Posts by dsalo@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #ARqFOhhGvybxn00T1k by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-01-20T17:22:36Z
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I snuck an electric warming pad underneath the familiar fleece. Lancelot APPROVES.
(DIR) Post #ARzRSTZyJTCj2DnRHk by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-01-25T01:50:38Z
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Other instances getting a rash of suspiciously spammy-looking signups? Usernames random keysmash ending in some numbers?(I mean, digipres.club is small, "a rash" is I've seen two of those today, but still.)
(DIR) Post #ASFhJ3QDtrYC6zysCG by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-02-01T23:39:54Z
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So I tried out @ivory and it's quite impressive. Only Masto app I've ever seen, mobile or web/desktop, that handles lists really elegantly. Two taps to any list I want to read. Since I LIVE in lists, this is MAJOR for me.Now if they'd only CHANGE THAT GENUINELY AWFUL AND NOT-EVEN-SLIGHTLY-OKAY APP NAME. May I suggest "Tickbird"? Because they're cute and useful and hitch rides on megafauna?
(DIR) Post #ASPmAESDxIaj4b82TY by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-02-06T21:00:18Z
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Extremely random question:Does anyone besides me remember a commercial (possibly for beer?) that goes like this...A bunch of hockey goalies are having a great party when another guy walks in. They stare blankly at him in non-recognition until he puts his goalie mask on, whereupon they welcome him raucously.I didn't dream this, did I? What product was this commercial for? I want to find it but YT is coming up blank.Boosts welcome.
(DIR) Post #ASwmVpgNHRKYxbcFlY by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-02-22T14:59:55Z
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Hi-ho, archival-quality audio digitizers.Any of y'all using RF64 for extra-long audio files too big to save as WAV or AIFF?I keep seeing "use Broadcast WAVE" but neither Audacity nor Ocenaudio supports that.Boosts welcome.
(DIR) Post #AUJnDdn5oVEDvHthvE by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-04-04T15:08:02Z
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The thought occurs that the easy way to catch ChatGPT users in higher ed is to require a works-cited section.Grade with Google Scholar up, and bam, done.
(DIR) Post #AUOViJ5745AIt92Eds by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-04-07T01:54:20Z
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Also, Happy International Ace Day to my fellow aces.
(DIR) Post #AVaRIiFdpgYOKYKh9c by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-05-12T16:55:21Z
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Illinois bans school library book bans.https://bookriot.com/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-ban-book-bans/Happy Friday, folks.
(DIR) Post #AbE17fh3WpqW9DFviy by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-10-27T15:30:31Z
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Medium appears to be paywalling basically everything.If it might be important to you that I be able to assign your writing to my students, COPY IT SOMEWHERE ACTUALLY OPEN, please.This is really frustrating. There's been a lot of solidly assignable writing on Medium, but it's all basically off-limits to me now.
(DIR) Post #Ac4PYJADaqJ842rbzk by dsalo@digipres.club
2023-11-22T16:23:35Z
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So... two women off the OpenAI board, one Larry "Girls Suck At Math, Jeff Epstein's My Buddy" Summers on it.This is fine. Yep. Totally fine. Not a problem at aaaaaaaall.
(DIR) Post #AdfI7W0HnEBIVeE2z2 by dsalo@digipres.club
2024-01-08T19:03:57Z
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It's actually interesting and possibly instructive to compare creator reactions to search-engine crawlers to their reactions to generative AI.My hypothesis is that the value exchange on search-engine crawls is pretty obvious -- crawl copies my site, search engine sends me traffic -- whereas generative AI gives back nothing, often even diminishing the value of the originals.Open to other explanations, of course.
(DIR) Post #Ai3o31dDj0gB39chN2 by dsalo@digipres.club
2024-05-19T19:51:59Z
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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks. https://covid-long.com/
(DIR) Post #Az4NyFiHlMzPUW3dEO by dsalo@digipres.club
2025-10-10T13:56:22Z
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So @404mediaco has a grant to file a ton of sunshine-law requests over library censorship (any type of library, best I can tell).They've been doing the best library news coverage anywhere. I trust them. Let's help them out. All they want is leads -- whom should they request records from?https://www.404media.co/help-us-investigate-book-bans-and-educational-censorship-around-america/Contact via Signal at jason.404; email jason@404media.co. (That's @jasonkoebler, but remember Mastodon isn't private.) #libraries #publiclibraries #academiclibraries #censorship
(DIR) Post #AzoC2L5XYWPgGuQZuq by dsalo@digipres.club
2025-11-01T16:10:36Z
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The (sometimes root) element for a record in MODS should not be named <mods>. MODS is the language and namespace. The element should be <record>, or if they must (based on <modsCollection>) <modsRecord>.There, I said it. I used to build DTDs, and this kind of thing just itches me.
(DIR) Post #B2aIO9Wxxy7lisNmBk by dsalo@digipres.club
2026-01-23T14:28:21Z
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Microsoft sure is saying the quiet part out loud.Amplify this, Satya. 🖕