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 make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.
Sometimes I get up onto stages and tell jokes. Don't applaud, just throw money.
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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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!
Mike, First of His Name
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Put Ever Given back
It's time to move on, accept that things have changed, and update the save icon from a floppy to a Zip disk.
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I've been playing 'Psychonauts 2' a lot lately, so here is Ford Cruller. Also, brush pen practice.
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#ink #drawing #brushpen #fordcruller #psychonauts2 #notebook
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It's really, really hard to get the #GuitarOfTheseus colours to come out right in a photo, but I do really want to share this as it's finally possible to see what the goal looks like.
There's a long way to go still but damn it's really working.
Had an odd smell bugging me in the kitchen for a week and I finally located a rogue potato in the pantry that had apparently broken away from the pack and made a failed attempt at freedom some time ago.
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Weird. Freaky volcano question of sorts
This is a picture of the volcano near Tonga before it erupted. Can anyone else see a face in the smoke?
We did some promo pics on the weekend and they came up ok. Picking up all those balls after was annoying though. 😁
Promo for what, you say?
https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/damo-and-mick-s-backyard-quiz #MICF2022
Just suddenly recalled a weird dream from last night where I went and interviewed for a new job, knowing full well I already had a job, and didn't need another one. I was in this interview trying to work out how I could do both jobs at the same time without anyone noticing.
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Bread (CW food non vegan)
@hob
Hello group!
My last raisin bread (same yeastdough as the traditional "Hefezopf") turned out so delicious that it was requested I bake another one.
I was nervous about being able to reproduce it, but it looks good. 
I remember when the Humble Bundle was an event, all cross platform and no-DRM and I never missed a single one and really looked forward to them. Now I hear it's another shitty Windows game shop. Did we really need another one?
Someone do the original concept again please.
Quick #GuitarOfTheseus update, because it's been a while. I've accepted that I have neither the time, skills or tools to get absolute perfection in the finish, so I will embrace all its flaws as part of its beauty.
First coat of colour is going on.
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The Jan. 15, 2022 Hunga Tonga volcano eruption from a sattelite's PoV
wow...
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It seems that #LinuxConfAU is not that well announced in many #Linux #podcast series, and @returntrip and I were wondering if it's because most #podcasts are US based.
That begs the question though, are there #Australian Linux / #FOSS / #FLOSS podcasts out there? And how to find them, or indeed podcasts based in other countries? A cursory search doesn't find such, or a useful listing, so hoping #AskFediverse will come to the rescue
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as a dog owner it's important to regularly inspect your dog's poop, a task which I insist on referring to as "checking the output logs"
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#ActivityPub nerds, are any of you able to explain the intended difference between Actor types "Organization" and "Service"?
Or more to the point, what is intended by a "Service" type as opposed to Group, Organization, or Application?
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Last night, I was so tired I decided to just lie down on the bed and "rest my eyes" at about 9:30pm.
Yeah, I know, I fell for it like an idiot.
Woke up at 1am going "oh shit, I'll be awake all night now" and then promptly slept until 7am anyway.
Guess I needed 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 make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.
Sometimes I get up onto stages and tell jokes. Don't applaud, just throw money.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia
Joined Dec 2017
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