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meowy catgirl
@nyanotech
🏳️‍⚧️ it/she | 29 | meows at computers | catgirl on main | headpats / hugs / scritches ok
SF Bay Area
Joined November 2017
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Nov 10, 2022
    pro tip, you can search twitter for "mastodon" and then filter that down to only people you follow, in order to find all the tweets where people point out that you can exactly that (hi i spun up another fedi instance, you can follow me @ catgirl.download/@nyanotech)
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    May 2, 2020
    I have improved some of my tools
    Wire crimper, with googley eyes so it looks like a dinosaur head
    Automatic wire stripper, with googley eyes so it looks like a mouth
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Aug 19, 2022
    none of the replies seem to notice this, but these are soofa solar benches; one of their selling points was that they gather mac addresses (that they claim are then anonymized) for people-tracking
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    Hostile Design
    @hostiledesign
    Aug 18, 2022
    Boston, Massachusetts
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Oct 9, 2020
    I had to see this meme and now you all do too
    A comparison of SSDs and HDDs. Circular arrows go around the hard drive platter, and text reads "full 360 degree rotational access (better sequential read)" the ssd has arrows leading between the band chips, and text reads "poor sequential read pattern (negates speed advantage)"
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    May 5, 2021
    someone does this and the mouse cursor on the screen just rotates in place
    product image for a trackball mouse (logitech m575). someone's hand is resting on it, and there's a circular arrow indicating rotating the ball in place
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Dec 22, 2021
    found the labelmaker
    my laptop, closed, upside down on my bed. in addition to the two retroreflective stripes that were there before, there is now also a label that says "LAPBOTTOM". sitting next to the laptop is my labelmaker, showing the same text on its screen
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    May 3, 2024
    Replying to @_R4V3N5_
    I'm still boggled at a former coworker who used vscode only for the terminal, in which they used vim they didn't even have any configuration or customization for the vim, and they used literally no other vscode features
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Jan 8, 2021
    Replying to @snarrk_ and @FathomFloof
    San Francisco, apparently youtu.be/ewmXizBqjl0
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Apr 10, 2021
    so...do you diligently lock your computers when you walk away because you work in infosec, or did your parents just constantly invade your privacy when you were growing up?
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Mar 24, 2022
    3am is the best time to experience the grocery store
    a grocery store checkout. a dog squeaky toy sits next to the conveyor, and a hand-written sign reads "please squeeze for service"
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Nov 9, 2021
    Replying to @atomicthumbs
    this is still one of my favorite internet photos
    a kitchen, with an exploded pressure cooker on the stove. the pot part is on the range,the range is crunched downwards into the oven space, the range hood is heavily bent, and the lid is stuck in the ceiling
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Nov 24, 2024
    Replying to @atk825 @RedactedDeGen and 3 others
    and especially not when you consider peak demand
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Jan 24, 2022
    just remembered this absolutely cursed thing i saw on wikipedia the other day
    screenshot from the wikipedia page for school busses. it's a photo of a bus, the front half of which is painted yellow like a school bus, and the back half of which is white, like a prison transport. the caption reads: ""Choice Bus", a former school bus (Blue Bird TC/2000) configured with half mobile clasroom (school bus)/half prison bus interior, developed in an effort to prevent student dropouts in the United States."
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    May 3, 2024
    i wish we had good filesystems
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    meowy catgirl
    @nyanotech
    Oct 4, 2022
    i wish we had good filesystems other than zfs
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