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wcbdata

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Data, privacy, ethics, old houses, and food
And some other things
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Entropy repairman
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gedeonm, to random
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Anyone out there drive an Ioniq 5? I’m looking at it for my next car and need to gather opinions both good and bad. If you have thoughts you wanna share please let me know. Thx!

wcbdata,
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@gedeonm @stealthv I just read that the Bolt has a dog mode - 20 minutes, max twice in succession for 40 min.

Gustodon, to random
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It's obscene that someone's religious beliefs can affect someone else's ability to access medical technology.

wcbdata,
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@AutisticMumTo3 @benroyce @Natanox @Gustodon The two are the same. There is no such thing as a "protest vote" or "protest non-vote " In a democracy, every action and inaction is a decision with consequences.

wcbdata,
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@Natanox @Gustodon @benroyce In the US, 50-75% of the electorate does NOT vote. This means, simply, that shirkers could easily change the system but choose not to.

wcbdata,
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@AutisticMumTo3 @Natanox @Gustodon @benroyce There is no such thing. If there are multiple candidates, you vote for the one closest to your ideal. If lots of people do that several times, the widow starts to shift. That's how we ended up where we are - just with people who are invested in shit candidates shifting the window away from where I'd prefer it.

wcbdata,
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@thesquirrelfish @jztusk @AutisticMumTo3 @benroyce @Natanox @Gustodon And so you are the problem.

selzero, (edited ) to music
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The year is 1989.

We are making a mix tape.

Everyone gets to add one song.

Which song are you adding?

I'll start. Don't Stop Me Now by Queen.

UPDATE:

1989 is here.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2V1prlH4EKwYsVRRrDDPq1?si=ej9lXVCWRFmoBYNSso7YTA&pi=e-diNDzH86Tayo

A playlist created in collaboration with friends on Mastodon. ❤️

EDIT:

Ok I added a bunch more. There is almost 12 hours of music on the list! That's 16 x 45 minute mix tapes!! Thanks everyone.

wcbdata,
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@selzero

I'm torn.
Yeah, I was a weird kid.

MLE_online, to random
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It's hard to write a concise sentence when you have to identify the person in the sentence with a title like, "The Edmund R. and Fanny L. Robertson Endowed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior; Dawes Leadership Chair of Social Science; and Hawthorne-Croft Medical Institute investigator."

e.g.
A new theory by Jim Smith, the The Edmund R. and Fanny L. Robertson Endowed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior; Dawes Leadership Chair of Social Science; and Hawthorne-Croft Medical Institute investigator, is changing the way we view interpersonal conflict

wcbdata,
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@rose_alibi @MLE_online
Even as a cis white guy, when I was 15 years younger than all my peers and had a long ponytail, a title was often the only thing that would get other professionals to get over their shit and talk with me.

DrTCombs, to random
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Over on threads, I'm doing that thing where I change my profile pic to a random white guy and wait to see how long before the reply guys stop being assholes to me.

Don't tell...

wcbdata,
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@DrTCombs It works so effectively in reverse that I won't even try it because of the nonstop shit I'd continue to get even after changing mine back...

lauren, to random
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More on nationwide AT&T mobile outage

  • Only the AT&T network has gone down (and apparently also impacting aspects of use of the FirstNet first responders network built by AT&T).

  • Other carriers may be experiencing congestion in some areas as a result of the AT&T outage, but they have not reported any significant outages.

  • MVNO carriers (e.g. Cricket) that actually operate on the AT&T network will be affected, because they do not actually operate their own networks.

  • AT&T says a cyber attack was not involved. My top bet is cascade failure during a software update due to their incompetent network design and
    terrible support.

  • 911 says use landlines to reach them. In California, AT&T is currently before the CPUC trying to end all landline services, and later even VoIP on anything other than fiber, and most areas don't have fiber.

  • Use of Wi-Fi calling has been suggested, but most people don't have that set up, and it's useless if you're not near a Wi-Fi AP you can use, including the very large number of people who now depend on their phones as their only Internet access.

L

wcbdata,
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@lauren I thought AT&T was an MVND. Pretty sure it was for New England at one point recently...

wcbdata,
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@lauren I wonder what I was remembering... I could have sworn around the time of the Cingular merger that AT&T was paying for time on other towers because they had no infrastructure here. Bow I'm curious what it was that I'd read back then... 🤔

wcbdata,
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@lauren Gotcha - that makes sense... So they sort of acted like one out of necessity, but weren't one from a regulatory standpoint?

jasongorman, to random
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It's really very simple: the difference between a software engineer and a software developer is that software engineers call themselves "software engineers" instead of "software developers".

