Notices by lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net), page 90
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 15:35:21 EDT 
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I was wondering why I'm seeing so many updates suddenly show up. Then it occurred to me that today may be 'Patch Tuesday'. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 14:55:45 EDT
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I remember listening to radio talk shows in the 1970s with a variety of guests. One of the more frequent visitors talked about a soon-coming inflationary depression, where our dollars would be completely worthless, and because of the spiraling prices, companies would close their doors and lay off millions.
Many times, he talked about buying precious metals (bullion at first, but as the years went on, he started promoting gold krugerrand coins) and food dehydrators.
Around forty-five to fifty years later, nothing even close to his scenario has happened. And, as another fairly regular guest used to say "you can't eat gold", so I'm still suspicious of people who want us to buy precious metals in order to ensure we can buy food.
Gold was recently USD$2023.70 per ounce. So you hike down to your local supermarket and want to buy a steak for tonight's dinner. Uh, that steak may be expensive, but you've got at least $1800 in change coming. If you're not using dollars, how are you going to get change? Oh, I know. Buy ten of those steaks and you don't have to worry about change.
Except how are you going to store those steaks long enough to eat them before they spoil? In such a scenario, you're certainly not expecting the power company to continue supplying you nor can you expect to buy fuel for a generator.
So even before you deal with not being able to correctly predict the future, you're dealing with a rapid expansion in the number of things in your currently lifestyle that must be replaced or that you must adapt your lifestyle in order to live without them.
So, I don't know. Probably plan for your local community to be more resilient against various negative events, but that's going to take you working with the municipal governance board and municipal employees to map out what must be done and then to allocate sufficient resources for doing those things. As soon as you do this, you'll realize that some of your current neighbors are already experiencing deprivation, and you'll want to figure out how to alleviate it.
And that's part of my problem with "preppers". Yes, do what you can to prepare yourself and your loved ones for unexpected hardship, but don't be extreme about it ... as you're not going to last long if society collapses around you, and if you have the time to prep, you also have the time to move your entire community toward sufficiency. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 12:44:05 EDT
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What I remember most was that originally, that was five hours of walking time each evening. By the end, it was just over three hours. And that my sons always said I walked unusually fast ... until the last 3-4 years. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 12:21:04 EDT
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@fu It's been a while since I read about it, but at the time I looked, I had the impression that #ChromeOS was built atop #GentooLinux, similar to how #SteamOS is built atop #ArchLinux.
No Gemini client installed here, so I won't read the article. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 21:50:39 EDT
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https://nu.federati.net/url/290110 [www prnewswire com] The #IMF announces the launch of an international #CDBC via the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA).
This is going to increase the attention to #cryptocurrencies, as a lot of people have read about the level of control that central bankers intend for #CDBCs and conspiracy theorists have long speculated that a CDBC will be the mechanism for instituting a global dystopia. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 21:17:02 EDT
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Remembering one place I lived where I'd walk 7 miles / 11 km to a store, buy a bottle of Coca-Cola and a pint of ice cream, then walk back home. (It was a really hot Summer, and that was my way to cool off a bit.)
I don't want to go back to those days, but I'd love to be almost that active. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 20:44:12 EDT
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https://www.theverge.com/23673125/mastodon-separate-tags-hashtag-navigation-accessibility [www theverge com]
I have not read the linked GitHub issue, just the article, but I think the author's take is not the way it should be done.
First of all, sometimes, #hashtags belong to the text. That they're links in the midst of plain text is part of what makes them valuable, just as the embedded links in the person's article.
Secondly, having tags within the text does not preclude also having tags that are attached to posts but not within them. They could point to the same resources or even have different resources. For example, embedded tags could be based on the original post's home instance and attached tags could be based on the reader's home instance. This would give two different views of the tags' contents, assuming that the poster and the reader are not using the same instance.
