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Brisbanite. IT for Qld government. Linux geek. Environmentalist. Atheist. Vaccine fan. Cis het.

LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights.

Refugees deserve compassion and care. Asylum seeking is legal.

Enthusiastic Beeminder user.

Ex Habitica moderator.

I also run the [email protected] account about trapping cane toad tadpoles in the creek near where I live.

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myrmepropagandist · 11w
This is like quietly eating someone's groceries who is riding next to you on the train. It's so shameless I love it. Ants will sometimes try to keep bees away from plants where they are farming aphi...
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@nprofile1q...

Your pro-ant propaganda is insidious.

Today as I sat on a balcony, I felt small, sharp pains in my toes and discovered several ants swarming over my feet. I lifted them off gently and said "No, darlings, don't. What have I stood in that you're not happy about?" and then I moved to a less-good chair.

I hope you are satisfied with what you have done. 😄
Akkana Peck · 11w
I finally got around to setting up clicking on URLs in my #Linux #terminal, and a way to get around #mutt always breaking long URLs in the middle. It's so much fun clicking on links from my terminal i...
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Mutt is glorious!

It's never occurred to me that I could make long URLs work in it. I've just done a bit of internet searching and not found anything about it. If you have time, would you be able to share a brief pointer?

#Linux #terminal #mutt
Paul Fenwick · 23w
Hello friends! A year or two ago I read a really lovely #solarpunk / #hopepunk / #anarchist short story where civilisation was quietly collapsing and nearby folks looked after each other. In particu...
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@nprofile1q... This one I believe: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
"The Year Without Sunshine"
by @nprofile1q... (Naomi Kritzer) in Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Five

Found it in my favourited toots with the "in:library KEYWORD" search.

It's a LOVELY story!

#solarpunk #hopepunk #anarchist
Soatok Dreamseeker · 34w
Loup-Vaillant wrote this on Lobste.rs: Personally I would actively avoid the check, Hmm. What a weird thing to say. Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had ...
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OMG. These two paragraphs are one after the other in their documentation (https://monocypher.org/manual/#CAVEATS ). Do they not see how tightly linked they are??

> CAVEATS
> Monocypher does not perform any input validation. Any deviation from the specified input and output length ranges results in undefined behaviour. Make sure your inputs are correct.
>
> SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
> Using cryptography securely is difficult. Flaws that never manifest under normal use might be exploited by a clever adversary