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jasonb

@jasonb@sigmoid.social

Bachelor's in Computer Science at University of North Carolina - Charlotte (Go Niners!). I took an Intro to Machine Learning course and that was sparked my interest in Data Science, and Graph Theory. My interests also lie in Philosophy and Astronomy.

And politics but I'm not affiliated with any party so don't put me in one.

Data Science and Analytics Master's of Science program at UNC Charlotte Graduate school.

Pxlmo.com: @jkb

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dgar, to random
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My local bank manager wears a cowboy hat and calls himself the Loan Arranger.

jasonb,
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@dgar I work for a bank, I am a data analyst, and I also wear cowboy hats because my title is "Data Wrangler"!!!

cliffwade, to bapcsalescanada
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Just under 3 hours until the release of Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition on PC.

I can't wait for this game to release as this is where my time will be spent for the next few days if not weeks.

Will anyone else be playing this on PC by chance?

jasonb,
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@cliffwade Such a good game!! My hubby bought me a PS5 with FW preinstalled. I ended up going back to play the first game. I love this series.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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Moderation standards on atomicpoet.org are unchanged.

But that’s beside the point. I own my server, and you don’t. Therefore, I decide who and what my server operates with—not you.

As for whether or not popularity impacts who I interact with. Not really—but network effect certainly does.

My family is likely to join Threads. They’re not so likely to join QQ. Despite QQ being more popular than Threads, federating with Threads has a bigger impact on me due to its network effect on my life.

What some extremists fail to realize is that talking to my mother is more important to me than talking to some random dude from mas.to. Sorry, but I’m not sorry. To me, my mother takes precedence.

But beyond that, people I know realize that I’ve been working on decentralized social media for years. All this time, I’ve pushed for them to leave Meta’s services. Mostly they haven’t done it. Them seeing that it’s possible to interact with me while they use Threads—and I don’t—is a big step towards them realizing that decentralized social media is not just real but practical.

I have priorities. When it comes to social interactions, family and friends come first. Sure, I have left Facebook and Instagram, but if there’s an opportunity to communicate with those services without using them, I will take it.

RE: https://mas.to/users/tasket/statuses/112132863611708418

jasonb,
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@atomicpoet Me too. I gave up a lot from leaving Twitter, and FB. But, as much as I know I lost that network, my mental health by not being in those services is a hundred times better than having that network.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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Can someone please explain to me what’s going on?

I legitimately have no idea, and I don’t know why I upset this person or even what they’re trying to communicate with me.

No, I’m not being obtuse. I really don’t know.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/sssystemic/statuses/112129909662820466

jasonb,
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@atomicpoet I have no clue what the other person is talking about.

I get what you posted. You like people with feminine energy and that straight people don't seem to engage in that manner.

Then the other person posted that they like people with masculine energy.

After that, I have no clue. I guess it's a good thing that they are blocking you then.

Other than that, I think that some straight people just think in too binary terms.

jasonb, to random
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So, my hubby never played D&D until four months ago. We go out to brunch this morning and he texts the D&D group this.

cmconseils, to random French
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And you wont change my mind.

jasonb,
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@cmconseils I'd fight on that hill with you.

"Just the text, Mam, nothing but the text" -- Joe Friday

Aaron, to random
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I FINISHED IT!!!!!!!!

It took me 343 days to read The Count of Monte Cristo, but I did it. And it’s a freaking amazing accomplishment.

My kindle showing the “before you go” screen that appears at the end of a book.

jasonb,
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@Aaron @rustoleumlove Nicely done. Now start the Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson!! ;)

cliffwade, to news
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I'm currently affected by this as is my wife as we are both on AT&T and currently have no service at all.

AT&T customers report a massive outage, disrupting phone service across America.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

jasonb,
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@cliffwade I have service but my hubby has none. He's on an iPhone and we have AT&T.

jasonb,
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@cliffwade question: do you have a physical SIM or eSIM on both phones?

jasonb, to python
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I took the day off to either bask in the glory of SF Niners winning, or just sit in my basement* tinkering away at code.

