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Sonnet: To My Love
I do not care who else has had a taste
Of all the pleasures that you offer me;
It matters not. Just this, that you have placed
Your body in my hands, and mine will be.
My fingers softly touch your naked spine,
Caress the curve and feel your supple weight.
I breathe your scent, so fragrant and divine.
My appetite is vast but you will sate
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I wrote a new blog post where we go thru a simple Network Time Protocol server implementation in #elixir. While the end product is not production ready we learn a lot about UDP, sniffing traffic, #GenServers, bitstrings, sigils, and other cool tricks.
The idea So everything started off with the idea that I can somehow fake uptime of a machine by updating the time against a “corrupted” NTP that will lie about the time. Since there isn’t such a thing as a lying NTP server I decided to create one. This will be an exercise in reverse engineering a protocol, some Linux command line tricks, bitstring manipulation in Elixir, and some various other tricks.
"We caught a transmission," the message from the stars began, "that simply said 'we exist and we are glad you also exist'. We do not know who sent it, but if you catch this, know that we exist and we are glad you exist."
"Shall we pass it on?"
"Like a chain letter?"
"Yes?"
The court celebrated. Both the ogre and the dragon that had plagued the kingdom had left.
"Well done," the king said.
"I didn't evict them, I'm only here to collect their rewards."
"Who did?"
"The dragon evicted the ogre, and vice versa. The reward is for their honeymoon."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #wss366
Is your main timeline getting a bit too busy? Does it feel like you're following too many people? You can split your main timeline into smaller mini-timelines using Mastodon's Lists feature:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon
It's slightly fiddly to set up, but once you get started Lists can be extremely useful.
You can optionally hide any List's accounts from your main timeline, to make it a bit calmer.
Most common questions about Lists are answered at the link above!
I was out on my dog's evening walk when I spotted my neighbour, the vampire.
"Long time no see," I said.
"I have been brooding."
"Oh dear!"
"You know, about how my very existence is built on evil."
"But you're feeling better now?"
"I realised, at least I'm not a billionaire."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Micro SF/F by O. Westin
Andrei C
Organic Maps
Thinking Elixir
Fedi.Tips
Dushman