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cs

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Overeducated, underqualified. Always a dabbler, never a professional. He/him/his. I am in #Denton TX USA

#sdf #powerpop #pcusa #economics #geography #cartography #transportation #ActiveTransportation #policing #SocialJustice
I love #cars but would rather be riding the #bus and #trains

Just an opinionated SDF member for 18+ years.

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cs, to random
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Unexpected trip to Carlos E. Queijo

cs,
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Ice cream machine displays $1 ice cream but says you have to go to front counter. So we go to front counter and order the $1 ice cream. They said they don’t have it, but they have a $3. So we order that. They give us a beeper for our order. Then the guy comes out from the back and opens the vending machine with a key and gives it to us. 😝🥳

cs, to random
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Someone at church has updated this poster using Post-It notes. #Gaza

cs, to random
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AFC Helmold has played in the same grounds since 1878.

Me, wow, that sure doesn’t look like an old stadium. Look at Wikipedia… Updated 1900. Expanded 1936. Refurbished 1958. Rebuilt 1979. Remodeled 2019.

So it’s really a Stadium of Theseus thing…

cs, to mastodon
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Just noticed that @Chron stopped posting to #Mastodon at the end of February. 😢

cs, to austin
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How did the rumor get started about Steiner Ranch being full of #swingers? | KUT Radio, #Austin's NPR Station
#ConsensualNonmonogamy 🤷‍♂️
https://www.kut.org/austin/2024-05-16/how-did-the-rumor-get-started-about-steiner-ranch-being-full-of-swingers

cs, to baltimore
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Much of the #Dali crew remains on board seven weeks after the collision with the #KeyBridge #Baltimore #MartimeTransport https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/baltimore-bridge-dali-ship-crew

cs, (edited ) to MandelaEffect
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“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

Nelson Mandela: Maybe Not a Saint, But He Kept on Trying and Gave Us All He Had - ABC News (2013)

https://abcnews.go.com/International/nelson-mandela-saint-gave-us/story?id=19369750

fmhilton, to random
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"Kilroy was here" was found on an ancient castle walls.
From about Napoleon's time.
Some things never change and bored soldiers with knives is one of them. Graffiti is their hobby when not fighting..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/travel/graffiti-english-castle-napoleon-scli-intl-scn/index.html

cs,
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@fmhilton Nomina stultorum semper parietibus haerent. and Nomina stultorum ubique locorum scribuntur. Sometimes translated as "The names of fools are written on the walls." And I found a related English proverb "A white wall is a fool's paper." 😄

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cs, to random
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This time on One Song Diallo Riddle and LUXXURY not only tackle a song that, arguably, possesses the ultimate accolade: It is Diallo’s favorite song to sing at karaoke. “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears is not the British synth pop group’s biggest hit – that would be “Mad World”, “Sowing the Seeds of Love”, or “Shout” – but Diallo makes a strong case for why there’s no better song to belt out at 2am in a karaoke bar.
#OneSong #TearsForFears #SynthPop #SynthDuo
https://overcast.fm/+BCYuPHQoWk

cs, (edited ) to random
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Do you have your own web site? Do you use https for it?

cs,
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Read 3 as "haven't" -- it may be obvious, but maybe not.

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@bwbuhse Easy for some. My tilde site at sdf.org does it for me.

My other (hobby) sites are hosted on shared servers with registration at another company. If I did registration/DNS/hosting together, they would do it for me, but because of my setup, I have to contact support to install. Let's encrypt certs only last 90 days. That becomes a project. If you self-host or otherwise run your own virtual server, things might be different.

cs,
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Also, if you don't want Let's encrypt, you can get basic SSL for as low as ~$7.00/yr

cs,
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Here's where I get into problems doing Let's Encrypt on my shared hosting...

This means I would have to use the manual option, and that would require manually updating it every 90 days or contacting support each time.

cs,
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@rmbolger I've considered this, but there's a lot of moving parts, and as a hobbyist, this all comes out of my pocket. I just renewed my annual hosting in February, too. I put the call out in January asking folks if they had any recommendations, and no one did (obviously I don't have much reach as a mastodon user).

cs,
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Thanks for participating, folks

cs, to ai
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Yes, and everyone is noticing. Stories on news sites are more and more just crap. News media, don’t try this.

AI-generated articles are permeating major news publications : NPR

#AI #AdVon #Media #newsMedia #Journalism
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251917136/ai-generated-articles-are-permeating-major-news-publications

cs,
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FWIW one of the new options on for flagging stories on their aggregator home page is to mark it as dreck.

cs,
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HARRISON DUPRE: I think, in general, you should always be looking at the byline no matter what, but maybe zoom in a little. See if something feels a little uncanny about it. The text might be super repetitive, stilted and weird. You know, I've spent a lot of time, of course, in these articles. They generally feel like an alien came to Earth and had never used a vacuum, does not even understand what a vacuum is...

cs, to ethereum
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danirabbit, to random
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Okay admittedly I did smile. Some designer is probably really happy that this is being noticed. Very fun detail https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7CpmYevMwf

cs,
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@danirabbit I don't understand what I'm seeing :( Is there audio or something explaining what is going on? Is this something only tablet/touchscreen/stylus users would recognize?

cs,
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@danirabbit Thanks. I was not hearing it because I didn't realize I was logged into a virtual machine that wasn't forwarding my audio back to the local machine. 😄 🙄

cs, to TikTok
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The United States Passed a Ban on . Why? | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/the-united-states-passed-a-ban-on-tiktok-why

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