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swart

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Retired software engineer, formerly enthusiastic about all things computer, but now less so. Climate alarmist. Friend of old dogs, lifelong learner of new tricks.

North Vancouver 🇨🇦

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ai6yr, to random
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Little Free Library on a post! Hopefully won't get too much friendly fire from the family, LOL. (Starting to add books). #LittleFreeLibrary #carpentry

swart,
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@ai6yr @douglasvb honestly I’ve got dozens of obsolete engineering textbooks that my wife would be thrilled to see set free

swart,
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@ai6yr @douglasvb you’re right — it’s probably best to sneak them into other people’s libraries 😂

ai6yr, to H5N1
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UNMC: "There’s no question H5N1 bird flu has ‘pandemic potential.’ How likely is that worst-case scenario?" https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/05/07/theres-no-question-h5n1-bird-flu-has-pandemic-potential-how-likely-is-that-worst-case-scenario/

swart,
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@ai6yr the die offs reported with penguins in Antarctica and flamingos in Africa have been extremely alarming. Fortunately it can’t be transmitted to us because we don’t want to think about it.

ai6yr, to gardening
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I appear to have a volunteer monkeyflower (mimulus) growing out of a crack in the patio. #gardening

swart,
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@ai6yr your dealer in your contact list? 😂

ai6yr, to random
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Hmm, might have to start taking bets on how far off the chart we'll get this year on SSTs. 👀
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

swart,
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@ai6yr well I ordered a couple radios today 😂

swart,
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@ai6yr “now I’m praying for the end of time”

ai6yr, to Netflix
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The Verge: Netflix will stop working on older Apple TVs https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/4/24171111/netflix-stop-support-old-apple-tv-2nd-3rd-generation #netflix

swart,
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@ai6yr I’ve been working in tech for 35 years, developed for Apple for almost 20 years, and I have no idea what version of Apple TV I own

swart,
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@sysop408 yes it seems random to me whether it will work or not, but nobody likes it when you pay cash anymore :)

swart,
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@ai6yr also I still hold the remote upside down 50% of the time

ai6yr, to random
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Yes, yes, we've reached the dumbularity, where the intelligence of technology has advanced to such a great level, people don't know their own phone number.
https://mashable.com/article/what-is-my-phone-number

swart,
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@ai6yr ah but do you know your ip address 😂

swart, to random
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Won’t work on me — I’m too busy screaming into the void

From: @ai6yr
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/110855038809125490

ai6yr, to Canada
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PBS: A wildfire forces out hundreds of residents in Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-wildfire-forces-out-hundreds-of-residents-in-canadas-oil-sands-hub-of-fort-mcmurray #canada #wildfires #oilsands #climate #climateemergency

swart,
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@ai6yr John Vaillant’s Fire Weather is an absolute must read. It’s about a lot more than the 2016 fire in Fort McMurray — it’s about the reality of the climate most of us will be living in for the rest of our lives

https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/vancouver-authors-fire-weather-pulitzer-prize-finalist

h_thoreson, to random
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I can't believe this is real

swart,
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@h_thoreson is the ship still there?

swart,
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@h_thoreson at least they’ve got someone to bring them food and stuff. Those poor guys in Suez were miserable. They legally can’t leave the ship, and were stuck there for 7 years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet

paninid, to mastodon
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screenshots are showing up in news feeds, y’all 🥲

swart,
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@paninid sorry this is where I steal all my memes now

paninid, to random
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Semiconductor manufacturing in a seismic zone: check.
https://mstdn.social/@sasyecat/112205125854446209

swart,
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@paninid I wonder how many times the world has lost transformative technology due to this sort of thing. “Damascus” steel? ✅ Libraries? ✅ Greek fire? ✅

mimsical, to random
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Most of history is people living nasty, brutish and short lives and modernity is a paradise by comparison, example 9,328:

Before the introduction in the 1920s of iodized salt, iodine deficiency was so widespread in the northeastern U.S. that it was known as the “goiter belt,” for the painfully enlarged thyroid glands that millions had as a result of this deficiency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/05/01/iodized-salt-100-years-deficiency/

swart,
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@mimsical @futurebird I had no idea it was endemic in the US but it was also a devastating condition in Switzerland (sorry if this is repetitive — I quit the Washington Post a few years ago and was not able to read the whole thing)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil

swart, to random
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Tremendous thread for supply chain data nerding out

From: @badlogic
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

futurebird, to random
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Do you like parasites? Or dislike them but can't stop learning about them? The worst ones are in the sea. Makes all of the parasitoid wasp stuff seem tame! There are worse fates than being paralyzed and fed to a hungry larvae who eats your organs selectively so you live longer.

Here is a great video. It is very gross. But it's cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qZQ2wcQY3o

swart,
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@futurebird parasitoidism is not the same as parasitism. In this essay I will ….

swart, to random
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TIL the default Emacs calendar can
display the names of the months as they were used in Revolutionary France.

ai6yr, to wildlife
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Massive die off and rescue of brown pelicans in Santa Barbara and Ventura County. https://www.edhat.com/news/santa-barbara-wildlife-care-network-is-experiencing-a-pelican-event/

swart,
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@ai6yr fortunately bird flu can't be transmitted to mammals. Or at least not people. Well at least it isn't airborne. Well at least everyone has got some masks left. Okay well, I grew up on re-runs.

textfiles, to random
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I've visited Internet Archive Canada today!!!!

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swart,
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@textfiles do they still have the Permanent Library building in Vancouver?

VeroniqueB99, to random
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‘Caiman Crunch’ by Ian Ford, winner of Sony World Photography Awards 2024

swart,
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@VeroniqueB99

video/mp4

paninid, to ai
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“The humanities majors are the ones who think critically about words, and since the machines can now generate words, who really needs the #humanities majors?”

swart,
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@paninid 1946

swart, to random
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Boomers: Slacker kids should not be glued to their smartphones
Gen-Z: We don't want smartphones anymore
Boomers: Nooo you have to use smartphones to participate in society

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones

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