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Chancerubbage

@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social

Fifteen years at the other place. Post Punk tech Luddite. First toot June 2 2023.

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davemark, to Tennessee
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"A judge blocks the foreclosure sale of Elvis' Graceland, after his heir alleges fraud"

A fascinating story, but what got me was the bit about Graceland being valued at $400 million. For 14 acres. That's about $28M per acre. That's approaching mid-town-Manhattan prices.

This how much Elvis was revered? Still an amazing draw? Can't think of any other person whose home has so much value.

https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/05/22/judge-blocks-the-foreclosure-sale-of-elvis-graceland-after-his-heir-alleges-fraud
#Tennessee #Elvis #RealEstate

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark usually at least a full week of international tourism surrounding date of birth and death . Chintzy gift shop across street replaced with music venue 20-30 years back.

The entire city is being attacked by outside development dollars.

Chancerubbage, to random
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In the same friendly spirit as a mini lending library.

A map of the wandering neighborhood pets, showing their home headquarters

shoq, (edited ) to random
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Answer this poll, or not, that’s on you. I’m just passing it on because someone, somewhere, may be interested in the data.

Just how many fucks do you have left to give?

Chancerubbage, (edited )
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@shoq @WhippoorwillSong

I feel results might be skewed by those not participating at all because they don’t give a fuck.

jimmylittle, to random
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This is fucking genius. https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/112288917057014294

Chancerubbage,
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@jimmylittle @agiletortoise

I’ve always seen this, along with ‘unsubscribe’ links, only to serve as confirmation of the email address or phone number as being live and valid with a person on the other end. Which the spammer then uses to mark the buckshot of their shotgun approach as a valid ID to sell to other info brokers.

Chancerubbage,
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@jimmylittle @agiletortoise

It isn’t really any law that seems to be enforced very well if you ask me, nor enforceable at all. The majority using such tactics are spam scam. Even if a bot is handling the ‘do not call’ request. Now, are you willing to sell that real estate we think you own?

ColleenDoran, to random
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Highest possible recommendation to J Michael Straczynski's BECOMING: SUPERMAN My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood, Hugo Award Nominated Autobiography. 56% off, too. https://amzn.to/3yiSWIz

Chancerubbage,
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@ColleenDoran were you recommending the audiobook specifically?

davemark, to privacy
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"NYPD will deploy drones to respond to 911 calls"

  • Pilot program is in 5 precincts.
  • Each precinct will get rooftop drone platform
  • Calling it “drones as first responders”

This a good thing? Drones can certainly get eyes to an emergency quickly. Video footage admissible in court?

Privacy implications? Will people be shooting these down?

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-will-deploy-drones-to-respond-to-911-calls-in-5-nyc-precincts-officials-say
#Privacy #NewYorkCity #NYC #Police #Drones

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark might be good for ‘which way did they go?’ Reconnaissance, but I can easily see them chasing and observing ‘the wrong guy’.

We’ve seen manned helicopters with heat and night vision doing the same thing. This is still going to need a ‘pilot’ albeit sitting at a desk somewhere.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Mutt Lange-adjacent:

This is still my favorite version of Shania Twain's 1997 hit, "You're Still the One"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAke3UsOgu0

Chancerubbage,
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@hotdogsladies oh god it’s marvelous in a Shaggs way!

I fantasize being in a mariachi band, but this is more like my inner middle school marching band which imbues Sousa tunes with their own new life via out of tune instruments overplaying and inappropriate dynamics.

davemark, to apple
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"Apple says the majority of Mac users also own an iPad, which likely means macOS is never coming to the iPad"

I, for one, don't want macOS on my iPad.

I love the simplicity of the magic piece of glass that is iPad.

I do wish we had an iPadOS that worked more cleanly with my Mac. Hard to put into words, but I wish the shared models were more similar.

Finder on the Mac and Files on iPad for example. Very different experience.

But macOS on my iPad. Nah.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/15/majority-of-mac-users-also-own-ipad/

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark

I still shudder from the time I touched the screen of my MacBook.

Maybe thats why Apple makes 4 figure monitors that are damaged if you touch them.

davemark, to apple
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On M4 iPad Pro "bend protection":

"Apple's senior VP John Ternus reveals that Apple has added a new protective "cowling" over main logic board...not only helps with heat dissipation, but also "effectively creates a central rib that runs through the whole thing and tremendously improves the stiffness"

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/14/ipad-pro-structural-design-avoid-bendgate/

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark going ‘thin’ seemed a stupid move. Not sure anyone cares, but I guess there will be possible fatigue handholding the 13 inch. Or wanting to sell cases. Who knows.

Chancerubbage, to random
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Facebook trying to get my goat again, showing idiots giving some beautiful natural wood paneling and furniture some sort of jackass paint job.

grillchen, to random
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This supermarket is wild even for German standards.

