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CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2019 20:56:55 UTC 
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Info to whoever at Microsoft is making their account management page: Chrome supports FIDO keys. Does so quite well, in fact. You don't need to hide the "Add Security Key" option if the browser is Chrome. Heck, I just told chrome to spoof being Edge, added a key, and it worked perfectly. Of course, then I set it back to Chrome and your site acted like it had no clue my browser could even do FIDO keys. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2019 23:45:14 UTC
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Okay, finally, I have the theatre segment of the next DoM strips done. When they go up, you'll see just how tedious it was. Next up, a few more for the next section (should be easier), then I start uploading. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2019 00:52:08 UTC
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After a Discord chat last night, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's finding the joke of "lol how do you plug in a usb first time its impossible" to be getting real old, real fast. -
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CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2019 21:25:06 UTC
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Am I the only one who finds it amusing that nearly all modern browsers, including many designed for embedded appliance-type use, still send "Mozilla/5.0" as the first part of their user-agent strings? -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2019 20:31:56 UTC
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MSP's a good airport, to be sure, but I still kinda prefer Phoenix or San Francisco. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2019 19:34:47 UTC
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People keep trying to host XMLCon, but nobody can figure out how much namespace they need.
JSONCon keeps happening and people keep attending it, but we never get a clear impression of how it goes because nobody's allowed to comment on it.
LispCon (the con (short for convention (a gathering of like-minded (to a certain (reasonably-defined) extent) individuals)) for Lisp (the programming language)) still has its supporters.
I should stop. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2019 19:24:49 UTC
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From a discussion on programming language conventions (each of these were mine; I'd rather not yoink someone else's jokes):
TypescriptCon is what JavascriptCon would look like if the schedule made any sense.
RubyCon was really popular for a while when they built the Rails station near the convention center, but everyone's kinda drifted away from it now.
CCon and CPlusPlusCon stopped happening when they evolved into their own cities hosting the other conventions, and now they have to fight out boring administrative issues.
ASMCon is... well, less a con and more of a cult gathering. We're too afraid to ask what goes on there.
People keep saying PerlCon 6 is happening, and that's the last we heard of it.
KotlinCon has a lot of really neat drinks at the bar, but they've still got plain Java on tap if anyone wants it. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 18:13:32 UTC
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One more, perhaps? Try Whirlwind, a more puzzle-oriented course: R9S-PTV-PRF -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2019 18:42:26 UTC
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Also, more Super Mario Maker 2, anyone? Here's Earthshaker: H39-XN8-DJF
This one is considerably simpler and not nearly as punishing as Banzai Run. My third course is already underway. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2019 16:59:19 UTC
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Slowly but surely, I'm almost done with this sequence of comics where I unwisely decided to create a bunch of characters doing acrobatic flippy nonsense on a stage... -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 01:46:53 UTC
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"Did you know your Cart follows you on any device?" Yes, Amazon, I did, and that's a rather convenient feature. I don't think it's possible for that feature to be introduced in a more creepy fashion than that sentence. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2019 04:25:41 UTC
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If you are of the Super Mario Maker 2 persuasion and are in the mood for an annoying jumping nightmare, may I present to you Banzai Run: R6V-KQ1-J2G
Future courses named after Pat Lawlor pinball tables may or may not be purely coincidental. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2019 07:16:13 UTC
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The fact that the last new item in ThinkGeek's catalog is their 20th anniversary t-shirt is considerably tragic, to be honest. Worse, from their new product RSS feed, that showed up DURING the first days of the closing sale. Eesh. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 06:40:34 UTC
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Well, ThinkGeek's pretty well dead now. They're being consumed into Gamestop to be their merchandise wing, I guess. A shame; they had a lot of cool stuff back in the olden days.
This does mean, however, that I should probably pick up a new bag. My trusty Bag of Holding Mk 2 has served me very well, but if that wears out, it won't be easy finding a new one. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2019 23:47:21 UTC
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Me, at 7-Eleven just a few minutes ago: "I'm in the mood for something snackish, but I don't know what. Y'know, I've never tried tortilla chips with 'lime' flavor on them, may as well give them a shot."
Me, having tried them: "I am now fully convinced that nobody at Frito-Lay has ever seen a citrus fruit in their lives, let alone a lime." -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2019 06:15:38 UTC
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Having removed the rogue keys from my keyring, I suddenly realized that I only have two actual keys, per se, on it. The rest are keyfobs and Yubikeys. Huh. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2019 18:48:34 UTC
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Ever take a look at your keyring and wonder where a couple of your keys came from? I don't have the slightest clue what these keys are supposed to open. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 03:43:40 UTC
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Actually, that thing with the audio drivers not loading at boot was causing other problems, too, so forget that. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2019 23:45:59 UTC
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As much as I tend to prefer LTS releases of *buntu for stability, it turns out KDE develops at a speed faster than "every other April". This not only causes minor irritation when I read about neat new KDE stuff that won't get backported to the current LTS, it starts to get annoying when I need to maintain my own local debs of the Wacom config module (in by default in 19.04, nowhere to be seen in 18.04), or when very ugly Dolphin bugs just won't get fixed (symlinks in sftp directories show up as plain files that go nowhere, rather than, well, actual symlinks like they did in older versions).
So I upgraded to Kubuntu 19.04 (going through 18.10 first). One of the most painless Ubuntu upgrades I've had in a while, apart from the ALSA drivers sometimes needing a force-reload after a fresh boot. Grr.
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