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Mark Crocker
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@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io @rsabourin@pdx.social @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I own one of these Curta Calculators. The same model. I drag it out from time to time, when I need to do simple calculations.
The square root algorithm is enough of a PITA that I only used it once after learning it.
I'm planning to buy a sailboat soon. Now, I have a Canadian ensign to fly on her.
I'm delighted that #Memphis has the [Flag Center](https://www.flagcenter.com/) so I can buy domestically manufactured flags locally 👍 ... with cash 😋
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@cwebber@social.coop Good blog post.
It does feel like the fatigue of the long battle has given the attackers an edge.
Also, I'm surprised that you mention the ACLU, but not the EFF. Was there a reason for that?
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I'm going to get to keep with it, learn how cruising differs from my past experience and see it I can make some portion of the dream work 🤞
... or, more likely, spend a lot of money and time maintaining a boat I won't be able to use for my intended purpose... just like everybody else who owns a boat 😉⛵
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@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io @rsabourin@pdx.social @RuiSeabra@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Yeah, all calculations on the #CurtaCalculator https://www.vcalc.net/ are reversible.
It actually uses the nines complement method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_complements to do subtraction. Sort of like deliberately rolling over an odometer.
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@juliaro@mastodon.art @tarakiyee@mastodon.online @FOSSBackstage@floss.social Interesting using "Visual notes" in the alt-text rather than the commercial name of "Sketchnoting" https://rohdesign.com/sketchnotes Even the Wikipedia Sketchnoting page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchnoting calls out "visual notetaking" as an alternative name.
#VisualNotes #VisualNoteTaking #SketchNoting
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@ogghi @Razemix @hyacinthestripeyeen @jbz Nope. The F-droid home page https://f-droid.org/ features this banner:
F-Droid is under threat. Google is changing the way you install apps on your device. We need your help. https://keepandroidopen.org/
An object lesson in how dissimilar metals behave in salt water. The current owner of the boat had this steel rudder downhaul cable repaired with an aluminum nicropress fitting just a few months ago. When we hauled it out for a survey inspection, it had completely dissolved! 😮
The owner had to scramble to find a rigger, who installed the correct zinc-coated brass nicropress fitting (pictured), and had to pay for an extra hour of travel lift time. 🤷♂️
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@mattferrell@mastodon.social Love the quote:
not taking about today's Internet, which is just five billionaires in a trenchcoat
🤣
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@rmogull@defcon.social you can also follow tags then see whose posts are most interesting and follow them directly.
See: How to discover hashtags to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse https://fedi.tips/fun-and-useful-hashtags-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-wider-fediverse/
@tsyesika@mastodon.nu The description of you talk is awesome!
I must admit that I've been following @cwebber@social.coop for a while, but still didn't grok what Spritely was trying to do. Your talk precis finally made it click... I knew it must've been cool, just not how cool 😎
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@arx@tech.lgbt @iode@mastodon.online yeah many places, like pharmacies, have prohibitive process unless you have a loyalty card... sorry those have been phased out. No more anonymous barcodes, they want a cell-phone number and other Personally Identifiable information before you get reasonable prices. Don't forget to always go for the deals, or they'll assume brand loyalty, and never offer you sale prices again!
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@charlesroper@indieweb.social @dirkhh@hachyderm.io @epixoip@infosec.exchange @joe@appdot.net excellent point. As much fun as geeky, hobbyist, do it yourself solutions are, they aren't practical for most people with busy, complicated lives.
So, when asked, I explain what I use, then say I've never used it, but #BitWarden seems to be the way to go for most folks.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt mandatory #XKCD reference, Lisp cycles https://xkcd.com/297/ "elegant weapons for a... more civilized age" 🤣
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@dirkhh@hachyderm.io @charlesroper@indieweb.social @epixoip@infosec.exchange @joe@appdot.net I have a #SyncThing #Docker container running under #OpenMediaVault on a #RaspberryPi to keep my #KeePassXC data updated with any changes I make with #KeePassDX on one of my mobile devices. Of course, I also have an off site, offline backup too, but that's just a thumb drive.
I know it sounds like a lot, but this way I don't have to use some untrusted, closed source, proprietary, third party to host my data.
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@ACM@mastodon.acm.org welcome! I used to be a member back in the day and still read the occasional public article.
