Mike, First of His Name @mike@chinwag.org
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Admin of Chinwag, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never, ever get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot, especially #Commodore64 stuff. I also do a lot of #gardening and am trying to grow more of my own #food. I am learning to make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia
Joined Dec 2017
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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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Hi #Chinwag - 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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Hey, I just wanted to say a quick #welcome 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 #Australian users, but welcome anyone from anywhere.
Please read our rules: https://social.chinwag.org/about/more
And our privacy policy: https://social.chinwag.org/terms
There's a basic guide to using Chinwag Social here: https://chinwag.im/social/
If you have any questions or concerns hit me up!
Finally happy now that my newest computer can run software from my oldest one. #retrocomputing
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frank herbert's visionary 1960 novel dares to ask the question: what if crude oil could get you high
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Did my supermarket run at 10pm. There was hardly anyone else there, but beyond that it just felt so naughty to be out after curfew.
10/10 would recommend
I just stopped half way through the latest episode of Foundation when I had the realisation that I barely was following it and just didn't care.
I found the series really hard to follow at the beginning and I think my brain has just shut down now.
Oh god yes I can go to the supermarket at 11pm again!
Popped out the back during my lunch break to do a bit of work on the #GuitarOfTheseus today. I sanded back the putty where I'd repaired the damage from drilling out some stripped screws and gave it a quick coat of linseed oil.
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fastmail is under attack??????
I was hating working from home today until I just saw my train line has just been shut down because a truck driver didn't read a bridge clearance sign.
One day I will learn. Never ask two questions in one email.
I heard Meech's crunchies bowl being accessed, so I went to say hi and it was not Meech. I think the boy may be too well fed if the local birds are getting this cocky.
Starting the day debugging weird networking issues has not been good for my brain. I like a bit of time to work up to these things.
Oh, you'll never guess. It was DNS. Who'd have thought?
I heard there was a secret code,
That David typed, and it fixed the Lord's
VPN latency issues.
"I was speaking to a colleague who had this same problem and the technician put in a code that fixed it. Can't you just do that?"
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Admin
Admin of Chinwag, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never, ever get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot, especially #Commodore64 stuff. I also do a lot of #gardening and am trying to grow more of my own #food. I am learning to make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia
Joined Dec 2017
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