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arbitrator/mediator/lawyer; curious, humanist, globalist; husband, father, zayde x 3; Lexington Group; Little Crow band Mdewakanton and then Arch. Ireland lands by MSP. #tfr Header image is a rock formation in the Mississippi Gorge right west of my house that looks like a sci-fi soldier. Avatar is me, lying on Minnie, a ShihTzu/poodle mix. She looks...suspicious.

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mattblaze, to random
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For some reason, I got a ton (or at least several ounces) of people asking me about Faraday bags for phones the last couple days.

While I’m not in the Faraday bag testing business, you might find this writeup I did a couple years ago helpful, mainly to explore how you can think about what Faraday bags do and don’t do and how to measure them. Go science!

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

wndlb,
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@mattblaze Great piece!

(The one thing that wasn’t mentioned was (ballpark) prices.)

wisteela, to random

BBC News - Ukraine Eurovision act's city attacked before performance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65586701

wndlb,
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@wisteela Warfare as trolling in a major way.

feditips, to random
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What is the Fediverse? What does federation mean?

📞 When you call a phone number, your phone provider will connect to other providers in order to put your call through. You're part of the worldwide phone network: hundreds of independent phone providers talking to each other.

:fediverse: When you publish a post on here, your server will connect to other servers to distribute your post. You're part of the worldwide Fediverse: thousands of independent social media servers talking to each other.

wndlb,
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@feditips Guess you never met Ma Bell back in the day...

jeffjarvis, to random
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A pointed message from one judge to nine others about race and guns https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/12/affirmative-action-reggie-walton-supreme-court/

wndlb,
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@jeffjarvis Bush appointee, fwiw, but, unlike the SCt, not driven over the edge by ideology.

JamesGleick, to random
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In Ron DeSantis’s Florida, students must not learn that Nazis did anything bad.

Also, “social justice” must not be mentioned.

https://www.rawstory.com/holocaust/

wndlb,
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@JamesGleick pictures of naked ppl too. At the camps.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Just found out why my yard looks like shit. Apparently, it's no mow May?

wndlb,
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@stevesplace WIL at https://www.threeriversparks.org/location/landing: flowers around the house and front lawns were an ostentatious sign of prosperity, and a way of snubbing those who had to use the land around their houses to grow food for the inhabitants.

alcinnz, to random
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A theme I saw yesterday & unwittingly contributed to: Old protocols are perfectly satisfactory. The issue is that as technology is brought to the masses it gets filtered through the lens of capitalism!

Personally I quite like:

  • HTTP
  • HTML (caveats)
  • CSS (caveats)
  • RSS
  • XMPP
  • eMail

I tend to be quite cynical about what gets sold as innovations, but I won't say there ever was a golden era of computing we've fallen from grace from.

~2000 had good standards though!

wndlb,
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@alcinnz The true Golden Era ended when the IBM System 360 was released.

GossiTheDog, to random
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Microsoft, one of the world’s most profitable companies - a story in two parts.

image/jpeg

wndlb,
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@GossiTheDog I’ve lived this movie before, and it leaves a very bitter feeling.

chrismessina, to random
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This is wild. Bing is such a colossal failure.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-eyes-firefox-search-deal-as-bing-chatbot-gains-sputter?rc=jmvfbx

wndlb,
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@chrismessina global DESKTOP sessions? And data from yipit? OpenAI is not in the Apple app store, and I just went through the usual struggles to get it on my iPhone. I'm no Bing fanboy, but color me skeptical.

jeffjarvis, to random
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TWiT News will have live coverage of Google I/O with @leo and me in less than an hour from now. We'll be live at 10 am PT/1 pm ET: https://twit.tv/live

wndlb,
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@jeffjarvis @leo OMG, I was afraid that was , of the painting!

pbump, to random
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I wrote a handy-dandy guide for Republicans looking for inspiration on how to respond to the Carroll verdict. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/10/trump-carroll-sexual-assault/

wndlb,
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@pbump "It doesn't matter!" "No biggie!" Should I do the other three?

pivoinebleue, to random

🚨George Santos surrenders to federal law enforcement to face fraud, money laundering and additional charges

