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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Jul-2025 11:40:40 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

So ... heat index. Today was around 95F with a heat index around 104F. I was outside in it, trying to get some steps in (I've been trying to get 10,000 - 15,000 steps per day recently). It was uber-miserable.

For comparison, in my old SoCal town in the Mojave Desert, I would walk (generally 18,000 - 25,000 steps per day) up to 105F. There, the relative humidity was usually less than 25%. The temperature (105F) felt hotter, yes. Especially in the direct sunlight. But it wasn't as miserable.The dogs and I truncated the early walk at around 1,500 steps.

On the late walk, I did just barely reach 10,000 steps for the day ... just before it was so dark that I couldn't progress any more without a flashlight.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 28-Jul-2025 23:18:53 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@gnu2 The problem with this POV is that people need a way to know when a person is able to make important decisions for themself. Age works well, as long as we acknowledge specific (and detectable) exceptions (such a mental / emotional handicap) and ethical quandries (boss / subordinate, instructor / student, etc).

I consider "age of consent" to be a subset of legal majority, the age when one is presumed to have an adult mind and therefore one can sign contracts. (Again, specific exceptions should exist, such as mental / emotional handicap and influential /negotiation / market power ... where one party is in a controlling position relative to the other.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 21-Jul-2025 08:41:59 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Accidentally discovered that Norman Greenbaum released a new "official video" for "Spirit in the Sky". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqYN-1vMM9k

Grandson_3 & Grandson_4 like this one a lot. I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFo72wuU6w and Grandson_6 likes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2msh0jut2Y (I try to keep him--well, all of them--away from screens as much as possible, but when a 6-month old is being ultra-fussy and you discover something that soothes him, you're going to go with it.)
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1. Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (Official Music Video)
  
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  Watch the all-new Official Music Video for Norman Greenbaum's timeless hit “SPIRIT IN THE SKY,” starring Conor Sherry and Abby Ryder Fortson—with a quick cam...
2. Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (1970)
  
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3. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum (Official Lyric Video)
  
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  An all-time classic! Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky" was released in the U.S. in January 1970. In celebration of the 50th anniversary in 2020, we gav...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 12:49:08 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could Meta/Facebook could face fines of up to 32 billion euros. Of course, they won't pay anywhere near this.
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  “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
  
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  You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 10:15:51 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> Then, at the end of the 80s, the Bee Gees made one of the biggest comebacks ever. They had a #1 in the UK a year earlier and then blew up the American charts again with a smash that put them back in the game, You Win Again... and they’ve never looked back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdyPEf9W29g

I see it was a pretty major hit in the late 1980s [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Win_Again_(Bee_Gees_song) ] but I honestly don't think I have ever heard the song [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZY9oYSSjFI ] before now.

I'll give it a couple of listens, but so far it doesn't really "grab" me. It may be a "you had to be there" thing. I was around, but quite busy with life in the 1980s and 1990s.
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1. Band RULED the 70s…Then RADIO SHADOW BANNED Them for 10 Yrs-Till This MASSIVE HIT!-Professor of Rock
  
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  COMING UP next, the Bee Gees were the biggest band of the 70s with 8 #1 hits in under 4 years… they were everywhere until they weren’t. What a difference a ...
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  You Win Again (Bee Gees song)
  
  "You Win Again" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and performed by the Bee Gees. The song was produced by the brothers, Arif Mardin and Brian Tench. It was released as the first single on 7 September 1987 by Warner Records, from their seventeenth studio album E.S.P. (1987). It was also their first single released from the record label. The song marked the start of the group's comeback, becoming a No. 1 hit in many European countries, including topping the UK Singles Chart—their first to do so in over eight years—and making them the first group to score a UK No. 1 hit in each of three decades: the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. As songwriters, the Gibb brothers received the 1987 British Academy's Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 1988, the band received a Brit Award nomination for Best British Group. In a UK television special on ITV in December 2011, it was voted second (behind "How Deep Is Your Love") on The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song. Reception Cash Box called it "a melodic soft-pop number guaranteed to see instant attention...
3. Bee Gees - You Win Again (1987)
  
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 05:28:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4898642 [www theguardian com]

That's one of the things that is so worrisome about the current schemes promoted by educrats (educational bureaucrats). It isn't THEM or THEIR relatives who'll suffer the consequences of "common core" and the like, so they feel free to impose it on other people's kids.
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  The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
  
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  Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:52:47 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> I'm declaring war on the sahara desert by planting trees. Billions must grow.. TOTAL DESERT DEATH

https://netzsphaere.xyz/objects/d1c037d6-1dfa-499f-8823-d217a798ad9a

That only works a little. There were once trees in portions of what is now the Sahara Desert, but trees need water to survive. I expect we have not yet found a way to increase that area's rainfall without transforming another area into a perpetual drought zone®.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 01:59:36 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

There used to be a drive-in theater along the I-10 freeway in the #SoCal #SGV after most of the others had already closed. It finally closed and was home to a swap meet for many years. They finally built a hospital there.

