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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKEQm10-n84 I remember watching this #Brady_Bunch episode. #song: “Time to Change”
There were a few singing episodes, including the “you fit the shirt” episode.
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Wincing. I knew it was bad, but not quite this bad.
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@lxoliva I can't imagine it is a system clock issue if the Diaspora and GS instances are running on the same system. If there are others seeing the same issue with FSF's GS instance, maybe their admins should seek troubleshooting assistance in #social on Freenode.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/without-a-vaccine-herd-immunity-wont-save-us/
> In the U.S., there have been 81,507 deaths as of May 12.3 For a fatality rate of 0.1 percent, the same as the seasonal flu, we’d have to find out that 81.5 million Americans, or nearly a quarter of the U.S. population, had already had COVID-19. But based on early serological surveys, the World Health Organization says it’s likely that only about 2 to 3 percent of the population has been exposed so far.
> Some serological surveys have reported wildly different estimates of how many people may be immune. A recent survey in California, for example, found that something like 2 to 4 percent of the population had antibodies, while studies in Germany and Massachusetts found antibodies in 15 to 30 percent of those tested.
(via The Forest)
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The last day of sixth grade, my teacher told me "Do some work next year". I guess I didn't make the best impression.
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No time or energy for it now, but I *really* need to write a long blog post about net neutrality, its historical antecedents (common carrier, last mile, natural monopoly), and why "free market" types should be its strongest supporters.
Spoiler: It isn't a free market if one party has the power to force or coerce its way on the other.
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@amic @kt And especially avoid almost any #VPS host advertised on LowEndBox unless you're just experimenting with throwaway code & data. When you pay $20-$50/year there's a lot you don't get, usually including reliability.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Back,_Kotter
Welcome Back Kotter was not my favorite show (but one of my brothers liked it, so in a one TV household, I saw a few episodes). I don’t recall (maybe I was never aware of it) the cast turmoil that Wikipedia mentions.
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Found an Angels baseball shirt in size 2T. It will be in the next shipment to #GS3. I’ll have to find something for my granddoggy. She’s used to boxes including a gift for her, but the most recent one did not have one.
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Serializing #Lua tables: https://www.lua.org/pil/12.1.1.html
This feels weird to me. Maybe because Lua is generally embedded inside of a game, where the script need not concern itself about saving its data to a file.
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The plumber did not come today, so it is likely the toilet will not be fixed until Tuesday.
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Oh, #nginx, why is such a common screen? What could this message mean (about the way people configure Nginx)? https://nu.federati.net/attachment/269859
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79F right now in my #SoCal hometown. Sunny, no wind. Feels somewhat warmer than I'd like, but not excessively so.
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81F at 17:00 PDT. Good weather day. Time to hit the garden.
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Heat wave expected in #SoCal next week. In my hometown, expected peak temperatures range from 98 to 104F. In metric, that means "cut up some onion and lie in it so you'll make a tasty meal".
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Watered a little, then went to attack the weeds.
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New martiam arts school has a bunch of kids with nunchucks out front.
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*martial arts*
Good promotional stunt, but I don't know how many people come into the shopping center from that direction.
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I wonder what a "Martian arts" school would be teaching.
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Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again ZDNet
https://nu.federati.net/url/269871
>Munich's flip-flop back to open source is the latest sign of Germany's political sea change over proprietary software.
>...
- Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] repeated this.
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@geniusmusing I’m glad they are shifting back, but leaving Linux for Windows did incalculable damage to the efforts of those of us who advocate within government agencies to give FLOSS a fair trial. I sincerely doubt this time will help.
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Went to one of the home improvement big box stores, looking for garden seeds. I wanted tomato, peppers, cucumber, squash, cantaloupe, watermelon seeds. I wound up with okra and zucchini (squash) seeds.
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RMS was right:
https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/
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https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-hijacks-cells-in-unique-ways/ [www statnews com]
The #SARS-CoV-2 virus, the #coronavirus that causes #COVID-19, blocks one arm of the body's anti-virus defenses, while stimulating the other. This unique behavior allows unhindered replication while causing inflamation.
#2019-nCoV
Seen via @tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com's #Diaspora feed.
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Got notification this morning that the mother of my brother's friend who moved in with us for a few years in high school / college has passed away. It could have been any time in the past few days.
The death is not believed to be related to COVID-19.
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"Us four and no more"
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@gargron wants to replace the current scope limited #Mastodon fake direct messages with real DMs, E2E encrypted using OLM (an implementation of Signal’s encryption). Good. People have sent personally identifying information and financial data across fake DMs, not aware that others could accidentally see the contents.
Bad: Scope limited posts are going away entirely. SLPs / SLMs are useful. They are just regular messages, but sent only to the @mentioned users. That could be the foundation for something like #Diaspora’s Aspects. If there’s no pretense that they are private, and they are treated and displayed like other posts, they are good.
The issue has always been the name. Pretending SLMs are DMs means people send each other private information. I don’t believe any instance admins would intentionally read them or misuse information in such posts, but having that information in your database could be bad news when “John Q Cracker” breaks into the server.
@trnwh@mastodon.social
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