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zaivala

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Linux user since 2002, never a sys admin or IT guy. Podcaster on mintCast, Distrohoppers' Digest, and Full Circle Weekly News podcasts. Chief Bard of Triad Bardic College. Filker. Avid reader. Pagan priest and multi-ordained minister. Substitute teacher. Wrong as much as right, and always left. Southeastern US.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

zaivala,
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@RickiTarr that sounds very much like where I live, in Eastern Tennessee

zaivala, to random
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@ken_fallon
I had no idea how minimalistic my idea was. I wrote down everything I wanted to say, did a quickie recording of it, and it's under 4 minutes. Are you still interested?

zaivala,
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@ken_fallon
I'll see if I can't extend it a couple more minutes

SallyStrange, to scifi
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


@bookstodon

zaivala,
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@Eliot_L @SallyStrange @bookstodon
This all sounds like a new version of social engineering, like we put our favorite authors in our passwords

russellmcormond, to actuallyautistic
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I'm regularly confused why anyone, especially parents of Autistic children, would think ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is a good thing.

Sure, it might make your child compliant at moments when you want to do show-and-tell with your "friends", but you will be generating lifelong trauma.

https://neurodivergentrebel.substack.com/p/neurodivergent-rebels-neurodivergent

@actuallyautistic


zaivala,
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@russellmcormond @actuallyautistic
I can't thank you enough for spelling out what ABA is. I've seen it referred to in so many posts by fellow autists but this is the first time I have seen anyone actually spell out what the initials mean so I could go look it up and find out why it is so bad.

jon, (edited ) to Vivaldi
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I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?

Feel free to share your story!

#Vivaldi #Opera #Browser #Android #iOS #Windows #Mac #Linux

zaivala,
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@jon ...and I use Firefox now

zaivala,
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@jon Yes

zaivala,
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@jon
I should probably go a little deeper than just a simple yes. I have tried Vivaldi on a number of occasions, and it's just got too big of a learning curve for me. I also don't much care for using anything with a Google engine on it, regardless of how much privacy is supposed to be included.

etherdiver, to ShareYourMusic
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Hey , send me some of your new(er) stuff and I'll give it a listen and a short write-up here and on my blog this week. Details here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-other-peoples-music/

And a recent example here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/19/opm-from-folk-to-experimental-electronics/

Please boost this to get it in front of as many musicians as possible!

zaivala,
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@etherdiver
All my better recordings are "live" on mordewis.bandcamp.com. the only professionally produced stuff is the oldest album there, "All the Love".

etherdiver, to music
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Need some ideas where to spend that sweet #BandcampFriday cash? Try this blog covering 6 different fediverse artists, including @limneticvillains @AlienAnomaly @LucaManciniDrummer @baymud @mralex and @jonnyfallout

Worth a look even if you read all my Mastodon posts about them, since I have more to say when I am not limited to 500 characters!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/05/opm-4-5-23-rock-sampledelica-more/

#music #MusicWriting #MusicBlog

zaivala,
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@etherdiver @limneticvillains @AlienAnomaly @LucaManciniDrummer @baymud @mralex @jonnyfallout
And me!
https://mordewis.bandcamp.com
The only professionally produced CD I have is called All the Love, and it is available with bonus tracks for $10 on bandcamp.

FanCityKnits, to crochet
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Tunisian #crochet - a new rabbit hole?

I learned the basics in the 1970ies, but didn't do much with it. A pillow cover a few years ago was a bit of a fiasco, so again, I put it away.

But today I saw this #CAL (which I mistook for a KAL initially).

https://knitterknotter.com/tunisian-blanket-cal-2024-hexagons-designed-by-cal-participants/

I now I want to try again - but with less splitty yarn than last time. And with much more attention to keep an even gauge.

#TunisianCrochet @crochet @fiberarts #fiberarts

zaivala,
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@FanCityKnits @crochet @fiberarts
I do not know what a CAL is, and it is not explained anywhere in the article.

zaivala,
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@SooJin @FanCityKnits @crochet @fiberarts Thank you

mekkaokereke, to random
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The people that vote for the Oscars, don't look like the people that watch the films. The Academy is much older, whiter, and dude-ier*. Oscar winners, are the inevitable outcome of Oscar voters.

The question isn't "Has the Academy changed enough to where filmmakers from marginalized backgrounds have the same chance to win an Oscar yet?"

The question is "Will the Oscars have the same relevance to society 10 years from now, that they do today?"

(*In 2022, 81% white, 67% men.)

zaivala,
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@mekkaokereke
I only take a minor objection to this, in that I am an old white man and I love watching movies that show different types and genders of individuals. I was probably influenced by Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mrs Doubtfire at a younger age, but it likely went back much further. I do support further diversity among the Oscar voters.

