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2024-01-30 20:45:28

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Yes, but in some neighborhoods I suspect the local gang gets some respect that is not just fear. (I don't hang out in those areas, so I don't really know.)

2024-01-30 20:38:52

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Gazans are anti-Hamas…to a point. Compared to Israel they love Hamas. In my analogy they are a ruthless gang, and LA knows they are a ruthless gang. There is a limit to how much anyone can like being drilled by a corrupt and ruthless gang, one that has been running things pretty poorly, for years. But they are the enemy of LAs enemy…
Hanas is certainly not as competent, popular, and cudly as Hezbillah. Nor as hapless as the Palestinian Authority.

2024-01-30 20:06:58

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@npub1k4q…3lsq And don't forget: The people of LA largely LIKE the gang that hides among them. They completely hate the rest of California, and the rest of California hates the people of LA. The bad blood goes back a long time, Sacramento has done a lot of bad stuff over the decades, as has this and related gangs.
(That is, in this analogy. In reality California and LA love each other.)

2024-01-30 19:53:31

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@npub1k4q…3lsq No.
Imagine a ruthless gang has been running LA, for years. It attacked, say, the rest of California in brutal raids. So now LA is being bombed relentlessly. Attacking schools and hospitals and residences. Most structures have been damaged if not destroyed. Most residents have been displaced. Famine is setting in.
California is attacking everywhere in LA because the gang hides anywhere—in shools, in hospitals, in residences. Plus, LA people aren't really human, and should go to Mexico.

2024-01-23 00:29:16

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@npub1typ…c8hh I don't. I was screaming "It's the internet, stupidt!" at the TV and radio in those days.

2024-01-13 18:47:08

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@npub10fm…x0qg Is lycos.com on the side of good or evil?

2024-01-12 19:07:37

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@npub1tps…9rmt Except he isn't really a billionaire.

2024-01-12 18:39:11

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@npub1zaw…tdg8 "will ultimately be successful" sounds an awful lot like "nothing really can be done about it, we're doing all we can".
I disagree, teaching users how to look at e-mail addresses is necessary. But in the security biz it is forbidden to take user education seriously, because that would be blaming the user. "We must have technical solutions!"
We teach about not being bilked in the REAL world, we do it from toddlerhood. But not in the virtual world, where we now spend most of our time.

2024-01-12 18:18:27

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@npub1zaw…tdg8 Sad that just because they sell nice hardware, doesn't mean they have people who can't spot e-mail with forged addresses.
To be fair the anti-phishing training I've been forced to take has ALL been about spotting superficial signs and NEVER tried to explain e-mail addresses and how to spot tricks crooks play. As far as I'm concerned reading e-mail address key…
#FrameworkLaptop

2024-01-04 19:13:35

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 There is a model for you, at least in recent years. But for the straight male being sensitive, bookish, and liking showtunes is a pretty empty social space to inhabit.

2024-01-04 16:20:37

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Makes clear why most men like Trump: They were raised on a version of masculinity where being male means power over others, it hasn't turned out the way they had hoped, and Trump promises them power over others.
Since I was a kid, a very long time ago, I knew American masculinity was messed up. In recent years I've ranted about how this is a brewing problem. Only now am I seeing that women having rights is a big part of why we have Trump: Looking down on women was important to many.

2024-01-03 21:00:33

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@npub178r…qekt You probably don't donate free product design consulting by telling them why, either.

2023-12-29 18:48:13

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@npub19kr…8m4r My nearly 30-year old personal domain is a .org because it was predates personal domains being a thing, and if one reads the, um, fine print, describing what the original top level domains are for .org was the best (bad) fit.
It was also a nice TLD for my name.
(Did the Globe fix the story? Skimming I don't see the mention and their Android app won't let me search.)

2023-12-29 18:48:13

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2023-12-28 18:23:48

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@npub178r…qekt All true. But Adams did have something we mostly don't have anymore: a large format negative. I know size isn't the same as resolution, even if he used it that way. Do we now have as much resolution available as he did?