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/george-santos-surrenders-to-federal-law-enforcement-to-face-fraud-money-laundering-and-additional-charges/ar-AA1b08sx

>Rep. George Santo was taken into custody at a Long Island courthouse as the Department of Justice unsealed a 13-count federal indictment against him.

wndlb,
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@pivoinebleue I can write it now: "due to the complexity of the case, cannot be tried before, oh, December 24." Not sure prosecution can be made...speedier.

lauren, to internet
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Tonight on my usual Monday evening network radio tech segment, I'll be discussing the disgusting spread across of explicit imagery from Saturday's Texas mall shootings, and the collapse of Twitter Trust & Safety under Musk.

wndlb,
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@lauren A leading Member of Congress put it out, along with mis- or disinfo about his gang affiliation. (MTG, doncha know, along with quite the list of policy proposals.)

rmogull, to random

Explaining the integration of AI into Office to a client…

"It's just SkyNet dressed as Clippy”

wndlb,
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@rmogull I still have gotten 5 phising emails into my Focused Outlook email inbox just today.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Earlier cable TV systems did not have stereo TV channel capabilities (nor did anyone yet have stereo reception TV sets!) So, for channels like MTV, the system would put the stereo audio on an unused FM frequency, and you could receive the stereo on an FM receiver tuned to that frequency. The systems also usually sent most of the local major FM stations that way. You did this via a cable splitter and attaching with a 75->300 ohm adapter to the receiver antenna terminals.

wndlb,
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@lauren I’m almost sure I recollect watching, say, Live Aid on cable, with the TV’s (crappy!) sound muted, and the FM, through the stereo receiver, turned W-A-Y up.

wndlb,
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@lauren Funny thing, though: this worked! There wasn't a perceptible time gap (typically) between the sound and the video. Now, CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC and BBC can be as much as like 5 seconds off from each other on the same 'live' feeds (a Biden press conference).

lauren, to fediverse
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On running a personal instance:

Running my own instance has worked well you see.
The admin is me and we always agree!
Q.E.D.

wndlb,
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@lauren Ah, but who moderates your instance?

wndlb,
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@lauren [citation needed] for that last!

GWillow, to random

has gotten very robust, proud of us

wndlb,
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@GWillow Richmond Greyhounds are still better, particularly in their coaching.

shoq, to random
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This is my very first post to Mastodon from our app, the mother of all browser extensions. Coming soon to a Chromestore near you.

I will try authoring a thread in a moment.

wndlb,
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@shoq Welcome! Stay a while!

rbreich, to random

Fed rate hikes aren't simply a dial that controls inflation.

They're more like a Rube Goldberg machine—slowing the economy so much that workers lose jobs and pay until (maybe, just maybe) prices drop.

This is a bad way to fight inflation that's largely driven by price gouging.

wndlb,
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@KashifShah @stargazersmith @Npars01 @echanda Oodles--and they are just getting started down this path: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kennedy+v+bremerton+significance&ia=web

wndlb,
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@KashifShah @stargazersmith @Npars01 @echanda Then, see this as an indication of where things are going to be going between now and 2030 or so: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/04/23/texas-will-test-whether-kennedy-v-bremerton-abrogated-engel-v-vitale-stone-v-graham-and-wallace-v-jaffree/

wndlb,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Npars01 @atheistic_1 @pyperkub @staidwinnow @northernlights @echanda The Attorney General is determined to make all such care impossible for all Missouri residents, and I would have little faith that any injunction survives the Eighth Circuit.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

Despite only being validated in February, I think Group federation has been a smashing success for the Fediverse.

I use Fediverse groups every day.

And if you’re interacting with this post, so are you.

Fediverse groups even make Mastodon that much more extensible despite Mastodon itself not officially supporting groups yet.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-1b12.md

@fediversenews

wndlb,
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@BenjaminNelan The local feed wasn't said to be this, but I rapidly found it to be the For You, the algorithm, but w-a-y more random.

wndlb, to random
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Did you know about the @philipncohen scandal? https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/chatgpt-is-defaming-me-and-it-must-be-someones-fault/

wndlb,
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@HistoPol @philipncohen He should be de-famed, like, oh, Justin Bieber seems to be of late.

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