need not worry about it; helping people get their work done; flattening the learning curve and offering guidance; and diminishing the sting of errors? It matters. Be proud....

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  Carve two minutes and forty eight seconds out of your evening to go listen to this track: https://theepoxies.bandcamp.com/track/synthesized (You'll want the album, but that's the track you'll remember in twenty years and dust off the CD to listen to again)

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  learn troff

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  All right, that's enough postscrolling. Aspirin, replace the shower curtain liner, go grab some groceries, sushi for dinner, then #monsterdon

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  Is there precedent for writing a man page about the local machine, for new users to discover its facilities?

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  There was an active shooter at the Salsa on St Clair festival a couple of blocks west of us. We're home safe. https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/toronto-police-provide-an-update-on-the-shooting-at-salsa-on-st-clair-that-left-2-dead-live-updates-here/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/livestory/toronto-shooting-st-clair-9.7267199 The shooter(s) have not been apprehended. The festivalgoers have not left the area yet; when we got home ~15 minutes ago we saw the Toronto police on horseback...

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  @waffles@masto.yttrx.com so uhhhhhh https://mikrotik.com/product/crs504_4xq_in ↑↑ Good? Not so good?

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  Aw man, I might be missing a couple of #monsterdon picks this summer... https://www.topictureshow.com/christie-pits C'mon, The Muppet Movie? Who could resist that??? (Missed tonight because Katie and I are both pretty strongly against giant spiders. Huge psychic murderous crabs though? Totally fine with those.) #Toronto

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  potato

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  Debian 13 (Trixie) household installation progress: - ✅ plinth (canary machine) - ✅ fix gdm3 greeter conf to not auto sleep - ✅ fix Bluetooth defaults - ✖️ fix mpd systemd unit to run as system service - ✖️ quieter3ctv-403 (living room home theater/Kodi box) - ✖️ aquitaneng (desktop/gaming machine) - ✖️ sundial (household catch-all service server) So far so good. Plinth upgrade wasn't super speedy but it was smooth. Thank goodness for etckeeper!

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  I suddenly have a strong craving for a char siu steamed bun from Mashion Bakery on Spadina And I shall have it Not tonight But soon

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  Hey chat, am I misremembering that there was a time when Spotify allowed you to upload your own music tracks? Or was that some other service?

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  Ticket title: *includes the word "perfdebug"* Me: "omg I can only read this ticket in the voice of the Swedish Chef" Everyone in the meeting: "porfdeeboog"