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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 18

Sandustry is so much fun. Even in the demo there is a healthy number of mods and a custom map loader (and they work in Linux).

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 15

Tax the rich and keep the open space open.

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 14

Our local utility has a lot of programs to give you advice based on measurements in your own home. Getting a free or reduced cost home energy audit is a good way to start.

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 14

That's a shame. Asus used to be a great vendor for less bloat. This is just crazy.

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 14

@kylec.bsky.social Thanks for covering the building of the playground at Shelton today. The volunteers (including the kids) worked hard and had a lot of fun seeing it rise up from cartons of parts.

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 12

I would not be surprised if the outcome was just guard rails for Disney properties.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 12

It looks like they announced 3 months ago that google was going to develop android 16 in private and then publish to ASOP after the release (still with the apache license). Not great news. Especially if you are developing something like grapheneOS and have to wait for updates. Is this different?

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Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

Sanjay Mortimer RepRap Festival tickets are on sale:

sanjaymortimerfoundation.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Sanjay Mortimer RepRap Festival. SMRRF is a not-for-profit event and all proceed go towards supporting neurodiverse young people in STEM

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 11

My guess is that they are being nefarious by putting text only in images. Or even dumber, they may have done A/B testing and seen a lot more of their emails have read receipts if they put text in images.

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 11

They use images loaded on servers to determine which emails have been read.

Many users know this. Email providers know this. So there is a common feature for not loading images in emails.

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Sos Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · Jun 10

Honestly I started this thread thinking I'll post any annoyances and surprises I come across using Linux, but for now it just works and the only surprise I ran into is my printer finally working again after Windows decided it would not print using it ever again.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 9

It isn't realistic if it doesn't have fence posts. So I would dive deeper toward the cleaner version. It does look realistic from the outside of a fence. So I don't think it is triggering for fencing realists out there.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 8

This is really hard for me and my kids. I love it when they ask "why" because they want to know something. But I hate it when they ask "why" because they just want to debate something I told them to do. "You have to wear sunscreen". "Why?". "The same reason as yesterday!"

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 8

Brenterance!

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 7

Everything Known About The New ‘Harry Potter’ Series So Far
theonion.com/everyth...

Q: Is J.K. Rowling involved?

A: The author will serve as Executive Producer and Chief Goodwill Destroyer.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 8

I am confident enough in my masculinity to compliment your deck. That is a nice deck.

Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 8

Same. I play DnD and I wanted to get into it. I just don't have the motivation to get involved. I think I could. And I would probably enjoy it more with friends.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 6

Heck of a car wash.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 5

A neat trick I've seen is to put the first letter in brackets in the grep search. So:

$ ps -al | grep [p]ython

That will match "python" but not the grep.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · Jun 4

Providing positive reinforcement is an excellent way to build trust with folks you're mentoring; if most of your feedback is negative they're less likely to come to you as often and you may start missing things which could be addressed more easily early.

#MakeKindnessNormal

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adafruit @adafruit.com · Jun 4

checked out nytimes interactive "top 100 NYC restaurants” for some ideas on the “Here are 100 things. Great, NOW WHAT” problem ... blog.adafruit.com/2025/06/03/t...

Google Maps view of the New York Times 100 Best NYC Restaurants for 2025, showing pinned restaurant locations across the five boroughs and a list on the left highlighting Semma and Atomix as the top two picks.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 4

Then there was an era of printed out mapquest maps. That lasted a while.

I had a windows cell phone for a bit that could get mapquest. But I was too cheap to pay for data.

The iPhone changed that because they made data mandatory and cheaper. I only suffered through one iPhone.

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · Jun 4

When I was a teen (late 90s). I was driving in downtown Denver and we were lost. I asked the driver next to me at a stop light. He didn't know it.

At the next stop light, he handed us a folded map through the window. He said to keep it. He had others.

That's what I remember before gps.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 30

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“It proved an American misstep, fueled by xenophobia, that would forever alter the global balance of power.”

Kathleen Kingsbury, the editor of Times Opinion, tells the cautionary story of a Chinese scientist who was deported from the U.S. during the Cold War.

Opinion | The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffeb3 @jeffeb3.bsky.social · May 19

Thanks to @v1engineering.bsky.social for letting me fill his booth with a sand table and talk about sandify.org.