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jessamyn

@jessamyn@glammr.us

Rural tech geek. Researcher. Librarian resistance. Moss collector. Postcard enjoyer. I own MetaFilter. ✉️ box 345 05060 ✉️ (she/her)

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ry, to random
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JD

jessamyn,
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@ry YUSSS. Or, as I misread your kit: WOOT DEAN'S FEELS.

jessamyn, to random
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Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've got work all day and then I am getting back to my "stamp collection," using up some of my stamps before I buy any more of them. Maybe you have a hobby you could get to if you weren't just replying to email? Have a good weekend.

Image credit: National Library of New Zealand, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/21676448961

lzg, to random
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I'm covered in ink and have ONE (1) successful screen printing test. WHAT A FEEL.

jessamyn,
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@lzg I can help! I was in screen-printing club in high school.

jessamyn, to random
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Drop-In Time toots! I made a few little social media posts (thanks Canva!) about the fact that drop-in time exists and it was busy today.

First: a pregame request to track down a fiendishly expensive textbook in a... less expensive form. It's in the 15th edition and I could find the 14th. I respect the rights of authors to make money off of their work but the "No you have to have this edition and we print a new one every year" textbook scene is a racket. Could I find it? Of course I could.

jessamyn,
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Frequent flier Joanne was in wondering why her camera app no longer made noise (the volume was down, I taught her how volume control worked). She wanted to know if she could "send photos" using her Kindle Fire. I said sure but she'd have to use email instead of texting. She barely uses email and said she'd stick to texting "...but my daughter said I should be able to..." and I said yeah she totally could but her way worked and was likely easier unless someone didn't have a cell phone.

jessamyn,
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Mette and her husband came in. He mostly wanted to commiserate about Windows 11 (I hear ya, buddy) but she's been using Excel (EXCEL 2003) to transcribe census records from her town. Their town has 718 people, had twice that in 1840. She wanted to know how to do some things with the spreadsheets because she'd been watching some Zooms of a MA historical society who did some neat things. A few things we did that were so magical to her that she gasped: charts, find, replace, split cells.

jessamyn,
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Sandy brought a young person who had clearly been through a rough patch, now staying with her. This person had two broken phones with locked-up SIM cards, part of an SSD drive that needed a new enclosure (and a proprietary one?) and a Google account they couldn't access because the recovery number was on one broken phone and the logged in Google account was on the other. The kid had moved, was nowhere near their old IP addresses, had no other devices. Messy. A great argument against passkeys

jessamyn,
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Jamaica (who has a sister named Jessamyn and who grew up one town over from where I grew up) came in with two ancient Macbooks. "All I get are family hand me downs!" She couldn't log in to one, had tried every password. "Did you try... no password?" She did not know that was a thing. We tried it and presto! She had to go because she had some loose sheep at home, I told her to update from Mac OS Sierra when she got the ewe back.

jessamyn,
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Pat has an old laptop with a lot of good browser add-ons and anti-virus stuff on it but she likes to watch Colbert via CBS.com and it was sometimes blanking on her. We walked through turning off browser add-ons (or even trying another browser) and, of course, it worked when I was sitting there. I explained how computer CPUs can get overloaded and we both commiserated. Then we chitchatted about the other nearby town (pop 678) and the past and present librarians.

jessamyn,
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On my way out the door, I ran into Irene who I had not heard from since her "I can't get my email" emergency during the blizzard. She's in her 90s and I was sort of concerned I hadn't heard from her since. Turned out her daughter-in-law and Xfinity signed her up for a new email address and instead of using Outlook she's using the web browser. She mostly doesn't mind this "But I get so much spam!" Had to remind myself that while I maybe could have fixed this problem, I also would have owned it.

jessamyn,
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Talked to the YA librarian about our various bird watching adventures as I left. Walked home and ran into my local pal who I go dog walking with (her dog) and I walked another 45 min with my laptop bag on. Ran into neighbors getting rid of stuff at "free corner" (where everyone knows to leave your good free stuff) and a bunch of other people out just enjoying this great day. Couldn't even text a flower pic to my SO b/c my cell signal is so terrible here. Not entirely unhappy about it. EOM.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Don’t say shit about caring about trans people, gay people, Black people, brown people, immigrants or your own damn self if you don’t VOTE for Biden. And, you can kiss my ass too.

jessamyn,
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@paragon @liliththehellhound @StillIRise1963 @janisf Absolutely harm reduction. As an anarchist, I'm in favor of mutual aid and that means supporting the people who are most at risk under a Trump presidency.

jessamyn, to random
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This is a thread that is worth your time. Re: OCLC and Anna's Archive.

