Posts by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Av3kZNePUUIIjZkTey by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T16:18:25Z
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@onan Those in sales as a profession can have trouble being frank and direct.
(DIR) Post #Av5bqhHvDqm3I1Kf1k by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T13:50:05Z
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@stux ENHANCE!
(DIR) Post #Av6Ea5XlgSuBo3ocHg by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T20:48:31Z
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@sk76 If you don’t know offhand I can always google.Do you know more about Jackie Gleason’s direct involvement with music? I know he had a series of LPs, and a wife was often a model on their covers. But did he compose arrange, or merely help market, ala Ed Sullivan show cultural curation? Did he hum melodies to a copyist, or…?
(DIR) Post #Av6F8CV4KIRTE9opDE by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T21:10:15Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 I googled but it did not surface this, which might go into more detail. Thanks! His actual level of authorship gets skirted around as a passing aside in many articles.But it looks like my last guess, humming a lead line to a copyist, was probably pretty close.
(DIR) Post #Av6H7EWvUeLt8rM18i by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T21:32:32Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 He could play a little piano and a little trumpet apparently.Many of the albums he ‘presented’ were full of known songs composed by others. The musicians looked the other way as his name and clout brought in the checks.I once heard this cover girl was his wife, but I don’t think so. His marriages were rife with infidelity.
(DIR) Post #Av6I2QUjgJZSkvbL28 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T21:42:53Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 As a vanity project they were extremely lucrative. Mood music. Makeout records. Still easy to find in thrift stores and collectors shops. He sold a -lot -of records.The records apparently started as part of his Capitol contract which took him from hosting Calvacade of Stars to creating his own eponymous TV show.
(DIR) Post #Av6LcNyIq6ldDaGl7o by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T22:23:00Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 Oh they are cool with collectors. Be it ‘lounge music’ or merely as a cultural artifact. But it’s sort of like finding a copy of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack- they are almost so ubiquitous as to go unnoticed. That doesn’t mean there isn’t someone picking one up for the first time and enjoying it. I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve heard- they work great as ambient mood, they elicit an era.
(DIR) Post #AvBqrP1XHKKtC7Do80 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T14:06:27Z
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@stux I set it for apps that need it as that is their function to ‘ONLY when app is open’. If a network really wanted to track you there are multiple ways to do so backside without a smartphones direct help. Simply keeping WiFi on all of the time creates tons of data mining. Keeping it only ‘only when needed’ prevents more widespread exploitation.I get UCE spam merely by walking inside a store.
(DIR) Post #AvBrtv9et3YzNdmm80 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T14:18:08Z
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@stux There are situations where someone might wish to use public open WiFi. Including a brick and mortars staff. But the devices that want to use the WiFi cannot, because of dozens of people walking around carrying at least two devices pinging or connecting to the WiFi without their knowledge, creating needless traffic and interference.
(DIR) Post #AvGsaxRbDqpQitUybQ by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-19T00:19:34Z
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@stux I never thought of Simple Wikipedia being a method for less fluent ESL students to have a simpler peek at English.But I can tell you- that seems like a terribly bad English translation. English is my first (only) language, and I have difficulty parsing it.Did an AI handle the translation from English to Simple English?I don’t know if Simple Wikipedia reverts to the smaller vocabulary of Basic English as a rule, but I know the entries are highly edited for length.
(DIR) Post #AvtlJnHkk5CYuuNQsy by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-07-07T18:31:03Z
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@stux There are easier ways to aerate the soil.
(DIR) Post #AwSegGrNqAQhnnW7kG by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-07-24T14:31:58Z
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@stux Steam has to deal with a WHOLE LOT of ‘tardy’ complaints from users.
(DIR) Post #AyfobkGXqLkhOlZmi0 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-09-28T18:38:58Z
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@futurebird @cmthiedeHad an interesting discussion regarding why so much spam is OBVIOUSLY fake.It is because they are also building a contact list of the more easily fooled.
(DIR) Post #AzVR1YBV5cVymHuA4G by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T16:19:39Z
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@stux I would not trust that to be accurate information.
(DIR) Post #AzujlnJbuzH8Hc3DsG by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T21:17:32Z
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@adam @podhome Chapters have been in my third party podcast app of choice for some time.When there was still an iTunes, some podcasts had show art that changed through the podcast. I thought chapters were up to those editing the podcasts, but perhaps being able to randomly access the chapters (or have an AI suggest headings) is new to Apple’s current podcast app.
(DIR) Post #AzutozfXRWq50XTJLs by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T23:10:10Z
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@adam @podhome Oh, thanks. I really hate streaming a podcast. Perhaps that’s why.There may be some other new subleties to Apple Podcasts additions. I only go there for transcripts however.Switching from iTunes management to Apple Music lost all the smart playlist functionality I depended on. So, hello 3rd party app. Haven’t looked back. Much.
(DIR) Post #B0JGJW4QXk7kPMzEh6 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T17:15:13Z
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@stux The upper left (eyes on same level) simply because the bitmap character abstracts away from recognizability too much in the other examples.
(DIR) Post #B0siOJtikwdSfeOPQm by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-12-03T19:44:43Z
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@stux hub could be safe area to store excess inventory found and earned along the way
(DIR) Post #B18mbZesygZNf7O7fc by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T13:47:04Z
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@stux @pluralistic I enjoy reading Cory, I just don’t enjoy dumps of 50+ toots in a row in my Masto feed. It’s overwhelming regardless of how much I agree with and appreciate his point of view and insight.I still get second hand alerts from other followers though of particularly salient points where Pluralistic has struck home.
(DIR) Post #B1gTHSFFo3HLakU4qe by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T19:50:58Z
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@stux it’s stupid to boot. It’s a let them eat cake access to public health, with zero realization that disease doesn’t recognize class boundaries.