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Eli the Bearded

elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

<p>He/him of Usenet fame, if Usenet can be said to have fame. Diverse interests that tend away from &quot;new&quot;ness. Non-fiction reader and art appreciator.</p><p>I probably won&#39;t follow back and will freely block accounts that look suspect.</p><p>Icon is from a &quot;Signs of the Times&quot; art project decorating traffic control boxes in Emeryville, California. Profile banner is my Dr Monocle character, a one-eyed spy using his small size for stealth.</p>

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    @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz TIL ​@​markwyner​@​mas​.​to​ blocks me. I probably would have blocked him, if he followed me, so no big loss, but I always wonder why when someone blocked me. I only see one interaction with him in my downloaded post archive

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    Does anyone know what this kitchen implement is? It came with, and the glass matches other accessories of, a Hoosier Cabinet. (Genuine Hoosier brand, from 1920s.) It has about the same capacity as the spice jars, maybe 5cm diameter. The caps at both ends unscrew and both caps are open ended with an internal perforated metal filter. It seems too small to be a flour sifter, but it could be for dusting powdered sugar (somehow)

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    Seen in an &quot;opportunity knocks&quot; $160k real estate listing. Lots of notable things missing. «Bedrooms &amp; bathrooms • Bedrooms: 0 Heating • None Cooling • None Appliances • Included: None • Laundry: None Features • Flooring: None • Windows: Storm Window(s) • Basement: Unfinished • Has fireplace: No» Well they were not kidding about &quot;flooring: none.&quot; Looks like someone was trying to add a basement to a building previously lacking one

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    From &quot;Folks Fruits: Amusing Adventures in Opal Orchard&quot; by T. Benjamin Faucett, published 1924.

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    @scruss@xoxo.zone Years ago I used that for my Usenet &quot;Organization:&quot; header. I had run /use/dict/words through rot and then looked for the ones that were still words

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    Macintosh System 7 was released 35 years ago this week (13 May 1991), meaning it is younger today than FORTRAN was when it came out (IBM&amp;#39;s specifications paper, at least, was 35 ½ years old, published 10 November 1954)

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    @SteveBellovin @drwho @josephcox Pretty sure the fundamental first step in breaking codes at the NSA is &quot;find the plaintext copy&quot;, which sounds like what happened here

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    @jk What a Great Leap Forward.

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    @typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt ping 8.010.0x808 Yes, perfect. Everyone will expect that