2023-12-20 17:59:50

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@npub1typ…c8hh I don't go out as much as I used to, that helps.

2023-11-27 20:02:37

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@npub1mmf…eknq I didn't see any link in your toot, just an assertion.

2023-11-27 16:45:42

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@npub1mmf…eknq Is this actually true…? Completely plausible, but any references? I can't repeat mere plausible from an account I don't know.
(I've see headlines, but after decades of following the news from that part of the world, I mostly don't have the energy to click on the stories…)

2023-11-19 15:29:25

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@npub178r…qekt Some of those send/receive frequencies are close together. It's an impressive duplexer or filtering that can keep them apart. I suppose a big oceanliner might put the two antennas on different ends of the ship, to shave off some of the first big heat-things-up transmit dBs from the received signal.
Wow. A lot of work, all part of helping civilians to this day not understand puch-to-talk.

2023-10-29 19:33:37

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@npub178r…qekt Except with SLRs, where resolution is limited by vibrations from the focal plane shutter detonating, I mean moving.
I swear, the highest resolution SLRs don't need an optical low-pass filter because there is no way to steady the camera enough, I know my Nikon D610 is hard to hold still. There always seems to be vibration low-pass filtering present, and it isn't that high resolution a sensor.
Unless I'm wrong.

2023-10-24 19:04:38

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@npub17sh…6e06 I have a phone or two that are 40-years old. Wired phones.
But my so-called "smartphone"? No way will get that far

2023-10-16 19:00:04

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@npub189n…satx It works for jury duty.

2023-10-15 17:59:55

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@npub1867…mfsf Why is it bigger in the middle? Artistic license, or something else I don't understand?

2023-10-13 05:06:18

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@npub1t9n…k9e7 If I take the SIM from my US T-Mobile phone, and put it in here, will my unlimited data plan (for the phone, but not for tethering) work? Will it look like my phone and be part of the unlimited data?

2023-10-07 19:58:39

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@npub1tps…9rmt I didn't say anything about "concentrates", I mentioned "inhaling concentrated smoke".
Your lifelong habit might have taken a greater toll than you know.

2023-10-07 19:36:16

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@npub1tps…9rmt Just because imprisoning some for pot was a bad idea doesn't mean widespread use is a good idea.
Let's check back in 15-years, say, and see how much health damage has become apparent.

2023-10-07 19:06:02

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@npub1tps…9rmt Very sad that public health agencies aren't on that list, aren't warning consumers.
There is NO way that inhaling concentrated smoke can be good for us and anyone who thinks it is…has been smoking something. There is a public health crisis brewing here, and no one cares.

2023-10-01 16:10:36

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Wait! He didn't write Charlotte's Web! That was written by…oh, "E. B." stands for "Elwyn Brooks"? I didn't know that.
Nevermind.

2023-09-16 03:38:20

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@npub17sh…6e06 Been a long time.

2023-09-15 16:12:06

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73 I recently went to the new Motion Picture Academy Museum in #LosAngeles with my 9yo goddaughter. I was disappointed there was no exhibit that demonstrated the illusion of the moving image. The closest was some static displays of early artifacts, behind glass.
(She was also critical of how good a museum of the movies it could be that we saw not a single mention of Charlie Chaplin.)
#AcademyMuseum

2023-09-12 15:46:29

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@npub18wj…lvmv I'm hoping to get an updated jab this week…

2023-08-30 04:27:10

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@npub17sh…6e06 I didn't know that development shifted to USA, but I knew the Brits we innovators with radar.
As for "device that won the war", I can see that might be so.

2023-08-29 04:23:05

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@npub17sh…6e06 You'll have to ask my mother, the wasn't a pushover, she would be the authority here. But she's dead.
So you are stuck with me then: I assert I was pretty little, and what ya gonna do 'bout it?

2023-08-20 20:09:10

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@npub1q4n…6fcd Buy neat stuff you don't need and won't use! That's what I did last I was there.

2023-08-20 20:01:33

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@npub17sh…6e06 Geezers can be annoying. I'm sorry.

