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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 02:08:46 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

After some medical tests, the doctor advised some dietary changes for Grandson_4 (age 3 1/2). Trying to do most of them family-wide, so they're not a big deal.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:12:44 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Russian army blows up dam https://gnusocial.jp/url/3468011 [united24media com]
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  Russian Forces Have Blown Up Kurakhove Reservoir Dam. Floodwaters Are Approaching Villages in Donetsk Region
  
  The Kurakhove Dam has been blown up by Russian troops, resulting in flooding near Velykonovosilkivska. Limited access remains for vehicles on affected roads.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 09:11:49 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

> Thinking shortsightedly, suboptimizing and failing to use resources efficiently from a societal perspective are capitalist problems

I disagree. This occurs and has occurred in organizations within different social and economic systems for as long as there have been organizations within societies.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:15:07 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

The most bozotic thing ever. Missouri State Highway Patrol sent out an AMBER alert for a child abduction in Phillipsburg, MO, with a link to their X/Twitter account instead of https://www.moalerts.mo.gov/ (the site where the information is really available).

In this case, the abduction appears to have occurred around 9-10 hours before the alert was issued.

CHP (California Highway Patrol) also links to their X/Twitter account in their AMBER alerts, but they don't appear to have a real site for information.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 15:14:54 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I don't remember who said it or what the context was, but

> загальне виборче право є саме таким

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I didn't vote, because I moved halfway across the country and haven't gotten around to registering ( see https://gnusocial.jp/notice/7768699 ).

I do generally vote almost every election, even the local (school board / parks district / water district / sewer district) ones. I did find it hard to keep up with the issues and candidates when I was always travelling for work.
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  Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 08:40:18 JST - GNU social JP
  
  I have some documents to update, but there's neither time nor money available for the process.
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I have some documents to update, but there's neither time nor money available for the process.

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Looks like the Tropical West Pacific is getting really active. Looks like four storms at once. https://gnusocial.jp/url/3456854
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 05:07:17 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@lxo I did re-download it 2-3 years ago with the idea of giving it another try, but none of my contacts would even touch it ... and I couldn't see any obvious differences.

Now mind you, I've used it primarily on mobile devices (KDE used to have a Ring-compatible program but I never got it to do anything.)

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@lxo They did tack-on E2EE. It is off in any public room, but on by default in private rooms (this probably depends on the client, but with the main Element clients, this is the case).

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@lxo I can't agree about Jami, mostly because the actual experience of trying to use it is abysmal. Regular people will quickly abandon it (I know because I tried to get my family members to use it) and go back to centralized proprietary corporate ("corpocentric") services. See: https://gnusocial.jp/notice/7755187

There's a lot of work still to be done before it is at a point where I'd recommend it for anything but techies trying to improve it.

I'm also not sure Jami is available on iOS.

The rest is generally true. There is also Matrix, an ongoing fustercluck, but one that seems generally similar to its corpocentric competition. But one should spend some time in Element-Android and Element-iOS before recommending.

@gnu2 @fu
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  Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:38:53 JST - GNU social JP
  
  Years ago, I tried out GNU Ring (now GNU Jami) with some friends and family members. While I'm sure it has improved some since then, I don't believe they've dealt with the issues that we ran into, and those issues are why I still say today that GNU Jami is nowhere near ready for normal people to use. (1) When people today create an account on a communication service, they expect to be able to use that account on multiple devices, even at the same time. It was my experience that ONE device would receive a message, and for the other devices, it was like they didn't exist. I don't recall whether it was the same device every time, but I suspect that to be the case. (2) When people use communication services, such as a chat or instant messaging service, they fully expect to be able to send messages to their contacts even while those contacts are offline, and that their contact will receive any messages sent their way once they log in. But Ring / Jami didn't do this. In fact, at that time, I don't ever recall seeing an indicator telling whether a particular contact was online. I had to just send and wait for an error message. (3) Slow network. It was difficult to have a text conversation, because one didn't know whether the person on the other end was just slow to respond. At any rate, anything one sent or received seemed to take an exaggerated time to reach its destination. Remember when using Tor felt like getting dial-up, with the latency of the most distant satellites? Yeah, that's what GNU Ring / GNU Jami used to feel like. (4) Missing information, such as presence indicators (I believe that one has been fixed), message delivery indicators (important when the network is slow). There were lots of others, but I don't remember anymore. (5) I also remember the client software being ugly. It was so ugly that I wondered whether someone found a way to use Gtk+ on Android. (As I've said for over 20 years, Gtk is so butt-ugly that I can't understand why any non-GNOME desktops or software still use it.)
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Years ago, I tried out GNU Ring (now GNU Jami) with some friends and family members. While I'm sure it has improved some since then, I don't believe they've dealt with the issues that we ran into, and those issues are why I still say today that GNU Jami is nowhere near ready for normal people to use.

