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mrcompletely, to random
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Okay a lot of us have had various "okay, the Fediverse has arrived" moments, and while I never thought it hadn't arrived (I like it here), asking for an upgrade to the song Set Your Chickens Free late on a Sunday and having it in a reply when I wake up Monday is absolutely 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

zl2tod,
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@mrcompletely
And so I wonder, who has a nice tidy version of this:

RickiTarr, to random
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They always tell on themselves:

zl2tod,
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@RickiTarr
If Ivanka knows what the quote is about, she's threatening her father.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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The endlessly spinning wheel in Ubuntu software update has returned me to the command line, which no average user of a modern operating system should ever, ever have to use...

Update: To be clear (I apparently wasn't clear enough), I often use the command line. What I was trying to say is that "regular" (i.e. non-nerdy) folks should never have to do this.

zl2tod,
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@dangillmor
type
apt update
if that works type
apt upgrade

ai6yr, to earthquake
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M7.4 earthquake in Taiwan... Tsunami.

zl2tod,
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@ai6yr
Hey Ben,

Any chance of tweaking your NWS Tsunami bot to grab the global rather than the US-centric feed?

zl2tod, to random
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THE POLAR VORTEX IS SPINNING BACKWARDS: Earlier this month, atmospheric scientists noticed something unusual in the Arctic stratosphere. The polar vortex was spinning backward.

"The vortex changed direction around March 4th," reports Dr. Amy Butler, author of NOAA's Polar Vortex Blog. "It was a substantial reversal, reaching -20.5 m/s a few days ago, which puts it in the top 6 strongest such events since 1979."

...

https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=20&month=03&year=2024

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Lost in the depths of an abandoned power plant

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/gould-street-power-station

zl2tod,
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@AbandonedAmerica
My guess is that they are backup generators to run the control systems and the field windings.

zl2tod,
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@AbandonedAmerica
Field windings in the main generators create the magnetic field in which the coils on the armature spin, thus generating electricity.
For smaller machines where efficiency and power are less important permanent magnets are used. Recently rare earth magnets moved this balance away from field windings.

mcc, to random
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So I wanted to install a font on Linux and Google said the way to do that in Ubuntu Gnome is to double click the font and click "install". So I did that and it worked

Except

On the italic variant (just the plain italic; italic bold worked fine) if I click "install" it thinks for a moment and instead of reading "installed" it goes back to a plain "install" button like I hadn't done anything?? What's happening??

video/mp4

zl2tod,
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@mcc
I installed Intel One Mono, designed for readability, but it was significantly less readable than the Monospace font I was already using so I've not done more with it.

zl2tod, to random
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Consumer NZ chief executive Jon Duffy on in supermarkets:

"Something smells here. I can smell it. My bald mate can smell it. The Privacy Commissioner can smell it. To me, it smells like crap."

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/foodstuffs-use-of-facial-technology-a-red-flag-jon-duffy/NGBYKJJVYVEBNAGOWDZKEWIC7Y/

SteveBellovin, (edited ) to random
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Post content deleted because I was wrong, per https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin/111978392658829849

zl2tod,
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@SteveBellovin
https://mastodon.online/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/111983095248733111

fastchicken, to random
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ok, so: on a mac.

I have (lets say) 5 mp3/aacs I want to merge together, possibly change the speed (eg 105 or 110%) for one, with pitch shift, possibly add a loop of the track + the last 33% of the track (eg 2 verse+chorus, and I want to repeat the last V+C again)

What do I use?

zl2tod,
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@fastchicken
ffmpeg? Audacity? Though how you do all that on a hamburger I dunno.

zl2tod, to random
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Bring out your dead

ai6yr, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Hmm, that seems like a bit of a glitch--remind me to never wear a t-shirt of a pickup truck being towed down the street: "Waymo recalls and updates robotaxi software after two cars crashed into the same towed truck" https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/waymo-recall-crash-software-self-driving-cars/?guccounter=1 #robot #cars #Waymo

zl2tod,
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@ai6yr
Ooops.
I guess the AI training data didn't include many vehicles travelling in reverse.

jonny, to random
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They did WHAT
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

zl2tod,
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@jonny
Seems fair.
For decades New Zealand's best economic model was an analogue hydraulic computer.

https://www.engineeringnz.org/programmes/heritage/heritage-records/moniac-and-bill-phillips/

ai6yr, to adsb
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USMC flight that crashed was TIGER11, AE4B95.

https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=ae4b95

zl2tod,
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@ai6yr
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/351533

zl2tod,
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@ai6yr @douglasvb
There's no obvious sign of search activity.

w7voa, to random
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There's "a simple reason," according to President Biden, why the bipartisan border security funding deal is not moving forward: "Donald Trump" and it looks like the Republicans "are caving."

zl2tod,
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@w7voa
We may have a little trouble forgetting Biden's complicity in the of the Palestinians too.

zl2tod,
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@LaNaehForaday @w7voa
Biden is still sending weapons, ordnance and ammunition.
And protecting Israel in the UN Security Council.
A plague on all their houses, Trump included.

kyhwana, to random
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Exhibit A https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-do-we-know-about-chinas-respiratory-illness-surge-2023-12-01/
Exhibit B https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/queensland-health-authorities-responding-to-spike-in-covid-like-mycoplasma-pneumonia-c-13484907

zl2tod,
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@kyhwana
I guess if there's a virus running around knocking out certain specific parts of immune systems, pathogens, which would normally be defeated by those immune functions, will succeed.
Now, where have I heard that story before?
Oh yes, pneumocystis pneumonia in HTLV4 / HIV / AIDS.

BobLefridge, to NewZealand
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The Postal Workers Union of Aotearoa says NZ Post has confirmed there will be no posties within five years. Instead, mail will be delivered by "independent contractor couriers." No holidays or sick pay, cover the costs of your vehicle and no job security.

“We don’t think a state-owned enterprise should be basing its delivery model on the vulnerability of contract couriers.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350166226/days-posties-are-numbered-union

zl2tod,
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@BobLefridge
The local branch is a contractor; the parcel delivery people are contractors; the couriers are contractors. Because none of them are part of NZ Post none of them GAF about the customers.

You can pay Big Money for a redirection service only to discover that it doesn't apply to parcels because "fine print".

And everything costs more than employing staff to deliver core services because other unprincipled pricks are taking a slice of profit at every stage.

zl2tod,
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@BobLefridge
And, they sold off almost all their buildings so they are paying another slice of profit to landlords.

Fools.

zl2tod,
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@BobLefridge

Note also the British Post Office / Fujitsu scandal in the UK.

NZ Post management takes many cues from the British Post Office.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/19/fujitsu-accountable-post-office-scandal-too-important

zl2tod,
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@krupo @BobLefridge
Fujitsu were mired in some big fraud or corruption scandal here in New Zealand a decade or two ago too. I've failed to find reference to it though.
There was this more recently:
https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/cases/chief-executive-of-the-department-of-corrections-v-fujitsu-new-zealand-limited

zl2tod,
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@krupo @BobLefridge
I think this is part of the old scandal I remember.
Perhaps @billbennett remembers the core issues at play. It was probably part of his beat.
http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZEmpC/2004/6.html
Background notes:
Fujitsu took over Ye Olde British computer company ICL.
Melco is/was Mitsubishi Electric's NZ offshoot.

zl2tod,
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@billbennett @krupo @BobLefridge
I appears from searches that Fujitsu spend rather a lot of money wiping the internet of anything that may not cast them in a good light.

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