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Roundtrip

@Roundtrip@federate.social

Old hypertext hand. President and co-founder Traction Software Inc • Electronic Book Technologies (EBT) • Mentor Graphics/Context • Ship Analytics • US Naval Research Lab • Drafted US Army • CS and Physics, Brown University “Everything is deeply intertwingled” ― Ted Nelson The hand in the 1969 Hypertext Editing System photo isn’t mine — the photo is

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cloudguy, to random

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    Roundtrip,
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    @cloudguy

    Having been through a nasty shoulder injury last winter, I waited to recover on my own for two months. After intermittent shooting pain, I finally had a checkup and x-ray.

    A round of focused PT supervised exercises finally got me back to normal without aggravating the damage.

    Roundtrip,
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    @cloudguy

    That was my problem. My PT focused on exercises to build strength using alternative groups shoulder muscles to avoid hitting nerves when rotators are damaged or blown.

    Dr said depending on the level of damage, surgical reattachment may be possible. Not in my case.

    He showed me how terribly complicated shoulder movement is. I’m still following PT advice and doing OK.

    Roundtrip,
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    @cloudguy
    So you know the drill. Good luck - and let them help a bit with the moving!

    appleinsider, to random
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    Trailer for Apple TV+ John le Carre documentary 'The Pigeon Tunnel' arrives
    https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/08/30/trailer-for-apple-tv-john-le-carre-documentary-the-pigeon-tunnel-arrives?utm_medium=rss

    Roundtrip,
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    @appleinsider 🧵

    'The Pigeon Tunnel’
    John le Carre documentary

    written and directed by Errol Morris

    In select theaters and streaming on Apple TV+ 20 Oct 2023

    J12t, to fediverse
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    What do you all think we do here in the ?

    Is it “ ”? (It doesn’t sound quite right to me: I post “media” only rarely)

    Is it “social ”? (Not sure, it’s different from offline networking, and I feel networked already even without the fediverse)

    I’ve been playing with the term “social ”: I’m here to communicate with you all, but not 1-on-1, but socially, where everybody else can overhear what’s being said.

    What to you think of the term?

    Roundtrip,
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    @J12t “What do we think we do here in the ?”

    Create norms in order to share use of a global for diverse communities and purposes.

    Roundtrip,
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    @J12t

    How‘s this:

    Find ways to share a global online space for different groups and purposes

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    Apple's Hypervisor-based virtual machine tech is so good, they could easily put a version of macOS, a la the old Classic environment on Mac OS X, on iPad, with full graphics acceleration, today. If the iPad is never going to bridge that gap itself, maybe this really is the best way to go about it. Sandbox the entirety of macOS into an app so it can never do any damage to the rest of the iPad. It's also a regulatory get-out-of-jail-free card that Apple can hide behind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZOjIGHka0

    Roundtrip,
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    @stroughtonsmith 🧵Classic macOS VM on IPad as sandboxed museum

    I’d use this to re-run MORE !
    cc: @davew

    MORE 3.1 was released on December 2, 1991

    Antique software, free for personal use, courtesy of Symantec and Dave Weiner

    http://outliners.scripting.com/default.html

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    @stroughtonsmith @davew

    Thanks ! Years ago I looked through the drill to resurrect full Classic macOS on current Mac hardware, but it was a DRM hassle.

    Do you have a link on current best practice for an M2 MacBook Pro?

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    @stroughtonsmith @davew

    Thanks! Just what I was looking for — and what Google / DDG were not finding.

    lawfare, to random
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    Trump has a Jan. 6 trial date, and it's March 4, 2024—the eve of Super Tuesday.
    Saraphin Dhanani was in Judge Chutkan's courtroom during the hearing yesterday. Read her dispatch now: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-has-jan.-6-trial-date-and-it-s-the-eve-of-super-tuesday

    Roundtrip,
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    @lawfare 🧵

    A clear and dramatic narrative quoting judge, defense, and prosecution remarks during the 6 Jan trial date hearing.

    The script for a great podcast as dramatic performance!

    rolle, (edited ) to mastodon
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    Mastodon v4.2.0-beta2 presents hashtag bar list on the bottom. In the original UI they are just text. I wanted to make them distinctive so they are presented as a pill style on . The change is present in 1.7.2rc2-nightly version which fully supports beta2. Proper release coming soon.

    Roundtrip,
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    @rolle 🧵

    Great! I hope the hashtag appears at the bottom of the post’s text block (preceding any attachment/card) rather than forcing folk to scroll all the way to the end of a post to see its tags.🫰

    paul, to random
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    No I don’t want to give you location access.
    No I don’t want to sign in.
    No I don’t think this would be better in Chrome.

    How about instead of “don’t be evil” we go for “don’t be obnoxious”?

    Also Apple please add a block all future requests for location from this site option.

    Roundtrip,
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    @paul Two weeks ago I just gave up and switched Safari search to DuckDuckGo — happily so far.

    popey, to random
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    '"Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose," the team's paper concluded. "Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style." Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong.'

    https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

    Roundtrip,
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    @popey 🧵

    “ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

    But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible”

    The Register, Thomas Claburn
    7 Aug 2023

    Great headline writing!

    clive, to random
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    Hundreds of years ago, writers of alphabetic language used "Scriptio continua" -- there were no spaces between words

    Eventually we realized that chunking the words with whitespace would dramatically aid comprehension

    Here's an essay wondering why we so often fail to do this today ...

