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cs

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Overeducated, underqualified. Always a dabbler, never a professional. He/him/his. I am in #Denton TX USA

#sdf #powerpop #pcusa #economics #geography #cartography #transportation #ActiveTransportation #policing #SocialJustice
I love #cars but would rather be riding the #bus and #trains

Just an opinionated SDF member for 18+ years.

[Profile header is version of The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel]

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cs, (edited ) to MandelaEffect
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“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

Nelson Mandela: Maybe Not a Saint, But He Kept on Trying and Gave Us All He Had - ABC News (2013)

https://abcnews.go.com/International/nelson-mandela-saint-gave-us/story?id=19369750

fmhilton, to random
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"Kilroy was here" was found on an ancient castle walls.
From about Napoleon's time.
Some things never change and bored soldiers with knives is one of them. Graffiti is their hobby when not fighting..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/travel/graffiti-english-castle-napoleon-scli-intl-scn/index.html

cs,
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@fmhilton Nomina stultorum semper parietibus haerent. and Nomina stultorum ubique locorum scribuntur. Sometimes translated as "The names of fools are written on the walls." And I found a related English proverb "A white wall is a fool's paper." 😄

cs,
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@fmhilton Of course, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOfQfxmTLQ

cs, to random
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This time on One Song Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY not only tackle a song that, arguably, possesses the ultimate accolade: It is Diallo’s favorite song to sing at karaoke. “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears is not the British synth pop group’s biggest hit – that would be “Mad World”, “Sowing the Seeds of Love”, or “Shout” – but Diallo makes a strong case for why there’s no better song to belt out at 2am in a karaoke bar.
#OneSong #TearsForFears #SynthPop #SynthDuo
https://overcast.fm/+BCYuPHQoWk

cs, (edited ) to random
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Do you have your own web site? Do you use https for it? #encryption

cs,
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Read 3 as "haven't" -- it may be obvious, but maybe not.

cs,
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@bwbuhse Easy for some. My tilde site at sdf.org does it for me.

My other (hobby) sites are hosted on shared servers with registration at another company. If I did registration/DNS/hosting together, they would do it for me, but because of my setup, I have to contact support to install. Let's encrypt certs only last 90 days. That becomes a project. If you self-host or otherwise run your own virtual server, things might be different.

cs,
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Also, if you don't want Let's encrypt, you can get basic SSL for as low as ~$7.00/yr

cs,
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Here's where I get into problems doing Let's Encrypt on my shared hosting...

This means I would have to use the manual option, and that would require manually updating it every 90 days or contacting support each time.

cs,
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@rmbolger I've considered this, but there's a lot of moving parts, and as a hobbyist, this all comes out of my pocket. I just renewed my annual hosting in February, too. I put the call out in January asking folks if they had any recommendations, and no one did (obviously I don't have much reach as a mastodon user).

cs, to ai
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Yes, and everyone is noticing. Stories on news sites are more and more just crap. News media, don’t try this.

AI-generated articles are permeating major news publications : NPR


https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251917136/ai-generated-articles-are-permeating-major-news-publications

cs,
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FWIW one of the new options on for flagging stories on their aggregator home page is to mark it as dreck.

cs,
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HARRISON DUPRE: I think, in general, you should always be looking at the byline no matter what, but maybe zoom in a little. See if something feels a little uncanny about it. The text might be super repetitive, stilted and weird. You know, I've spent a lot of time, of course, in these articles. They generally feel like an alien came to Earth and had never used a vacuum, does not even understand what a vacuum is...

cs, to ethereum
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Two former MIT student charged with stealing #Ethereum #cryptocurrency #crypto

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/investing/mit-crypto-hack/index.html

danirabbit, to random
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Okay admittedly I did smile. Some designer is probably really happy that this is being noticed. Very fun detail https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7CpmYevMwf

cs,
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@danirabbit I don't understand what I'm seeing :( Is there audio or something explaining what is going on? Is this something only tablet/touchscreen/stylus users would recognize?

cs,
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@danirabbit Thanks. I was not hearing it because I didn't realize I was logged into a virtual machine that wasn't forwarding my audio back to the local machine. 😄 🙄

cs, to TikTok
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The United States Passed a Ban on . Why? | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/the-united-states-passed-a-ban-on-tiktok-why

cs, to random
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Somewhat negative review of the march afternoons’ cover of “Cruel Summer” at Louder Than War. It is difficult to say if the tongue is placed firmly in cheek.

https://louderthanwar.com/cult-band-cover-80s-hit-cruel-summer-in-tired-marketing-ploy/

cs, to random
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D2 was editor of the high school literary magazine. It is multimedia and includes #ComputerAnimation and performances. She does a cover of #BillieEilish https://www.canva.com/design/DAGD0B8p9E0/v2bGXliCAdMDDwa_iTYvaA/view?utm_content=DAGD0B8p9E0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

jetsilver, to random
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I would be upset too!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ukraine-war-blinken-band-neil-young-b2545373.html

cs,
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@jetsilver that kinda stinks

cs,
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@jetsilver I shared a different story on this earlier because I thought it was weird to to pick that song. It’s not exactly an enthusiastic song to be singing, despite its title.

cs, to random
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#Fico is not #ArchdukeFerdinand, but was the Archduke's assassination even a primary cause of the first World War? #WWI #WWIHistory #ProfessorBuzzkill (2022)
#HistoryPodcast
https://professorbuzzkill.com/2022/11/02/the-1914-sarajevo-assassination-and-the-road-to-world-war-i/

cs, to Slovakia
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Reports that president of #Slovakia gravely injured in apparent assassination attempt.

This sort of thing has big security implications in that it is an Eastern European NATO and EU member state, although #Fico is considered a pro-Russian populist.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/slovakia-s-prime-minister-shot-and-gravely-injured-in-attempted-assassination/ar-BB1mr6V7?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=13f656b0a60a45ffa4f17e8086b9e5c2&ei=41

cs,
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See:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251543187/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot

and:

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/02/1202978126/slovakia-election-fico-ukraine-russia

cs, to ukrainian
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So sits in with band playing "Rockin' in the Free World." Uh, yeah, that's great, but the song title belies the song's true meaning. Sort of like "Born in the USA," isn't a full-throated endorsement of American militarism.

This may not be as bad as using it in campaigns.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/blinken-sits-in-with-ukrainian-bar-band-for-rockin-in-the-free-world/ar-BB1moeKb

cs,
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@jetsilver

https://youtu.be/dbbGqMSU_jg?si=gy1x6cPAIj7tfmSU 🙄

cs,
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@jetsilver

https://youtu.be/dbbGqMSU_jg?si=gy1x6cPAIj7tfmSU 🙄(2016 campaign)

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