I'm not sure if that is the one that I went to with one of my brothers and some of his friends (up to six people allowed per car). I don't even remember what movie we went to see, just that the 2nd feature was "Flesh Gordon" ... pretty surprising at the time.

(This was also the time when some pirate TV broadcaster known as "X3" would transmit "illicit content" on TV channel 3 late at night on weekends. Or so my friends at school claimed. I never saw it myself.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 00:41:39 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Are there other active GS instances? This one seems to be teetering on collapse, with lots of database errors (and when I try to post, often something about unapproved thumbnails from sites whose URLs weren't even in my post ... but these posts are usually successful; there are also lots of mysterious posting failures.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 00:38:55 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

something something something

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 23:18:12 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Overcast. May get a little rain today, but little chance of a t-storm. Slightly cooler, which is good.

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 09:33:37 JST simsa03

ICE tried to enter the stadium of the Dodgers in LA? That is reminscent of another stadium taken over by a rightwing regime, some 50 years ago: Santiago de Chile, 1973, and the death of 6,500 people, amongst them Victor Jara. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/898505ad54dab024241eec9e8fc8881bb7e259cd7d3d600d1df581d2ba21fb23/view
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 05:11:03 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Yep. The first time I caught #COVID-19, it was because I was eating breakfast in the hotel dining room and some jerk coughed (again, repeatedly).

It was a hotel with "food can't leave the dining room" rules, or I wouldn't have still been there anyway. In fact, one family had a child that had to eat special food. They brought it with them to the dining room, and they had to show the hotel employees that it wasn't hotel-provided food when they wanted to take it with them.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 23:41:43 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@simsa03 Erdogan has been trying to exterminate the Kurds -- a people group that lives partly within his own country -- for decades. Not to mention that Turkiye did almost cause a NATO split when they invaded Cyprus (even today, the northern part of the island is held as a non-recognized Turkish-enforced nation).

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 23:38:03 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@gnu2 I'm not sure it was ever true. One would have to do a deep dive on that study to determine how much one agrees with the result.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 22:16:34 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Aren't these the same people cheering the fact that you can use PulseAudio to share your music across your network?

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 02:35:22 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

2nd week in a row that the kids' sports games are cancelled due to rain. Except that in both cases, it rained overnight, but the field seemed to be okay by game time. This week, it was raining when they would have had practice, too.

They're going to have to go back to basics when they get back on track: this is a ball; we use it when playing our sport.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 10:55:07 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun ... Except that Nostr's design happened after ActivityPub was already in use. They seriously could have learned from the existing attempts at decentralized networking, but chose to ignore it all.

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@moon@shitposter.club I worked with a couple of guys who had been at Bell Labs / Lucent (at the end of and after their most productive years) and at Xerox PARC and Rochester research labs (during their most productive years). From what I understand from my friend, the AT&T breakup was the biggest factor. Before that, AT&T was a huge org with guaranteed profits and lots of places to obscure their spending. Afterwards, Lucent had to scramble to be profitable.

And so they refocused most of their research on hardware for the telephone system AND because their competitors were on the "release flawed products and then release patches later" train and they were on design and test until all known flaws were removed, Lucent couldn't compete, so they had layoffs.

Now, I wasn't there, so I can't say whether my friend's recollection was accurate, but that's what he told me.

(The other former co-worker, the one who had worked for Xerox PARC and Xerox Rochester, said that PARC was much more creative because they were far away from the management in Upstate NY, but as we know, most of their inventions were left to rot on the vine unless someone outside of Xerox decided to implement them.)

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If you're using MinIO to host your own S3-compatible file storage, read https://lowendbox.com/blog/minio-gives-the-finger-to-its-users-pony-up-96000-suckers/
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  MinIO Gives the Finger to Its Users: Pony Up $96,000, Suckers!
  
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