So, I'm use python's code module to personalize the python default REPL because why not??

  • I live in a ranch house it's just another bedroom dubbed my office - right now it's a basement!!

jasonb,
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@ambv oh I know and have. But I'm now trying to push it and figured I'd see what I could do with the interpreter via that module.

I'll probably end up sticking with .PYTHONSTARTUP and continue to add to it.

It's just I'm also trying to figure out which modules of my own to create and import.

atomicpoet, to random

I have never met a gay man who told me, "You're not allowed to listen to YMCA because that's our song."

I have met plenty of straight men who've said to me, "Why are you listening to YMCA? That song is gay."

jasonb,
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@atomicpoet But do they know why? That is the question. If they can an answer, then they have listened to it, and then the question for them are they now gay because they know the lyrics?

Of course, I just like to watch their heads explode when confronted with their own gayness. :)

cliffwade, to email
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The one thing I don't like about @fastmail is that you are limited to 100GB of email storage and there appears to be no way to increase that limit unless I'm missing something somewhere.

While 100GB seems sufficient, I'd really like to have at least 500GB of storage.

On my Gmail account I could purchase extra storage and I had 2TB of storage and was using 54% of that.

jasonb,
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@cliffwade @fastmail As a Visionary Customer on Proton I have 6TB of storage.

All the storage....

jasonb,
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@cliffwade @fastmail I was a beta tester and turned to pay because I love the service and the company.

jasonb, to StarTrek
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My hubby always gets me and two friends of ours; fun t-shirts for Christmas stockings. This year's came late and I can't wait to wear it out in public.

jasonb, to random
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So I'm smoking a twice-smoked ham. Merry Christmas ⛄⛄

jasonb, to random
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The Christmas Express to his Mom's place has begun!!

cliffwade, to fediverse
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With yesterday's announcement that Meta is starting to test Threads and ActivityPub integration, I see the #Fediverse is at an all time high again of whining and crying and being butthurt over it all.

I get stating your opinion about not wanting them here or whatever, but come on people, don't sound like a little 2 year old who lost their pacifier. It gets old, quick.

Just mute/block and move on and be done with it all. It's really that damn simple.

#Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Mastodon

jasonb,
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@cliffwade As much as I don't like corporate social media, I think the integration will actually do more help and legitimacy towards the Fediverse.

Now, I don't think Mastodon and the wider Fediverse need legitimacy but it puts the Fediverse on the same playing field and shows options for users and companies about taking control of their social media.

What will be interesting is will corporate social media allow criticism towards them from the Fediverse or will they censor.

mayor, to random
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Did everyone wake up on time
?

jasonb,
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@mayor amazingly yes. Right at 8am.

Every time since DST started I was sleeping to 9am. Now I know my circadian rhythm doesn't observe DST.

jasonb,
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@mayor well we're going to have see if this holds up next year.

😐 yay... another list to keep up.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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jasonb,
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@dgar

Wow Maisel GIF

Edent, (edited ) to random
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Couples of Mastodon! How do you handle emails for "joint" things?

Like utility bills, hotel reservations, and other domestic accounts.

Please 🔁 the 📊 for extra reach 🙂

jasonb,
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@Edent Whoever takes care of the bill gets the email.

jasonb,
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@Edent Nope. The utilities are in his name as his name is on the mortgage. But I pay all the utilities and maintenance so I get the emails to pay them. And together for 23 years, living in the same space 21 years, married going on 2 years.

jasonb,
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@Edent Thank you.

futurebird, to random
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They are installing some fancy pants parking system with modular plates in the basement of this building with an elevator for your car. They wouldn’t let me play with the system controls on the elevator. No fun!

Loading the parking plates on a forklift.

jasonb,
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@futurebird did you tell them that you are a scientist and teacher and would need to conduct a small simple experiment?

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