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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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powderpaint  

hey buddies, if you use spotify it would rly help us out if you followed us

open.spotify.com/artist/1u7wr7

maybe even add some of our tunes to a playlist?? :blobpeek:

much love :heart_trans:

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Mike, First of His Name  

Any Americans out there who'd be prepared to try to ship me a keyboard cable?

Because I'm a huge nerd, I own a Model M keyboard. However I've lost the cable somewhere.

Places like this sell them at reasonable prices: clickykeyboards.com/product/mo

... but it's another $35 for shipping, which seems over the top for a cable, which I'm pretty sure doesn't need ludicrous protection, unlike an actual keyboard. It just needs a padded envelope right?

Anyone want to reship one to Australia?

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Mike, First of His Name  

Tuesday update: determined to cook meal, prepared to Do The Thing. Discovered there were no clean plates. Having no strategy available to cope with Do Two Things, am consuming muesli bar instead.

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Mike, First of His Name  

I'm nearly 50 and I always thought I'd have discovered at least one thing I was really good at by now, instead of just a growing pile of things I'm kinda OK at.

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Jacky Alciné  

Meanwhile in ITALY, neo-facists are literally arming themselves arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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Nate Cull  

... Wait, it's a Halle BAILEY? Well that makes more sense, I was wondering if they were planning on doing something really cutting edge with digital de-aging.

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muesli  

I've been busy:

PenPal, a Linux daemon to sync your Wacom Bamboo devices and render drawings:

github.com/muesli/penpal

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Mike, First of His Name  

I occasionally log in to Twitter and notice that some people interact with my posts when they're mirrored there.

If you're one of them, come hang out:
social.chinwag.org/invite/u2Gs

We have a tram emoji now. :dingding: What else could you want?

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Mike, First of His Name  

I thought I'd made it past this stage of my career, but apparently not.

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Ben Harris-Roxas  

Good lord “Optus gained exemption to store metadata unencrypted”

zdnet.com/article/optus-gained

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Mike, First of His Name  

Yes, look, I do want to help you solve this issue with the payroll submission, as I have a strong desire for it to work. I am very keen to get to the bottom of this error you're experiencing.

I did not need you, however, to attach a plain text copy of all the payroll data for all staff to the email you sent about the problem.

You're lucky you sent it to a sysadmin who already has access to everything. If you'd sent this off-site, my tone would be quite different right now.

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𝓒𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓼 𝓻𝓾𝓲𝓷𝓼 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 🐚  

I'm dead they managed to have a housing crisis in a fuckin mmo *flip table and leave to scream at a tree*

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Mike, First of His Name  

Hey @matt is the source feed for the @abc_bot just their RSS or something else? I'm comparing output of @abc_just_in for sanity and seeing the other one includes a bunch of hashtags and stuff that mine doesn't.

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Mega Tootoid  

So I've been a fan of Youtube vids that use the default filename as their Youtube name, and just found that @abundance made a page that lets you browse them easily :acnl_gyroid:

defaultfile.name/

The first video it showed me was:--

youtube.com/watch?v=DkcW4BsvMU

--which is a perfect start to a video surfing journey.

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emsenn  

boost if someone calling you a radical leftist is a compliment

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Mike, First of His Name  

Petition to replace all "no smoking" signs with "no exhaling" so fuckwits with ecigs get the message that it applies to their vaping too.

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Dolly DropBear  

pokemon go 

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switching.social  

By far the most common request I get is for alternatives to Google's Re-Captcha.

The situation is so unclear that I haven't done an alternatives section on the site.

Do you have suggestions for re-captcha alternatives?

(I know this has come up before, but the discussions are scattered across many threads which people are failing to find.)

#Google #Captcha #ReCaptcha #Alternatives #DeleteGoogle

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Thomas Fuchs 🕹💾  

Unboxing a new old stock IBM CGA graphics card #retrocomputing

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Mike, First of His Name  

A couple of months ago I switched from LastPass to a self-hosted Bitwarden setup for management and it's been great. The apps and browser extensions even look nicer.

Thinking about making it a public service for Chinwag users. Seems solid.

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