Posts by kauer@aus.social
(DIR) Post #APm2fphFmYOHcvSp8K by kauer@aus.social
2022-11-11T00:29:22Z
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@Penelope how "restricted"? Generally if you search for someone you can get to their profile regardless of instance and follow them from there. You do need to know their full name, d o I would be "@kauer".
(DIR) Post #APm2fqVEmiNC7wqk2i by kauer@aus.social
2022-11-11T00:46:45Z
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@Penelope when I search for "@Penelope" I find one entry. If I click on it, I end up at your profile, and there is a follow button. Is that not happening for you?
(DIR) Post #APm2frOtRmtOuYtBnE by kauer@aus.social
2022-11-11T00:52:43Z
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@Penelope im sorry, I don't know why it is not working. Maybe ask your local admin for help?
(DIR) Post #APm2fs2F5UMssbIc7s by kauer@aus.social
2022-11-11T00:49:11Z
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@Penelope hm, mastodon is screwing with names in toots. I wrote "(at)penelope(at)ieji.de" as the search term and it got changed to just "(at)penelope". Same with my own name in my previous message.
(DIR) Post #ARDAcIbyOOlo8IVY1I by kauer@aus.social
2023-01-01T06:00:11Z
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Some utter arsehole has stolen one of the thre pelican sculptures from Fishpen in Merimbula (NSW, ). It's a life-sized pelican made of scrap steel.If you see this pelican anywhere except back home on its pole in Merimbula Lake, please let CrimeStoppers know about it.Boosts welcomed.
(DIR) Post #AamZTt58NkpStSYSgK by kauer@aus.social
2023-10-15T04:02:05Z
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@Penelope Twi**er as a source is useless. Ditto Twi**er threads. If there is a credible source referenced in a tweet, better to link to that source than to the tweet. If someone, against all odds, makes a good point in a tweet, better to post the point (with attribution obviously) than link to the tweet.Many people filter out Twi**er links. You'll get better coverage by not posting such. I'm not sure why I saw yours, as I thought I had filtered Twi**ter out too, so I'm off to check my filters :-)
(DIR) Post #AcRY4OFnTLQBO0MOps by kauer@aus.social
2023-12-03T20:17:19Z
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It makes so much sense that the Catholic Church would not want children to know about consent...Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory enrolment consent educationhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-04/catholic-education-gerard-gaskin-consent-education/103175500
(DIR) Post #AnySJ4SlfMWv7i9Heq by kauer@aus.social
2024-11-12T17:46:03Z
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@frogzone what do the squiggly emoji mean? :butterfedyA: and :butterfedyC:?
(DIR) Post #AoFs44baktXBiU6Vjk by kauer@aus.social
2024-11-15T02:05:44Z
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@catsalad (In preposterous Russian accent)Not true. In Communist paradise you don't have to get joke.In Communist paradise, joke gets YOU.
(DIR) Post #ApckCu6bEnRwq2QZ6m by kauer@aus.social
2025-01-01T01:13:07Z
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@alxlg @voltagex Flatpak, snap and the rest are shit-wrapped crap served on slices of poo. Far, far more trouble than they are worth.It's a huge shame that so many maintainers are wasting so much time on them. #linux #tech
(DIR) Post #ApvAJMXm1r6zDVz3gW by kauer@aus.social
2025-01-09T23:33:51Z
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@stux I disagree. If your friend is a bad person and you help them do bad things, then you are a bad person too, and I want nothing to do with you OR your friend.It's a spectrum. It depends how bad your friend is.But as a general rule, I have no problem at all with people shunning those who refuse to shun bad people.Also, this has nothing to do with "force". It's not "force". It's exercising my right to associate with whomever I choose. You have the same right. But if you have bad friends, I may not choose you. Or you may not choose me. Those calls are ours to make.
(DIR) Post #AqIC9ROzmNGTvvLwXI by kauer@aus.social
2025-01-21T02:12:53Z
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@tomjennings @flyhigh @GottaLaff It happened in a lot of places. Not just San Francisco. Not just the US. Not just big cities. And it still happens.
(DIR) Post #Ar5fo1N2rM2ksUdV4a by kauer@aus.social
2025-02-13T02:23:54Z
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@hacks4pancakes I wish people would stop conflating anti-DEI and the erasure of e.g. women. The latter has nothing to do with DEI.
