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Pay to Party
It’s reasonably well known that one path to a hospitable online community is charging people a fee to register. See Metafilter for the best case. They charge $5 to register and it cuts way down on...
View ArticleTwitter Layoff Thoughts
Still got covid but thanks to Paxlovid or my natural recuperative energies or something, I’m feeling much better than I did on Tuesday. Let’s see how this goes. The report described severe staffing...
View ArticleNotes: 2022-11-08
Phew. No big Paxlovid bounce, thankfully. This is what I thought of when I heard about Tesla engineers coming over to validate Twitter code. It’s both true that the author seems pretty savvy and that...
View ArticleNotes: 2022-11-23
Recovery from covid continues. Allow me to express the sentiment that wearing a mask is a very small price to pay for avoiding literally three weeks of reduced capacity, one week of which was complete...
View ArticleAI Oracle Part 2
New text AI! Let’s try it on some tabletop RPG work. Bold is my prompts; I’ve snipped the polite banter out of most of the AI’s answers. Spoiler: this is way better than the last one I tried. If I...
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A Brief Exploration of Apple Not-Karaoke
I am not a karaoke aficionado, for the record; I just like singing loudly to the music of my childhood. So I updated my Apple devices today, as one does, and with the updates came Apple Music Sing....
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Previously… The song coverage is more varied than I’d thought. For example, Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy has all three levels of coverage. “Johnny Strikes Up The Band” has line-by-line lyric tracking,...
View ArticleNotes: 2022-12-20
Nah, I don’t do these on a schedule or anything. James Fallows writes about word processors … in 1982. Paywall, sorry. Really good reminder of what computing used to be like. The Sol-20 he was using...
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Google Meet Transcriptions
I launched a new online campaign this week and with the consent of the players, I recorded the session for later reference. (One of them wrote a great summary, but it’s still nice to have the...
View ArticleBluesky
I’m pretty much hanging out over there now. Find me here if you have an account. I have spare invites from time to time so if I know you feel free to ask. It’s imperfect. In particular the company...
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