    ... with numbers, many of which -- in the commercial world -- are still delivered in Scriptio continua: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/07/digital-age-why-our-numbers-need-updating.html

    Roundtrip,
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    @clive Credit card payment apps that refuse to recognized credit card numbers with embedded spaces deserve a special place in Hell.

    And telephone numbers! 😠

    textfiles, to random
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    MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles.

    I have "ported" these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy:

    https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

    Roundtrip,
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    @textfiles 🧵

    Thanks! It’s great fun browsing the MIT Press Open Access collection of the

    I enjoyed finding ‘Street-Fighting Mathematics’:

    “…Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management.”

    https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262265881

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    ct_bergstrom, to Amazon
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    is going to need to get its shit together.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html

    Roundtrip,
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    @ct_bergstrom 🧵

    “The Times identified and tested 64 other comparably formatted guidebooks, most with at least 50 reviews on Amazon, and the results were strikingly similar. Of 190 paragraphs tested with Originality.ai, 166 scored 100, and only 12 scored under 75. By comparison, the scores for passages from well-known travel brands like Rick Steves, Fodor’s, Frommer’s and Lonely Planet were nearly all under 10, meaning there was next to no chance that they were written by A.I. generators.”

    chrismessina, to random
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    We have entered the phase of ultimate ambiguity where the verb is "tweet" but the icon is 𝕏

    Roundtrip,
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    @chrismessina

    Like the Rhode Island tradition of giving directions based on
    “Where the [x] used to be…”

    poppastring, to movies
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    For those old enough, do you recall the first film you saw on VHS? (bonus points for beta max 😊).

    Mine was Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain and Grace Jones!

    Roundtrip,
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    @poppastring ‘Elephant Parts’ (1981) by Michael Nesmith was perhaps the first VHS I saw. Still think it’s pretty funny 🐘🙂

    First full movie was likely ‘Nashville’

    arstechnica, to random
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    The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

    In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/the-ibm-mainframe-how-it-runs-and-why-it-survives/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    Roundtrip,
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    @arstechnica 🧵⭐️⭐️⭐️

    “When a cache line is evicted from the virtual L3 cache, the line can find another core’s cache in the system, thus creating a virtual L4 cache. Combining the L2 caches on a system gives a spectacular 8192MB of virtual L4 cache. IBM claims an overall per-socket performance improvement of greater than 40 percent from the previous z15 CPU design.”

    arstechnica, to random
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    Pikmin 4 review: Falling in love with micromanagement

    You've never had so much fun keeping 100 unruly children on task.

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/pikmin-4-review-falling-in-love-with-micromanagement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    Roundtrip,
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    @arstechnica 🧵

    “The game is constantly hectoring you to maximize your "dandori," basically a fancy word for multitasking. If you're not constantly splitting your dozens of flower-like Pikmin into three or four separate groups—each with its own separate subtask—the game goes out of its way to make you feel like a time-wasting slacker who, ironically, spends too much time stopping to smell the flowers.”

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    🤔 Do bicycles create empathy? Or do people that care about other people, tend to care about bikes?

    Why is there such a big overlap between "bike infrastructure radicalized people," and "people that care about people that are different than themselves?"

    Why is there such a low overlap between "people with trash hateful takes" and "people that want more bike infrastructure?"

    Roundtrip,
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    @mekkaokereke A car — particularly a big, expensive car — is a powerful public advertisement of privilege that anyone can buy.

    Pay cash or just make the payments, who cares.

    A bicycle is a public advertisement of social sensitivity and thrift. Even for $5k bikes that only careful riders recognize at a glance.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    🙏🏿Lord, grant me the confidence of a techbro podcast handing out "Go woke, go broke" advice, where the techbros are:

    • The SPAC king that destroyed so much of his investor's wealth
    • The dudes responsible for the Twitter fail that destroyed their investors' wealth

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chamath-palihapitiya-crumbling-spac-empire-100748788.html

    The dudes currently setting potential world records of wealth destruction through their bad ideas, dispensing wisdom about how other people's ideas might cost investors money.🙂🙃

    "Woke" means Black people.

    Roundtrip,
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    @mekkaokereke

    Agree! See also @maxkennerly on James Cameron, Avatar 2, and whalers.

    https://bsky.app/profile/maxkennerly.bsky.social/post/3jz74mug3fq2h

    profcarroll, to random
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    in a weird way i think the existence of Bluesky suddenly made Mastodon better I can’t explain it and now it might be time for Mastodon to make Bluesky better; pre-cross-federated social is gonna be a ride; and then cross-federation; whooosh

    Roundtrip,
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    @profcarroll Yes. People won’t really get federation until they can experience Mastodon/BlueSky/Threads style cross-platform and interoperable federation in action.

    With Mastodon only federation, a common reaction is “What’s the point? Why do I have to choose a server, it’s all the same.”

    Then all hell breaks loose - in the best possible way of course 🙂

    cloudguy, to random

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    @cloudguy Great! You might also try spreading your word using the tag. It’s noisy but helpful.

    I’m using — and following — hash tags a lot more here than the other places.

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    @cloudguy OK

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