2023-08-20 19:15:33

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm not even going to finish reading that screenshot. This is the kind of thing where the internet has long been good at spreading spurious nonsense, and now with LLM so-called "AI" bullshit out there it is only getting worse. I'm not going to go near it.
Besides, my need to know this very obscure "fun fact" is very limited.
#DoNotReadLLMOrOtherBullshitItPollutesTheMind

2023-08-19 05:31:26

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@npub1tvq…l6jk Why all those big buttons on the left? Isn't there a trackpad there? Does it work so poorly that the buttons need to be so big?

2023-08-18 16:06:17

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@npub17sh…6e06 Have you played with newish super white paints, that emit so much IR that painted surfaces, in full sun, will have temperatures below ambient?

2023-08-18 15:48:39

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@npub17sh…6e06 Also in charge of your state, alas.

2023-08-18 04:29:01

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@npub17sh…6e06 Aren't you in Texas? Isn't Texas officially of the opinion that global warming doesn't exist? Doesn't that lower the temperature?

2023-08-13 06:05:02

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@npub18yv…xxyn Doesn't work on the two Android devices that are handy to me.

2023-08-12 21:57:12

@npub17sh…6e06 Geezer: Speaking of the '70s, do remember a campaign from back then to pretend that "morse code" was actually called "International Radio and Telegraph Code"?

2023-08-12 18:42:28

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@npub17sh…6e06 Very impressive they can look into a proton like that. I remember when quarks were just an idea ("They can never be alone, we'll never see one."), and now physicists can see their positions? Like a good midwife poking at a belly? Wow.

2023-08-12 18:31:00

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@npub17sh…6e06 A couple years ago our goddaughter was on an annoying question kick. My trick for that is to try to actually answer the questions. On this day it was a "What is __ made of?"-pattern. I tricked her by usually having an answer (and being honest when I didn't). She would then take my answer and ask what *it* is made of. So I would answer again.
Etc.
My understanding of physics meant that I repeatedly came to a halt with "Quarks.", followed by "I don't know, I'm pretty sure no one does."

2023-08-12 06:13:44

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yes, in that radio is magic. But I don't like it, I want an explanation.

2023-08-11 23:24:43

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@npub17sh…6e06 Radical: I take it as evidence the "æther" exists. I think æther is the medium through which radio waves travel, further it is an antenna's interaction with this medium that makes an antenna work. (How? I don't know, but asking the question seems better than "it just does". Other transducers have "how", why not antennas?)
Just because the æther isn't made of regular matter doesn't mean it isn't there.
I also suspect it is why innertia.

2023-08-11 21:03:46

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm more amazed by particle-antiparticle pairs spontaneously coming into existence—in a complete vacuum!!
Only to annihilate each other a fraction of an instant later. (This part isn't so amazing, sure.)
Unless they are near the edge of a blackhole, in which case one might escape and the other gobbled up, thereby causing the blackhole to slightly evaporate because the extra particle must come from somewhere, so let's debit the blackhole, it won't lodge a complaint. (Amazing again.)

2023-08-11 20:15:21

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@npub1typ…c8hh If I know tons of off-beat stuff, and much of it is new to me…and if I mostly don't know what current memes and music stars are, does that mean I'm already plenty wild? Attention wise?
(The term is new to me.)

2023-08-11 20:15:21

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2023-08-11 05:55:09

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@npub17sh…6e06 Well "most" seems an exaggeration, but it is really wild to think that planets with no star to orbit are more numerous that are those with a star.
Or does it maybe just make sense? I'm not a cosmologist.

2023-08-06 19:32:42

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@npub1typ…c8hh That seems obvious. (What are the arguments against it?)

2023-07-22 18:49:55

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@npub17sh…6e06 Maverick!
You probably removed the tag from your mattress, too.

2023-07-19 16:50:26

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@npub1edc…0q44 You are just making it worse. I miss him less and less.

2023-07-19 16:40:08

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@npub1edc…0q44 I forgot about him and Sinema. Ugh.

