Mike Stone

Husband, father, nerd. Half human, half Fosstodon Admin. Tends to tell Dad Jokes.

Don't feel obligated, but if you feel like buying me a coffee, I won't say no...

:cupofcoffee: https://ko-fi.com/mikestone :cupofcoffee:

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mike_at_fosstodon.org@mostr.pub

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2024-09-04 16:44:40

I always score poorly on our corporate phishing detection tests. They send out these fake phishing emails to see if you'll report them, and I never do. I get so much email that I just ignore most of it. If the from address is not someone I know personally and I'm expecting email from, I don't even bother looking at it, and that includes their fake phishes. Because of this, I end up "needing" training yearly to get "better" at phishing detection. I refuse to open emails just to find fake phish.

2024-08-31 05:31:00

My 13th day of #100DaysToOffload. I've had discussions with @npub1pvv…f5ml about the housing market around here, and this just seems par for the course. It might be a whiskey night.
https://mikestone.me/house-of-failure

2024-08-30 19:46:09

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@npub1pvv…f5ml Honestly, it would give you a crazy amount of capability (including specific domains to specific zoom settings) if they let you assign Command Chains to specific bookmarks.

2024-08-30 18:08:01

I'm probably the only one this would ever be handy for, but since #Vivaldi is now allowing us to rename out tabs whatever we want, it would also be really cool if they could be individually resized.

2024-08-28 23:03:45

Honestly, who schedules a meeting for 3:45?

2024-08-28 16:42:22

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@npub1pvv…f5ml Tried. Was down for less than 5 minutes before the phone rang. Don't think it's in the cards this morning.

2024-08-28 15:54:43

It's only 9 in the morning, and I'm thinking seriously about a nap.

2024-08-28 15:44:49

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@npub1pvv…f5ml Fingers crossed. I know you've been pretty miserable.

2024-08-18 04:18:39

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@npub1pvv…f5ml Well, you saw the Announcement didn't you? At least there's that! You can follow along there. Sounds like it could be a while since it's really only for mods/admins replying to people.

2024-08-15 00:01:34

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@npub1pvv…f5ml I'm more impressed your formulas are complex enough you even need comments. Most of the time (all of the time?) about as complex as I get is doing math with two cells.

2024-07-24 16:22:17

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@npub1gzl…kk4u Can confirm! I was just in Vegas a couple weeks ago. I had the "pleasure" of being present for the hottest day in Vegas's recorded history! Would not recommend!

2024-07-24 16:15:25

It's now 9:15 in the morning, and it's 100 degrees F outside.Yay Arizona.

2024-06-17 20:34:55

What's the oldest computer you have in ACTIVE use. It doesn't have to be every day, but not something that's sitting in a drawer you haven't turned on for a decade. Something you use. For me, it's a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 1, which originally was released in 2012. I'm currently running #Zorin 16.1 :zorin: on it, and it's perfectly capable of most of my everyday tasks.

2024-05-30 03:57:28

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine for a while now. Lately, DDG seems to "correct" my searches. A LOT. I don't know if it's just me or if it's a universal thing, but when I type in a search sometimes not only the results aren't what I was looking for, but I see the query itself has been changed to something I didn't actually search for. It's INCREDIBLY frustrating. I just might have to find a new search engine if this keeps up.

2024-05-30 03:20:03

My search engine skills are failing me tonight. Does anybody know of a tool that will convert an HTML document into markdown? Linux obviously and CLI would be nice. I want to use it for a script.

2024-03-27 16:08:43

I had some sad news today for some people in a meeting wondering if they should upgrade from CentOS 7.x to 8.x or wait for CentOS 9.

2024-02-23 19:25:38

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@npub1nlt…t44t We've done nothing to prevent that from working. Equally, we've done nothing that would allow that to work. So, I guess we allow it? If it works already?

2024-02-16 17:47:21

Is it over the top to remind everybody right in middle of a discussion about DR servers that you're going to be on vacation on Monday and including a 😏 at the end?

2023-09-26 22:03:55

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@npub1q5l…ywp3 Absolutely. My mother had Alzheimer's, and long after she lost the capability of using a computer she could still video call and send messages using a Google Assistant screen. She could even get slideshows of the the latest pictures of her grandkids. That kind of thing shouldn't be locked behind a paywall of used to advertise.
@npub1kcy…fzfa

2023-09-26 21:39:39

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@npub1q5l…ywp3 I've been coughing at @npub1kcy…fzfa for years now, but so far they've successfully managed to ignore me. Now that Mycroft has dropped out of the market, it's virtually impossible to get a smart speaker that isn't spying on your every move. NeonAI still sells the #Mark2 from Mycroft, but they're super expensive with such low market penetration. Would be amazing to see someone really put some juice behind it.

2023-09-26 21:33:39

This is one of the reasons I've been a big supporter of #Mycroft in the past, and I'm still supporting #OVOS and #NeonAI. I think a voice driven UI (VUI) is important, but the biggest players in that market are Google and Amazon, and their motivation isn't improving the experience for the people using their devices, it's monetizing anything and everything they can. I'd love to see a new smart speaker (*cough* @npub1kcy…fzfa *cough*) that would support OVOS or NeonAI soon.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/amazon-wants-to-charge-a-subscription-fee-for-alexa-eventually/

2023-09-05 15:49:10

I personally prefer the "before" version, but I might be in the minority. Thoughts?
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26606
#Hashtags

2023-08-11 16:32:19

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@npub1rnj…vtmy Well, we keep #Fosstodon as close to vanilla as possible to avoid issues with upgrades and maintenance, so the HOW things show up is identical to vanilla. What we see from an Admin perspective is 3 categories. We see hashtags, posts, and links. These are all things that are just getting traction in the Fed. Our moderation team can "overrule" a hashtag, link, or post if we find the content inappropriate, so a bot can't take advantage and spam the Explore section. 1/
@npub1tc6…mhfm

2023-08-01 15:58:49

I'm a garbage #Python programmer, and even I can pull this off.
import requests, json, re
def strip_html(text):
pattern = re.compile(r"<.*?>", re.DOTALL)
return pattern.sub("", text)
i = "https://fosstodon.org/api/v1/timelines/public"
m = requests.get(i)
d = json.loads(m.content)
for x in d:
dat = x["account"]
txt = x["content"]
print (dat["display_name"] + " (" + dat["acct"] + "):")
print (strip_html(txt))
print("-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-")