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Written by furicle on 2025-01-21 at 12:50

I really should find some Northern Ontarian #curling fan merch and wear it to work...

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-20 at 15:41

This Monday is full of fail...

On the bright side, I've typed the bit locker key correctly five times in a row now, so Yay me?

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-18 at 17:35

Used car shopping. I feel icky.

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-17 at 15:02

Man I'm sick of people using intuitive, state based troubleshooting!

(i.e. guessing what's wrong and randomly unplugging and replugging stuff until they think it 'works')

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-16 at 21:35

Weird #powershell question for the mastohordes...

»»»» $expiryDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-3)

»»»» new-item test.txt

»»»» Test-Path -Path 'test.txt' -NewerThan $expiryDate

True

[#] as expected, but

»»»» Test-Path -PathType Leaf -Path 'test.txt' -NewerThan $expiryDate

Test-Path : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'NewerThan'.

WTF? Why does it forget it has newerThan as soon as you add pathtype?

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-15 at 23:29

Feeling like a basket case today?

You're not alone...

And don't let her fool you, there's nobody behind you.

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-15 at 04:29

Signed back into #wotblitz for the first time in years and played a couple dozen rounds. I'm still better than average, but not great, and there are still a lot of mouthy lousy players, and a hundred variations on loot boxes.

Game itself is still fun though. Trying not to get sucked back in.

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-14 at 19:01

Grrr #python.... Last week pipx and pre-commit were making me happy.

This week, I just wanted to add ansible-lint

Now I have pages of 'nope' pretending to be error log files, on both a Windows box, and a Linux box.

Different from each other of course.

Why is this crud so frustrating, time after time?

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-13 at 20:13

It's funny, I never realized before just how cathartic Mastodon's private notes could be!

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-13 at 16:34

I know #devs like to talk about feeling good when they delete code, but really, it's nowhere near as nice as a #sysadmin feels when he permanently shuts down a 12 year old server.

[#]askMeHowIKnow

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-13 at 15:15

Phishing email I just saw - the link goes to,

wait for it,

concreator dot com

I mean...

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-13 at 13:05

Busy weekend, with an actual guest for dinner (weird...) and the resultant required tidying etc.

But I did manage to get a blog post in there somewhere...

https://www.furicle.org/using-precommit.html

Still trying to find the balance between chatty info and detailed instructions.

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-11 at 18:07

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/01/11/getting-a-modern-terminal-setup/

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-10 at 20:46

I wonder if "Hopamedia" is that Voip company that pitched me hard around 2020... Trying to come up with a name, RingCentral maybe.

@troyhunt

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-10 at 16:55

No notes...

https://matduggan.com/stop-trying-to-schedule-a-call-with-me/

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-10 at 15:48

You know, it doesn't matter how many times #ansible reports it successfully copied your cupsd.conf file to /etc/postfix - cups is still not configured the way you want it.

It's Monday, right?

[#]backToBedMaybe

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-09 at 19:46

Is there a generic testing, uh, framework I guess you'd call it?

E.g. #Pester is for PowerShell

Is there one that will work across say #python, #baah, #powershell generically?

Or is that a dumb question? I'd like to learn a bit of test driven development, but don't want to have to learn multiple testing methodologies

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-08 at 17:26

You know, people make fun of #perl, but this #bash is valid and useful, although entirely unreadable IMO

filerenamed="${file%.}-${RANDOM}.${file##.}"

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-04 at 18:32

Working on drywall in the basement, with donated used drywall...

Somebody's artistic contribution is going to end up hidden forever

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Written by furicle on 2025-01-03 at 21:43

That toy blog I've started up keeps floating around in the back of my head over the last couple weeks.

I'm starting to realize I haven't been entirely truthful with myself. I guess I really do want some external validation, more than I let on.

Heck the number of times I check here to see if anybody likes my comments should have been a clue.

Guess I'd better actually put some time aside to get some of these wandering thoughts out of my head.

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