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w8emv

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bio goes here.
I'm mostly https://a2mi.social/@w8emv or emv on systems.
This is for Ann Arbor related stuff.

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w8emv, to random
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If your local data store is big enough you can use it to augment your memory instead of looking things up on the internet.

Bonus points if you have been collecting and editing a personal word-hoard for long enough for patterns to repeat.

There are lots of reasons for a home lab or to run services on a port on localhost, but my favorite is having some kind of local mind-space when the net is not available or not to be trusted.

redcrew, to Michigan
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I'm sure many folks are wondering whether the child was vaccinated.

Michigan's first measles case since 2019 detected in Oakland County.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/michigans-first-measles-case-since-2019-detected-in-oakland-county

w8emv,
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@peterhoneyman @redcrew

Can we trade Macomb to Ohio for a county to be named later? Maybe we can get Toledo back in the deal.

w8emv, to random
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"Action Needed: Save Your U-M AFS Data"

After 30 years, is finally kicking me off the system.

"Access to the Andrew File System (AFS) is being retired for alumni and retirees. All of your data stored in AFS has been exported for you to save. You will receive a second email by 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, March 1, 2024, with instructions for how to download and save your data. The subject line will be, 'Action Needed: Download Your U-M AFS Data'."

https://its.umich.edu/computing/backup-storage/afs/alumni-retirees

peterhoneyman, to random
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i just stumbled across a complete set of pathalias maps from january 1989 buried in ancient files

w8emv,
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@peterhoneyman quick, to the Bentley with those!

w8emv, to cycling
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The shortest exit from my house to outside of the Ann Arbor city limits - not counting the archipelago of township islands inside the city limits - is a 20 minute bike ride southbound to Pittsfield Township.

My route is down Page instead of Packard -- a whole lot less traffic. Then across the freeway on the pedestrian bridge at Stone School.

Did I stupidly leave my keys for my bicycle lock at home? Yes. Were there any consequences for that? No, but I need new habits.

cc @w8emv

w8emv, to random
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"Study finds Brand has the best prices!"

(Story from Brand)

thanks Detroit Free Press for the stellar journalism

peterhoneyman, to random
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checked in to a days inn in cadillac michigan. no visible signs of bedbugs.

gonna chop down a scrawny xmas tree in the huron-manistee national forest tomorrow.

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w8emv,
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@paul_ipv6 @peterhoneyman

it's ok! he has a permit (I think)

w8emv,
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@paul_ipv6 @peterhoneyman

should be one of these, $5/tree

https://www.recreation.gov/tree-permits/fdf08bf1-ec5a-11ea-b83f-6e0e43d29f74

"This permit allows you to cut a Christmas Tree within designated areas of the Huron-Manistee National Forests! Lifelong memories are built during these special times and we are happy to help with any information gathering you'll need to make this trip a safe and enjoyable one. "

peterhoneyman, to random
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this thing in the corner of my rental apartment that looks like a camera … is a camera, innit? (and a motion detector?)

w8emv,
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@peterhoneyman

Looks like a coat hook

w8emv, to random
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Saw this Guardian piece on cassette tapes (a review of two books!) and thought of you @peterhoneyman

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/15/cassette-tapes-books-mixtape

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w8emv,
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@editor @edutooters

Interesting. I would put "first contact" with AI at ELIZA, and then maybe another milestone is Mark V. Shaney posts to net.singles.

https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp200/09fall/textriff/sci_am_paper.htm has an overview of computer-generated prose from 1989.

w8emv,
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@editor @scerruti @edutooters

"The Algorithm" certainly was around before it was applied to your social media timeline - think of all of those bloggers (myself included) who hacked their headlines to make them palatable for Google SEO and who chased search trends and traffic.

will make a point to watch this!

rml, to linux
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writing a really tiny emulator that can boot without an MMU in a single #C function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5vB3UqU_E

w8emv,
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@rml

reminds me of the "pocket chip" which was $49 in 2016 money

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/19/12227806/pocketchip-review-portable-linux-computer

w8emv, to random
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For all of the University's attempts to standardize on a single brand image, there sure are a lot of different shades of yellow and blue seen in the wild.

hyc, to random
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Dropped one syllable, words and music out of sync:

row, row your boat gent-
ly down the stream mer-
rily merrily merrily life
is but a dream ____

w8emv,
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@hyc

this also works for "Take me out to the ballgame"

w8emv, to random
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music to change passwords by

Barcelona, "I Have The Password To Your Shell Account", from ZeRo-oNe-INFINITY (2000).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX1bedJSpLk&list=OLAK5uy_mJMu8tKlofbIwjDTfsP2A6XN5AwxXcJH8&index=5

I tried your birthday
I tried your mom's first name
I tried your cat's name
I tried your favorite band

cc @peterhoneyman

w8emv, to random
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Noting for future reference for Ben - @ai6yr

The maps that accompany the NWS Tornado bot @nwstornado_bot could use a look, on my screen the names of cities are too tiny to read, and the major highway landmarks are hard to identify at this zoom ratio.

I suspect the issue is more pronounced in rural areas.

(Appreciate these of course! Just trying to help on a challenging small screen)

w8emv, to random
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IF you are tracking the weather shield status and oncoming storms in Ann Arbor

THEN you should follow @nwsdetroit_bot to be weather aware

HOWEVER that is not an official bot (but it is very handy, thanks @ai6yr for putting it together)

w8emv, to random
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The Electrifying Mojo would play Prince quite a bit on WJLB - not just the hits but also B sides and rarities and occasionally entire albums.

Interview 1986-06-07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0EVcCPOrnQ recorded off the air after a show in Detroit. Prince was 28 years old on this day.

@anildash you would like this too:

Theater of the Mind: The Legacy of the Electrifying Mojo

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/05/electrifying-mojo-feature

w8emv, to random
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Reading air quality stats. It appears to be that you should look at at least 3 web sites to get a complete picture of Ann Arbor.

  1. EPA "Airnow" https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Ann%20Arbor&state=MI&country=USA
  2. PurpleAir (a sensor you can buy) https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#11.7/42.2711/-83.6723
  3. City of Ann Arbor "Air Quality in Ann Arbor" https://analytics.a2gov.org/superset/dashboard/air-quality/?native_filters_key=9uwMAONEJI-UjZnKHAy0dDKl8sMVgd7EukpgbU91M1aWPB-xVURwXR8WzlAfuUgV

The EPA sensors aren't everywhere; the PurpleAir sensors are mostly in affluent areas; and several of the City of Ann Arbor sensors are offline.

ernie, to random
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There’s a really interesting thing that I think happens when you aren’t using a service or are looking at it from a distance. Your thoughts on it become very binary. All the nuance is lost.

If you aren’t on Bluesky, you might just turn it down because it goes against something you support. If you aren’t on Twitter, you might not understand that people have professional reasons to be there.

w8emv,
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@ernie

> If you aren’t on Twitter, you might not understand that people have professional reasons to be there.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/

w8emv, to random
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You may ask yourself: is this my circus?

You may ask yourself: are these my monkeys?

w8emv, to random
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The "doorway effect", stated briefly, is that "walking through doorways causes forgetting". It's as though our short-term memory gets flushed out when we are in a new space, so that we're ready for new stuff.

Scientific American, 2011 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

Radvansky 2010 "Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations" https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.571267

cc @pb who reminded me of this

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