I'm sure you're busy seeing things up and were planning to get to it, but just in case... the Mastodon link in the https://www.acm.org/ page footers still point to @TheOfficialACM@noc.social . Yes, that site _does_ indicate the account has moved, so a diligent user can, with some persistence, verify the authenticity of this account. So you might want to update that link,
Cc: @mstine@mastodon.sdf.org
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@davew@mastodon.social @mike@flipboard.social @frankel has a post about having a centralized identity https://mastodon.top/@frankel/109536112569494668 that I think implements something like what you're talking about. It does require hosting a site, or some page you have control over, but only needs a single static page.
It would also, probably, be good to include a human readable index page with your rel="me" link (see https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/ ) to bolster you identity claim going the other way.
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@left_adjoint@kolektiva.social @jetton@mastodon.online I would have thought you would sacrifice a Tofurkey 😂🦃
I discovered that my 30 year old foul weather gear no longer keeps the rain out during a torrential downpour while having a potential boat purchase surveyed today 🙁☔⛵.
We kept finding little bits of old curled up tape, and were wondering what duct tape nightmare the surveyor might discover, but it turned out to be old seam sealing tape that was crumbling off my jacket 🤦♂️
So, it was a relief to discover it wasn't some horrible, hidden, problem with the boat.
I'm sure if happens all the time, but it's a first for me to be awakened by the mooring pendant bumping against the hull. It's so calm out there that all the boats in the mooring field are pointed in different directions. I went up on deck and found that the mooring ball is floating between the main hull and the starboard ama, under the net. It's fine, but a little unnerving. 🫤
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@ACM@mastodon.acm.org @mstine@mastodon.sdf.org Thanks for updating that Mastodon footer link.💖
I look forward to spring a green checkmark on your profile in the future.
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@hetoug@fosstodon.org @nixCraft@mastodon.social I had a chance to buy one of those cheap in the mid 1980's. What stopped me was the requirement for 240V 3-phase power.
I did buy an old disk wheel printer, that I got working with an assembly program to track the notches on the optical disc sensor and drive the solenoids for the lead screw and hammer, but never got it reliable enough to print more than a sentence or two before an off-by-one count would mess it up. So I doubt I could have gotten the disk to work either.
Just standing on my diesel engine.
Digital sovereignty: the french government accelerates the reduction of its extra-European dependencies (#GAFAMdetox) - Links - #NixOS Discourse
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/digital-sovereignty-the-french-government-accelerates-the-reduction-of-its-extra-european-dependencies-gafamdetox/77071
Very cool. 😎
There is also a mention that this uses #Lix by default.
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@infobeautiful@vis.social technically lawful good, but the left two monitors are connected to one (closed lid) laptop via a docking station and the right monitor it's connected to both another laptop (closed) DP, *and* a tower PC HDMI and uses a combination of screen lock and auto detect to switch between them. So Lawful Good 😇, but secretly Chaotic Evil 😈
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@matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it That's awesome. Even on zoom it is very difficult to see the acrylic. Nicely done.
Ideas? Do it as a tensegrity sculpture 🤪
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@cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza @cwebber@social.coop
Do you mean this?
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it
If so, I hadn't seen this one before. Thanks for pointing out out.
Looking for some temporary letters for my boat name. Maybe these will work?
The Coast Guard cool with bedazzling right?
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Even after years of learning to manage my migraines and a good rescue medication, cruising will be a problem.
I realized from the start that I wouldn't be able to single-hand cruise, but thought that if I could find crew, that cruising up the coast to visit family in the summers and winter in Savannah would work.
Unfortunately this delivery voyage from St. Thomas has made it clear that sleep deprivation and stress can undo all my migraine progress in mere days.
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@o76923 @hankgreen @gretathunberg@mastodon.nu @gretathunberg@botsin.space since you're a #SciFi author yourself (I'm on chapter four of https://books.mxhdr.net/book/44309/s/an-absolutely-remarkable-thing ), perhaps you might take inspiration from @pluralistic 's book #WalkAway https://books.mxhdr.net/user/mcrocker/comment/6775 which others, who _have_ read it, have posted that it helped them decide to walk away from Twitter themselves (sorry can't find the original post 🤷♂️)
