Menno Finlay-Smits @menn0@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Tech lead at the Cacophony Project, among other things. Curious crafter of artisanal bits.
RT @Spacekatgal@twitter.com: Please RT if you are a man who has never been in a bar fight. https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1047159381064929280
In Akira, the setting of both the manga and anime take place next year
Ah, Spring in #Melbourne! That beautiful time of year when leaving the house for more than a couple of hours requires you to carry sufficient clothing variations to cope with every possible weather condition that occurs on Earth.
influx-spout 2.1 is out! The headline new feature is the ability to generate downsampled streams of measurements for real-time archives. If you're a big #InfluxDB user, check it out. https://menno.io/posts/influx-spout-v210/ … #golang
IMAPClient 2.1.0 is out! For more details: https://menno.io/posts/imapclient-210/ #python
Mao
if you're new and worried about your follower numbers, don't! mastodon is more about the community and having fun with your friends. you can drop the toxic thought process where you viewed yourself as a brand on Twitter.
Use your local and federated timelines! Talk to people if something catches your eye! Don't gamify the experience here, be considerate. Think about being part of the local & federated community instead of figuring out how to go viral. Mastodon is super fun without those habits.
Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn’t think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.
This might be a handy tool for designers:
"Picular. Google, but for colors."
You can search for words or terms (E.G. "Pristine forest" or "desert in Dubai" etc...) and it will bring up a selection of colors matching that criteria
Sysadmin reminder: 11 october is the #DNS root key rollover. Brace yourself and check *today* that the DNS resolver you manage knows both keys, 19036 (the old) and 20326 (the new) https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ksk-rollover-expect-22aug18-en.pdf #DNSSEC
The birth of #Linux 
27 years ago.
On August 25 1991 Linus Torvalds wrote to comp.os.minix:
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."
"won't be big" he said. 😃
Happy birthday, Linux, and congratulations to Mr. Torvalds.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA/SwRavCzVE7gJ
RT @Devilish_Design: Ok, it's taken most of the week, isn't pretty and I want my Kitchen table back but It Works!! Microsoft BASIC 1.0 loaded in from paper tape 😀 Still got a little work to do, only seeing half the RAM but that should be an easy fix. https://t.co/yWIP4NbIJS
What's your favourite #linux window manager? Take the poll at Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/18/8/window-manager
Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.
#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.
#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄
(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)
Duke Of Defense / crowdfunding.
Downloadable Ubuntu Linux demo already available on the page!
Duke of Defense is a tower defense game where you play as a knight directly on the battlefield.
Cunning strategies and clever resource management skills to construct towers that fend off hordes of enemy goblins, ogres, and golems.
Slated to be released October of this year.
$516 / $5,500 goal funded.
--> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seabassdev/duke-of-defense
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#DukeOfDefense #TowerDefense #Kickstarter #Linux #gaming #Ubuntu
Vet: You'll need to give him half of one of these tablets each day. They're quite small, it can be tricky ...
Me: It's OK, I know how to break a pill in half thank you. Can you direct me to the nearest nightclub toilet cubicle?
Q: What do you give the person who's got everything? A: Antibiotics.
On en parle depuis longtemps dans de très nombreux contextes, je l’ai enfin trouvée: la fameuse “poche de résistance”
The best one so far
