🎶 MODULAR SYNTH NIGHT! 🎶
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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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.
Oops...
What the hell is going on with the second story in this book?
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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 😔
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 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...
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. 🙁
@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.)
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@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.
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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.
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/1146578…
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 😊
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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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Just found doilies at the local No Frills™.
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 officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s 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 “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”
Say that first.
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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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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: ಠ_ಠ
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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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?
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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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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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 😁
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 🙁
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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 it’s 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
“that’s poisonous” or
“danger that way,” they meant it!
Not to oversimplify, but I really get why we’re struggling as a species with misinformation.
EVERYONE NEEDS ACCOMMODATIONS TO HANDLE MODERN LIFE
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@BoydStephenSmithJr even so, there’s (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, stressed… that critical thinking mechanism may not have time or energy to function well.
It’s easy for me as someone with enormous capacity for data & internal processing to forget it’s 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: “I don’t care ultimately if you know if Attila the Hun invaded Europe in 952 AD, as long as you’re able to exercise critical thinking skills.” That’s her number one goal.
I hope there’s thousands more like her.
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Capitalism didn't give us the internet.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
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The Internet was created by large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software. Capitalists stole that, called it The World Wide Web, and pretended they created it. The rest of us were on newsgroups, bulletin boards, and mailing lists, and never heard of Hypercard.
@cy I never had those. I was just making a point of the tech that led to the modern Web, browsers, and its advancements - it wasn't all work done by non-profits. There were corporations involved, and that work led to other innovation in the Internet industry.
I used Archie on UNIX to access content on the Internet before Mosaic existed. I don't think I participated in any online news / user groups at the time.
I believe capitalism can be positive if used properly, like a mom & pop restaurant.
Depends what you call "innovation." I certainly agree that we all got stuck using SSL because of capitalism. Mom & Pop Restaurants aren't capitalist though. They just own* a building and sell food.
* more likely they lease a building from a capitalist
I'm pretty sure capital is about owning people more than machines. You loan people money to buy a bunch of machines, and that money you loaned is capital. Investment capital, to be specific. Capital = leverage. It is true that capitalists use their leverage to control the means of production, but it's possible to control it without capitalism. i.e. NASA.
That's what I'm going on. I could very well be completely wrong.
Look into Tim Berners-Lee sometime. He did work at CERN when he proposed HTML and such. He's huge on microtransactions, getting people to pay for stuff over the net. Initially HTML was supposed to charge you for every link you followed, until someone pointed out that was utterly barking mad.
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Encountered my first mask ban in Canada. I had hoped we were smarter than this, but I suppose I'm not surprised. I guess they value their bottom line over public health, but it's a vape store, so I suppose that tracks.
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Edit 2: It has been pointed out to me that there is an exemption for medical masks in the tiniest font imaginable at the bottom of the sign... almost as though they don't want you to read it.
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Little by little I've been going more and more analog. I still track every little thing I need to do in my #OrgMode system to help manage my #ADHD, but that list itself can get a little overwhelming. I've started combing over it in the morning, picking out the most critical things for that day and writing them down on a paper checklist in a small notebook I keep in my pocket. The notebook has the advantage of not distracting me with a thousand notifications every time I'm trying to do something productive.
Plus, I just really like having an excuse to put a nice #FountainPen and ink to paper.
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Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).
Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. 🤬
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@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).
Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).
Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.
🎹 Need some LIVE MUSIC in your life? 🎵
Come to CONTROL VOLTAGE the last Wednesday of every month for live electronic music!
Takes place at the Shakedown Street Tavern in Benson, Omaha, at 8pm!!
#omaha, #livemusic, #synth, #music, #wednesday
Takes place at the Shakedown Street Tavern
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •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.