Posts by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
(DIR) Post #APsuJNENShGMMtHn2O by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2022-11-23T04:50:34Z
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@NanoRaptor This image is fake! The real one I owned in 1974 had flip-out metal handles on each module, the monitor was on rails, and the position-input device was a rolling ball floating upside in a cradle.
(DIR) Post #AQ37BKsFaBQ1j726SW by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2022-11-28T02:44:23Z
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@textfiles What used to be in place of that missing-image icon on the right? If only there were a resource where one could search for previous versions of Web pages
(DIR) Post #AQGkTgViIdHpJKi8jw by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2022-12-04T16:53:18Z
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@stux Isn't that just geo-guessing?
(DIR) Post #ASZsX0PV0iuVbwaS80 by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-02-11T18:07:02Z
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@lauren I just searched for "Chinese balloon" on Google news and found stories within the past 2 days, on several major news services. USA blacklists Chinese firms over balloon case; New details disclosed; Chinese balloon part of worldwide fleet; etc. Stories about an event like that do tend to become less frequent after the event... isn't happening any more. At least I'm not being subjected to everyone-and-their-dog's opinionated tweets and toots about it anymore.
(DIR) Post #ASoDbETJUT0JdAfOpE by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-02-18T16:08:58Z
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@lauren The phrase "very Musk" is correct here. There are other ways of phasing out 2FA by SMS (which I never use), but those would involve communicating with users, nudging them, making it worth their time, etc., the way my bank offered me some kind of bonus when it wanted me to move away from paper statements. Just cutting the service and leaving people exposed, to fend for themselves or adapt, is a total Silicon Valley Tech Bro move. Makes me even less interested in his cars.
(DIR) Post #ASoQjamXiyf0XrygZE by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-02-18T18:35:49Z
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@lauren Yes. I suppose a lot of those users aren't very active and he just wants them off, or to facilitate the accounts being hijacked by someone who will be more active, e.g. by tweeting more robo-spam, which he clearly doesn't mind so long as it appears to boost engagement numbers.
(DIR) Post #ASqU3JqN6AAtyympJQ by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-02-19T18:22:47Z
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@lauren What's not clear is whether he can command the loyalty of Trump's fans, especially if Trump mocks and belittles him. Without that loyalty, he's just another reactionary Southern governor, like Bobby Jindal.
(DIR) Post #ASqUYidEzDXpq4cKem by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-02-19T18:28:30Z
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@lauren That is true. It's not clear. But I think that fact is too often forgotten -- that it's not clear. Politics is rough, contenders rise and flame-out all the time, and Trump + his circumstances were arguably sui-generis. There are a lot of *potentially* very dangerous people in politics, who only *actually* become as dangerous as the amount of power they get.
(DIR) Post #AT5peFPFZWqtLKwwZE by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-02-27T04:05:28Z
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@lauren The kind of advertisers he has now, will not be fazed. I saw tooth whitening, and the church of Scientology go by in one thread today
(DIR) Post #ATOHdEGvHDZ5K8tQdU by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-03-08T01:44:17Z
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@Ricardus This is the night when being on the third floor really pays off... 🥴
(DIR) Post #ATTcIHZAu1kGHu5Cdc by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-03-10T15:29:23Z
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@rdaily But can cats ride on it? This is the central question which you have suspiciously avoided addressing.
(DIR) Post #AUwsVn2HnQq4o7rMjw by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-04-23T16:08:51Z
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@lauren "A compelling argument has been made that this so called blue-check incident was the protocatarctical cause of the Butlerian Jihad."
(DIR) Post #AVfIq08KROOVY9VhHU by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-05-15T02:31:46Z
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@lauren Wisdom. Carry on
(DIR) Post #AXSUdnoXpayO064mbA by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-07-07T14:39:52Z
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@maxkennerly You left out "Ads that look like posts", "Ads that look like replies to posts", and "Ads that play video"
(DIR) Post #AY3pewrV5KUbbjPXFo by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-07-25T18:04:26Z
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@textfiles From reading the statement, it seems that the YouTube videos would only be deleted if the user is inactive on their entire Google account for 2 years, not just YouTube. I'm sure they have the authority to just delete stuff arbitrarily with no announcement and no user recourse, so the fact that they're saying anything at all is positive. But you're right: in any case Dead People Stuff is an issue
(DIR) Post #AY43XTvTfU5pCCbZCq by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-07-25T20:51:44Z
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@textfiles I was 100% certain you'd respond in that vein, but their awful, crushing, destroying power needed to be acknowledged, goddammit
(DIR) Post #AYAijcoL83gCkb8g08 by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-07-28T23:42:41Z
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@textfiles Show us the wild shirt again, daddy
(DIR) Post #AYloNGS2qiorX2QpJg by nnscott@cityofchicago.live
2023-08-15T23:29:59Z
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@adam I've noticed the same; I'm on a small instance & activity has fallen off; some active members have quit tooting, and one local who used to cross-post from Twitter has stopped doing so. It's disappointing but not surprising. Mastodon by design has a kind of Linux-on-the-desktop feel to it. One needs to make decisions around instance, tools, strategies. That's the price we pay for not being in some tech oligarch's walled garden. Watch what Cory Doctorow does here: he's the bellweather.