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(DIR) Post #AVQvqrlFYGjS9GQkmO by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-05-08T04:08:18Z
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When it looks like you're writing an encrypted message but that's only because you started typing with your fingers homed on the wrong keys.
(DIR) Post #AVQw9uBGmOgH9fgCA4 by Retreival9096@tech.lgbt
2023-05-08T04:11:38Z
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@lauren 😂. I so love the invention of the little bumps on "f" and "j" (for US key layouts).
(DIR) Post #AVQwJz47TPKFCU8oHw by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-05-08T04:13:27Z
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@Retreival9096 I was about to say, sometimes this happens because those two nubs have worn down.
(DIR) Post #AVQwbQGDcEJaT37EjA by Retreival9096@tech.lgbt
2023-05-08T04:16:41Z
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@lauren I'm not good to my keyboards. They usually die from other things than the little bit of wear each time I press the letter or verify I'm on home. But I do sometimes manage to wear off the text on the top of the keys.
(DIR) Post #AVQwqaT9wTCKTOOqP2 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-05-08T04:19:26Z
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@Retreival9096 The text is always wearing off my (cheap) keyboards fairly rapidly. The one I'm using right now is at least 2/3 bare. Doesn't bother me. The most valuable single class I took in my educational career was touch typing in Junior High. Seriously. Though at the time, my idea was to make it easier to do term papers, I never imagined I'd spend my entire career at keyboards all day long.
(DIR) Post #AVQwwyxfnGu0AhinwW by mirzmaster@hachyderm.io
2023-05-08T04:20:39Z
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@lauren Happens all the time! 😅
(DIR) Post #AVQx4ieSJkjnu6QEd6 by Retreival9096@tech.lgbt
2023-05-08T04:21:58Z
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@lauren Ditto, although I took mine primarily because my mom (who had worked as a typist and editor) insisted I did so. I didn't have the foresight to think of term papers. (I'm guessing she did, though.)
(DIR) Post #AVQxv9siK2pXPl61ho by lain_7@tldr.nettime.org
2023-05-08T04:31:23Z
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@lauren I've often thought a nice modern variation on the haiku allusive encryption system used in PKDick's *The man in the high castle* would be to just not correct the output of the autocorrect.
(DIR) Post #AVR3tLHlYCx5vgKbeS by MechanicalTurk@home.social
2023-05-08T05:38:14Z
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@lauren "looks like"? if substitution cyphers and rot13 are encryption algorithms, you can own this one. Weinstein encryption.
(DIR) Post #AVR5C5GRRSN1hEDEau by tdierks@mastodon.social
2023-05-08T05:52:53Z
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@lauren it's like a 0-rotor Enigma