And that's literally all.

wcbdata,
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@Di4na
My mistake!
I know we've had to be careful with job titles in several countries, but I'd thought it was the US that was the exception. Probably should be more common to control the title, imo.
@jasongorman

wcbdata,
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@jasongorman Software Engineers are in the US, most other places, they're developers because it's illegal to call yourself an engineer if you aren't one (e.g., Canada) 😉

simon, to random
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A home networking TIL: our house has Cat5 ethernet in the walls which taps out at 100Mbps, but we have nearly 1Gbps coming into the house

TIL about MoCA, which lets you run up to 2.5Gbps over existing TV coaxial cables (which our house has as well)! https://til.simonwillison.net/networking/ethernet-over-coaxial-cable

wcbdata,
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@simon Cat-5 will absolutely handle 1 gbps without breaking a sweat. If it's wired well, it'll do 2.5 gbps within the spec, and could do more if short, well-assembled, and pushed a bit. You might need a better router or switch, but the wire is not limiting you to 100Mbit unless it's cat-5 jacks with speaker wire running through the walls..

MLE_online, to random
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Someone should make an electronics breadboard shaped like a slice of bread

wcbdata,
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@MLE_online every once in a while I see things at flea markets like the first photo here. The aesthetic is fantastic...
https://tangentsoft.com/elec/breadboard.html

Loukas, to random
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Someone needs to do some basic data science on the correlation between ending your posts with "..." and being a total racist.

I suspect the correlation is STRONG and it's because they're trying to heavily hint and what they don't really have the balls to say out loud.

wcbdata,
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@Loukas As a frequent ellipsis user who learned the habit from early IM communities (and who strives to not be an asshole), I've always considered it a mark of the Olds who were just early to tech... (See there? Totally instinctive. Trying hard not to be a racist, tho!)

janeadams, to kpop
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Our paper just won "Best Paper Engaged in Quantitative Description on an Under-studied Phenomenon" from JQDM for 2023! 🏆 I'm no longer in work, but it's still dear to my heart, and this paper was a blast :) Spoiler: We learned a whole lot about

"Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop."
https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.004

wcbdata,
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@janeadams CONGRATULATIONS! I probably need to go read the paper now, too 😁

atomicpoet, to random
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With the whole “Doom runs on everything” meme, it was only a matter of time before a company leaned into it by pre-installing Doom on an appliance, and making everything official.

Which is why Doom is coming to Husqvarna lawnmowers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXkOdvDfPFU

wcbdata,
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@atomicpoet This is wonderful.

zackwhittaker, to random
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New, by me: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from selling consumers’ web browsing data to advertisers.

Avast will pay $16.5 million to settle the FTC's allegations that it sold the sensitive browsing data of millions of its customers collected from its browser extensions (ostensibly to provide privacy) to more than a hundred other companies.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/ftc-bans-avast-selling-customers-sensitive-browsing-data/

wcbdata,
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@zackwhittaker I'll repeat this here:

Data from "100 million devices"
...
Sixteen point five
...
carry the ten
...
move the thing
...
um
...
16.5¢ per person. AT MOST.
😡

kristinHenry, to random
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Hey vis.social folks!

You may have heard about the possible bluesky-bridging to mastodon.

We are currently looking into how it might work or impact our server (and server costs). Also, considering what looks like an un-ethical non-consensual opt-out-only approach.

Our moderation team is looking into it, and working to learn more.

--vis.social moderation team

wcbdata,
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@kristinHenry Thank you!

wcbdata,
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@kristinHenry thank you!

jasonkoebler, to random
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p good

https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-started-speaking-gibberish/

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wcbdata,
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@jasonkoebler Tagging @universalhub for the local connection

kristinHenry, to random
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Hey vis.social folks!

Please do NOT harass our moderators when they ask you to add a CW to a post. Harassment of anyone is not acceptable in this community.

Please read the rules and code of conduct for this community instance. They are listed on our About page: https://vis.social/about

If you don't understand them, then ask us...without calling them "dumb".

If you don't agree with them, then please find a different instance or platform.

--vis.social moderation team

wcbdata,
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@kristinHenry And the vast majority of us support our mods on this. They have a mob. Don't get us angry.

wcbdata, to random
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Who knows a fedi-present artist who sells embossed metallic Linux badges for rescued PCs? 😁

wcbdata, to random
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Hey @signalapp - any chance you'd work with LightPhone on a tool (they don't use "app") for Signal on the LightPhone2? All it has right now is SMS...

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