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Mike, First of His Name

Hi, new Chinwag arrivals! Been a while since I refreshed the pinned welcome post, so here we go!

First, welcome! Second, Chinwag is more of a community than a service. We're pretty chill and open, but the happiness of our current regular users is more important than future growth.

Our admins are moderately left-leaning by Australian standards, so if you're an American you'll probably think we're godless communists bent on destroying society. Just fair warning.

Please post pics of your cats.

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Mike, First of His Name

Hi - please consider yourselves informed that @dolldolldoll is now your official "backup admin" if a hit-by-a-bus situation should occur - follow her main at @dolldolldoll if you want!

I've known Ivy for close to two decades now, we've co-sysadmined things previously and I vouch that you can trust her as you trust me.

Ivy will have access to all the backend systems and accounts, not to run things on a daily basis, but to ensure continuity of service if I can't.

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Mike, First of His Name

Hey, I just wanted to say a quick to the recent Chinwag arrivals!

Chinwag's reason for existing is to provide communication tools for people, which is something I've always been interested in. I kind of target users, but welcome anyone from anywhere.

Please read our rules: social.chinwag.org/about/more

And our privacy policy: social.chinwag.org/terms

There's a basic guide to using Chinwag Social here: chinwag.im/social/

If you have any questions or concerns hit me up!

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Ruben Schade 🔰🇸🇬🇦🇺

I asked on Mastodon a few weeks ago what these latest crop of buy now, pay later services were, and why they weren't just payday loans or credit cards in cheap suits. @mike confirmed my suspicions.

I just saw that James Hennessy wrote a great post about it: theterminal.info/p/no-interest

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I'd really hoped to use the old Pi model 1 that I've had for years for this, but it's just a bit too slow to keep up well. I'd also hoped to use the old 120GB SSD from my last PC, but that's too flaky (I am now recalling that I replaced it for a reason).

So now I've got a Pi 3 A+ and a 240GB SSD and I'm barely using any of the available resources, so maybe I need to incorporate video as well.

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Mike, First of His Name

Second vax shot done! As I understand the situation, I am now immortal and will act accordingly.

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Fresh chillies coming soon!

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Does my car need a small media server for tunes while I'm way off-grid? My audio tape styled SSD enclosure suggests that the answer is "yes".

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Mike, First of His Name

Goalposts have moved on my trip again! The date I need to be in Kyogle has gone from July 15 to July 8 - which is the time I intended to be at South Point.

So - I'll skip Wilsons Prom, and probably leave Melbourne on or around the 5th. My god that's a plan!

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s0 Solders Stuff

I'm playing some darksynth now on s0Radio, come listen: radio.s0.is/radio

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Soh Kam Yung

Cool! 😃

"The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines. Machines that would go on to inspire a generation, such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64.

The Computers That Made Britain tells the story of those computers – and what happened behind the scenes during their creation."

raspberrypi.org/blog/the-compu

#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #Technology #Computers

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Mike, First of His Name

I've been playing about with this yeast mix that comes with enzymes to convert starch to sugar in it, intended for rice wine and the like, but I'm wondering if I should just dump some in corn starch and water and call the result non-Newtonian vodka.

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Looks like it's nearly time for a very small olive harvest.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾

Some sources point to today being the MS-DOS 5 release date, so happy 30th birthday to EDIT.COM, QBasic, HIMEM.SYS, Nibbles, Gorillas, DOS Shell, and DOS=HIGH, UMB! 🎉🎂🎈🥂

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Mike, First of His Name

My last (I think) piece of tech for the car came in. A little 4G wifi router, for the laptop and other stuff I'll have.

Was a bit tricky finding all the various things I needed in one unit - the right 4G band support, plus external antenna sockets, plus ethernet ports for connecting the car head unit ... but I got it.

Only thing I didn't get was one that took either 12v or 5v DC. It's 9v so I'm going to have to patch in a step down converter somewhere to power it permanently.

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There is heavy rain and flooding all over the state, so congratulations to those mad contrarian bastards on Philip Island for pulling this off.

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Second vaccine shot booked for next Monday, but I have to go into the far east to get it, the exotic land of "Sandown Racecourse". Not optimistic about a lollipop this time.

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UnifiedPush

Hi!

We've just created this mastodon account to communicate about the #unifiedpush project.

UnifiedPush is specifications and tools that let mobile users choose how push notifications are delivered. All in a free and open source way.

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Mike, First of His Name

With a 25km travel limit, I can reach Kew, but beyond that it's just Far Kew.

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Aurynn Shaw

hey fedi

do I know anyone in upstate new york who’d be able to help a queer teen get to her doctor’s appointments? previous travel arrangements have fallen through.

I don’t know what hashtag to use for this

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Comforting background noise today.

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Aurynn Shaw

Hey friends

Last year sometime, someone posted a really good “intro to the fedi” post that they used for new signups on their instance

did you see this? and, unlike me, bookmark it?

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