Quoth the six-year-old grandson, after watching me pop open, fix, and button up one of those automated paper towel dispensers in a public restroom: "That was actually pretty good! It's almost like you're an engineer or something!" #kids #nohigherpraise
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Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 11:36:32 JST Kent Brewster
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Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2023 14:09:19 JST Kent Brewster
Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.
IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.
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Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 22:19:18 JST Kent Brewster
Every time I see one of those maps showing a huge difference in Factor X in the USA, with it being much worse in the southeast, I am reminded of the 1860 census map of enslaved persons. IT'S THE SAME DAMN MAP EVERY TIME, people! #uspol #poverty
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Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 19:06:13 JST Kent Brewster
@JamesGleick “Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off, and the most successful weapon in its arsenal has been its campaign to prevent us from considering any alternatives.” In just a little while this definition will also be true for AI.
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Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 08:23:47 JST Kent Brewster
A couple of Andys kick off XOXO, 12 September 2014.
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Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 17:08:05 JST Kent Brewster
A picture of nine empty QR codes, so you can see what the backgrounds look like. All version 4, error correction level M. No mask, then masks 1 through 8.