Deborah Pickett / is on Nostr

/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. #nobot

Last Notes

2025-04-03 04:22:45

Character from classic literature please, with a short distinctive name, next five minutes. I’m naming a computer. Go.

2024-10-24 03:06:59

We have some moulding machines in our factory that require support from companies in China. In order for our engineers to communicate with their engineers, we need to use WeChat, because it's all the Chinese engineers (are allowed to) use.
None of us wants to install the WeChat app on our phone. So I set up a spare sacrificial ipad on the company mobile device management plan and pushed the WeChat client onto it. But it does not look like it's possible to sign up for WeChat on an iPad, only to log into an existing account.
Even with a sacrificial phone number (pulled out of one of our trucks) we are SOL unless we install WeChat on the phone too.
Maloney Clause applies: don't be sinophobic; don't tell me that I should have made different decisions.

2024-07-22 04:19:19

Genesis - In Too Deep Fried Mars Bar
#JunkFoodASongOrPoem #HashtagGames

2024-06-17 22:16:36

Hivemind, what are the least-worst free TOTP apps for iOS and Android, for me to recommend to my non-technical users at $dayJob?
Personally I have installed Google Authenticator, Authy, Microsoft Authenticator (not TOTP but it’ll do for my use case) and they’re _OK_. What I use myself is 1Password but I’m not springing for a password manager for 50 people, plus it’s overkill for the use case.
Emphasis on “non-technical”, in case you glossed over that phrase on first read.

2024-06-05 04:39:43

"Detached HEAD state" is evidently what the git developers were in when they used different words for the same concept in different commands.

2024-06-05 04:26:02

I was as a god with ClearCase, but Git has always eluded me and I've bounced off every guide to it I've tried. Giving "How Git Works" by @npub1upk…tcwy a whirl. https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/
(Easy e-commerce experience! The hardest part of the process was finding a long-arm stapler to make the booklet.)

2024-04-08 00:27:39

I have gone down a rabbit hole trying to find out if the Hebrews at the time of the Book of Judges actually had a /θ/ sound, or if we've all been saying "shibboleth" wrong.

2024-02-12 10:01:41

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@npub12fw…xddv Mastodon admins: this only works if you're running a local DNS resolver that reads /etc/hosts (like dnsmasq), because of this open issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9436