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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 12:03:16 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://mk.magicka.org/notes/a0yeugfw986v005y

Twitter was insufferable long before they started their moderation, for the same reasons that Bluesky is insufferable. Both sites fill my timeline with unwanted bullshit (and no, "see fewer like this" doesn't work on either site), burying the people I subscribed to with repeats of the most annoying and irritating posts by uninteresting strangers that I can imagine.

Oh, and both seem to be filled with bots and spammers.

I haven't logged into Twitter in a year or two, so I don't have a current comparison, but current Bluesky is very close to the Twitter that I stopped logging into several years ago.
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  jeff (@jeff)
  
  all the shitheads who made twitter insufferable censorship cesspool who went over to bluesky need to stay there, them leaving made twitter a better place.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 13:28:22 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- clacke
@clacke RE: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1767-3b48-a455-cf4647961265

> old guys like me

I was older than my oldest son is now (47) when I started calling myself old.

Though I must admit that the latest pictures of Half_son (the youngest) have me wondering how the baby boy became an old man (he looks almost as old as I am, despite only being 35 years old).
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  clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
  
  from clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
  
  Recently there is a strong increase in broadcast and online personalities my age (John Oliver) down to ten years younger than me (Ryan George) saying things ...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 09:22:32 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Once, I brought a tablet and was reading about the algorithms used in navigation software during downtime at work. People in other departments complained to my boss that I wasn't working. I was told that I could take some of the superficial internal training courses, but couldn't read self-educate with outside materials because of appearances.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 12:48:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

After a couple of years of thought, I've decided that I will not break precedent and show up at $SIGNIFICANT_ANNIVERSARY_HIGH_SCHOOL_REUNION. My attitude toward most of those people was that we were inmates at the same penal institution and any association was because we were caged in together, not because we really had any common interests.

It was a difficult decision, mostly because there are a few people that I'd genuinely be willing to give a shot at reconnecting with*, all of whom were friends outside of school.

* Currently, the people from high school whom I talk with occasionally are all friends of one of my siblings.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 09:58:40 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Watching the Iceland volcano stream with Grandson_3. I think he's the only one that could sit and watch something like this with me.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 06:11:04 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- clacke
@clacke RE: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1767-3b48-a455-cf4647961265

I was cruising along thinking I'm not so old ... and then Son_1 turned 40, and then he turned 45. How does this happen? When did my hair and beard turn almost all-white?
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  clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
  
  from clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
  
  Recently there is a strong increase in broadcast and online personalities my age (John Oliver) down to ten years younger than me (Ryan George) saying things ...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:29:47 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@fu Thanks for that. I was assuming "bonus kid" was some strange reference to a stepchild. But what you said makes more sense.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:25:25 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

So I now have a Bluesky account. I've never posted, just looked at the "Discover" stream and reported a few spammers. So it doesn't make any sense that I have a few followers.

There's no assurance that I'll continue using it. But if I decide I'm done, I'll probably just stop logging in. Same thing I did at X/Twitter.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:52:30 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Grandson_3's class learned about turkeys today. He wasn't descriptive enough to make it clear, but he did mention the sounds that they make. As we walked at the park after school, he heard an animal and said its sounds were similar to turkey sounds.

I'll be at Son_1's home the next couple of weeks, so I won't hear about next week's school experiences.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 11:36:11 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I keep seeing people looking forward to Trump cutting or ending US involvement in NATO & US support for Ukraine.

Hasn't anyone read a history book around here? Didn't the schools require them to study US history and government?

During the build up to WWI ("The Great War") and its early stages about a century ago, the US had its head in the sand. But as a late entrant that didn't have already its people and infrastructure being overrun or assaulted, the nation was able to come out of it in a good spot.

In the late 1930s through the mid 1940s, the same thing happened with WWII. The US's isolationism (and being separated from the combatants by oceans) helped keep things good until the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the war to the US.

In WWIII (in preparation since at least 2008--don't pretend it is avoidable, either), ignoring or failing to prepare will not prevent severe damage to infrastructure and population.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 14:26:24 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/james-webb-bright-galaxies-early-universe/ [www zmescience com]

#JWST finds unexpectedly bright galaxies in a time when dark matter theory expected them to be smaller and dimmer.
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  Astronomers Shocked as JWST Uncovers Massive Galaxies That Challenge Gravity Theory. Is Dark Matter Theory Wrong?
  
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  New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 13:25:06 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

"Putin has failed. ... the West must prepare for the Kremlin's collapse." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0H9bRPeUck [www youtube com]

I think this is wishful thinking. I think Mr Putin's position is relatively secure. Short of a complete battlefield rout that puts Russia under the control of an occupier (fat chance of that!), Russian institutions, the Russian people, and even the Russian oligarchs will stand with Putin.

A few months from now, when the total Russian war deaths reach 1 000 000, people will still be saying the same. They often compare this to what happened when the Soviets had something like 50 000 casualties during their invasion of Afghanistan, but the invasion of Ukraine is already around fifteen times that many without any significant threat to his continued rule.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:13:33 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun

> ... their pathological social culture ...

Ah, yes. The initial and subsequent Mastodon growth waves were full of that. The Fediverse has never fully recovered.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:06:11 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun@shitposter That doesn't matter anyway. At any time, $COMPANY can alter its TOS, and users' only choice is accept or delete their accounts--which may not delete their data for some time ... during which time, the company will apply the NEW TOS to the data.

The laws need to be changed, so that data collected under one set of terms is ALWAYS subject to those terms. TOS changes should apply to data collected going forward, not to prior data. But good luck finding enough congressionals who can understand what you're trying to tell them AND haven't been bought and paid for by big data collection corporations.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:38:09 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Must have happened after 1986. Before that, I read at least two newspapers front to back (except the entertainment section and parts of the classified ads) each day.

I'm sure it would have been as attention-getting as those "the Christ is now here" ads.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:30:22 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@VD15 @sun No, it generally isn't. Too much saturated fat can cause cardiovascular issues (which is why medical doctors still generally recommend vegetable oil over animal fats), but in moderation, even high sat-fat substances like coconut oil are okay.

There are some vegetable oils that are artificially (fully or partially) saturated to change their consistency. I think those are worse.

I also try to avoid something called "trans fat".

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:02:11 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun You shouldn't have regular Coke anyway, because of the sugar content, but Home Depot in SoCal sells "Mexican Coke" bottled in Mexico with real sugar instead of corn syrup. It tastes **much** better.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 01:59:12 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun I don't remember early 1980s McDonald's fries as being anything spectacular, though they were pretty good if you could get them made fresh. In-N-Out fries of the time were really awesome IF you ordered them well-done, no-salt and then ate them immediately.

Some time in the 1990s, McDonald's fries were really great. I don't recall whether they were using beef fat or hydrogenated vegetable oil by that time.

The best fries I ever had were cooked by my siblings and I using Crisco vegetable shortening in the 1970s.

(French fries have been a top-5 favorite food since the 1960s, but most food places serve really terrible fries.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 11:34:41 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange moving to Azure and GCP. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/404231/we-re-finally-going-to-the-cloud [meta stackexchange com]

I'm glad they're honest that operating in the cloud will be more expensive. I think the usual reasoning I see is "the cloud will save us money" and that's often not the case.
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  We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!
  
  Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspe...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 03:12:13 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@clacke That's awesome! GD2 recently turned 13. Son_1 usually does something special for her.

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