(DIR) Post #Ar5fo2nfXqvzJM6HD6 by kauer@aus.social
2025-02-13T02:26:45Z
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@hacks4pancakes sorry, didn't mean you. Look at the URL in your previous post.
(DIR) Post #Ar5fo5Srdf4hZhOChM by kauer@aus.social
2025-02-13T03:28:10Z
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@ramsey @hacks4pancakes DEI is something people can in good faith have differing opinions about. Changing history, pretending that facts are not facts, erasing the achievements of this group or that for ideological and repressive reasons - those are not things that have two sides.Doing the latter things, while claiming it has anything to do with DEI, is at best ignorant. At worst it is a form of complicity.
(DIR) Post #Arw4wvzQHYz7MYQx9M by kauer@aus.social
2025-03-11T05:52:39Z
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@stux without the intelligence...
(DIR) Post #ArwbYkzeoMjOnPceNE by kauer@aus.social
2025-03-11T07:36:42Z
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@jredlund @stux @ spyhunter@ mastodon.social is a troll. Don't engage; block.
(DIR) Post #AsRIcC9xuPdGuVLfdY by kauer@aus.social
2025-03-23T21:28:47Z
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Huh. Tusky just grew three different kinds of boost - public, unlisted and followers-only. Used to be just "boost", and I guess was public.I didn't update Tusky, so is it updating itself, or are these options somehow server-side?
(DIR) Post #AsnjUkKjKKokFFMkQS by kauer@aus.social
2025-04-06T01:31:32Z
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@delProfundo @MelissaBearTrix If it's not too late, lower the TTLs on all records to something like 300 seconds, then wait out the previous TTLs before starting your migrations. That will cause your change of nameservers to propagate fast and also lets you switch back fast if something goes wrong.
(DIR) Post #AuSZ8oAXdkqJ0bTeXw by kauer@aus.social
2025-05-24T10:05:57Z
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My brother is a seed breeder, and years ago he gave me a big bag of shucked maize cobs - several hundred I'd guess. He said they were good kindling. They are - if you light your fires with old diesel, the way he does :-) While they do burn well, they take a bit to get started.Also many years ago, a bee-keeper asked if he could put a few hives on our place, so of course we said yes. Afterwards, he asked if we'd like some honey as a thank you. Sadly one of us is allergic, so we said "how about a little beeswax? We could make some candles". Next day he shows up with FIVE KILOS of beeswax. So we made candles. After which we had at least four kilos left:-)So I made firelighters.I put the wax in a tin and put the tin in a saucepan of water, then simmer the water until the wax is liquid. You need enough wax to get 5-10cm of molten wax. While it's melting, I grab a few cobs and get any stray kernels and silk off them. I lay out a bit of paper and a few twigs of bamboo to be a cooling rack, then dip the cobs in the wax. One at a time or as many as will fit, just be careful not to raise the wax level so far that it spills out of the tin!After a few seconds I pull them out, let them drain excess wax back into the tin, blow on them to reduce drippage, and lay them on the twigs to cool properly. After twenty minutes they are ready to be put into a container and be used later as fire starters.I've been doing this for years. There has been no noticeable decrease in the number of cobs I have in the big lidded plastic container (to keep them dry and safe from pests). Nor has there been much of a decrease in the amount of beeswax I seem to have left.I wrap a bit of waste paper around a cob and light the paper with a match. The paper gets the wax alight, then the cob burns for a few minutes, helped by the wax. By that time the fire is generally well alight. It's possible to light the cob directly, but it takes a few matches.Here's a pic of a bunch of cobs cooling. The weird colour is because a Small Person dropped a crayon into the melted wax...PS: Safety tips: Have cold running water available in case you get hot wax on yourself. Leave the tin in the saucepan - harder to tip the tin, and if you do the wax will go into the saucepan. If little people are involved, do this at ground level, not on a bench, move the tin from the hot saucepan to a second, cold one without hot water, and watch out for little fingers going into the wax!Once molten, the wax stays that way in the tin for ages, and forms a deceptive skin over still-molten wax. So when you're done, put the tin well out of reach in a safe place until the wax is completely solid again.