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I see a lot of Tweets kvetching about Twitter and how it's bad and that the author should really leave, and I have to say - this is not new, it's been like this for a long time, at least five years. What are you waiting for? The alternatives are here.

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aaaa watching ai play minecraft is stressful

- digs straight down
- digs straight up
- jumps around under trees it can't reach
- then digs straight down
- finds one (1) diamond which is its goal and then ignores the other diamonds
- places and removes furnaces, slowing its forward progress once it reaches bedrock
- places so many furnaces that it is boxed in
- wears out its pickaxe
- is stuck forever in its box of furnaces
- but found that one diamond that one time which is all that matters

@Antiquixotic I still remember your words about fitness a few months back. Still at it, actually beyond where I was when I faded out a year ago, and still motivated, so thank you internet stranger for a valuable slice of encouragement.

I'm suspicious of this Green Comet. What does it want?

Powershell is lightyears ahead of anything MS did server side for years, but it's still a very weird paradigm to get used to. The documentation is very MS - comprehensive but clear as mud.

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Such is my absolute loathing of Active Directory GUI tools I've made myself learn the tasks in Powershell. What hair I had left is now gone, but you can teach an old dog new tricks...

Got a spam SMS with a clever hook, it's a picture of a cup of coffee in a girl's hand. She's wearing a diamond bracelet. Subtle and quite smart.

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Fresh snow and quiet enough to hear a pin drop. I don't love winter but I love the stillness of these moments.

Am I to understand the exceptionally well-funded Mastodon project is asking for free labour?

I had en employee that asked me to sign off on his professional development announce that he's taken another job elsewhere in the organization, and I won't lie it's left a bit of a bitter taste.

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I am going to add “packet warmers” to my alternative computer science store, to go with the antivirus crystals and the no blue screen geode

Modern software is a trip.
"I'd like to take some notes...lets see how Evernote is doing.:
Monday "UPGRADE NOW TO USE THIS DEVICE 50% OFF EXPIRES *TOMORROW*!!"
Sigh.
Tuesday: "YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS BUT IT'S STILL 50% OFF BUT THIS TIME WE'RE ABUSING YOUR PHONE'S NOTIFICATION API TO ANNOY YOU ABOUT IT"

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Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

Had a sudden drop in visual acuity which given my history was pretty frightening. It was a secondary cataract which formed on the back of the artificial lens capsule. They lasered it off and I've got some predicted blurred vision but hopefully that's it.

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Seeing all these posts about MS365 being shit...DOS crashed a lot, Windows has always had a shit UI, MS Word is the worst document tool I've ever used, MS Excel couldn't compete when there was competition, did anyone really think Visual Basic was a serious programming language?, Visual Studio is shit for anything but Windows programming, ...

When you primarily pursue anti-competitive behavior, there is little left for quality.

#MicrosoftSucks

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