Trix

@basementtrix
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Basically, I'm a professional nerd and a filthy casual gamer, among other things. I like to learn magic and practice magic. Performing is an entirely different story.
PronounsHe/Him
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@jpmens If I'm given a paper straw, I won't use it.
"Run Your Own Mail Server" from @mwl got me interested in Postfix/Dovecot. He'd cringe at how I'm doing it, but tying to migrate Sendmail/Cyrus to Postfix/Dovecot. Thanks, Lucas!

@ovid

alias vi=emacs

Is how I became an emacs user. 🙂

Do you buy business stuff from Amazon? Do you need to do year-end expense accounting?

You can get your records from Amazon at their privacy center, including a CSV of everything you've ordered.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/privacycentral/dsar/preview.html

It's not real-time. You file a request and they'll fill it. Grab your 2023 orders now, and you'll get it "within a month." Still early enough to easily meet US 2023 tax deadlines.

Amazon Sign-In

Hey, browser devs - quit truncating the "www." prefix in URLs you display in your URL bar. You're not saving anything important by hiding that. ... and I just wasted a couple minutes waiting for a foo.com to timeout because it really wanted www.foo.com ...

PSA: we have seen the vague viral reports alleging a Signal 0-day vulnerability.

After responsible investigation *we have no evidence that suggests this vulnerability is real* nor has any additional info been shared via our official reporting channels.

@heatdeath Did you not know that October comes between January & February if you don't zero-pad your month field?
@diggdotcom An egg yolk in meringue? So much nope.
@[email protected] Scary Coleen makes me nervous.

Dear creators:

please, please, PLEASE set up your own web sites and distribute your work from there.

If you post your work only on Twitter and/or Reddit, it's gonna disappear. Soon.