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djfiander

@djfiander@code4lib.social

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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Imagine MS Recall running on point of sale terminals. Or, in my context, the stock PCs that libraries use to run their check-out terminals.

This is fine.

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[Bodies crunching underfoot]

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Major Streisand Effect about to take effect.

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Star Trek Discovery: More endings than the Lord of the Rings.

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ew #LB

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"There may be situations where the purpose of the link is is supposed to be unknown or obscured. For instance, a game may have links identified only as door #1, door #2, and door #3. This link text would be sufficient because the purpose of the links is to create suspense for all users."

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I'm about to break down and start writing "accessibility" as "a11y" in my notebook.

Because I'm an a11y ally

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Google: "Apply to our new program for startups using AI to improve US infrastructure."

Me: I am never driving over another American bridge in my life.

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which is the worst workplace communication app and why is it Microsoft Teams

djfiander,
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@platypus @dsalo but their emojis are also censored. The no 🍸 emoji, for example

adr, to random
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I really love how there's a provincial party in British Columbia that is the "BC Liberals" but they are actually really conservative and there's another party called the "BC Conservatives" which, in the interests of balance, should be super liberal but no, they are not

djfiander,
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@adr the socreds were closely tied to the Evangelical Dutch Reformed church. We don't want them back.

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idea (prompted by this podcast I'm listening to): write and publish an article making frequent use of "scatological" and "eschatological", cunningly crafted to leave the reader uncertain whether I know which is which

djfiander,
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@pbinkley would read

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Today's Survey Demographic Questions include:
Gender Identity
Race
Age range (decades)
Years in Libraries
Highest Degree of Ed
MLS y/n
Disability y/n
Caregiver y/n
Job Class (faculty, staff)
Library Dept type
Are a Manager y/n
Geographic Region
University Type
Faith based uni y/n
FTE students
Library FTE
Union y/n

Y'all at this point just ask my first and last name, it'd be easier.

djfiander,
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@platypus @hedgielib Damn. How did they get all that past the IRB? (Not that it's hard to justify any demographics you want, but it does make storage and dissemination more difficult).

I managed to talk my research group of the cliff. We're only asking, "Do you identify as a member of an equity-deserving group?"

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Variation in the size of library staff.

djfiander,
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@platypus 🤨

djfiander,
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@platypus OK, that makes sense. Like the Air Force's attempt to make plane cockpits fit the (nonexistent) average pilot.

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LB: "I cannot talk to anyone except StudentName about their course work or grades unless there is paperwork on file with the College granting permission to do so."

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@coral A friend of mine who used to work in the faculty of engineering doing student advising LOVED it when parents phoned to find out/complain about Junior's grades.

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right now I have 45 minutes of vacation accrued, because my long summer break in July-August has been accounted for in the system.

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Coming up on the 6th and final hour of this workshop. My brains are leaking out of my ears

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Doonesbury comic strip from 1973 with the punch line "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"

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God, Doug. Immigrants are stealing our expensive homes and shooting up Jewish schools?

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Completed a huge personal milestone today. Facilitated my first ever talk at an #Accessibility conference! Thanks to the #UofGuelph for putting it on, and thanks to all of the attendees who came out (even though I experienced a little technical difficulty)!

djfiander,
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@mothdust I took a page and a half of notes at your talk (and followed you) it was a really useful presentation

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This is kind of terrifying. Imagine a critical piece of the German air traffic control system being routed through emacs because the developer assigned to the project only knew Lisp.

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12204

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sometimes I think about how I heard back in 1996 or something that Lexis/Nexis had Terabytes of information and how amazingly huge that was

djfiander,
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@adr whatever

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One fascinating little thing in library automation history—we are not “big data” these days, but back then we were stretching the bounds of what commercial providers were ready and able to give us. Even our necessarily compact data was big and our expectations for simultaneous user numbers (patrons and workers) were high.

djfiander,
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@platypus yeah. The card catalogue was far better for simultaneous access back in the day. But at least those were all read only, with only a limited number of users making updates

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The big downside to online conferences (especially those with all-day workshops) is the complete lack of catering.

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