2023-07-19 16:17:24

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@npub1edc…0q44 I don't know the details of his contract, but it is quite possible to be fully with ones rights, and still act stupidly. And he seems good at that.

2023-07-19 05:35:15

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@npub1m9m…78lk I also don't trust what Joe Manchin says, but I do trust he is better than the Gop-er who would replace him.
Don't fight for perfect, vote for what has a hope of saving our democracy. Keeping the Gop from power is a necessity.

2023-07-19 04:45:32

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@npub1edc…0q44 I used to like Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, but it seems he got too full of himself and got fired. I guess he had done it before, a rather full man.

2023-07-15 18:18:58

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@npub1ffz…a07m Raspberries are among the most wonderful things.

2023-07-14 04:21:27

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@npub17sh…6e06 I think I still have one. (I stole it from my oldest bother.)

2023-07-13 05:33:25

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1jv7…mncm SWR tells one a lot. Such as "I need some sort of matching here".

2023-07-13 00:32:27

@npub17sh…6e06 You xenophile, you. I see you boosting stuff, in ferin languages.

2023-07-12 04:00:28

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@npub17sh…6e06 Some roads don't change much, but Dallas has a lot of interstates not on that map.

2023-07-11 20:03:32

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@npub17sh…6e06 Brings back glorious memories of paper maps. And developing enough skill to use one. And the bits that can't be read because they are on the fold, and torn, and things like "I think that road intersects with the one we are on and not with US 67, which we just passed."

2023-07-10 16:28:14

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@npub178r…qekt I'm amazed at what a "4K" display can render, yet it is well short. I love gigantic range in resolution.
Once, a zillion years ago, I worked doing maintenance coding for 6" (?) mask making machines. I still regret that I didn't write myself an entire mask with a fractal pattern. It seemed like too much work at the time.
In retrospect, a pretty nasty project: computing bit patterns, on-the-fly, by requested coordinate, in Algol or RATFOR, in a pretty small Data General machine.

2023-07-10 06:20:02

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@npub1g7j…7unj Looks like nasty scabs on its back.

2023-07-03 00:20:04

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@npub17sh…6e06 I don't think I've heard that in a half-century. Very odd number. And more topical to efforts from my last few days than you likely guessed.

2023-07-01 03:56:53

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@npub17sh…6e06 Trying to scare the children.

2023-06-28 04:58:05

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@npub17nk…6qq2 @npub1j43…jvze The problem with walkie talkies and ham radio is "we": ya gotta get the folks you want to talk with to get licenses, too.

2023-06-25 16:34:23

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@npub1x5q…sysk @npub1j0s…xp04 @npub10xg…h39u They fly over the water, because they are very good gulls.

2023-06-25 04:08:04

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@npub17sh…6e06 Do you know the old Waylon and Willie song "Old Age and Treachery (Always Overcomes Youth and Skill)"?
I hum it frequently.

2023-06-25 03:24:09

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@npub17sh…6e06 @npub1507…e4gg A few months ago I got in trouble using that word. A whippersnapper didn't know what it meant, looked it up, and was offended.

2023-06-25 03:22:52

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@npub17sh…6e06 You are older than am I.

2023-06-20 05:18:29

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm behind in my toots. Seems you are getting better. (And my goddaughter will be all the more impressed now; she likes vertebrates, too.}

2023-06-14 05:48:01

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@npub1ace…nh8a I am annoyed with #Tusky Android app, when I start to type a camel-case hashtag it offers up only all lowercase versions, begging to have me select their bad autocorrection. Ducking bad UI choice.

2023-06-04 17:41:40

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@npub19qm…sn8k Does Twitter drive clicks so badly that the only advertising that makes sense there is brand advertising?

2023-06-02 19:19:12

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@npub178r…qekt The headlines I saw made so little sense I didn't bother clicking.
(I thought Vice was no more? Was that just their TV operation? Am I thinking of something complete different?)

2023-05-16 21:52:11

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@npub178r…qekt Makes me all curious about that freight line.

2023-04-03 21:07:40

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