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Lee Hauser
@lhauser@mefi.social
hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Retired techno geek. Reader of books. Science fiction writer, of a sort.
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Joined February 09, 2023
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@georgepenney@sunny.garden Point of curiosity: Is "market day" in your town a particular day (or days) of the week, or the day or days *you* go to market?
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social First of all, this is good stuff (I have yet to read the encyclical). But I'm unhappy all the people who are putting Leo down for not instantly fixing all the wrongs the church has done over the centuries. I think that's exactly what he's saying in his Tolkien quote: do what good you can in the time you are here.
This seems like an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
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@jeantranscene@mastodon.social @loriemerson@post.lurk.org I suppose it depends on what you mean by "a tool." No one refuses to use Microsoft Windows or Office 365 when those are the tools mandated by an employer. Employers forces employees to use tools all the time, and always have.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social And a retired friend wonders why I will never ever take a cruise.
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@_elena@mastodon.social I'm on a 31 day streak at the moment...KOReader on a Kobo Clara BW. Such good software. I've been out from under Kindle for almost three years.
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@redsad@ohai.social My wife of 44 years loves Eeyore, too. And Oscar The Grouch. And Grumpy Bear. Really, she’s a fun person to be around! I swear!
My previous post might have had a bad link...
My Books of April review roundup is up at The Recliner. I look at Leoni Swann's Three Bags Full, Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, and Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Well, I just tooted a link to my review of an ancient home computer book written by Frank Herbert, which has received more engagement than anything else I've written here (as far as I remember).
I did a few minor edits on Wikipedia a decade or more ago. And added a trivia item to a movie on IMDb, but I don't remember what movie it was.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social When they put Excel into the Nintendo DS I got each member of my family one for Christmas. This is not remembered as a very fun Christmas.
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@scruss@xoxo.zone @stonetoolsblog@mastodon.social I had a Z88, many years ago. PipeDream was great on it.
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@elena@aseachange.com I read in KOReader on my Kobo. I tried SimpleUI and ZenUI, but they slow things down too much (which seems to be only a me problem...don't understand it). Trying to get sync with Readest set up so I can hop between Kobo/iPad/iPhone when I want to.
Currently in the middle of Ada Palmer's "Inventing The Renaissance" which is a hoot and eye-opening at the same time.
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@ramsey @devxvda @jalefkowit At least graham crackers are actually yummy. (Corn flakes aren't that bad, really. But they get soggy fast.)
Gah. I'm on Medium, which I'm generally pretty happy with, and I follow the Mac O'Clock publication, which is full of "Thirty Ways To Use Your Apple Polishing Cloth" -type articles, which are occasionally useful.
But today this guy has a headline that says "25 Hidden Apple Features You've Been Missing For Years."
I click. The first five features are okay...one of them is new to me.
The next twenty features... which the author says don't need screenshots, they just take a sentence or two each... are in a Gumroad "book" that will cost me $7US.
I wrote a comment, telling him I didn't appreciate a headline promising one thing, then leading to a $7 Gumroad booklet.
Then I muted him. Good riddance.
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@Petesmom@kolektiva.social @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @loriemerson@post.lurk.org And the Pope isn't forbidding Catholics to work with AI...
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social My family all agree that this is a terrible joke. Which is high praise.
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@julbriman@piaille.fr @MissConstrue@mefi.social Sam is human...hobbit, yes, but human as well. None of us is perfect, and our mistakes don't make us bad.
@tg@indieweb.social What's the best way to get some Current questions answered? Just send you a message like this?
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social So true. All the DINK people I know (or retireds) do two or three cruises a year. I'm freshly retired as well, and could probably afford one, but I also get seasick pretty easily.
The Viking longship cruises in Europe look like LOADS of fun...but you'd also have to drug me to get me on a plane to Europe (terminal claustrophobia). So it's just "no" all over, I guess.
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@MissConstrue I have (sorry, had) Chrome on my Mac until about five minutes ago. I use it rarely, and hadn't fired it up for a few weeks. Now it won't ever have the opportunity. Time to get Chromium for those rare times Safari or Firefox won't do the job, I guess.
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@mcmartin Oh, this is very exciting, since I'm now retired and am toying with the idea of learning 6502 machine language on the Apple II. I use Virtual ][ on the Mac for emulation. It allows me to do Z80 and CP/M as well, which is what first drew me to Apple II emulation; I was a Commodore 64 guy back in the day.
My Books of April review roundup is up at The Recliner. I look at Three Bags Full, Five Little Pigs, and Black River Orchard.
https://the-recliner.ghost.io/ghost/#/posts/analytics/69f7bd8b3c8ac10001364469
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@catsalad So does the vacuum now add the cat to its internal map of the room? Will it avoid this spot in the future?
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@maxleibman Ever since my wife got her's a few days ago, I've wanted to get my hands on it, set up a second account, put a few of my apps on it, make it a backup system (because, y'know, it was MY iPad that got traded in for it...)
I have resisted. So far.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Been watching a lot of old Time Team episodes lately. It’s amazing how once-significant things just disappear. Nature heals itself, given the chance.
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@redsad@ohai.social I understand and applaud her efforts but...well, she's obviously not claustrophobic, so I'm just gonna acknowledge what she'd done and move on to where I can breathe again.
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@fmobus @GossiTheDog It would be interesting to see how security was set up at other WHCDs. I think they're held at the same venue every year. It's easy to think your security is good if it's never been tested before.
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@Catvalente It's always struck me as funny that to us you're Cat Valente, but to your neighbors you're a semi-anonymous resident of their neighborhood.
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk My former employer was working on moving from Gitlab when I retired at the end of last year. Good on them...except they're big Microsoft customers, so they're moving to Github.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange . Yeah, lots in the Seattle area. We have some nesting just a few miles away, we see them several times each summer. They’ve made an impressive comeback.
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@amerpie@social.lol @pronoiac@mefi.social We've obviously been doing crosswords wrong this whole time. Don't let Will Shortz know, or Big Crossword will be all over you.
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@jeantranscene@mastodon.social @loriemerson@post.lurk.org I retired recently, and my employer was just starting to look...very cautiously, I'm happy to say...to look at Microsoft AI. They had some very closely controlled experimentation going on. I have no idea right now how that's going, but I like to think they're continuing to be careful.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange But I've always wondered, why is it THE Hague? What is a Hague?
I published a story about my preferences in King Kong movies over on Medium last week. Now it's on my blog as well. (Spoiler: Peter Jackson's is the best).
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk Leave out the word "prompting" in that final line and you have it.
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social @mcc@mastodon.social Partners who like to sleep would a word...