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djfiander

@djfiander@code4lib.social

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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djfiander, to random
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[ominous synth music]

djfiander, to random
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These large language models really need to be paired with a strong sentiment analysis system to properly tag their inputs.

djfiander, to random
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I did not realize that it was "Freedom Summer" this year.

coral, to random
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Owning a home is a constant state of annoyance at the choices previous owners made.

djfiander,
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@coral 💯

djfiander, to random
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@rebeccawatson Facebook just tried to sell me "Hydrogen Water", which is apparently just regular water than has been hydrogenated (instead of being carbonated?).

Have you addressed this critical health topic yet?

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LB: I am an immigrant and I am intensely, amazingly lazy

djfiander,
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@adr There's a copy in my library, so I will be checking out this important text on my way home today

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@adr Proof that the (Canadian) Senate is good, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada#Attempts_at_a_new_law

djfiander, to apple
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If any Apple devices within range of my house are going to report on the nearby BSSIDs, then the obvious solution is to set up a dummy AP and program it to change its name every 10 minutes.

ktempestbradford, to random
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Wow, this is possibly the stupidest, greediest, most predatory abuse of copyright I've seen in a while.

A person can't post a photo of a room with wallpaper that has a licensed image even if the wallpaper was legally bought? That's not how this is supposed to work!

"She didn't credit me in the caption."

WHO TF LOOKS UP THE NAME OF THE WALLPAPER ARTIST WHEN POSTING VACATION HOME PHOTOS?

https://petapixel.com/2024/05/22/photographer-sues-grandma-over-wallpaper-photo-copyright-infringement/

djfiander,
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@ktempestbradford the worst part is that he's jurisdiction shopping, and that this is the third time that he's tried to sue over this because two other German courts told him to GTFO

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So far today, two different people have asked me why I'm so friendly and happy. And, hey. So far as I know, we get one trip on this sweet little planet. It'd be a real drag if we all carried on unhappy, unfriendly.

djfiander,
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@Twinklybugs great, so there's a maximum on the "you should smile more" spectrum

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@mwl Will you revoke the certificate for the signed ebook before or after you distribute it?

djfiander,
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@mwl M.C. Escher used to drill huge holes in his woodblocks when he was finished with a print run.

adr, to random
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It is entirely possible to critique completely terrible people without talking about their looks or how they're so old they should "go back to Facebook".

signed, an ugly old guy

djfiander,
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@adr Do you run a large multinational corporation, John?

djfiander, to random
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Facebook serving ME ads for a product called "Woman Within" feels like they know something about me that I haven't figured out yet (cf, stripy sock discourse).

djfiander, to random
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I feel like recent events have clearly shown that the only thing worse than an old white guy running a large multinational corporation is a young white guy running a large multinational corporation.

adr, to random
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I wonder if I'll hear any "I don't want to learn fucking Linux" statements coming out of this Microsoft Recall thing.

djfiander,
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@adr I am amused by the "Linux users are stripy thigh high stock wearing tgirls" discourse, though.

djfiander,
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@adr You can start wearing stripy socks any time you want.

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Holy shit! The Hugo voting packet includes an MP4 of the entire Dungeons & Dragons and Tales of the Wandering Earth movies!

djfiander, to random
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New plan: all libraries currently using Dewey reclassify to use UDC, just to fuck over OCLC https://udc-hub.com/index.php

djfiander, to random
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One of the greatest moments in Canadian comedy: Pierre Burton explains how to roll a joint
https://youtu.be/MjYcP0Gji20?si=1KGiQgrG2-OJH5o2

platypus, to random
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I love that almost every All Trails review of the place I'm going to hike today is like "got lost but it was ok."

Helps me set expectations. It's a rather small place -- really the worst case scenario for being lost if you can't also use your phone's GPS (which you can, it's got coverage) is that you just have to go find one of the boundary roads.

djfiander,
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@thecorodon @platypus

djfiander, to random
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Dear David. The kettle will heat the water faster if you turn it on

platypus, to DuckDuckGo
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Ok -- I am really curious about this one!

I searched for: david sedaris blood work

because I wanted to see if the piece was online anywhere. The result I got on both my phone's Firefox Focus and my work laptop's Firefox says "not many results contain test, search for david sedaris blood 'test'?"

but the word "test" is not anywhere in my query.

Searching for: lab blood work

does not get me this. Nor do other things I've tried.

djfiander,
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@platypus I didn't get that.

djfiander,
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@platypus as a control I searched for [my name] blood work, and the first result was an obituary for David Fiander!

djfiander,
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@platypus he worked at CERN. I doubt that we were related, without going back to the early 19th C.

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