GottaLaff, to random
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Need some good news? Me too.

“Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill that can be purchased without a prescription, will be available later this month online and in pharmacies for $19.99 a month, $49.99 for a three-month supply or $89.99 for a six-month supply”

https://trib.al/YAXpbwX

zaivala,
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@darwinwoodka @Lizette603_23
We donate to the non-profit formerly known as NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League). I don't remember what the new name is.

drahardja, (edited ) to ai
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How the mighty have fallen.

I remember c|net as a standard-bearer of tech journalism back in the 1990s. Theirs was one of the few bookmarks I opened regularly to read about tech news.

Red Ventures has destroyed its reputation, along with all their other properties’ like ZDNet (the other fantastic tech news site). RV’s decisive pivot to AI is likely fatal; they will accelerate the descent of all their outlets into a content swill mill fit only for your blocklist.

#AI is an #enshittification accelerator.

“Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI Scandal”

https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai

zaivala,
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@drahardja
We still have slash dot? I have noticed that there's not much going on at Linuxquestions.org...

zaivala, to random
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flockofnazguls, (edited ) to random
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    zaivala,
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    @flockofnazguls
    My first distro was on floppies. However I never installed it. Ditto for my second. My third distro, which I actually did install, was Mandrake, on CDs.

    shoq, to random
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    Splendidly efficient letter to the editor of the Washington Post criticizing their ruinously misdirected Trump coverage. Pass it on.

    cc @dangillmor @jayrosen_nyu

    zaivala,
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    @shoq @dangillmor @jayrosen_nyu
    My main problem with this is it does not show that it is the Washington Post nor does it give the date and page number. There have been a lot of fakes over the years that I'm not willing to believe this one. Good letter though...

    zaivala,
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    @shoq @dangillmor @jayrosen_nyu
    Not blaming you, just looking for a little bit of proof. I seen that posted a lot of places and I've even reposted it myself.

    zaivala,
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    @dangillmor @shoq
    Great. Paywall. I'm not only cheap, I'm broke.

    aral, to ai
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    Hey, have you donated to Mozilla recently? Congratulations, you helped them fund their AI startup with $30 million.

    👏 👏 👏

    #mozilla #MozillaAI #MozillaVC #AI #VC https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/111943351660201503

    zaivala,
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    @aral and the $60+ million that their CEO makes

    vga256, (edited ) to SmallWeb
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    after watching doug block's Home Page (1999) documentary a half-dozen times over the past year, i realized how much i missed having a personal home page.

    not an itch.io page. not a github repo. not an imgur album.

    an actual personal home page full of links to interesting places and people, and a little blog area to write personal stuff in. i haven't had a personal blog since the early 2000s.

    i wanted to have some fun, so I hauled my dusty ol' iMac G5 out of storage and installed Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks. i hadn't used any of them in almost 20 years.

    i thought it might take me a week to build a home page...

    ... it took me a year 😅

    so this is my little attempt at rebuilding what we lost in the 90s. let me know if you've got a little homepage i can link back to in my hyperlinks area.

    http://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256

    zaivala,
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    @vga256
    I remember my first page was on GeoCities. Then when Yahoo took over GeoCities I just had my own web page built. It took a few years before I actually got it working but all the information was there, I just had to learn how to do links better. I have migrated it a couple times since, and I don't know if it fits your definition of homepage, but it can be found at https://peacefulhippo.info . Feel free to follow me or block me as you choose.

    zaivala, to random
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    @organicmaps

    This is where I live. There is no such thing as New Emory Road. There is no such thing as Old Emory Road. What is marked as Old Emory Road is merely Emory Road, the other one is just State Highway 61. The location is Blaine Tennessee, 61 goes nowhere close to where Emory Road goes.
    Screenshot (Feb 9, 2024 22:13:58)

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Aww... #RIP Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and appeared in Predator, The Mandalorian, Happy Gilmore, Action Jackson and dozens of other films and TV shows, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 76. https://deadline.com/2024/02/carl-weathers-dead-1235812684/

    zaivala,
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    @GottaLaff
    I really wish people would stop dying who are only a few years older than me.

    docpop, to random
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    Happy #BandCampFriday, y'all! I'm always excited to see so many rad indie musicians releasing new albums. Any favorite new releases on #Bandcamp that I should take a listen to?

    zaivala,
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    @docpop
    I will point out that most of the music I have posted on my bandcamp page is available free unless you want to give me a donation. mordewis.bandcamp.com

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