(1) When people today create an account on a communication service, they expect to be able to use that account on multiple devices, even at the same time. It was my experience that ONE device would receive a message, and for the other devices, it was like they didn't exist. I don't recall whether it was the same device every time, but I suspect that to be the case.

(2) When people use communication services, such as a chat or instant messaging service, they fully expect to be able to send messages to their contacts even while those contacts are offline, and that their contact will receive any messages sent their way once they log in. But Ring / Jami didn't do this. In fact, at that time, I don't ever recall seeing an indicator telling whether a particular contact was online. I had to just send and wait for an error message.

(3) Slow network. It was difficult to have a text conversation, because one didn't know whether the person on the other end was just slow to respond. At any rate, anything one sent or received seemed to take an exaggerated time to reach its destination. Remember when using Tor felt like getting dial-up, with the latency of the most distant satellites? Yeah, that's what GNU Ring / GNU Jami used to feel like.

(4) Missing information, such as presence indicators (I believe that one has been fixed), message delivery indicators (important when the network is slow). There were lots of others, but I don't remember anymore.

(5) I also remember the client software being ugly. It was so ugly that I wondered whether someone found a way to use Gtk+ on Android. (As I've said for over 20 years, Gtk is so butt-ugly that I can't understand why any non-GNOME desktops or software still use it.)

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https://gnusocial.jp/url/3438801 [detroitmi gov]

> secure platform managed by PayPal

I think it is a good idea to accept cryptocurrency payments, but I think trusting PayPal is going to bite them hard ... and they'll likely blame cryptocurrencies for it.
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  Detroit to become largest city in US to accept cryptocurrency payments for taxes, other fees | City of Detroit
  
  Residents will be able to pay with cryptocurrency beginning mid 2025City invites blockchain innovators to partner on civic solutions
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https://gnusocial.jp/url/3429379 [apnews com]

"Votecast" gives reasons for Trump's support.
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ABC News currently projects 223 for Harris, 279 for Trump, with a few states still not projected yet. It looks to me like MI, AZ, NV will all go for Trump, so probably 301.

In popular vote, around 72M (52%) for Trump, around 67M (48%) for Harris.

Senate: 42 D + 1 (Bernie Sanders) versus 52 R, with a few seats still undecided. 51 is a majority.

House of Representatives: 190 D to 204 R with something like 41 seats still undecided. 218 is a majority.

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@simsa03 Admittedly, I tried to block out most election-related information, but I still had the impression the election would be very close ... and that Democrats would control at least one house of Congress regardless of who won the White House.

It looks like the information I did encounter was mostly wrong.

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It is 01:22 US-Central. ABC News projections:

Harris (D) -- 194, 62M votes

Trump (R) -- 266, 68M votes

About 9 states still to go.

And remember, these are projections by outside organizations (a television network and the company they hired, probably a polling organization), not official numbers from each state's secretary of state.

At this point, I'm guessing Trump will likely end up with between 285 and 309 electoral votes, assuming that the real numbers turn out to be substantially the same as the TV projections.. 270 is enough to win.

It also looks like the Republicans get control of the Senate (current projection: D 41; I 1; R 51 ... 8 more to go, but 51 is already more than half). The House of Representatives isn't decided yet (current projection: D 189; R 203 ... 41 to go and 218 needed to control the House).

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VA, NJ leaning toward Harris (total 27 electoral votes) with more than half the votes counted.

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Harris 153; Trump 214.

Trump narrowly leading in GA, NC, PA, WI with over half the vote counted.

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Now 91 to 207.

These are projections, not official results. And the western states are still voting, so there's a big batch of almost guaranteed Harris votes that will show up either late tonight or tomorrow morning.

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