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Mark Nichols

zanshin@hachyderm.io

<p>Aspiring cellist and mandolin player, who likes learning new programming languages (currently Rust), reading, and binging on favorite movies. Daylights as a linux/cloud system administrator for a state university.</p><p>I support the rights of every person to be who they are, without fear of repression or reprisal, without fear of their government, or society. I want everyone who is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community to have the same freedoms, privileges, respect, and agency, that I have.</p>

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    With a message preview like this, how the in Schnitzel did GMail NOT think this was spam? It&amp;#39;s like they aren&amp;#39;t even trying any more. It may be time to make good on my threat to switch to Fastmail. #Gmail #Spam

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    Four years ago I started tracking all the articles, posting, etc., I read online. They are all available at https://zanshin.github.io/readingList/. The GitHub repository behind it is https://github.com/zanshin/readingList. All of this is a fork of https://github.com/codemicro/readingList, which I learned about from this blog posting: https://www.tdpain.net/blog/a-year-of-reading. I&amp;#39;m up to 5, 384 items. #AmReading

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    Today I learned how easy it is to have an accident riding an electric scooter. After 6 /12 years of working remotely, my employer decided to end the program and bring us all back to the office. I bought the scooter as an option for commuting on days with decent weather. This morning, while dodging an absent-minded pedestrian, I went off into the grass. The very wet-with-morning-dew grass. So now I have a sprained ankle on one leg and an impressively purple big toe on the other foot. Elbo...

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    https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them #Passkeys #Privacy

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    That thing where you spend 15 minutes sorting out a connectivity issue to a remote workstation only to have forgotten what it was you were going to do on said workstation. #AmWorking #SSH #VPN

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    Muting Jason Snell for a day. A couple dozen Upgrade announcements in a row is my limit.

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    &amp;quot;We can disagree and still be friends.&amp;quot; Yeah, about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Not racism and homophobia.

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    RE: https://journa.host/@mathewi/116649834887057546 Oh. My. Fucking. God.

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    There&amp;#39;s a verbal form of a dickover too. When I call to renew my prescription, I have to listen to announcement or push to get something before I can renew my medication. https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover #DaringFireball #dickover