Britain has an Independence Day?? From whom? God??
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I laid down "for a quick nap" this afternoon. Just woke up. It's almost midnight.
I guess the sleep deprevation of the past week has finally caught up with me.
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Our cat has had this little stuffed burrito toy since the day we picked him up from the shelter. He's never given a damn about it. Now suddenly it's his favorite toy. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
My favourite #ADHD quirk: forgetting what I was saying as I'm in the middle of saying it.
Just heard a kid address his group of friends he was physically seated with as "chat". Is this a thing?
Maybe I'm just old.
The question for me is whether referring to people IRL is still irony, or has it simply become part of the lexicon.
Who's the maniac that decided that radishes were edible? I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.
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Join us for this month's Modular Night and synth jam at the Shakedown in Benson!
June 25th, 8pm.
Bring some modules and join in the fun! We do this on the last Wednesday of EVERY month.
2735 N. 62 St, downtown Benson, Omaha.
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Been playing around with the riticulum network. It's interesting but sideband kills the shit out of my phone's battery.
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In case anyone here is also using Reticulum, I can be reached at: lxmf@32f62870f2d7c418b59f1c5f9f1617e2
Don't know yet if it's something I'll use long-term, but it is at least interesting to play with for now.
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Just made it to the third story. It actually made me double check what year this book was published. It shockingly parallels some recent events.
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For reasons I shan't get into, Katy had to adjust her diet for 24 hours, and I decided to do likewise so as to not make the experience any more unpleasant for her than it had to be. After reading the label, I have come to the conclusion that Ensure meal replacement shakes are not designed with diabetics in mind. They have about 75% of the sugar content of a can of Coke.
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What the hell is going on with the second story in this book?
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@Jonathan Lamothe Okay, I think I'm starting to understand why he's made the particular narrative choices he has. It's just such a departure from the style of writing I'm accustomed to from him is all.
@Jonathan Lamothe It's also not lost on me that he's very much giving the middle finger to copyright law on works that should've had their copyrights expired long ago. That feels very Cory Doctorow to me.
Roommate just moved out, now I "have an office" for the show in an hour - @vnikolov on introducing activateable and deactivateable type checking to common lisp through a macro package (I think!)
anonradio.net/ #lispyGopherClimate
Also maybe @shizamura (?)
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If I didn't have work in the morning I'd stay with y'all too but alas ๐
the pass along thing is that i have a comic
meanwhile maybe on thursday or friday I can get record something about semantics that you can use later
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> 90 minutes sorry!
Wait a minute, why *are* you confused? I get confused because I *do* have daylight savings here in California, but since you set your show to 00:00 GMT come hell, high water, or daylight savings, I was assuming you *didn't* have daylight savings there in New Zealand.
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well at least *you* are going to be there. I'll just read things you say in lambdaMOO out for Vassil to respond to live.
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well at least *you* are going to be there. I'll just read things you say in lambdaMOO out for Vassil to respond to live.
@shizamura @vnikolov
@dougmerritt
Well particularly @shizamura and I desyncronized. It's more that I know and care about each of you individually, so if one person ends up at the wrong time, it's a show-shaking disaster.
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> using GMT.... when lisbon time is right there
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Yes, Prince Enrique was there first.
(Name spelling from memory.)
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> the history of GMT
I think that in four words it is "Britannia, rule the waves", so "zulu time" is an apt name in my not so humble opinion...
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Show subtopic! Lots of the superdimensional fortress like radios and history
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Show subtopic! Lots of the superdimensional fortress like radios and history
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History of time, with respect to radios and time zones? Maybe a bit of a big subtopic
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History of time, with respect to radios and time zones? Maybe a bit of a big subtopic
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I don't use SDF.
I think I might have gotten a paid lifetime account when they were new, although I may be confusing them with someone else, but whoever it was, I lost my pasword. ๐
@dougmerritt
An improvised "elevator pitch".
In the long history of GMT and UTC, a significant reason why longitude 0 (and hence time zone offset 0) is at Greenwich is British global dominance in seafaring in the past.
However, _long_ before that, and even before the Spanish, the Portuguese started ocean exploration.
