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damonism

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Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia).

Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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luciedigitalni, to auspol
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I don't think the fact that the AEC is proposing a new seat called Bullwinkel is getting enough attention

#AusPol

damonism,
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@luciedigitalni Cox has entered the chat. (I remain convinced that Cox was a joke that got out of hand, knowing a few people who were on the redistribution secretariat back then.)

damonism, to random
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It’s so long ago that I last used ICQ that even with an email archive that goes back almost 20 years I have no record of what my ICQ number was.

damonism, to random
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I worked from home today so I ended up spending most of the evening tweaking my home keyboard firmware to make it work better with the sorts of computery things I do for work.

damonism,
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I realise this is purely a me thing, but one of my main issues is being able to easily type an em-dash and en-dash in Windows on my keyboard. Without that, I feel lost.

damonism,
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What I usually do is make it work like a Mac – alt-hyphen for an en-dash and shift-alt-hyphen for an em-dash, but this keyboard has too few keys so the hyphen is on a layer, so that would be four keys for an em-dash, which requires a bit more dexterity than I typically possess.

damonism, to random
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Not at all ominous to have an enormous raven land right next to me at the bus stop and state at me.

agiletortoise, to random
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I’m so old I remember when the web was useful.

damonism,
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@agiletortoise I’m so old I remember when the web was fun.

damonism, to random
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This post reminded me of one of my favourite stories from my old job. I was working at a research library and got a call from a librarian at a departmental library. She said, essentially: I know it’s a long shot but I’m looking for this specific document that was used for this one-off event 25 years ago and which never had any official status and which we know exists but doesn’t seem to be mentioned publicly anywhere.

An hour later I called her back: I don’t have a copy of the document but the guy who wrote it is currently driving back from Bunnings and when he gets home he’ll email it to you. Is there anything else I can help you with?

I could hear her jaw hit the floor over the phone.

Sometimes when you’re good at your job it can look like magic. Finding out shit is literally my job, but it’s nice when people appreciate it. https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/112453470424319654

damonism, to random
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Some doofus thinks my email is his email and mostly he just signs me up to spam but yesterday I got emailed a login and password for a medical patient portal for him.

damonism,
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On the one hand between all these emails I probably have enough information on him I could find his phone number and call him to tell him (he’s American, of course). On the other hand the sort of boomer energy I get from his emails suggests that he’s incapable of understanding that my email is not his email, so calling would be pointless.

damonism,
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@luciedigitalni @arose62 I remain of the view that the concept of email is too complicated for most people.

damonism, to random
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It occurs to me that you’d only use AI to write for you if you believe you’re not good at writing, and if you’re not good at writing you have no way of discerning if the AI is wrting well for you, and in the process you’ll never get any better at writing yourself.

damonism,
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@MattHatton Sure, if your job is to produce bland corporate slop, I have no issue with automating that, because no one who can think will ever need to read it. But there are reasons corporate copywriters don’t put their names to their work.

damonism,
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@KydiaMusic @zdl @katanova Yo dawg, I heard you liked prompt engineering so we put some prompt engineering in your prompt. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151847/microsoft-copilot-rewrite-prompt-feature-microsoft-365

damonism, to random
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This morning I was walking dog under some oak trees and an acorn fell out of the tree and hit me directly in the ear and knocked my AirPods out of my ear and into the dirt.

damonism, to random
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Apple: Because privacy we do on device AI!
Also Apple: Depsite the fact I somehow have the public holiday listed four times in my calendar, my phone can’t work out I’m not going to work today.

damonism, to random
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This winter will be the first one where I’ll been catching the bus regularly and I’m not yet sure I have the right wardrobe for that.

damonism,
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The Canberra shoulder seasons where it’s minus 5° in the morning and 25° in the afternoon are arguably worse.

damonism, to random
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Working from home because I was expecting a delivery (which just arrived) and it’s so nice and peaceful away from the noisy open plan office.

damonism, to random
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Went to buy an Easter egg at Haigs today at lunch time and there was a queue and a crowd controller (who was handing out chocolate, which is a handy thing for a crowd controller to be able to do).

damonism, to Canberra
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Winter is coming. #canberra

damonism, to random
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Have seen a bunch of people walking around this bit of Canberra in academic gowns so I can only assume there is a graduation ceremony at the Comvention Centre, because there are no universities around here.

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I have updated my description of how I publish my blog. Thanks to @cos for suggesting I check out rclone. https://damonism.net/posts/my-very-simple-blog-setup/

NanoRaptor, to random
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An amusing locational weirdness. Here's a shot out the front of the Metropolis-based Daily Planet in Superman Returns. Spot the 1980s Australian Ford Falcon

damonism,
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@NanoRaptor I’m pretty sure there is a Commonwealth Bank logo in the background of one of the street scenes in The Matrix.

damonism, to random
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I decided to check out Obsidian (the note taking app) as it’s far too long since I’ve been in a cult.

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