Feb 13
Something you quickly run into if you correspond with people in both the U.S. and Europe, which I have done over my career as well as in my personal life, is that we don’t write dates the same way. If you think March 14th is Pi day because in the U.S. it is written as …
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As we discussed previously, the idea of Federated media is that there is no central server with all accounts. Instead, there are various instances, and you choose one. In my case, I get sent an invite from my late lamented friend Craig Maloney to join on the server he was on. But I got a …
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Audacity is the wonderful open-source audio-processing program that I use every day. I use it for a couple of reasons. First, I use Audacity to record and prepare my own podcast shows, which are mostly for Hacker Public Radio. I seem to have done over 200 shows for them, and I am still actively recording …
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On Thursday evening, as I was having my dinner, my wife came in to tell me that my Facebook account was hacked and I should change my password. The evidence for this was that some other people that I was already friends with were getting friend requests that appeared to come from me. Now I …
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