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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

vogelbad 20240720 :)

Deutsch oben, english below. ;)

Uh, ich hab völlig verplant das zu posten, hab mir doch letztens ne neue vogeltränke bzw ein neues vogelbad gegönnt, so mit solarspringbrunnen und kram.

Letzteres haut zwar nich so super hin, aber insgesamt wird das ding schön angenommen inzwischen. Den tag war das irgendwie der dritte oder vierte vogel binnen einer halben stunde. ;)

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Uh, I completely forgot to post this, I recently treated myself to a new birdbath, with a solar fountain and stuff.

The latter doesn't work so well, but overall the thing is being well received. That day it was somehow the third or fourth bird within half an hour. ;)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86sLa5foXM8

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=86sLa5foXM8

#Vogelbad #Natur #RandomShit ;)
vogelbad 20240720 :)

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

I'm not just an ally but i have my own lgbtqia+ life (and past). As a #sexworker in my youth and such... but that's not the important part here, it's merely the background.

So i was working as a night porter in some random #hotel in #hamburg, #germany. Random hotel as in, random near the #reeperbahn. Yes exactly that one and in right that #district.

I didn't like that job for several reasons .. one of them that i wasn't made for it.. But hell... here we are.

At one night, a relatively unremarkable (female read) guest left.

I didn't recognize her at all, but was happy to receive her key and put it where it belongs as long as a guest is out of house.

I had some few duties to do, like registering lot's of bills from the bar, at least giving out some late beers or cocktails .... and clean up stuff..

The usual thing to do everyday/night and on weekends especially..

Way later, the main entrance door was at least half locked so i needed to hit a button to let 2 strangers in after they rang the bell.. (i told you, reeperbahn, you wanna lock the doors at least a few hours at night;))

First in came a somewhat eccentrically dressed person .. holding someone else, feminine read, on a leash. Clearly commanding - but not rudely - requesting a key.

I was a tiny bit startled ... but i vaguely recognized the person on the leash to be someone i've seen before.

So i didn't hesitate long and handed the key out to strange person holding the leash.

I didn't even think about that moment at all .... the night was long, sitting in midst of a red light district was strange enough .. so the friday night changed to saturday morning..

I finally was done with my shift in the morning and while already some guests where down do get breakfast... i strode into the buffet to grab my own and finally end the "workday".

As i walked along the tables on my way out, one of the (male read) guests saw me .. and gave me a heads up and thanked me for being so understanding.

I SRSLY didn't knew that he was the strange female from the night... And i don't care whatsoever..

But i felt like i didn't do something wrong.... which i like still up to today. ;) (And yes, i hated that job so much, this is srsly the only thing on the whole job i liked. ;)

#lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #trans #ally #notjustally #hotel #night #porter #RandomShit ;)

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

THE MONTINI EXPERIENCE II - ASTROSYN

Sry ppl, i'm a bit busy re-reading the jenkinserve deathworlders and other canon stories .. it's so much fun! ;)

But at least, i have a nice #musical #interlude for you right here:

THE MONTINI EXPERIENCE II - ASTROSYN

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=ttKc_tMqKH8

Released in #1995.... nearly frickin 30 years ago.... insane if you think about it ..... it's like, it was just last year or so ..... sometimes. ;)

#Music #Montini #Experience #Astrosyn #Acid #House #RandomShit ;)

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

The Deathworlders

“Next!” I ordered. I did not at first bother to look up from the desktop in front of me where the standard security systems were scanning the being in front of me for weapons, pathogens, parasites and other such contraband.I only looked up when the machine flashed a message I had never seen before: “ERROR: Unknown Species”

It was small. Barely tall enough to see over the top of my customs desk, in fact. A quadriform biped, forelimbs ending in five manipulating digits. Much of its body was covered in obviously synthetic fabric, with only the forepaws and head visible. Much of the head—the top, around the ears, and down under and around the mouth and nose—was covered in short, coarse fur of a brownish hue, apart from where this had been shaved in front of the ear to accept a cybernetic of some description. My desk registered this as the creature’s Interspecies Communication Implant, though it seemed like a shockingly crude example.

