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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@nelson That portrait is great! He looks so…alive, compared to other photos I see from the era. I was wondering what kind of a person owned such a home until I got to the photo and then it all made sense. :)

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Many months of seeing @rejectedplates leaves me confused by plates like this. The DMV’s rules are baffling.

A Virginia license plate, in a tightly cropped photo of a Jeep, reading “URABUT.”

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

My @i_dreamed bot reposted this and I was briefly confused about this apparent crossover material from my @covid_wastewater bot.
https://disabled.social/@3TomatoesShort/115302215628736051

WearyBonnie (@[email protected])

Had a new kind of covid dream last night - dreamed an update to the wastewater graph 😵‍💫

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@mathowie That’s what we saw happen here to Kesmai, a local MMORPG company (they invented the genre) that got bought by EA and squeezed dry within months.

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Kudos to the local radio station who just played the whole of Tori Amos’ “Yes Anastasia” during their morning drive-time show. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvMcHg0qjo

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

I don't want it to be lost to the sands of time that Chrome’s auto-updating functionality was extremely impressive. At a time when browser updates happened infrequently and required manual installations, Chrome pioneered regular, lightweight, automated patches, and normalizing that did a world […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

@joeinwynnewood I’ve heard a couple of interviews with McKibben about his new book—it sounds great.

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

@joeinwynnewood IME, this means we can get a really high percentage of our power from wind and solar. But sometimes it’s cloudy or calm longer than batteries are designed to store. We need a base source of power, and better nuclear than coal or methane.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26d

usxports.gov, registered by the Department of State's Bureau of Political and Military Affairs.
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115191994244102322

Botgov (@[email protected])

The following .gov domains have been registered in the past 24 hours: bloomingprairiemnpd.gov elsegundofd.gov greentwp-hancockcountyin.gov hardingcosd.gov jacksontownshipofmorganco.gov jeffersontownshipwellsin.gov lakecityflpd.gov ndenergyrebates.gov newhamptonnh.gov pamlicocountync.gov salinany.gov spartamo.gov stanfieldnc.gov townofbristolny.gov townofotisco.gov townofunionny.gov townofwinfieldny.gov usxports.gov villageofcorinthny.gov

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26d

So here's a weird thing that challenges my understanding of how iOS and macOS work. I gave $5 to Virginia Public Media (VPM). My credit card recorded it as “VPM.” iOS reported it as "Vpm.” But iPhone Mirroring rendered the iOS notification on my MacBook as […]

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Website screenshot, reading: “Sep 12, VPM, Pending.”

iOS notification: “American Express, Vpm, $5.00.”

macOS notification: “American Express, Vape Parts Mart, $5.00.”

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

Guess what?
https://mastodon.social/@rejectedplates/115169388339354353

Rejected VA License Plates (@[email protected])

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@darius @krusynth I think there are some folks who feel like working in the Obama White House is an opportunity that can never be paid back—all we can do is continue to work in public service, whether inside of government or out. That's maybe not as healthy as folks who can move on to making…uh […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@darius @krusynth

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@mogul @waldo.net That metaphor was where I started yelling. “You do know the Air Force still *exists*, right?!”

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@mogul @waldo.net It's so manipulative and condescending and gross.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

Why the heck does Apache keep hitting the ceiling for the number of workers, so it stops accepting new requests? The traffic isn't high enough to justify this!

... Ah. Well. Yes.

#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
Timeout 3300

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to o to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
MaxKeepAliveRequests 30

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

This was down for a few weeks until a) I realized with a start at bedtime last night that I hadn't seen an update in a while and b) somebody pinged me this morning with the same. It turns out CDC had simply moved the source JSON file. Fixed now, with updates coming every weekend […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

My chickens have discovered they can follow around the lawnmower and eat the fleeing, exposed insects.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

As I watched, this yellowjacket tore off this larva’s head and flew away, heavily burdened with the body.

A small, yellow-and-black bee, straddling a yellow cylindrical object (a larva). The bee’s head is bent low over the larva.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

@tmcw I find it increasingly difficult to convince myself to move away from a technology that Just Keeps Working.

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

This is my curse—I'm an early adopter who feels like a late adopter, and never adjusts my thinking to recognize that I'm an early adopter. A related curse is that I'm a pioneer* in spaces, doomed to help standardize and popularize new concept but never to profit from it like the next wave will […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

It also took me forever to make a Slashdot account, but when I tried to register, I couldn't—my email address was in use. I emailed, confused, and Rob Malda somehow got me access to an account I'd created and forgot—account #8229.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

@nelson I'm pretty sure there was no fee yet! Since I ran a large online community at the time, I remember being intrigued by the concept of a fee—it struck me as an entirely reasonable idea.

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

It took me forever to make a Metafilter account (I just showed up and read), and I felt like a Johnny-come-lately. But looking at Metafilter Activity Stats, I realize for the first time that actually September 2001 a) was pretty early actually b) puts me in good company with the huge spike of […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

abd.gov has been registered by the Executive Office of the President.
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115067423423754562

Botgov (@[email protected])

The following .gov domains have been registered in the past 24 hours: abd.gov alpinenj.gov americabydesign.gov archbaldpa.gov boonenc.gov boxeldermosquito.gov cityofmosier.gov harleyvillesc.gov hilloemtx.gov lincolnma.gov lincolnmapd.gov mymaine.gov nds.gov ndstudio.gov shavanoparktx.gov townoflewisecny.gov vny.gov wellingtontownshipohio.gov wmadil.gov

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