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

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

timbray, to photography
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Saskatchewan, 05/2013.

#photography

swart,
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@timbray don’t make me go back there 💕

ai6yr, to Canada
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issues for LGBTQ travelers visiting the . https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/global-affairs-lgbt-unitedstates-warning-1.6950833

swart,
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@ai6yr the way CBC dumbed down the alert into pablum was something to behold

swart, to random
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This week in incredibly bad AI — field guides to wild mushrooms

I am not sure about tools like ZeroGPT but there’s no reason to buy books from Amazon anymore. Buy from local sellers or order directly from the publisher.

Also don’t eat wild mushrooms unless you’ve got a lot of experience with wild mushrooms.

https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-mushroom-foraging-books-amazon/

ai6yr, to BurningMan
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Climate roadblock vs. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/28/burning-man-protest-climate-change-environment

swart,
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@ai6yr haha fuck yes

swart,
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@ai6yr “I have solar panels on my RV” lmao

carnage4life, to random
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So either everyone at Harvard is a genius or…?

swart,
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@carnage4life even Harvard is getting more competitive. I wonder how the trust fund kids keep up

swart,
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@futurebird @carnage4life I was shocked at how hard high school students were working when I mentored a robotics team a few years ago. All I had to do was pass calculus to get in to university, now they need a perfect average, ridiculous AP classes, sports, music, debate, and extracurriculars I never heard of. And then there’s the financial hurdles.

Green_Footballs, to random
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#NowPlaying Utopia > POV > Mimi Gets Mad https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H7BQ99H/?tag=littlegreenfo-20

swart,
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@Green_Footballs kind of amazing where that link takes me

garius, to random
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To find your perfect Predator movie, just take the name of the first kids show you remember and add "vs Predator" to the end.

"Rainbow vs Predator"

swart,
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@garius 101 Dalmations vs Predator

Green_Footballs, to random
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Musk really hated the whole bird metaphor of Twitter. Something about it made him want to destroy it even though it was an incredibly valuable, world-recognized brand.

Hell, the word “tweet” became part of our language.

Musk just threw all that hard-won credibility away, tore down the signs, and sold off the furniture.

swart,
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@Green_Footballs the bird metaphor is awesome. I would do the whole site over again with doves and homing pigeons

marcoarment, to random
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Hang on, I can’t start the podcast yet

swart,
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@marcoarment I love this mouse.

swart, to random
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This short opinion piece in Scientific American is better than the (somewhat painful) Munk Debate on the existential risks of Artificial Intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=144uOfr4SYA

From: @emilymbender
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender@dair-community.social/110871604982224575

swart, to random
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Freedom of Information request shows BC gas utility removed sections from government report stating electrification and heat pumps are a more efficient path to decarbonize the province.

https://www.nsnews.com/highlights/redacted-bc-gas-report-sparks-claims-of-misinformation-7335878

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

swart,
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@tim_lavoie @ai6yr I don’t do many video calls anymore but when I did, any time I heard someone clicking away in the background, invariably they would be asked to mute themselves.

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Alt text isn't just helpful for the sight-impaired. By reading alt text I can identify what the OP is calling attention to in the pic, helping me get the joke or social commentary that would otherwise be illegible to me. (Without this I'm like, I see a thousand details and I don't know which one matters to you.) #ActuallyAutistic

swart,
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@independentpen I finding writing Alt text actually helps me understand why I’m posting something in the first place, and it’s usually more thoughtful than the other text in the post

swart, to random
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Wow TIL Clare Torrey only received £30 for Sunday studio work for her timeless performance of Great Gig in the Sky in Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album. In 2004, she sued Pink Floyd and EMI for songwriting royalties on the basis that her contribution to "The Great Gig in the Sky" constituted co-authorship with keyboardist Richard Wright.

In 2005, an out-of-court settlement was reached in Torry's favour, and releases after 2005 credit her vocal composition.

swart, to random
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The toll of the heat wave in South America is horrendous

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lake-titicaca-drying-up-heat-wave-turns-winter-upside-down-2023-08-04/

ai6yr, to Texas
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" A recent study by Environment Texas found that almost every Texas beach tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria in 2022." 💩 https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2023/08/04/beach-fecal-contamination-high?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=editorial

swart,
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@ai6yr to be fair that’s probably true of Greater Vancouver beaches too. If they just stop testing maybe the problem will go away.

ai6yr, to random
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The Muskmelon has swiped yet another person's handle on the service-formerly-known-as-Twitter #birdsite https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-swipes-control-of-another-twitter-account-this-time-at-music

swart,
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@ai6yr I hope he doesn’t take an interest in HAM radio handles

Green_Footballs, to random
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A note about my album posts: these are coming from a script that watches for me to start playing a song in Apple’s Music app, and sends the info to my web server, which then posts it to both Mastodon and Bluesky (so far). So yeah, it’s actually what I’m listening to (i.e. not some random bullshit).

swart,
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@Green_Footballs interesting that it posts the Amazon link. I always have to go look it up in the Apple Music app. Too bad songs don’t have ISBN numbers. A streaming service independent playlist format would be great.

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Thanks to the user Pengan, the secret weapon of obscure emulation within the Emularity framework, Internet Archive can now emulate many Atari ST programs, I've got an initial set of 862 games uploaded and now being screenshotted here:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_atari_st_games?tab=collection

swart,
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@textfiles that font and green background is something else — I remember the Atari desktop being nicer than that, but I had an Amiga so maybe it was just the lack of interlacing that made it seem sharper

Pwnallthethings, to random
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Gonna just start making enemies here, but while both are unironically excellent movies and you should go see both, Barbie does a better job grappling with the complex subject matter of the movie than Oppenheimer

swart,
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@Pwnallthethings which torrent has the most comfortable seats

alan, to random
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Via @decolonialatlas "Each 8th of July, at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world's population is experiencing daylight. This day should have a name, and it should be a holiday." Original source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight

swart,
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@alan Incandescence Day

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