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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 20:26:27 EST lnxw48a1

Got cable Internet installed. Using my own router (because I always do anyway, and because I wasn't going to pay $5/mo equipment rental for their router). Using the router's 2.4GHz network, download speeds range from 30-40 Mbps. Using its 5GHz network, download speeds range from 200-400 Mbps. T-Mobile Home Internet's download speed ranges from 0-300 Mbps here.

All measurements according to fast.com.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 20:18:43 EST lnxw48a1

Family (Mom, siblings, nieces & nephews) has been discussing Thanksgiving (where to have it, who brings what, what time to eat) for two weeks. I am ready for it to be over.

My plan for next year: spend the day in MO at the home of one of my sons. We can do a short videochat with relatives gathered elsewhere.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 19:57:55 EST lnxw48a1

https://nu.federati.net/url/292440 [dominicantoday com] https://nu.federati.net/url/292441 [dominicantoday com]
https://nu.federati.net/url/292442 [dominicantoday com]

Storm 22 in #Dominican_Republic caused flooding, suspected fatalities.
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  Greater Santo Domingo under water, flooded and without power Saturday night
  
  By Renn Loren from Dominican Today
  
  The streets of Greater Santo Domingo are experiencing considerable urban flooding this Saturday night due to the torrential rains which have affected the country and which have left an unofficial toll of at least three people dead in events that occurred in San José de Ocoa due to the collapse of a bridge and the failure of a wall in the overpass of Máximo Gómez Avenue and 27 de Febrero. After 9:20 p.m., different streets of the capital have puddles that hinder the circulation and the mobility of vehicles due to the large amount of rain that continues to fall. Users have reported power outages in several areas, such as Villa Mella, Gascue, Cristo Rey, Invivienda, Mendoza, Hainamosa, Villa Carmen, and Simón Bolivar. Several areas of Greater Santo Domingo remain […]
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  Storms hit San José de Ocoa, Azua and Sánchez Ramírez the hardest
  
  By Renn Loren from Dominican Today
  
  San José de Ocoa—San José de Ocoa, Azua, and Sánchez Ramírez are the three provinces most affected by the disturbance involving the national territory since last Friday. This was reported by the Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza. In the case of Azua, the flooding of the Los Indios stream in Padre las Casas affected several houses. Meanwhile, due to a torrential downpour, almost all of Greater Santo Domingo has caused 30 provinces to be on alert. The Emergency Operations Center (COE) raised the number of provinces on alert to 30 due to the passage of Storm 22, which has a high probability of becoming a tropical cyclone as it approaches the Dominican Republic. The COE placed 13 provinces on red alert, 12 on yellow alert, and 05 on […]
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  Landslide on 27: authorities close all overpasses in the capital city
  
  By Renn Loren from Dominican Today
  
  The National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) closed all the overpasses in the capital by order of the Minister of Public Works, Deligne Ascención, after the collapse of one of the walls of the bypass at 27 de Febrero and Máximo Gómez avenues on Saturday afternoon. The information was given by Randolfo Rijo, director of the National System of Emergency Attention and Security 9-1-1, who did not speak about the possible accident victims. Firefighters are still in the process of extrication. More details will follow shortly.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 18:54:00 EST lnxw48a1

Sugar shortage https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/global-sugar-shortage-thanksgiving-christmas .
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1. Global sugar shortage has supply chain experts concerned as holidays near
  
  from FOX Weather
  
  With holiday recipes heavily relying on the sweet-tasting substance, a potential sugar shortage is set to be felt by festive families worldwide.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 16:39:24 EST lnxw48a1
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I also just learned that I have been misspelling her name since the mid-1970s.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 16:34:23 EST lnxw48a1
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/rosalynn-carter-dead.html [www nytimes com]
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1. Rosalynn Carter, First Lady and a Political Partner, Dies at 96
  
  By By Katharine Q. Seelye from The New York Times
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 16:31:57 EST lnxw48a1

Rosalind Carter, 96. #RIP

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 22:15:47 EST lnxw48a1

I have never played Half-Life.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 14:22:01 EST lnxw48a1

I've been looking a little at websites that don't try to be applications because most of my devices are too memory-constrained to run multiple tabs of #JavaScript.

Yesterday's discovery: https://sqwok.im/

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 04:47:00 EST lnxw48a1

Young kids are prone to latch onto words. #GS3 latched onto "squawk". He says it as a squawking sound and repeats it several minutes at a time.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 04:18:05 EST lnxw48a1

Remember when everyone was excitedly babbling about how #Xen was the future? Then #Citrix bought them, and now you hardly ever hear a #FLOSS discussion that includes Xen (or Citrix #Hypervisor).

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 04:15:43 EST lnxw48a1

Sitting here at the keyboard thinking "I'm very tired" ... then I look at the clock. 01:15. Now I know why.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 03:57:41 EST lnxw48a1

On tonight's phone call with #sonTwo, we were discussing some of my learning activities, because I mentioned that I need to start exploring using AI / LLM. I mentioned that I'd purchased "Raku Fundamentals" and that so far, it seems to be written for someone who uses programming languages a lot more consistently than I do.

#Raku is a descendant of #Perl (same creator; indeed Raku was originally Perl6, but by the time it was released, most people were aware it was a completely different language, so they eventually changed its name).

I've pretty much not used Perl in twenty years (I used it once in a project at work about 18 years ago, as part of a report processing pipeline, alongside #Python, Windows #Batch, and #KiXtart), so the demo programs seem to have purposes that are too large for language starters. I feel like it is supposed to glue itself onto "oh, I know that from Perl!" memories, but I don't remember Perl.

What I remember most was that I liked it a lot when I learned it (college class), but as soon as I started trying to use it in real life I found that "there's more than one way to do it" equals "write once, read never". I used it in that pipeline because it excels at what I needed it to do (text processing) which helped take an ever-growing log file and find relevant events from the past day ... and because I knew the script would never need to be edited.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 03:39:03 EST lnxw48a1

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ https://tsunami.gov/

#USGS reports M6.7 (revised from M7.2) #earthquake in the ocean near the #Philippines. No #tsunami expected.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 03:05:42 EST lnxw48a1

"One year on Mastodon" https://bluedwarf.top/cackle/view-post.php?post_num=2235 [bluedwarf top]

Article about the #Fediverse arrives on Blue Dwarf.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 17:06:21 EST lnxw48a1
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Okay, it is done.

Adding "familiarize myself with some LLM / AI tools" to my list.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 15:57:19 EST lnxw48a1

https://nu.federati.net/url/292388
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1. American Tech Mogul And Wife Quietly Bankrolling Anti-Israel Protests * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Bosun
  
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  American Tech Mogul And Wife Quietly Bankrolling Anti-Israel Protests

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