Prince Enrique the Seafarer (didn't become king) led that in the 14th century.
(I think there is a monument to him in Lisbon.)
(Continued.)
@dougmerritt
One of the most prominent seafarers that came out of Prince Enrique's efforts was Vasco da Gama who found a route to India via the Cape of Good Hope after a century of exploration of the west coast of Africa (about the same time as Columbus sailed to America).
Magellan was Portuguese.
By the way, the Portuguese sailed very near to South America, but didn't discover it.
(They found favorable winds and currents in the West Atlantic for their return voyages.)
> introducing activateable and deactivateable type checking to common lisp through a macro package
Much more modest than that.
***
You remind me of:
"Freddie Mercury:
vocals, vocals, Bechstein debauchery and more vocals"
Exactly fifty years ago.
May he rest in peace!
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Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.
news.elenarossini.com/fediversโฆ
#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology
๐บ Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with itElena Rossini
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So funny! This morning I already had shared the post and later on I saw my own avatar poping up in the video 
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Very sweet indeed @_elena 
and very well done!
At the hospital again for nearly two hours. Still waiting to see the one after-hours doctor they have on staff...
It's going to be a long night. I can already tell.
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needing basic healthcare in the US
While my neti pot is really good at clearing my sinuses, it has an unfortunate side-effect. I'll end up with a small amount of water trapped in my sinuses which will randomly drain at some unpredictable point when I happen to tilt my head at just the right (or wrong?) angle.
I've been playing around with #OpenWeatherMap's air quality API. Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement between its report and Environment Canada's. The former says "Good" and the latter says "Moderate Risk". Granted, they use different scales, but that still seems a rather significant discrepancy.
Time to go inside for some fresh air.
...weird that that's now the world that we live in.
UPDATE 2: We're carefully back online again, with a few exceptions:
mapstodon.space/@lokjo/1146578โฆ
Can we have a lill boost please? The fediverse is the only place we're on.
We're a replacement for googlemaps.
European, non-commercial, pro-local.
Thanks for sharing ๐
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@Lokjo - a European online map Do you draw from OSM, or is this a ground-up implementation?
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I don't need an air quality report to tell me things are bad right now. I can see haziness in the air when looking at things that are less than a block away.
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ProxyCaller: Phone Call Support
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network has created yet another fantastic resource for anyone who needs it: Proxy Caller Project. What is it? It is a resource to help those who have a difficult time making phone calls. Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio on Pexels.com Many disabled people struggle with phone calls due to communication differences, difficulty with mouth speech, anxiety, or any number of other issues that interfere.
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ProxyCaller: Phone Call Support
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network has created yet another fantastic resource for anyone who needs it: Proxy Caller Project. What is it? It is a resource to help those who have a difficult time makโฆResiliency Mental Health
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This sounds like something we ought to put together that covers the general need, like you first thought. I do a lot of calling for my circle.
@MiriShuli I'd love if they can expand it, though I am going to see if something general already exists
Just found doilies at the local No Frillsโข.
I'm not going to tell them what to stock, but I feel I should point out that this is the literal definition of a frill.
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Kitchener Public Library has discontinued their 3D printer program, but Waterloo Public Library hasn't.
In other news, I now have a custom phone holder for the car.
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I'm getting old. Every time I get up from sitting today, my back screams at me.
I am flatly uninterested in letting an LLM execute arbitrary code as my user account on my laptop and maybe even sudo to root are you people fucking nuts
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Iโm officially done with takes on AI beginning โEthical concerns asideโฆโ.
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Letโs get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.
It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.
What you mean is โI donโt want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.โ
Say that first.
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A small one of the myriad reasons I care is personal: every time you use spicy autocomplete to do any coding, it has been trained on source code that I have made available under specific licenses, and your use of my code does not happen under the terms of these licenses. So youโre stealing from me and my friends and thatโs not a great start to the conversation of validating your greed โ๏ธ
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> If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file
TIL my local grocer uses network connected e-ink displays for price tags. I just watched all the prices in a whole aisle change before my eyes.
That was... creepy.
