Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 19:39:02 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
Darn. Really have to upgrade this instance to #ActivityPub -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:36:47 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Oh, now you're just confusing things even more. I was going to reply to @clacke's original post that I've seen both CDNpoli and slightly fewer CANpoli hashtags (I subscribe to both), as well as CNDpoli -- probably for "Canada Poli".
But now @lnxw48a1 pops in with *currency* abbreviations, and that's properly represented as $4.50CAD (maybe "CAnadian Dollar"?)
So should there also be a CADpoli?
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:34:53 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke I've usually seen "CDN" in one of two contexts: Money, as in "Tim Horton's pays its employees CDN$4.50 per hour"; or hashtags, as in "#CDNPol" ... But you're right that it makes things confusing.
How does one know which abbreviation to use in which context. Maybe we should just use "FZN" for "Frozen Northland". (I'm joking.)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkmangreen@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 10:09:51 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
I was saddened to hear that Nora Fueten passed away on 10 January 2024.
Nora was my campaign manager for the 2019 federal election. Nora was highly qualified for this, as she had previous run in the federal elections in 2011 and 2008 gaining 7% of the vote, the highest ever achieved by a Green Party candidate in Brantford-Brant.
During the 2019 campaign Nora was indefatigable. She came along on all the door-to-door trips, every debate, filled in my gaps during media interviews, and greeted everyone at every festival and fair. Nora knew everyone, and everyone knew Nora.
Nora was not only a good political mentor, but a fashion consultant as well. Early in the campaign she said βYouβll never win the election with those baggy pantsβ, and I had to update my wardrobe. Whether it was Noraβs political acumen or good fashion sense, it resulted in a good election campaign.
The funeral service will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday, 20 January 2024 at at First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo
Map: https://osm.org/go/ZXna93l7--?m=
https://bobjonkman.ca/2024/01/20/nora-fueten-1940-2024/ https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/222322 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 06:19:18 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I made π apple-cranberry pie π₯§. The filling is delicious π€€. The crust is too hard. Not burnt, just hard.
I have been baking from scratch recently. Other than bread π machine loaves (starting about 2020), I had not baked from scratch since the middle 1970s. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 19:28:46 UTC
Bob Jonkman
From a few years ago...
All gone now, and I promised $SPOUSE it would never come back. https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/221480 -
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 13:24:25 UTC 
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
I tried for over four decades to grow an impressive personality, but it was a lot of effort and not much payoff, so now I'm just trying to grow an impressive beard instead. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 00:44:38 UTC
Bob Jonkman
@steve
Wait, you or Dr. Cooley are at Perimeter? Giving any public lectures?
If so, I'll hop on my bike to attend!
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Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 11:25:13 UTC 
Stephen Sekula
From jodi on Mastodon: Iβm looking forward to meeting students at TRISEP 2023 being held @Perimeter! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:21:12 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Several other authors of software that accesses the Twitter API have come to that conclusion as well. When #Twidere, my phone app to access Twitter stopped accessing Twitter back in January I pretty much abandoned Twitter. I still check Twitter with its WebUI, less than once a week, but I no longer post or engage there.
But Twitter still gets used by some organizations I do work for, so I do post from their accounts. I wonder how long it will be before they abandon Twitter too. -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 22:00:16 UTC
Stephen Sekula
I finally had a chance to figure out why my social bridging software was no longer able to talk to Twitter. Indeed, it's because under Twitter's new leadership, python-twitter has been deemed as violating something in their terms of service. It says I can submit a ticket, but they make it impossible to figure out how to do that (the service portal is a loop). So I am deciding to no longer support Twitter and will focus entirely on federated social media. -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 01:50:18 UTC
Stephen Sekula
Got weirdly hung up on a simple problem involving the Poisson equation, and still have not resolved it. Who knew an isotropic collisionless gas in a spherically symmetric gravitational potential would be so IRRITATING? https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/7fcc02ad3df2ed9843b945250eef98bff9f7892a5da3711780562d1c81133b64/view -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 20:25:14 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I'd be more inclined to say "people voting the way the polls said they should..." -
Brian Γ (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 17:53:56 UTC 
Brian Γ
Iβve been getting more into the game Gaslands with my son and also with adult friends. Itβs a Mad Max-esque tabletop game where youβre expected to create your own game pieces by kitbashing with toy cars. I already have all the crafting, painting and 3d printing supplies I need from my other wargaming hobbies, so the barrier to entry was incredibly low. Itβs a lot of lighthearted fun. Here is my latest creation.
