Posts by irizoris@hcommons.social
(DIR) Post #AUYiYE6BM0mf2DgDsu by irizoris@hcommons.social
2023-04-12T00:25:07Z
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@dave No thanks for the spoiler but this had occurred to me too. Will be watching soon. I love the show. 😎
(DIR) Post #AVubPBltkgy6Zfn5ma by irizoris@hcommons.social
2023-05-22T11:40:48Z
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@dave At the end of the article, I read with relief, as I type this on my Samsung Galaxy Android:"People in the market for an Android phone should steer toward known brands like Samsung, Asus, or OnePlus, which generally have much more reliable quality assurance controls on their inventory. To date, there have never been reports of higher-end Android devices coming with malware preinstalled. There are similarly no such reports for iPhones"
(DIR) Post #AXFqix3Gz1QKk30Unw by irizoris@hcommons.social
2023-07-01T13:27:23Z
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@carnage4life The good stuff is there but the trash is like an overwhelming fungus. Google Search is much more A.I.-like now: you often get a better, cleaner result using a conversational question than a search phrase of keywords.*We, in libraries, are the answer. Visit your nearest library and work with us. Our job has always been to sort out all the things. In our library, you can even borrow a kettlebell.*Try it: just type: what time is it? in Google Search, for example.
(DIR) Post #AYUQPuh5nEtpC5lVC4 by irizoris@hcommons.social
2023-08-07T14:03:52Z
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@textfiles Nice. I just tried opening 'Streetfighting Mathematics' and it is very readable on my cheap Android phone. Yay random monographs.
(DIR) Post #AhkO6GYsNoRfPZEm7k by irizoris@hcommons.social
2024-05-10T11:48:35Z
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@futurebird Brood XIX cicada and ants at my Nashville bus stop this morning
(DIR) Post #AiFS8q9jRBgq6MiVgO by irizoris@hcommons.social
2024-05-25T11:31:00Z
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@futurebird The desire to deskill us... Sitting at an office desk, I am manipulated by that software, its pop-ups... I write an e-mail and words pop up that I didn't type... It has been happening. The inadvertent empowering by giving each worker a PC with actual software packages on each machine is being reversed. Now the software is again centralized in the cloud and not under my control. The only control I have is putting a pretty slide show on, as my screen saver. In the days of mainframes (I'm old!) we sat at a dumb terminal and I'm reminded of those days again.My last office job in New York until 1995 was in the Bronx, at the H.W. Wilson Co. overlooking the Harlem River from University Avenue. The co. dissolved itself and sold its databases to Ebsco. It was a good company, very fair to its workers.
(DIR) Post #AiurXYvMLYYbQIe2L2 by irizoris@hcommons.social
2024-06-14T10:58:47Z
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@futurebird In the garden I take care of, I let things go a little wild. Here is a carrot flowering, which ants adore. You can even see some on the pic, despite the low resolution of my cheap smartphone camera.
(DIR) Post #Aius17PrBZUinP0GDg by irizoris@hcommons.social
2024-06-14T11:03:59Z
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@futurebird I'll try to get some other pics later...
(DIR) Post #AivETR65nptYw5fOBk by irizoris@hcommons.social
2024-06-14T15:15:43Z
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@futurebird These blooms of the carrot plant are beloved. Pics from this morning.
(DIR) Post #AjU6avQ0NsofIE5KKW by irizoris@hcommons.social
2024-07-01T11:02:26Z
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@futurebird Not a biography of Cantor but a book about infinity that features Cantor: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, by David Foster Wallace.https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393339284
(DIR) Post #AseFES68KxbnZg8ky0 by irizoris@hcommons.social
2025-04-01T13:15:16Z
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@futurebird Ask him! He is here but not here? @GreatDismalAlso on Bluesky: @GreatDismal.bsky.social
(DIR) Post #AycRS7ByrsWvBh05tA by irizoris@hcommons.social
2025-09-27T03:35:16Z
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@futurebird Consumer Protection or Consumer Reports?
(DIR) Post #AysnLSjNhCuNTyDObo by irizoris@hcommons.social
2025-10-05T00:56:07Z
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@Nonilex Oh my goodness, I worked in science publishing with Judge Immergut's late adorable dad, Ed Immergut!!!There are archival documents from him:https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/17537
(DIR) Post #B1sEoQhnNtyoxPcRXM by irizoris@hcommons.social
2026-01-02T12:05:25Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz It must be something like that. I worked for the Nashville Metro gov until a year ago, as library associate. In recent times there was a big push to put everything on MS Teams, do everything the MS way. My guess is that huge amounts were spent on new Microsoft contracts. The bigger picture is that MS and Google are rivals in this market. The bizarrest thing for me is that our PCs were stripped of programs: no more one-MS-product-license-per-PC but instead MS Office, say, was centralized offsite and we used it in the cloud. Why bizarre? Because it made it look like a return to the pre-PC times when office workers had mere dumb terminals hooked to a distant mainframe machine. Programs on PCs is empowering: you have it all right there. Copilot, programs in the cloud: these things return workers to the kinds of cogs preferred by some management. Office as factory, Chaplin's City Lights...