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A thing that's always bothered me about Star Trek:
They always talk about the Alpha quadrant, Delta quadrant, etc. Space is three-dimensional. Shouldn't they be octants?
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They are only talking about our galaxy, the Milky Way. It's more like a disc than a sphere. So I find the quadrant nomenclature satisfactory.
Went to the emergency room today (everyone's fine) to discover that the two main hospitals in town have merged.
Me: Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this are going to be.
First words out of the doctor's mouth when he sees us: Are you okay with us using AI to record and transcribe this conversation?
Me: เฒ _เฒ
loooll
"ok yeah send my private medical info to a foreign corporation, go ahead"
/s
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So, I've recently learned that solo RPGs... exist.
This is going to be bad for my bank account.
I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.
I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.
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Setting up a #Windows machine for the first time in forever. I've been out of the game for a while. What, if any, antivirus is decent these days?
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@Jonathan Lamothe when I did use microsoft I just used the microsoft virus checker. But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software. So, the only way to stop the viruses is to stop using Microsoft. That is the only real solution.
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But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software.
Can you... elaborate on that one?
@Jonathan Lamothe I have used several operating systems such as Linux, which had no problem stopping viruses on the same machines as Microsoft. If they could do it, Microsoft could easily have stopped viruses. We might have accepted a transitory issue when viruses first appeared, but not a continued issue that continue despite many updates. The truth is Microsoft did very well from all the viruses, because they were used to deter people from trying non "official" microsoft software. That put Microsoft in a very dominant position and that is what made it so much money from some of the crappiest software on the planet.
Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.
I guess it's gonna be one of those days...
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@A Fine Day For Mischief ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ Sadly, I already cleaned it. Luckily, I had a protective mat on the desk. I could show you my inky hands, bit that's just an everyday occurrence around here.
I love marketing.
"We're committed to reduce our carbon footprint by shipping directly from the manufacturer to the consumer."
Sooo... drop shipping then? That's one way to spin it, I guess.
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I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.
Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.
This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.
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Nothing like getting all cozy and bundled up in a hammock with a book only to realize you've forgotten your glasses.
A slightly weird request: maybe someone among my mutuals is interested in staying at our place in South Wales for a few days to help us organise a hobbyist lab space at home? Vegetarian foods are on me, other than that, we can discuss ๐
An opportunity to touch many vintage computers, try some simple scientific experiments, and maybe design a PCB or two.
You'd think it's easy to find someone who would be happy to help, especially if you offer people money, but no ๐
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The human brain did not evolve to handle a massive amount of misinformation.
It evolved to more or less believe what itโs told, because the community/tribe is focused on the survival of all together.
Social tools let it know who was the most trustworthy.
But overall if someone said
โthatโs poisonousโ or
โdanger that way,โ they meant it!
Not to oversimplify, but I really get why weโre struggling as a species with misinformation.
EVERYONE NEEDS ACCOMMODATIONS TO HANDLE MODERN LIFE
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Critical thinking is a skill you can't outsource, and it used to be taught in public schools.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr even so, thereโs (some, needs replicating iirc) evidence that the human brain immediately accepts/believes everything it hears, and THEN begins a process of critical thinking.
So for people who are busy, overwhelmed, distracted, stressedโฆ that critical thinking mechanism may not have time or energy to function well.
Itโs easy for me as someone with enormous capacity for data & internal processing to forget itโs really not easy!
I didn't mean to claim it was easy, or to really put any blame on someone that fails to think critically. It is an acquired skill, and yes, there is evidence that it runs counter to our instinct / reflexive behaviors.
I just wanted to emphasize that (a) you can't depend on Google, AI, your Bubble, or _anything_ external to do it for you, and (b) we *should* try to skill people up on it as a public good like society did at some points in the past.
It's especially important when you are spreading information to try to think critically about it first, because some of your audience/followers/community might not be in the best condition to engage their own critical thinking skills.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr Admittedly, not a given these days, but my daughter, who teaches 7th grade history, says this: โI donโt care ultimately if you know if Attila the Hun invaded Europe in 952 AD, as long as youโre able to exercise critical thinking skills.โ Thatโs her number one goal.
I hope thereโs thousands more like her.
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