At the cashier line instead of sweets there are pregnancy tests, condoms, wodka, mixed wodka with energy drinks, cigarettes and pokemon cards.

All a man needs

Chancerubbage,
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@grillchen @Binder that’s a convenience store point of sale line up, supermarkets in the states aren’t so crass. They might dip into pokeman cards and energy drinks maybe.

And fucking is outlawed in 24 states.

davemark, to cooking
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Anyone out there a fan of air fryers?

Went to a dinner last night, folks were raving about their air fryers. This something worth exploring? A fad?

I'm particularly interested in cooking veggies, like broccoli, zucchini, etc. This better than roasting in an oven?

#Cooking #AirFryer

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark they seem to be a fave of people trying to avoid deep frying (people hate handling and storing oil). 90% of the people I know that use them are eating chicken wings and frozen french fries.

trinitybat, to random
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The ad breaks on YouTube are getting ridiculous...I can't even watch a 40 second video without being interrupted....

Chancerubbage,
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@trinitybat @Binder

It used to be hilarious when a 3 minute vid would have some 45 minute preroll ad placement some poor fool had paid for. Of course I skipped it, at least you could then.

You want your ads seen? Make them short and to the point. They will still work with your target audience without alienating the possible converts.

davemark, to TierraSapiens
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Fantastic alternative to a tripod.

Follow link, scroll down to the GIFs to get a sense of this thing.

Pricy, but if video/photography is your thing, this is 🔥

https://edelkrone.com/products/standplus

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark those are great tripods, a bit aspirational for me however. All their stuff looks well designed, if somewhat frail possibly. Be great to have, pricy to own unless you needed it daily.

Chancerubbage, to random
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Whenever I see Betty and Veronica fighting over Archie, I think, “He must be hung like a horse!”

Da_Gut, to books
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How many people still buy and use physical calendars? Whether wall, or desk? And how old are you?

Chancerubbage,
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@Da_Gut @Binder

Still use physical calendars.

It’s about granularity and what I can glance at at once. I do not need a daily (hour, minute) schedule which is the default on many ‘computer calendars’, my needs are more like week, month, year.

I go to computer calendars
most often when determining what year June 17th fell on a Saturday, that sort of thing.

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

Chancerubbage,
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@siracusa I haven’t found confirmation that John Berkey was also a Matte Painter for the movies, but I think he was. He had a way of choosing the right colors and suggesting more detail than was in the painting with a few parallel and perpendicular marks suggesting realistic highlights. I had the movie poster for Delaurentus King Kong that he did, you could get lost in the cityscape that ‘wasn’t’ there.

Of course many space ships on paperbacks with all sorts of radio antennas poking out of them

gedeonm, to random
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Checking out at the grocery store and item needs a price check. Teen cashier calls over the manager (also a teen) who instead of running into the aisles to find the item whips out her iPhone and looks the item up on the store’s website to check the price. DONE.

SO SMART!

Chancerubbage,
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@gedeonm discounts (or not) are frequently local ; online may vary, not be marked down at all. But, time is money.

daringfireball, to random
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Pointless NYT Report Says Apple Plans to Improve Siri
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/10/nyt-siri-story

Chancerubbage,
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@daringfireball

Says far more about the state of journalism than it does about Apple.

verge, to random
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Apple doesn’t understand why you use technology https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152987/apple-crush-ad-piano-ipad

Chancerubbage, (edited )
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@verge

Being ‘Skinny’ is not an ‘exciting new marketing feature’. It’s a sad throwback to the form over function fiasco of the post Jobs Jonny Ive years, that nearly tanked the notebook line.

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

Chancerubbage,
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@sundogplanets @mastodonmigration

The bigfoot of military modeling.

Looks like a furry thing was using someone’s toy to scratch its back.

danielpunkass, to random
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Has anybody done a mashup of Apple's "Crushing" and "1984" ads? That's the vibe I get.

Chancerubbage,
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@danielpunkass who is the boogie man this time around?

gedeonm, to random
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What I’d like from today’s Apple iPad event:

  • Camera on the long side of the iPad (where it belongs)
  • Longer battery life
  • Faster processor (duh)
  • To not have #LineaSketch Sherlocked 🙏
Chancerubbage,
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@gedeonm 11 or 13 inch?

Bought or bespoke?
I imagine it eliminates camera bump.

hotdogsladies, to random
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I think I've already found a good use for Tusks.

And, so, a new experimental feature:

"𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?"

Chancerubbage,
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@hotdogsladies David Copperfield, who I think bought Ricky Jay’s library, as well as owning Houdini’s et al (he has the goods, the secrets) is currently being funneled into a Bill Cosby end of life revelation of shame.

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