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Glenn researches and writes about the history of printing, focused particularly on newspaper comics and printing molds. Pre-order his book How Comics Were Made. He’s a long-time technology journalist, who contributes regularly to Macworld and TidBITS and writes books in the Take Control Books series. A former Amazon employee (1996–97) who used to eat burritos with Bezos, Glenn is more interestingly a two-time Jeopardy! winner.

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The secret of the Bushmiller Society is out.

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Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/24/publishing-ai-slop-is-a-choice

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@jkohlmann oof!!!

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In the continued adventures of Glenn Flies A Lot (trip #8 by air in last 14 months), I have a terribly early morning return in a couple days home…and Alaska already put me in first class. The flight, to be fair, will be half empty. I think this is a repositioning flight they do for timing reasons. I earned Alaska status last year and I will take the reward. So far, been offered or given premier and first class on about 70% of flights!

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@mediageek I was just discovering that!! I had a free exit row seat so I didn’t opt to move up because I had so much more room. Good advice!!

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Heywhatnow

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If you’re heading to Nancy Fest this weekend, please say HI, and I will give you an exciting little four-card glossy card!

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@jpf My middle name is Nancy!*

*But wouldn't that be great

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I don’t entirely understand who Republicans are performing for. The ones who are most in the bag for Israel, no matter how genocidal Israel is, and are currently yelling about antisemitism on college campuses, do not care about antisemitism or students or Israel as a state or Jews. Many of them are either overtly or covertly antisemitic. Who is the audience?

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@aka_quant_noir why do they care!

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@krg but people read the press. Why do they care if the press portray them as opposed to antisemitism and in support of Israel? I can’t imagine their voters care. And Jewish people vote mostly for Democrats, but a significant fraction vote for Republicans for social/economic/ideological reasons.

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@thomasfuchs But why do they care when it doesn't convince people who know who they are and their base doesn't care about Jewish people?

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@Gte That is a reasonable explanation EXCEPT I would think it would cost them votes among their antisemitic base.

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@cam Yeah, but I would think there was an offset among bigoted base and nobody not in that ilk believes them

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@thomasfuchs Still doesn't explain the effort. I guess it owns the libs if they nominally present themselves as more anti-antisemitic

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@glennf If anyone might know, it's probably you! https://mastodon.social/

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@GrumpusNation @Richard_Littler More of an industrial product than a typeface? I assume there was a company that had templates and made it, patterning it after some well-known faces, accommodated for whatever the needs of production were. Great research project!

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Google AI summaries mostly sound like this.

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The dystopian future in which humanity relegated to shining the shoes of robots (1909).

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Harold Faltermeyer

1984: writes the score for "Beverly Hills Cop"
1985: writes the score for "Fletch"
1986: writes the score for "Top Gun"

absolutely epic

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@PenguinToot @tvaziri I assume in Switzerland, the speeders turned themselves in whenever they go above the speed limit.

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@PenguinToot merging drives me nuts. It is most efficient for both lanes to reach the merge point.

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AirPort Utility was discontinued years ago. It only worked with Apple’s base stations. It does not scan a network in a useful way. Some fact checking when referring people to software would be very useful. https://wapo.st/3wHyd0P There are third-party Wi-Fi network scanners that are very helpful.

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@onpaperwings Wi-Fi Explorer provides a LOT of good insight into what is happening—power levels, number of base stations, what channels they're on, etc. https://www.intuitibits.com/products/wifiexplorer/

But usually Wi-Fi problems have to do with placement rather than interface with modern networks.

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Clarification due to all the responses!
• AirPort Utility for iOS can be downloaded; it hasn't been updated for 4 years and its primary functionality is for discontinued Apple Wi-Fi base stations.
• Using the Wi-Fi Scan tool within it, you can scan for nearby network names. When a device has joined the local Wi-Fi network and is no longer broadcasting a “set me up" network, this is not useful. APU doesn’t provide on-network device scanning

Get iNet Network Scanner for that.

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@donw @tbridge To circle around to the article, the consultant claims to use AirPort Utility to find hidden cameras transmitting data, which is not what APU can do, even if the scanning feature for nearby networks is useful and maybe daignostic! An Airbnb owner is not typically, I wager, running VLANs or other complexities: if they have (against the rules, sometimes illegal) cameras, they’re just connected to Wi-Fi and you need iNet Scanner…or a Mac.

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@tbridge @donw generally, for the audience the article was aimed at, not actionable or useful advice. And, in fact, someone renting an Airbnb might use this advice to make accusations against the host that are unfounded because of the explanations in the article of what to look for in terms of network names. It’s absolutely a serious issue, this hidden camera thing, but!

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@Gen_X No, APU was discontinued (still available, but its last maintenance update was four years ago). It doesn’t do in-network scanning.

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@Gen_X i advise you to read my thread

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