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djfiander

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

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Petition to start referring to Pierre Pollievre as "the wrong Pierre".

djfiander,
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@adr Burton or Trudeau. I don't really care.

"Any Pierre but Pollievre"

adr, to random
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Given A) the assault on DEI initiatives in many US universities and B) the tendency for Canada to ape many, many shitty things from the US on a 2-5 year delay that C) we can look forward to DEI initiatives being eliminated/drastically reduced in Canada PSE in... oh, we'll say starting mid to late 2025.

djfiander,
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@astrobri @adr I mean, with Pierre being the next PM, it's pretty much guaranteed.

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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#StarTrek

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djfiander,
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@nocontexttrek to be fair, when a physician tells me to look up, I also look at the ceiling

djfiander, to random
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That brief time of year during which the HVAC is completely turned off

djfiander, to random
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I really wish that Primo had a way to show me all my loans and requests on a single page, regardless of which consortial member the book is from.

rebeccawatson, to random
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this was my mother’s day present from Indy and I’m glad he’s excited but what happens when we get the results and we only share like 80% of our dna

djfiander,
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@rebeccawatson boy, is he going to be upset when he finds out you're not his real mom

djfiander, to random
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Only the British would name a style of stands for sports stadiums after the location of a colonial battle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spion_Kop_(stadiums)

platypus, to random
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Just asked if someone has a portable Bluetooth speaker:

"But if you don't have one, I am capable of rigging up an extension cord, a boombox, a 3.5mm male-male cable between the boombox and an adapter for my iPhone."

Honestly, the thought makes me feel a bit tipsy with power.

djfiander,
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@platypus MY BOX OF CABLES FINALLY JUSTIFIES ITS EXISTENCE

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"I thought that was non-diagetic"

OMG. Dying

djfiander, to random
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There are a lot of librarians right now who are telling themselves that Ex Libris is owned by ProQuest, so it's an American company.

Me, I am lots of librarians.

djfiander,
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@wdenton is difficult to do that when ProQuest, and now Clarivate, work so hard to maintain the separate identities of the various units. After all, Omni's hostname is ocul-uwo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com.

On the plus side Ex Libris, while still based in Israel, is not actually on contested territory.

wdenton, to random
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There's a template Word document here that has been copied by promotions committees for years. When I export to PDF I see this junk. I think it's based on a #YorkUniversity template, and years ago, the unknown creator hit some nonsense in a properties metadata field, and that nonsense has been copied onwards ever since.

djfiander,
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@wdenton classic

quinnanya, to datascience

I've ended up with an inquiry from a #DataScience student interested in examples of #harm coming to people because of #data collection (especially in a war context, but open to anything). Do folks have any favorite pointers / examples I could pass along?

djfiander,
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@quinnanya "favorite"isn't exactly the right word, but in the 1930s, IBM Germany explicitly pushed computing machinery as a way to collate and identify "undesirables" (see, Shew, Ashley. 2023. Against Technoableism : Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. First edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, pp 89-92)

winterschon, to FreeBSD
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common linux-user FUD on FreeBSD forums:

> "modern wifi doesn't work!"
> "it won't run a desktop"

reality: user doesn't want to read docs/man/apropos

here's a Thinkpad X1 Nano:

  • KDE Plasma6 on FreeBSD 14.0R-p6
  • Intel AX201 wifi (basic wpa-supplicant params)
  • external travel monitor: plug-n-play, it just works

time required: 20 minutes of relaxed leisurely morning coffee sipping

djfiander,
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@winterschon The wifi connects, but it runs at 1/10 the speed of the same device under Linux, and it won't connect at all if you try to configure IPv6.

I'm posting this from my IBM Thinkcentre m90q running Freebsd 14.0p6, and I can't wait for the work on the iwlwifi project to finish so we do get the same performance as Linux.

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The only problem with the "WorldGov turns to fascism" plot in Babylon-5 is that it was blamed on malevolent aliens, rather than just being a thing that some humans do.

djfiander, to random
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Purolator is delivering two things to me today.

On two different trucks.

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Data Colada is in court and drily hilarious about it. https://datacolada.org/116

djfiander,
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@dsalo in my opinion (there that words again) when an academic responds to criticism of their research with a lawsuit, then they've already lost.

djfiander, to random
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An instagram ad from an account called "cashkrab" offering me a line of credit with the TikTok lady's voice is 💯 legitimate.

djfiander, to random
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@adr Your car is a narc. https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

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"I am a little concerned that your list of 'top ten most popular research guides' all start with the letter 'A'."

djfiander, to random
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"All Librarians Emeritus/Emerita shall be
accorded the following privileges:
...
e) they will be provided with a free dial-up for remote
access to the University computer system and the Internet for forty (40) hours per month...."

djfiander,
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@newrambler that's my current collective agreement. But opening up that clause just to fix such a huge anachronism isn't on anybody's list of priorities.

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Klein, D. S. (1997). The eight-fold path to e-commerce. In B to B (Vol. 82, Issue 10, pp. 17-). Crain Communications, Incorporated.

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"Bowie performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head." -- Wikipedia

That's three names I never expected to see in the same sentence.

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