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I managed to fall down my basement stairs at the weekend. My ankle has come back to normal but I've got all sorts of aches and muscular stuff going on, plus a huge bruise on my arse that has decided to make itself known.

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Scientists recreating the perfume that was Egypt's most popular, coveted in Rome and Greece, and likely worn by Cleopatra: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

(I want to read the paper the article references, but it's $30. Oof.)

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These things can all be true at the same time:

- If you created free software you don't owe anyone anything, you created it as a gift, people can accept it or not.

- If you are using free software you don't owe anyone anything, you received it as a gift.

- If you created your software because you wanted it to help people it will help more people longer if you create a community around that can maintain the software longer than you.

- If you want to keep using the software longer it will help if you support the author and help create a community around the software that can maintain it longer than one volunteer author.

Wow, Raspberry PIs got expensive. Still very good value, but about 3x what they used to be.

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If you can touch type, inside your brain is a semi-permanent representation of the cursed key order chosen by some person who had to make typing a bit slower because of mechanical typewriters getting stuck. Little bit of legacy firmware on Homo Digitalis.

Went into Discord for the first time in months. I had let the camel hump of hate run low. It is now filled.

I know it's common in service tickets but it really pings my nads when somebody opens one, you send a resolving response and they go quiet.

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the shareware CDs that used to come with computer magazines are on archive.org and they will cure your false nostalgia for 90s computing

Remote two days a week and I get this good boy keeping me company on the couch.

It's interesting that when you don't have a huge amount of CPU grunt (some ARM for example) just how heavy webapps are. Masto is fine, Gmail is not, neither is Linkedin or FB. They're dreadfully slow.

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