clonezone

@clonezone@mastodon.social

Music-obsessed software geek. Wrote a good chunk of Perl::Critic. Banner image is “The Gift” by Richard Notkin.

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clonezone, to animals

Go watch an assortment of animals milling about in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxz8MiYIdqA

#bosgoedAnimalParadise #animals #netherlands #video

clonezone, to Podcast

"The mayor, the prince and the gift that invaded Japan’s biggest lake"

https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/podcast/points-north/2023-12-08/the-prince-fish

#podcast #Chicago #Japan #fish #richardJDaley #daBoss #history #Y1960

chris, to random
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    clonezone,

    @chris @futuresprog I use @guardianfirewall all the time, even at home, on both phone and iPad. Yeah, I could manage my own VPN and some sort of tracker filter, but I have better things to do with my time.

    Side benefit of setting exit point to a non-English speaking country: podcast dynamic ad insertion geotargetting doesn't know what to do and uses ads in a language that I do not understand, or completely gives up and inserts no ads.

    clonezone,

    @chris It isn't just the VPN. It's the tracker filtering and the disassociation of my traffic from my fixed IP address. Also, I set things up so separate devices appear from different VPN exit points so that their traffic can't be correlated. (Not paranoid enough to go all TOR; just want to frustrate standard ad tracking.)

    Plus, Guardian was started by @chronic.

    gruber, to random
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    Electron.

    clonezone,

    @agiletortoise @gruber Yeah… but Command-Q is right next to Command-W and browsers have long restart times, so I have found the similar thing in Firefox to be useful.

    counternotions, to random
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    WIRED: “The DOJ claims that unspecified surveys have reached similar conclusions, finding that the devices linked to their iPhones deter them from switching to Android.”

    And this is a crime?!

    clonezone,

    @mjgardner You failed at noticing a joke.

    clonezone, to random

    jless is so friggin' useful: https://jless.io/

    clonezone,

    @mjgardner “less”, etc. have been doing vi-derived interfaces for decades. And Vim long ago became the de facto implementation of vi.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What's a good movie to watch with your Mom?

    clonezone,

    @RickiTarr @lisamelton “Parents”. 😉

    "What were they before they were leftovers?”
    "Why, they were leftovers-to-be!”

    clonezone, to random

    The time 60 years ago that the Beatles held the top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart was nuts due to the number of record labels involved.

    https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2017/05/how_the_beatles_swept_the_billboard_chart_in_1964.html

    caseynewton, to random
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    Now that Bluesky is open to the public, I hope developers and publishers give it a second look. It has a lot of good ideas about the future of social networking: https://www.platformer.news/bluesky-public-opening-jay-graber/

    clonezone,

    @caseynewton Not for me while they require a phone number. Tried signing up today and as soon as I saw the SMS requirement, I bailed out.

    BasicAppleGuy, to random
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    Obscure Apple Accessories Bingo.

    clonezone,

    @BasicAppleGuy There is a SuperDrive currently plugged into my M1 Max MBP. 😬

    LibrarianRA, to food
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    What's for dinner?
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    Hellmanns Real Mayonnaise 1976
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    clonezone,

    @LibrarianRA @GayOldTime "cocktail vegetable"?

    clonezone, to random

    Movies were not considered "free speech" until 1952: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Burstyn,_Inc._v._Wilson

    writeblankspace, (edited ) to random

    Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

    Boost for science!

    You are:

    clonezone,

    @writeblankspace I am old enough that I will not use that term to refer to myself.

    clonezone, to random

    Dear autocorrect: do not replace “cow-orker" with “coworker”. I meant what I said.

    clonezone, to chicago

    #Chicago #train #CTA #snow #video

    View of Chicago street at dawn on an overcast, snowy day. There is a streetlight illuminating a cone of falling snow. A CTA train passes by on elevated tracks, the interior lights looking bluish.

    simonbs, to random
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    Looking for recommendations for good documentaries 👀

    clonezone,

    @simonbs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Enemies_(2015_film)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtubs_Over_Broadway
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fog_of_war
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchcock/Truffaut_(film)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Is_Burning_(film)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Every_Page

    clonezone,

    @simonbs As others have said, seek out Errol Morris movies; there are serious and humorous ones.

    Currently rewatching the “Slow Burn” miniseries based upon the first season of the podcast of the same name.

    If you want thought provoking eye-candy, look at Reggio's “Qatsi" trillogy. (The director of “Baraka” was the cinematographer of “Koyaanisqatsi”.)

    Seek out James Burke's “Connections" and “The Day the Universe Changed" series; legal means of acquiring those is challenging, unfortunately.

    clonezone,

    @alexcox @simonbs “F for Fake” is a documentary… and it isn’t a documentary. It is a thing to experience. 👍

    clonezone,

    @simonbs It depends upon what one finds depressing. I can deal with historical issues a lot better than current ones.

    Watergate being a thing that (eventually) everyone could agree was wrong makes for a decent subject.

    W.R.T. Morris: stay away from from "The Unknown Known”; that's depressing. "The Fog of War” is good for understanding a person that you may not agree with the actions of; I personally don't find it depressing.

    clonezone,

    @simonbs More Morris: "The Pigeon Tunnel" is on Apple TV+. I liked it.

    mcnees, (edited ) to random
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    The Apollo 8 astronauts performed lunar orbit insertion in 1968.

    Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the moon, the first to see an earthrise, fifty five years ago today.

    Anders spotted the Earth coming up over the Moon’s horizon:

    "Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

    Image: NASA

    clonezone,

    @mcnees Now I've got to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kOHF4YS5r8

    nixCraft, to random
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    What was the first version of Unix or Linux Server you were ever paid to work on?

    clonezone,

    @nixCraft

    Technically 1st: academic summer internship, an Encore Multimax.

    1st “proper" job: don't remember, some weird minicomputer accessed via actual terminals.

    nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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    Poll: what is the standard text editor for or ?

    clonezone,

    @nixCraft C’mon. vi is built on top of ed.

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