Finally, yes spammers and such can overuse and attempt to game tags to increase their posts' visibility. But the answer to that is for the software (Mastodon or whatever) to strictly enforce limits on the number of tags. Any time there's a tool to raise the visibility of something you post, it will be misused if possible. Long before hashtag abuse, there was meta tag abuse on web pages, when such tags were used to help decide which results to show in web pages. These days, I'm not even sure search engines still use meta tags to categorize sites and surface them in search results. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 20:27:26 EDT
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@simsa04 @geniusmusing When I was more physically active, the idea of regularly counting my steps would have merited a laugh, though I would have been curious enough to be willing to wear a counter for a day.
But now, when a day that I don't go anywhere can end with only 3K steps and an active day can end with 10K, 12K, or occasionally even 15K-22K, counting steps is an important reminder to be more active. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 20:08:50 EDT
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@simsa04 @geniusmusing At the time, there was a sizable group of people who thought that the Serbia/Kosovo campaign was partially motivated by Clinton's political problems at home.
If Wikipedia captures that without endorsing the viewpoint (I haven't checked yet), then that's a point in its favor. Often, it loses such details as editors try to purge undesired viewpoints. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 19:50:34 EDT
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@simsa04 @geniusmusing Because a good portion of my daily walking is within a single spot--whether a building at work, or the house and yard at home--that won't show up on a map. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 19:21:34 EDT
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@clacke It seems to me that people fear that governments and corporations will use this concept as a way to gain control over where people go and when. "Oh, no. You can't go there. That's more than a fifteen minute walk from your residence." And tied, of course to miserably high-density living conditions.
Whereas I see the concept as requiring a level of rip-and-replace that isn't practical in most of the US. Over a period of decades, we may re-emphasize walkability and mixed-use neighborhoods, but no city is going to approve knocking down its entire building stock and rebuilding over a five to ten year span according to someone's mystical magical conceptual plan. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 19:07:44 EDT
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After I walked around a store for a while today, pushing a cart, it occurred to me that we wear "step counters" on our wrists, not our ankles. That makes no sense. Any time you're taking steps but your arm isn't moving, your steps are not being counted. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 18:47:58 EDT 
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With this immense betrayal of secret and the leaking of U.S. (top) secret documents re: Ukraine and her military capabilities, I fear this is going to be a major blow to the Ukrainian war effort. And I wonder whether any Assange or Snowden remnants had their fingers in this. Due to their anti-Americanism and, accordingly, pro-Putinism, I assume anybody from the former Wikileaks sphere or kindred private intelligence organisations to be able and unscrupulous enough to help out Russia. Perhaps it was Russia herself, using the insights into the U.S. intelligence procedures it gained from Snowden. And obviously that doesn't rule out other actors too. But right now, remembering how Assange used Wikileaks to personally go after Hillary Clinton and help Trump win 2016, I wouldn't be surprised at all if these people did it again. Pissing on Bucha for personal revenge... -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 18:54:10 EDT
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Without much evidence, I'd lean toward Putinoids of the variety who share daily maps of the Bakhmut area showing slow gains of #Russia as it seeks to enslave its neighbor #Ukraine. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 18:52:01 EDT
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-searches-source-highly-classified-intel-leak-2023-04-09/ [www reuters com]
Well, I hope they are able to trace the documents to one or more leakers and prosecute them. I won't be reading them or their contents. Are they secret Russian agents? Wikileakeans thinking they're helping the world? Or part of the chorus of rightoid Putin-worshippers hoping to weaken his opposition? No one knows yet. But I hope they'll be found. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 14:58:46 EDT
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https://infosec.exchange/@CuteGarlicLove/110168993826283438
Anyone running an older version of #Mastodon should read this. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 14:55:27 EDT
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Bunch of #Nostr spam about an Optimism Airdrop. Well, first of all, Nostriches seem to be overwhelmingly Bitcoin-only. I'm sure Optimism is not #Bitcoin. Secondly, hopefully, most people realize by now that if someone spams it at you, it is because THEY get the benefits, NOT YOU.
That's a thumbs down on "$OP", even without looking at their offer. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2023 14:52:51 EDT
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I'm taking Claratin (loratadine) because it is non-drowsy, but the effects of exposure to plants' reproductive substances continue. I may have to switch to something that works but leaves me half-asleep all day.
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