Lmst

Actually, Mrs. Lincoln, the play was outstanding.

@grumpasaurus @APBBlue @gloriousnoise This is the same thing Ozzy’s doing, isn’t it?

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Just took down the tin can pinhole camera I installed on a lamppost on the winter solstice.

Little bit of water damage - need better drainage holes. And need to angle it up a bit more, or put the hole further up so as not to miss the peak.

#Solarigraph #pinholecamear #photography #solar #astrophotography

Monotone image in bluey-green, showing the sun's path over the course of six months. The paths form a series of smooth bright curves stacked on top of each each. The outline of some trees mark the horizon. There is not much detail in the lower darker, lower half of the image. Along the top edge is some water damage.

@bosak My family from Indiana traveled to California in 1970. My mother made us matching shirts so that we would not get lost in the wilds of California. Here we are in my aunt's front yard in Simi Valley. (I'm the small one.) My brother would "forget to pack" his shirt on our 1971 trip. This is what people from Indiana looked like when they traveled.

A family of six wears matching shirts with a loud, 3-d pattern. They stand for a portrait in the front yard of a suburban home in California. There is a garage and palm tree behind them.

@sib64 Welcome! You have chosen a fine social media platform. The people are nice here, and we’re building the future. #Mastodon has the optimism of personal computing in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s.

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Moin,
I am working with computers for 50 years, now this is my first public social media presence. I need to find my ways around here.
Gruß,
Stephan

#introduction

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Ok this is cool! https://mastodon.social/@box464/114720677335112770

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In an interview with the Financial Times, Bill Gates accused Tesla CEO and DOGE boss Elon Musk of being personally responsible for the deaths of children through his cuts to the US aid budget, including the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development.
"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," Mr Gates said.

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title: Charles T. Parsloe, Jr.
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M1283

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Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Let's play!

#DontForgetTo
#HashTagGames

How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat! There's no wrong way to play or interpet a game.

Poster Meme announcing New Game

Featured image, large blue hashTag and
Text:
9 o'clock Hashtag

How to play
#HashTagGames

Write something awesome, Use the Hashtag, Toot/Post and Repeat!

Please Boost

Hashtag Games on Mastodon and the entire Fediverse.

hosted by @paul@OldFriends.Live
#DontForgetTo

Every Night, 9PM EST, (6PM PT / 1AM GMT / 2AM CET / 12PM AEDT / 2PM NZST)
Proudly hosting daily games since November 16, 2022

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here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back!

("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on *****Tuesday June 24*****")

cmd > file.txt
cmd >> file.txt
cmd < file.txt
cmd 2> file.txt
cmd > file.txt 2>&1
cmd1 | cmd2
cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2

three gotchas:

1. cmd file.txt > file.txt will delete the contents of file.txt

some people use set -o noclobber (in bash/zsh) to avoid this

But I just have "never read from and redirect to the same file" seared into my memory.

2. sudo echo blah > /root/file.txt doesn't write to /root/file.txt as root. Instead, do:

echo blah | sudo tee /root/file.txt

or

sudo sh -c 'echo blah > /root/file.txt'

3. cmd 2>&1 > file.txt doesn't write both stdout and stderr to file.txt. Instead, do:

cmd > file.txt 2>&1

panel 3: cat vs <

I almost always prefer to do:

cat file.txt | cmd

instead of

cmd < file.txt

it usually works fine & it feels better to me

using cat can be slower if it's a GIANT file though

panel 4: &> and &|

some shells support &> and &| to redirect/pipe both stdout and stderr

(also some shells use |& instead of &|)

@CatsWhoCode @Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey Yeah, he riffs on the riff!

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#ShowYourStripes #ClimateChange

Get yours here: https://showyourstripes.info

A scale of temperature changes in Boston, North America from 1850 to 2024. On the left side of the scale much of the temperatures are between 0 and 4 degrees Celsius below pre-industrial levels. From around 1980 things get progressively worse, where around 2010 the temperatures are consistently between 0 and 3.5 degrees warmer.

@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey These riffs are so racist they’re banned by the BBC.

@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey OK, weighing in against my better judgment. 😀 I think the East Asian Riff that begins the song is racist.

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Current* conditions near Milwaukee, WI:

Rotating view of Milwaukee and Lake Michigan located north of downtown Milwaukee along the Milwaukee River. // Image captured at: 2025-06-20 17:54:07 UTC (about 11 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Milwaukee: 81.57 F | 27.54 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: WSW at 16.106 mph | 25.9 kph // Humidity: 58%

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I would like to coin a phrase:
Endarkenment, n.: the times we live in.

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@BakerRL75 @DismalManorGang @technodad @bud_t @DeniseG @ingalls @mappingsupport

Happy Solstice from Interior Alaska. More than 100 new wildfires this week around the state. Ugsome.

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Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated

Yay! The Federal Theater will become a live music venue. #Denver #Colorado

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