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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:47:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   The latest ruling against Giuliani contains the phrase "professional information technology professional". Is the court implying the existence of amateur professionals? What kind of nuances and permutations exist on the amateur to professional spectrum?
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:49:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     wrong answers only subthread in the replies to this comment 😃
   • sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:00:40 UTC sj_zero

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     After 2001 there's been a thriving market of non-professional information technology professionals. We call them NEETs. Also called "home security enthusiasts"
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:23:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Graydon

     @graydon Oh, my goodness! Just pure facts and definitions of ontology in no uncertain terms within eight minutes!

     This is a prime example of "get an answer to the question you didn't know enough to know you should be asking". And people say making silly has no productive value.

     Thank you, kind fedizen, and thank you fedi for bringing them to me!

   • Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 14:23:26 UTC Graydon

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     @clacke There's professional information technology and consumer information technology and public information technology; your corporate document retention and filing system, someone's laptop with the file manager that comes with the OS, and the US GPO system for finding the official text of laws, for example.

     So the court is describing a person with professional qualifications in a context of professional information technology. They don't know anything about the Library of Congress.