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cs

@cs@mastodon.sdf.org

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 ai
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#AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans

https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

cs, to random
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Mastodon.sdf.org seemed to be down this morning (ET). Now up, but some parts still cranky. E.g., cannot get notifications feed to load.

cs, to ebikes
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#EBikes

cs, to random
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How exactly does this work?

cs, to queer
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Told D2 there was a reverse parade today in . She sighed. I think she thought it was an anti-pride thing. I had to explain that the “floats” were stationary while the spectators moved from booth to booth.

cs,
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‘Local businesses and organizations show their support and PRIDE for the + community by participating in a “reverse Pride parade” where businesses are the “floats” and participants visit their booths.’

https://www.pridenton.org/events/night-out-2024

cs, to journalism
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detains over Facebook posts – DW – 06/08/2024

https://www.dw.com/en/vietnam-detains-journalist-over-facebook-posts/a-69309334

cs, to Futurology
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How to overcome the challenges of #megaprojects : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
#HighSpeedRail #transportation #Transport #Rail #PassengerRail
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/1197965098/why-californias-high-speed-rail-was-always-going-to-blow-out

cs, to random
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Online advertisers: “Walking shoes suitable for the elderly.”

Me: I think you’re targeting the wrong person. …I think.

cs, to ai
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This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New | WIRED

https://archive.ph/2024.06.05-071903/https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/

cs, to random
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Who writes this crap?

#JobHunt #NewYorkLife should be embarrassed their job listing looks like this.

cs, to random
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I just thought I'd go to #ZipRecruiter and post my resume and search for jobs, but can't seem to actually get to the site. I'm stuck in this multiple question interview thing. #AISucks

cs,
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Finally got in and it is suggesting brick machine operator $18.00/hr or psychiatric nurse practitioner $89.00/hr

I think I fall somewhere in between. 🙄 #JobHunting

cs,
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These jobs all stink. 😥

cs,
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I put a filter in for my minimum salary, and it is still showing me jobs for $12/hr and $24,000/yr.

cs, to Excel
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When Tatsuo Horiuchi retired, he wanted to paint, but didn't want to spend money on paints, so he decided to use Microsoft #Excel
(2017)

https://youtu.be/OrwBc6PwAcY?si=NUsR-EJNQV2LwPzy
Invideous:
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=OrwBc6PwAcY

cs, to random
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This is your biennial reminder that #CNN still maintains their low-bandwidth news feed at:

https://lite.cnn.com/

Works well on every browser I've tried, including #Lynx and #eLinks

cs, to random
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Chili's responds to wild social media rumors with humor. What's behind the closing lies
#Chilis
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/dining/2024/05/22/is-chilis-closing/73803658007/

cs,
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It has gone downhill starting w taking Chili’s Trip off the menu (I am now old)

cs, to random
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Curious as to whether the classic Cramer Kik-Step (pictured) met the definition of a step ladder. I think it is a step stool. It is still sold, so guessing not banned as some co-workers suggested.

cs, to random
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Just read in bboard that #WordPerfect 8 is available on #MetaArray at #SDF. Type wp to run it.
You can find a quick start guide here: https://mendelson.org/wpdos/wp8c.pdf

cs,
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I will say that I was never a big Word Perfect user, so none of the muscle memory came back.

A key thing is in upper right: ESC-= to get to menus.

cs, to random
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Amateur hour here today. Realized I hadn't put the python code for my widget that sends a report to client on the other machine I plan to migrate. Opened script and found it would not run. Looked at logs and found it hasn't run in two weeks. Error message indicates SQL server permission problem. Logged into server manually with those credentials and it's fine. I realized I changed some stored procedures and maybe that user has permissions messed up. Nope, sp run fine. 1/2

cs,
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@cenbe I had been referring to machines as foo.local but now have to use foo.mydomain.local apparently since May 21 when the IT contractor merged another group of machines into our network.

We kinda talked about this when he was doing it, but I didn't think too hard about things that might break, and that makes me wonder if there are other things that might break (ODBC connections, etc), but no one in the office is screaming, so may just be my stuff that broke. 😄

cs,
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OK, found another problem related to DNS changes—management console for endpoint security also broke. This required repair install pointing to correct new name of server for the SQL server and then a restart of SQL server instance and endpoint security service.

cs, (edited ) to retrocomputing
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When was the last time you typed ATDT? #Retrocomputing #HayesStandard

cs,
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Thanks everyone for participating. I know many people used ATDP. See the replies.

I cannot remember when I last had to type it. Even while I was still on dial-up, software like #Procomm did the dialing, but early on had to type it a lot.

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