Notices by hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social), page 8
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 09:43:41 JST hankg @anders Thank you for the compliment! I’m enjoying doing it and using it since Friendica is pretty much my only social media now. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 03:14:35 JST hankg I recently became aware of a man named Pyotr Patrushev . His claim to fame is that he was one of the first and only people to escape the Soviet Union by swimming to freedom over 30 km in the Black Sea from Balumi Georgia to Turkey. It is a very inspiring tale. There are links to four YouTube videos of interviews with him on his entire life in the Soviet Union, his escape, and his post-escape treatment in Turkey. It was not smooth sailing right away for him since they thought he must be a KGB agent since no one had successfully completed such a feat since WWII. #history #PyotrPatrushev #ussr #ColdWar #swimming nequalsonelifestyle.com/2023/0… -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 22:41:21 JST hankg It wasn't until digging into Musk background after the whole going after the guy who criticized his cave rescue submarine stunt that I realized how many times he just made shit up as on the verge of existing or 1-2 years away tops to have it be total BS. Good news, now there is a site that tracks it. It is truly mind bending that people take what he says at face value any longer. He is more grifter and charlatan than "real world Tony Stark" tech genius. The data is all there for you to see for yourself. #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick elonmusk.today/ -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 02:54:16 JST hankg @goatsarah I've never experimented with gluten free beers of any kind. Good to know! -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 08:29:02 JST hankg The explosion of options in the non-alcoholic/zero beer market is so awesome, even for a beer lover like me that still drinks full test. This wasn’t even half the available options at my local store. With so many of these tasting as good as regular beer at this point it is my default option. New brands, flavors, etc are times I’ll reach for a regular beer first but then often switch to the zero beers, absolutely not O’Doul’s though, after. #food #beer #NABeer #ZeroBeer -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 23:22:25 JST hankg @nathans420 If you are doing that because you are worried about the presentation of your status on another server then you don't have to. It will render larger than the local limit statuses perfectly fine. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 23:01:51 JST hankg @goatsarah It could be. I don't really follow EV tech/industry that closely. My frustration with this is covering with the perpetual coverage of this in MSM and main stream tech press. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 22:57:15 JST hankg @josh Thank god we aren't on Twitter otherwise the PizzaGate/Qanon whack jobs would start coming out of the woodwork responding to this :). -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 22:47:08 JST hankg The "Tesla EV charger" was submitted and accepted as the "North American Charging Standard" (NCAS). Now that it is a standard everyone is starting to use it. So why is the MSM and tech press covering it as "So and so is adopting the Tesla Charger" instead of "So and so is adopting the National Charging Standard"? Have they not done enough Tesla/Musk sycophancy to date or something? #tesla #ElonMusk #NCAS #EV -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 18:25:04 JST hankg @raddude12 I had a few people who came in the November migration that left because they were afraid they were going to get banned if they didn't CW every single post. I told them that wasn't going to be a thing but after a month they left anyway. Ironically much of the scolds weren't old hats but newbies. As they say, "There are none so pious as the recently converted." Hopefully we don't get a repeat of that nonsense. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 11:42:00 JST hankg @thomasfuchs What a bizarre fracture location. It is totally sheared off though. Scary. I wonder how long it was running like that. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jul-2023 04:16:48 JST hankg @robdaemon Since my early 40s...All. The. Time. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 23:06:42 JST hankg @feld @gme It has been a while since I looked at the controversy but it didn't seem like a "we won't accept these changes to support BSD" it was more problems with the changes. The big thing they said they wouldn't support, which is understandable but disappointing, is BSD as an official platform. I may be misremembering. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 22:19:02 JST hankg @gme I would have preferred going with Linux but I couldn't get any of the Linux distros to work with my motherboard so FreeBSD it was :) -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 22:18:59 JST hankg @gme I dabble with some of their Desktop friendly variants based on FreeBSD from time to time in VMs. Nothing is compelling enough to get me off Linux for my standard OS. Worse is that my standard development, Dart/Flutter, stack doesn't support it at all. :( -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 22:18:07 JST hankg It is pretty interesting watching the Computer Chronicles roll out coverage of the original WindowsNT in 1993. It makes me want to fire up a VM and play with it and/or Windows 3.11 again for some UI nostalgia. It is interesting seeing all the features we've gotten used to in Windows with the modern interface but using the Windows 3.1 style interface. One interesting tidbit which I didn't realize until last week was that NT supported symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) from the original release on. Meanwhile when Apple acquired NeXT in 1997 NeXTSTEP still did not support SMP. My first foray into WindowsNT didn't come until the late-1990s when our engineering labs were equipped with computers running NT 4.0 but none of them had multiple processors. I wouldn't get my first multiprocessor machine until the early-2000s when I was attempting to parallelize algorithms for the software company I then worked in...running WindowsXP by then. #ComputerHistory #ComputerChronicles #Windows #WindowsNT
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 22:18:04 JST hankg @gme I never had a problem with the Windows 3.1 interface. I did hate the lack of protected memory though, followed far behind by the lack of preemptive multiprocessing. I had some sort of UI enhancer too, not Norton Desktop, that got me close enough to some of the aspects of the new Chicago interface that was going to first be used in WIndows95. But as soon as Windows95 was available without waiting in long lines I got it and installed it. It still didn't cut it for me though so eventually I ended up having a dual boot configuration with Windows for my needed Windows apps and FreeBSD for as much as I could do in there. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 09:13:18 JST hankg ♲ @999@diasporasocial.net:Is it chicken? Here’s how the first bite of ‘cell-cultivated’ meat tastes apnews.com/article/labgrown-ch… -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 05:30:11 JST hankg @shoq @goatsarah Are you regularly cross-posting from your Friendica instance? How is the experimental bridge going from either direction? -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 05:27:07 JST hankg @shoq When I was cross-posting to Twitter from Friendica I usually did the opposite. I ended up locking myself into the 280 limit so that it rendered well on Twitter.