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by defulmere 9mo ago
... and then they go on to say there's no subscription involved. At $99 every 2 years it might as well be a subscription.
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by defulmere 10mo ago
I've played it! Back in the 70s a campground near Mandeville, Louisiana had a Killer Shark machine in a small arcade next to their pool, I spent the entire vacation (and way too many quarters) in there much to my parents' dismay :
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by defulmere 1y ago
SOCKS proxy over SSH?
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by defulmere 1y ago
amen to that! I started using a Logitech MX Vertical mouse a few years back to deal with wrist pain. It helped with the pain immensely, but the switches in the mouse failed after ~6 months of use. I replaced the Logitech mouse with an inexp
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Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv(treyhunner.com)
11 points by defulmere 2y ago|1 comments
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How do I mentally persevere through the last 5 years of work?(ask.metafilter.com)
2 points by defulmere 2y ago|1 comments
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by defulmere 2y ago
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'd expected a match on the section heading :\
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by defulmere 2y ago
Thanks for providing these instructions. My usual way to get to some setting in Firefox is to use the search box but it seems that Mozilla is actively hiding this one by excluding it from search, ie if you type "advertising" into
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NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling(theregister.com)
14 points by defulmere 2y ago|0 comments
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by defulmere 2y ago
Love the logo, the reverse checkmark as a "step" is a great concept.
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by defulmere 3y ago
Currently self-employed with a web hosting company started with some former colleagues when the company we used to work for was bought out and shut down. We were fortunate to be included in a list of alternate providers that the old company
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by defulmere 3y ago
> And yet after like 50 emails to parents with yahoo email addresses they are giving me errors because of "unusual volume of emails from your domain" Scandalous, it's almost as if the established major providers have a fin
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by defulmere 3y ago
T-mobile: (data breach noises) Also T-mobile: Give us your bank account info. Yeah, no.
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by defulmere 3y ago
It looks like status updates on https://status.stripe.com are tweets. The most recent updates are available on that page, but for anything older than that you'll need a Twitter account to read stripestatus on Twitter. Even
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by defulmere 3y ago
> Oatmeal: tastes like chicken. Surely you mean tuna.
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by defulmere 3y ago
+1 for Acorn, my image editing need are pretty light and Acorn does everything I need.
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by defulmere 3y ago
Every time I see a question like "Why doesn't Apple build $THIS?" I assume the answer is "because they'll make more money selling 3rd-party $THIS in the app store".
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by defulmere 4y ago
The Society for Creative Anachronism has a heraldry group on Facebook there that might be able to help you (if you're on FB): https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCAHeraldryChat
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by defulmere 4y ago
I got my first set of noise-cancelling headphones in June 2022. I work from home in a small open-floorplan house and being able to mask the sounds of everything else going on has been a welcome change :)
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Progressive Sci-Fi and Fantasy Is Resistance(medium.com)
4 points by defulmere 4y ago|0 comments
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by defulmere 4y ago
Pixelfed is the droid you're looking for. You can find a server to join at https://pixelfed.org and then support the project via Patreon for $1/month (or more).
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by defulmere 4y ago
Came here to say the same thing, except Bruegel.
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by defulmere 4y ago
The only new Thunderbird calendar feature I'd like to see it the ability to turn off calendaring in Thunderbird.
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by defulmere 4y ago
On Twitter I've seen a lot of criticism of the whole idea of "choose a server" when joining Mastodon (and the fediverse in general). Instead of lists of servers, I wonder if a better onboarding workflow would be... - What use
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by defulmere 4y ago
You use the hashtags that match your interests, eg I wanted more Python content in my timeline so I typed #python into the search box at mastodon.online and followed the tag. I didn't need to use an external site for this, just the Mas
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by defulmere 4y ago
> Also Discovery is a huge problem: how do I discover people I know? How do content creators who want to build an audience (and so create content that would attract users to the platform) get discovered? Hashtags play a huge role on Mast
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by defulmere 4y ago
I served as a kingdom herald when I was active in the Society for Creative Anachronism a few years ago. Learning blazon (the descriptive language of heraldry) was a lot of fun - the rigid syntax with its DRY goal of describing armory with a
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by defulmere 4y ago
> Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving The wretched hive of scum and villainy that is my postfix quarantine begs to differ.
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by defulmere 4y ago
LaunchBar[0], which predates Alfred but is similar in function, also has a fantastic searchable clipboard manager which includes a feature that I've not been able to find in any other clipboard manager: a push/pop stack. With this
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by defulmere 4y ago
Thanks!

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