It met my surprised stare with the level binocular gaze of a species evolved for predation and the hunt. Small, but powerful and dense-seeming. Despite its lack of height, it had strapped a pack to its torso that looked larger and heavier than I could have comfortably carried.

“Abductee 907-42-96-53-3,” It introduced itself. “Name—Kevin Jenkins.”

Fortunately, the crude cybernetic seemed to be functioning perfectly, and I had no difficulty in understanding the thing’s speech, or the subtle body language that spoke of a cocktail of bored resignation and weariness.

I had never had to deal with an abductee before, though I had been trained and knew exactly what to do. I closed the booth, stood up and gestured for the alien to follow me with my second right forelimb. “I will need to interview you in private.” I told it. Him.

He picked up a second bag, and strolled—strolled! While carrying more than I suspected I could physically lift!—after me. Whatever this thing was, it was from a high-gravity planet.

#DeathWorlders #HFY #Kevin #Jenkins #Experience #Jenkinsverse #RandomShit

From https://deathworlders.com/books/deathworlders/chapter-00-kevin-jenkins-experience/ ;)

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

Btw .. yay .. ich hatte mir da kürzlich mal zum dingstag was gegönnt.

Is heute eingetroffen.

Bild von einem kleinen häufchen FCK AFD einkaufswagenchips.

Die ersten paar sind auch schon verteilt ... der vorrat sollte noch ein wenig reichen erstmal. (Ich geh nur einmal wöchentlich einkaufen - aber nachbars hab ich auch schon welche aufs auge gedrückt.. also mehreren nachbars. ;)

FCK AFD! ;)

#RandomShit #FCKafd #Einkaufswagenchips ;)

.oO( Hierher hab ich sie btw; https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1674192569/einkauf-chip-fck-afd-einkaufwagen-loser viel spass! ;)

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

By the way .. an alle die sich aufregen über die neuerliche pflicht das flaschendeckel aus plastik fest mit der flasche verbunden sein müssen.

Die sache is ganz einfach .... gewöhnt euch drann.

Das is die strafe dafür, das wir als gesellschaft das problem offensichtlich nicht anders in den griff bekommen.

Deal with it.

#RandomShit ;)

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

Now, for something completely different: (mid lenght post)

Years, actually decades ago, as i was a very young padawan, discovering and in tiny part shaping (a _VERY_ tiny part of) the early internet (world wide web way back then).

A unix guru gave his shine to me .. and told me a nice lesson, i never forgot, and with the help of the almighty internet relay chat (IRCNet) even was able to improve upon a tiny bit.

Way back then, you mainly had ps and top to list and manage your processes on a Unix based system.

Modern fancy stuff like killall didn't exist for a while, not to name pgrep even. (We're talking mid to late 90ies here).

So, this unix guru came over to me to tell me a nice trick for my linux boxes at home.. I won't repeat the original one, but will skip directly to the (just slighty) improved one;

It's a bash function called psg (procname)

psg () 
{
 /bin/ps xau | /bin/grep COMMAND\\\|$1 | /bin/grep -v grep
}

As you can imagine, psg stands for "ps grep". You can use it with the name of the process, the pid or even a part of its commandline to get exactly only processes listed which match your grep.

You don't need to remember any commandline parameters or anything at all (unlike pgrep) .. but just fire and forget, take what you get. (It's truly KISS-compliant;)

The "original version" i got told skipped the header from the ps command and just spat out the processes, but i liked to have the header preserved. So at some time i questioned people in #linux.de on IRCNet about how to improve the grep cmd(s) for that reason.

And here we are ... you're welcome to use psg anytime you want..... and preserve the lore! ;)

#Unix #Unices #Unixes #Linux #Retro #Retrocomputing #NextStep #Bash #Script #Lore #KISS #RandomShit ;)

P.s.: What i was shaping? Ouh shoot..... i was employed to write down early html (1.1) to implement the wet dreams of some few graphics designers from their macintosh with photoshop.... We didn't have frames .. but we had tables!! (yeah i know. ;))

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