@tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@tinker@infosec.exchange "paying a fine is often cheaper than paying a fee, especially in aggregate" I read this earlier and it made so much sense. As I kept scrolling, I find a ProPublica story about Purdue avoiding paying a settlement to half of the opioid victims.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@infobeautiful I vaguely recall knowing both the French way and the decimal way during Welsh lessons at school, so the 90+2 for the UK hides a bit of nuance. edit - although clicking through the link, I guess it's only considering English for the UK.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Wait, the cloud wasn't cheaper and probably led to vendor lock-in. And AI isn't cheaper, and presumably would like some lock-in. Huh.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@alice@lgbtqia.space The map on this site is excellent! Our city got rid of them (well, supposedly cancelled the contract - who knows if we actually got rid of the hardware), but I see the local mall and hardware retail store has them setup at all entrances and exits. I thought I had seem some there, but didn't know there were so many. It should be legal to blast IR or do something that doesn't visually affect the plate but obstructs these damn cameras.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mattblaze It's weird how people don't get this.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mattblaze Fascinating, didn't know any of that. Do you know if it is an approach specific to NYC, or something large cities tend to adopt?

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@stefan I had about 20 minutes in between ferrying kiddos around yesterday, so I popped in to my library for the first time in years. I somehow got to this age without having been in a library on my own before, nor without any real purpose, so felt a bit self-conscious. Anyway, I decided to have a good browse of the audio books (CDs) and films (DVDs). Absolutely bonkers how many they have. I know it's terribly convenient to just pull something up on Libby, but I know that probably costs the library licensing or something, so am going to make an effort to fetch CDs instead. Added advantage of CDs just playing in my car, whereas Android Auto is prone to crashing. Weirdly, it was pretty overwhelming and I didn't get anything this time. I think I need to browse their online catalogue online first, scope out a few authors I know I want to listen to. edit - forgot to say, there were some older folk there enjoying a coffee/tea or something and lazily catching up on some newspaper. What a peaceful way to spend a Saturday morning.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bagder "I'm hearing low priority, but keep a fix on the backlog"

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@catsalad I was too busy singing the theme tune in my head to get the joke. Took me a few seconds.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@rolle@mementomori.social Yup. It's perfectly fine that your little, specialist corner of the internet is a forum with a couple of hundred users. They appreciate it, and it's perfectly sustainable (big tech scraping it heavily, notwithstanding).

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

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@Michigander@toad.social Photos you can hear.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

My fellow members of #Hachyderm *, we need a few more folks playing @Fedle@fedle.fedilab.app to allow the instance to show on the score board!

It's fun. And tricky. English and French versions available!

* Hachyderms? Hachydermiums?

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mtechman@mastodon.ie Somehow, I'd never heard of most of those! Which caused me to end up on my local library's website and discover that they have a whole bunch of other stuff I was unaware of. Thanks for the nudge!

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza @PierricD@mastodon.green wait, does it actually need to be on wifi? When I applied the jailbreak to my Kindle 3 keyboard it was in airplane mode and, while it *seemed* to work and applied the new firmware, it definitely didn't enable what it should have.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Betteridge's Law of headlines still undefeated.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@MarkHoltom Most of the incompetent elites were assassinated, and government was disbanded. Just to flesh out the story a bit.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

#Fedle #37 3/6

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

#Fedle #33 4/6

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https://fedle.fedilab.app/share/902

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Gina @fdroidorg This is fantastic news! I don't know how this Android thing will play out, but I know you'll be a fierce advocate for F-Droid and everyone's rights.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bruces I haven't read Windows Central for a long time (years, at this point) as I was struggling a bit with the unabashed enthusiasm for the company. That the article lays into Xbox, Windows, and Github, and the whole direction of the company, was quite interesting.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@LiquorVicar @infobeautiful Upon further reading, just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating my schooling, it seems there are officially two methods.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jef I didn't understand this film until I moved to the Midwest.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@ChrisCorrigan @stefan @kentuckyalumni I was just worried that libraries were being cornered into rent-seeking services. I thought I had read Overdrive was problematic, for example. But this was a handy bump, I had forgotten to reach out. Thanks!

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Easy for me to say in retrospect, but I had a weird vibe from MeshCore (not AI related, the older vibe). It was enough for me to lose interest and stop following the tag. This feels like a positive change though, and a sensible position for the team to adopt. Now I'm looking forward to getting back into this - there's a big gap on the map where I'm located.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@skinnylatte My home, hope you're having fun and the weather is treating you well! I don't get back as often as I'd like. The welcome sign as you cross the border from England on the M4 still makes me choke up a bit.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart Wondered what this was about because I muted them after the Nazi sponsorship. Disappointed to see the number of likes/boosts on their posts today, looking them up.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Difficult!