#gaslands #madmax #cars #toys #games #wargaming #kitbashing #crafting #3dprinting #paiting #hobby
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Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 06:06:27 UTC 
Tobias
I'm in need of a little Nerd-Pr0n... what little useful thing comes into your mind as tool of at the Linux command line? Not a super-nerdy command to sophisticated resolve a problem, but a tool for actual problems that would also be useful for n00bs to take their fear about using the CLI?
So curling wttr.in is a nice trick - but yesterday I discovered v2 of the service (probably around for a million years but new to me).
curl v2.wttr.in/Berlinyt-dlp and wget to fetch files from the Intenets without having to open a browser were on the list yesterday as well, but I'm eager to (re)discover some other nice tools.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 19:08:41 UTC 
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
I have my own workaround for just this issue.
I raise my hand to the "Stop/Hold" position.
Get to a point where I can stop and leave myself a note on the next thing to do.
Then let them interrupt me.
I have even done this to my former boss and the owner. It wasn't long before they adopted it for the same reason.
YMMV -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 16:16:54 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.monkeyuser.com/2018/focus/
This is me. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 20:27:28 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I will add some love for #Ventoy. I had a fight with UEFI on $SPOUSE's new laptop, where it wouldn't boot from USB no matter what I tried. There were no EFI files set up to allow booting from anything other than Windows, Windows Recovery, or UEFI firmware upgrade.
But the laptop recognized an EFI file on the Ventoy thumbdrive, so I could boot the laptop, press F2 like a madman to enter the setup, reconfigure the boot setup to use the Ventoy's EFI, then reboot again, now from the thumbdrive into the Ventoy selector screen.
But then I had reason to boot into Windows again (so reboot, mad F2s, reconfigure, reboot) but stupidly left the Ventoy thumbdrive connected. When I was done with Windows I rebooted, mad F2s, but now the Ventoy EFI file was gone. I had to re-flash the thumbdrive with a fresh copy of Ventoy-UEFI to make it come back.
Now the laptop boots directly into Debian. I wonder the Debian EFI option will be wiped if $SPOUSE ever decides to boot into Windows again... -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 18:56:11 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@geniusmusing #Ventoy is surprisingly good. I've used it a couple of times already. But recently, I was using it on the new Armbian installation on the #Orange_Pi_5 and ran into an issue:
* It sets up the flash drive using ExFAT as the file system. The instructions say you can change it later, but I never found that option.
* The current set of OS installable programs (Armbian, but I presume Debian / Devuan / Ubuntu / Mint will be the same) does not include a version of mount that handles exfat. That was in the now-deprecated older package.
* Turns out that Ventoy has a binary executable that I was able to copy into my path and use, so now S will receive a USB flash drive with 3 live distros (Debian, Ubuntu Desktop, CentOS Stream) and one direct installer (Ubuntu Server) on it.
I was tempted to add ReactOS, just so she'd see the difference between trying to clone a proprietary system without being sued is versus writing as desired. But I know she's just doing this so she'll have a passing familiarity and be able to check that box on some HR department's screening software's checklist. #ReactOS certainly will not help there. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 03:44:36 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Oh yes, the movie was terrible. My father-in-law was an avid comic book collector, and had many original Spirit comics. $SPOUSE got me interested too, and we bought hard-cover collections, and when I went to a comic book convention and told an author I thought I saw some Will Eisner influences in his work he thought it was a great compliment! We bought a layout print (pencil sketch, some shading, no colour) from an author who was making new Spirit comics.
Will Eisner and The Spirit was the inspiration for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and there is not a trace of that prestige in the movie. For once, I was happy Will Eisner wasn't around anymore so he didn't have to see it.
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