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timbray

@timbray@cosocial.ca

Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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Patricia, to random
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I should write a blog series which is basically book reports on tech and business books. What was the format of book reports again?

timbray,
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@Patricia

  1. Think about the book
  2. Write down what you think
alex, to random
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Testing propagation...

Sorry for the noise, but I just migrated my server and need to make sure folks are seeing my posts. Could the first person who sees this post reply to let me know? I'll delete it right afterward.

Thank you. Just totally normal social media things.

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@alex Ayup

timbray, to random
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Good short essay on the absurdity of describing the US political scene as dominated by “polarization”: https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/polarization-or-radicalization

timbray, to random
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Eurocrats consider using their free-trade agreement with Israel to deflect bloodthirsty Bibi.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/05/27/eu-convenes-israel-to-discuss-respect-of-human-rights-and-icj-ruling-on-rafah

timbray, to photography
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In which I review a concert by the Tedeschi Trucks band (good!) discuss the sound and staging (excellent!) and challenge the whole touring-electric-band profession to do better: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/05/26/TTB

davefischer, to Cats
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Salome asleep above the pulp fiction shelf.

timbray,
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@davefischer Excellent. That’s some very pulpy pulp. And I see a Delany.

adrianco, to random
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I’m going to be trying to cut two 4” diameter holes through a 7” thick concrete wall (with steel rebar inside) this week. I’ve been buying lots of stuff to prepare

timbray,
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@adrianco Get the whole boarding party in the same place and put phasers on burn.

ww3real, to random
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Hernandez reveals to Cagney that there's an inside agent that will help them. Cagney: “Chink?” Hernandez: “You're not cleared to know.” Cagney looks at her and repeats the slur, this time not as a question.

timbray,
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@ww3real Ouch bad opsec, Cagney is a soft target…

timbray, to random
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@cheeaun Did phanpy change the shading or blending or something on “Trending”? Today it looks kind of foggy and dim. Or maybe it’s just my eyes getting old…

timbray,
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@cheeaun I think the screenshot captures it. Maybe I just got unlucky on a bunch of images that were lower-quality? But I just checked now, hours later, and it still looks kind of dingy.

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@cheeaun OK just got unlucky I guess.

timbray,
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@cheeaun It's a super nice presentation, one of the nice things about phanpy.

timbray, to retrocomputing
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Me: I just don’t get the retro-computing thing. I like modern computers.
Spouse: No AIs. No ads. No trackers.

#retrocomputing

timbray, to random
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“legally killed children” shudder

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112514252084219141

evan, to random
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Is there an Internet Media Type for social microsyntax, the plain-text source format that is used to convert @-mentions, hashtags, and URLs into links in HTML5? I've been unable to find one, and have fallen back to text/plain.

timbray,
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@evan If someone writes down the rules I can file a registration and do the required IETFing. Rough copy is OK, can pour into an I-D.

timbray,
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@thisismissem @evan I think majority these days are Markdown, some XML. Markdown is a little easier but the toolchain is klunky.

timbray,
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@thisismissem Feel free to ping me if you want input on how to IETF. Apologies if you already know the territory.

DeliaChristina, to random
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Anyone else working on a holiday?

Oh, just me?

cool cool.

timbray,
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@DeliaChristina Me! Oh wait, I’m not in the USA so that doesn’t count.

carnage4life, to random
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I’ve been thinking about the connection between game industry layoffs and a 30 year low in Memorial Day movie ticket sales. Coupling this with Walmart’s recent earnings report that shows people are spending more on essentials and less on discretionary goods, this may be a HIRP.

High interest rates mean people are spending more on mortgages, car loans and credit card bills. There’s simply less money to spend on entertainment.

So both movies and games need to work harder to make the same money.

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timbray,
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@carnage4life Good argument on the HIRP, hadn’t thought of that. I think it’s also impossible to ignore the steepening economic-inequality numbers; when the 1% are creaming off almost all the upside, it leaves the majority stretched thinner and thinner. Your LVMH data is relevant here.

exchgr, to random
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😮‍💨 had a spell of heat exhaustion last night. definitely spent too much time outside this weekend. today is a great day to rest up

timbray,
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@exchgr You might want to try reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom some day. It’s not an easy read, but your mind will have been expanded if you get through it. I wonder if having seen the movie first makes it easier? Lawrence is one of the most interesting people ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence

timbray,
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@exchgr If you want a lighter-weight intro to Lawrence, he wrote a later and much shorter work, “The Mint”, about his time, post-WW1, as an enlisted man in the RAF. And for a completely different take there’s “The Golden Reign” by Clare Sydney Smith, who was a good friend in later life and was obviously totally in love with him. Also short.

timbray, to Israel
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No argument can stop Israel’s bloodthirsty leaders. The only thing I can think of is to re-run the BDS/boycott playbook that was deployed against South Africa. Start with the Olympics?

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-05-26-24/index.html

#gaza #Israel #BDS

timbray,
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@deirdresm @jalcine Really? I pay pretty close attention and I hear pretty well no naked Antisemitism. I can't help noticing that a lot of the people pushing back are Jews. I hear a certain amount of anti-Zionism, and that's a tough issue. In theory (protect Jews from oppression) impossible to argue against but the implementation has been, um, problematic. I think we should blame Bibi and his henchmen, rather than Zionism, for the starving babies in Gaza.

timbray,
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@rameshgupta I shed no tears for dead Hamasniks. But I thought the ICC got it about right. The slaughter of civilians and starving of children can never be acceptable. I freely admit to being highly biased against the current government of Israel. One can imagine an Israel with more humane leadership, but Bibi and Ben Zaire and Smotrich is what we've got.

Blocking you now because people who defend child-killing are not worth listening to. Bye.

timbray, to random
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There was a time when this (observed at a large concert hall) made perfect sense.

timbray,
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@vanderwal I think that arrow is cool!

bert_hubert, to random
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Two days ago I created a blog post which I did not promote in any way, but it did appear on my RSS feed. It now has over 6000 visitors. There are 15000 requests for the RSS feed every day, coming from the user agents listed below. RSS might not be dead yet.

timbray,
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@bert_hubert My comparable numbers for https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/, over 14 days ending May 26:

Requests/day: 39.5K
Top requesters (truncated to fit post limit)
163599 "NetNewsWire…
27914 "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows…
22275 "Reeder…
16191 "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac…
15487 "FreshRSS/…
13709 "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac…
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