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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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timbray, to random
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visible but very faint at midnight in Vancouver

timbray, to random
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I was away from the screen and came back and saw the replay of McDavid whacking Hughes in the face, blood running down his cheek… no penalty? What did I miss?

dpk, to random
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Started to notice how bad German Wikipedia is at controlling bias compared to enwp. Examples:

  1. The article on BDS has a clear agenda to make the reader believe the movement is antisemitic, based on an idea that its primary historical roots are in anti-Jewish boycotts, rather than the South African anti-apartheid movement

  2. The article on ‘Junk Science’ describes the term mainly as an attack word used by tobacco, fossil fuel etc. lobbyists against the real science they want to attack

timbray,
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@dpk [occasional enWP editor here] I had no idea. Is this an oddity only of deWP or in use in other languages? It seems… bad.

timbray, to canucks
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have really managed to neutralize Hughes.

annaghughes, to random
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who up watching the Canucks

timbray,
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@annaghughes If you follow #HNOM you'll find lots of amusing hockey chatter (Hockey Night On Mastodon)

timbray, to Calgary
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Shame, shame. U of C President Ed McCauley should resign immediately.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-calgary-palestinian-protest-police-removal-1.7199937?cmp=rss

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you see a crowd of 100 people:

  • In Atlanta? You can expect ~47 of them are Black. 👍🏿

  • In San Francisco? About 5 are Black. 😑

  • In Palo Alto? About 2 are Black. 😮

There are more students at Gunn High school in Palo Alto, than there are Black people living in Palo Alto.

timbray,
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@mekkaokereke East Palo Alto, on the other hand…

timbray,
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@mekkaokereke Oh wait, I hear that East PA is gentrifying, invaded by Bay Aryans. sigh Should have born in mind that I haven't been there since like 2013.

timbray, to random
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Of geek interest: UUIDs have been around for a long time and they work well and interoperate fine, but the specification space is a mess. So the IETF just shipped RFC9562; it has a fine consideration of the history and the trade-offs involved in all the different flavors of UUIDs, and is well-written and I think, as of now, the place to start looking if something UUID-flavored is puzzling you. Strong work! https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html

timbray,
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@spmatich 1/ Trying to figure out when that would be a problem. In my experience, UUIDs are mostly database keys or just convenient representation of random quantities for shard selection. When I remember a database key that happens to be a UUID, I'm going to remember it as a string literal and use that for retrieval. When I generate one to select a shard who cares once the shard has been selected?

timbray,
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@spmatich 2/ You mention “building a resource ID string” - if's a UUID you do that once and then it's immutable, no? What’s the scenario?
/fin

timbray,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite First really practical no-nonsense networked filesystem IIRC, or at least the first one I got my hands on.

timbray,
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@super_structure It was 1996, what can I say? Anyhow, "urn:uuid:…" can make it work.

timbray, to random
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We have a “family mainframe complex” in the corner of the living room. Mac mini, 5T USB disk, USB DVD, CalDigit TB hub. Need some sort of a mini-rack to keep them all in place with a bit of wire organization. The Mini, at 19.70 cm (7.75 inches) width&depth, is the biggest piece. Ideas?

timbray,
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BTW, this works great. Anyone can come along and pull the TB wire out of the Mini and stick it in their computer and they’re connected to a huge 4K display, keyboard/mouse, high-quality USB audio connection to the big stereo, Ethernet straight into the telco router, etc etc. CalDigit is a little pricey but damn it's effective. Also has an SD card reader & many free USB ports.

timbray,
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@gwachob Better audio? Will go look… Hard to improve on USB out into a good pre-amp with a high-quality DAC.

timbray, to random
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Conservatives routinely and systematically lie, ep. 98,353: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-renewables-pause-moratorium-aeso-foip-1.7196943?cmp=rss

timbray, to photography
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Fern unrolling.

Note: Next spring, put a tripod in place and do an all-day time-lapse.

timbray, to canucks
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Well, that one could have gone either way. But nobody would call the result unfair. My claims about the defence and 2nd/3rd lines panned out. But If I’m the Canucks and DeSmith is really healthy, I start him next game, Silovs was soft.

https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/112408783736943185

paul, to random
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This is friggin amazing

timbray,
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@paul I have an I-Pace. Which app is that predicting arrival?

timbray,
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@paul Waymo is Alphabet (right?) so doubtless some Android-Auto/G-maps thing. What, in particular, was amazing?

timbray,
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@paul Pardon all the questions, I'm interested in this space. Do you mind saying where to where?

timbray, to fediverse
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Nifty: https://medium.com/fedi-curious/over-100-000-social-interactions-from-the-fediverse-to-flipboard-f76465dee4f8

timbray, to random
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RIP Steve Albini. Back in 2020, I reviewed what I consider to be Albini’s late-period production masterpiece, Sunn O)))’s “Life Metal”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/13/Sunn-O-Life-Metal

https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112406627823224370

blogdiva, to cooking
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to this day, i have no idea what rhubarb tastes like. it's been for so long one of those weird things euroamericans eat, that am afraid to taste it and be ghastly disappointed in my notion that, yup, doesn't taste good at all.

timbray,
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@anne_twain @DukeDuke @blogdiva Strawberries work well too.

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