Posts by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #AaX8sKaIX8MzIDrvf6 by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-07T17:23:09Z
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@Ricardus I'm not a fan of how it looks after updating a few months(?) ago, but I never bothered to "fix" it. The "fetch mail" button being obscured now is the worst thing. What did you do?
(DIR) Post #AaXt9DI9IFtVnHdLyi by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-08T02:01:41Z
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@Ricardus it's now very tiny and not obviously labeled. Look for the cloud with the down arrow next to "New Message."
(DIR) Post #AapUZVw6ZoMGelANOq by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-16T13:44:09Z
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Did the federated feed vanish from #Tusky recently, or am I just not paying attention?
(DIR) Post #AapUm3Pjvqk7xg0Vxw by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-16T13:53:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @reidrac thanks! Found it. Just realized that switching to a different phone was the "trigger."
(DIR) Post #AjKy8Iv5NclBj8pCPw by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-06-27T01:15:18Z
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@Ricardus up here in Boston, the lightning has been very fierce. More unusually, it has been persistent. Bright flashes have been lighting our upstairs rooms for the past hour.
(DIR) Post #AkLJddVw0Kvu2lbYlE by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-07-27T03:08:23Z
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@Ricardus we had to buy a new dishwasher not too long ago, and it seems like one of the differentiating factors that ostensibly distinguish premium models is the amount of sound insulation.
(DIR) Post #Au1MQ8rEI3l6g204XI by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-12T14:45:58Z
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@twylo @SDF provides UUCP (https://sdf.org/?tutorials/uucp).
(DIR) Post #AuxflfJWaK9gS4XCCm by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-09T17:39:32Z
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Alright, John Mastodon, hit me. I need this.
(DIR) Post #AvPG8qGsFZ6eX5HtUu by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-06-23T01:20:56Z
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@futurebird do you have thoughts you'd care to share about clones of the Radio Shack "N-in-1 Electronics Kit"? (They were basically a breadboard with components you connected by pinching wires into springs.) It looks like "snap circuits" are the thing to get now, but those seem less appealing.I started looking around, and it looks like Elenco did at some point sell a 130-in-1 electronics kit (https://www.robotshop.com/products/130-in-1-electronics-playground?qd=ee8c0cc016950391e32ba9fde57f84ab). But surely there must be other kits like this.
(DIR) Post #AzDRU7nmlEY8VT9vA8 by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-14T23:59:26Z
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@foone is this in any way inspired by the TunnelBear uninstall?
(DIR) Post #AzIh0iidVgTJN7YDXE by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-17T12:47:33Z
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@futurebird there was a so-so Russian movie in 2012 that tried to be about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branded_(2012_film)
(DIR) Post #B090uGWhyHZQNfop0K by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-11T18:35:24Z
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@publicvoit professional skills are not necessarily paired with a consistent or reasonable set of opinions (even in closely related subjects). Could the person you describe do a really good job of running an ecommerce operation, or write a task scheduler? Maybe. There are lots of people in health care who don't take care of themselves.
(DIR) Post #B0VGWwnRScikBbpDay by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-22T12:14:09Z
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@futurebird we have a mix of furniture, which includes a good number of things from grandparents' estates which needed refurbishing. This wound up costing more than buying something old from a thrift shop or new from a random mid-range furniture store, but it has yielded nice furniture for much less than sourcing from an antique store. In most cases, the item in question wasn't particularly top-of-the-line, but just solidly made.
(DIR) Post #B10bnGpw84A80CFhnk by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-07T15:08:28Z
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@futurebird I worked on https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs/fuse back when it was still active. The basic idea was to predict trends in research to assist humans in understanding new research proposals. (One version of the pitch was that it should be possible to use the results of this program to review BAA future proposals.) I vaguely recall that prediction markets may have been in the running.
(DIR) Post #B1PutCLwT5iZuklEZc by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-19T20:10:16Z
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@futurebird @capnthommo maybe 2008 was the market pricing in the news that she had arrived in the world?
(DIR) Post #B2JIrqyCVuchQDPlJY by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-15T13:28:03Z
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@futurebird what about a non-alcoholic malted beverage to emulate beer? Something like kvass shouldn't be alcoholic enough to be a problem (although you might want to check the labeling at a store). And, as a bonus, students will learn about yet another weird source of preserved, cereal-derived calories that people invented back in the day.
(DIR) Post #B2YMwrObOVbv79M7Cy by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-22T19:54:22Z
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@futurebird this also reminds me of the unfortunate(?) engineer from Sunless Sea whose eyes have been taken by gall-blighter wasps (https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Gall-Eyed_Engineer).
(DIR) Post #B387HLEXHUTdBeUjiq by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-02-09T01:48:04Z
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@foone not sure if I should be proud for getting this one right immediately. I haven't done any batch file programming in 25 years, but it was one of the first languages I was exposed to, so some of the nonsense stuck. (Limited access to real language environments on un-networked home MS-DOS PCs meant that I had to turn to desperate measures to scratch the "I want to program stuff" itch. Super grateful that MS-DOS 6.0 actually had decent help files.)
(DIR) Post #B387otGvkOIAJPc1EO by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-02-09T01:54:33Z
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@futurebird @kevinrns @michaelgemar giant mushrooms over human cities also herald the fall of our empires :-/
(DIR) Post #B38C4M0PbA39aWVyqm by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-02-09T02:42:07Z
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@futurebird ...this suggests a fictitious future setting where farmers raise insect colonies not because the insects make an excellent source of protein, but because their agriculture turns out to produce great food for us, too. (I mean, we already do this for honey, right?)