#Fedle #15 5/6

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft This briefly stressed me out, and I considered who I'd talk to internally about sensitive requirements in these products. But you know what? Some bean counter decided we needed data in the cloud and I'm just sick of worrying about other people's decisions. Some deal with all the company info we're probably thoughtlessly putting into AI each day. So, come what may. Sod it.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kentuckyalumni @stefan Oh that's a great point, thanks! I'll reach out to them to find out.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cwebber (use of Grabthar's Hammer to achieve this is strongly encouraged)

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social "Project Lobster". Absolute, proper belly laugh.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Learning a new word every day, at this rate.

#Fedle #17 4/6

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Em0nM4stodon I wonder if the "encryption is a crime" lot were out in force when BlackBerry Messenger was released 20 years ago.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@christianselig@mastodon.social Absolutely, my mother in law has the text scaling dialed way up and I'm surprised she can use her iPhone, the way the interface generally breaks.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mattblaze@federate.social Huh, so long wave stations must have had pretty sizeable antennas? I'm quite fond of AM still, growing up I had a radio cassette thing in my bedroom which had all the AM bands split out separately. Evidently, radio stations of the era (mid 80s) didn't change often, as many stations were actually printed on the dial for convenience. One that always used to blow my mind is Radio Luxembourg, and how far away we were receiving it (in the UK). What I didn't know, having only just read the wiki entry decades later, is that it was almost a pirate radio of sorts, because it could reach the UK when the entire domestic spectrum was apparently locked down for use only by the BBC. TIL!

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@inthehands I thought this to myself last night, while catching up on For All Mankind on Apple TV. I get that this is alternate history and happens in the past still, but a news segment mentioned Kiev and I thought that the subtitles/captions really ought to have written it as Kyiv (the text wasn't present on the screen outside of the captions).

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft@mastodon.social In the current hardware climate, and Commodore presumably not expecting to enjoy the usual economies of scale, $500 kinda makes sense (unfortunately). As I've pretty much trimmed down my phone to be precisely this, I will be watching this phone with interest.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@TechConnectify@mas.to OK, I'll bite based on that thumbnail. Oh hey, it's the person who did that fascinating solar panel video. Wait... this is an hour long. Oh, it's one of *those* videos! Yeah, I'll be watching this tonight.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@iFixit Glue. So hilariously anti-consumer, sold to us as "but look how thin it is".

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@yiningkarlli Absolutely fantastic. It's so seamless that I hope the trails blazed here are used for future productions.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

#Fedle #45 4/6

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@foone@digipres.club this... needs to be a spoof logo.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@weirdestate I like the giant rock holding the sliding bathroom door in place. I want to imagine that it flaps around a bit, and the solution, while staying on theme, was to just lug something in from outside.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mattblaze@federate.social Had no idea the Beeb was shutting down AM services. I think the antenna in question is at Droitwich. It looked familiar in photos, so I looked it up and realized I would have driven past it on the M5. What a shame, end of an era.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Iowa appears to be the main character of the weather today. Reed Timmer and storm chasing crew are up in Dubuque in their armored truck.

First time I've watched this, it's all very Twisters (which I did not enjoy as much as the original).

Folks are a bit spooked about this squall line apparently due later this evening. The derecho of 2020 will be fresh in everyone's mind for years to come.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@infobeautiful@vis.social Jim Bergerac is on the cusp of being both sad & wet and sad & drunk. I guess that makes him sad^2, wet, and drunk. I think that's right, insofar as my hazy childhood recollection goes.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@stux This is Mastodon, someone should be able to do a back-of-a-napkin calculation for how many would fit in the cargo hold of a shuttle. For the sake of simplicity, assume we are as concerned about the quality of the experience back there as billionaires are of the day-to-day life of the proles.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@adamgreenfield@social.coop The ramp up in anti-Green specifically tells me the establishment considers the movement a threat.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

One of the things I enjoy about Windows 11, now that we interact with so many web and electron apps, is how often the mouse cursor will simply disappear. Something to do with the compositor, as I understand it.

I mean, who doesn't enjoy trying to guess what they're clicking on, or where text will appear when they start typing.

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Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange The costs *have* to recoup this absurd (and, presumably, ongoing for new models) training and hardware cost. Surely? Disney+ has nearly tripled in price since launch not that long ago, or merely doubled if you tolerate ads. How many times will a new thing loss-lead before people understand the process?

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