"Dear technology community, we need to talk about OCLC."

https://code4lib.social/@mjgiarlo/112452199945214121

lzg, to random
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every time I try to learn something new the answer lies with the most annoying person in the world talking through it on a 36 minute youtube video. i choose ignorance.

jessamyn,
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@lzg And often it's at minute 33 of that video. Every. Time.

People who reply to questions with YouTube videos are like people who reply to questions with command line code. If the question isn't "What's the command for..." don't do that.

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The US Mission in India just put out this four-minute year-in-review video starring Ambassador Eric Garcetti (former LA mayor) that must be one of the single best pieces of US government social media I've ever seen -- it's charming, funny, and informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_hP0_446I

jessamyn,
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@debcha Surprisingly charming. And hey, cricket in the Olympics. I learned a thing!

jessamyn, to random
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Flickr is 20 this year. They made a 2 min. promo video.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/53710256330/

I found it b/c he Flickr Commons "conversation view" tool that my Flickr Foundation colleagues built had some mentions of it

https://commons.flickr.org/conversations/

One of the images in the video, there for a split second, is this one of my great aunt and uncle at their wedding sometime in the 1940s. Random coincidence, my mom had the pic up with a @creativecommons license. Someone saw it and liked it. Was fun to see it again.

jessamyn, to random
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Every person their book

https://www.librarian.net/stax/5513/every-person-their-book/

jerzone, to random
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This needs its own post.
First off, I’d love to explore it, especially the very top. But what is up with the windows?? The center jumble on second floor to start, but even the far right windows on 1st, 2nd, 3rd floor all have different spacing. Middle decks are staggered, in fact the whole middle “shaft” seems like an add-on. The left/right 3rd story roofs don’t match, other than the slate.

⭐️8 stars, keep people guessing!

jessamyn,
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@jerzone @knizer Yeah I assume making it in to apartments, needed a certain number of fire exits, decided FUCK IT WE'RE PUTTING IN A TOWER. BOB'S KID DOES CONTRACTING and there you go. Is there a porta-potty and an air pump on the corner?

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pardon the brief interruption in your weekend

BUT OMG DID YOU SEE THESE?!?

jessamyn,
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@gbhnews The weirdest thing about it, to me, was that you could only sort of detect a shimmer up here (Central Vermont) but longer exposures on the phone totally showed you what you were looking at.

anildash, to random
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Loved what @cassidoo says here about human curation — it’s a vital part of discovery and inspiration on the web. As she mentions, we’ve been doing it on @glitchdotcom from the start (including experiments with things like print zines) but it’s a big part of what we’re focusing on in the new version of Glitch that we’re previewing now. Read Cassidy’s piece here, and then ponder a bit… how should human curation online work? https://cassidoo.co/post/human-curation/

jessamyn,
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@anildash

👋

  • Waves tiredly from MetaFilter.*

As people say a lot to me "Look sort-by-date is still an algo but it's a transparent one" I wish we had even more inroads to the nearly twenty-five years of content on MeFi, but not at the expense of the site's current transparency.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How many domains do you own?

#EvanPoll #poll

jessamyn,
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@evan

I've pared it down to eleven!

Main
jessamyn.com
jessamyn.info
librarian.net

Others
WestPhotos.site
libfaq.com
mossarium.com
VTMAS.org
MassMAS.org
BendyPig.com
EduWrite.com (mom's old one)

Not Mine But I Am Registrar
VermontLibraries.org

mathowie, to random
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In 2003, a friend ran her first 5k and raised money for a great cause, Guide Dogs for the Blind and I gave $20 happily. To this day, Guide Dogs mails me postcards every few months, no matter how many times my address changes. Today I got this text from the nonprofit 21 years after my sole donation.

My point is Customer Relations Management (CRM) software like Salesforce is too good at what it does and must be stopped.

jessamyn,
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@mathowie It's a real problem. I run a non-profit which makes a few charitable donations per year in decent amounts and I always donate when someone has lost a loved one or is running a race. The amount of much-later emails and paper mail and occasional PHONE CALLS (what!) is astonishing.

Especially hard b/c these are all good causes and things I generally support but I have to say "Please take me off of your pet rescue/trans kids support/medical debt relief CRM list" more than I'd care to.

jessamyn,
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@mathowie We finally started mailing paper checks, with no address on them, with a contact name of Miss Woo (my sister's cat) so at least we know which outreach attempts are coming from a letter that specifically stated "This is a one time thing do not add me to your mailing lists"

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@danhon @skry @mathowie Why is there no Do Not Reply card for this?

jessamyn,
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@danhon @skry @mathowie Yeah that totally makes sense but there's definitely a "Do not tell me about $FLAVOR_OF_THE_YEAR" aspect that I could use, whether it's blockchain, ai or nfts.

But realistically I am writing MYSELF a card that says "Do not tell me that my implementation of a thing which you also could have done but did not implement is not working for you" 😂

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