NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)

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Retired CISSP. Reformed former CISO. Also an architect, strategist, and risk manager. Radio nut and font fanatic.

I don't do LinkedIn or most other social media. I am on Bluesky, same handle. I might mention my website occasionally.

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)2h ago
Eatsbluecrayon13h ago

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

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Glenn Fleishman5d ago
I’ve launched the standalone site for purchasing Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a cloth-bound hardcover book, which is paired with the ebook edition. You can also buy the ebook by itself, snag the unabridged audio edition, and add letterpress-printed bookmarks. (Digital and physical items ship around July 20.) https://sixcent.info/
Six Centuries of Type & Printing: Book, Ebook, and Audiobook

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Paul Chambers🚧5d ago

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN provider"

LOL

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 9
Ryan PollardJul 8

My daughter just asked me "Why would they call it 'sweet n low' and use a treble clef instead of bass?"

🤯

Decades. I've ignored this glaring #marketing fail for decades.

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 6
Bob YoungJul 6

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 6
AppleInsiderJul 5
Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.
https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
How to stop your LG or Samsung smart TV from tracking you

Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.

AppleInsider
NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
Mike ShewardJul 4
Pretty sure thats some fellas chin rather than his bollocks, BBC journalist.
NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
On The MediaJul 5
Rural radio stations are most at risk from CPB funding cuts. Hear from Tom Michael about how @marfapublicradio helped warn locals and save lives during an outbreak of grassland fire in far West Texas in 2011. https://bit.ly/3ZFixXu
On the Media

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
Tom Lyon ✅Jul 5

Just finished "Making Silicon Valley"

This is a great book! Connects the dots starting with amateur radio nuts in the 1910s, and carries through into the 1970s.

Highly recommended. Thanks to whoever pointed me to this, I can't seem to find that now.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262622110/making-silicon-valley/

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
J. Nathan Matias 🦣Jul 5
A small business I know and admire, facing the tariff squeeze, has started to use an AI assistant to manage and engage with their online community rather than staff, and it all just makes me sad.
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Ryan PollardJul 8

My daughter just asked me "Why would they call it 'sweet n low' and use a treble clef instead of bass?"

🤯

Decades. I've ignored this glaring #marketing fail for decades.

Show threadCM ThiedeJul 8
@rdp good question
Show threadDaniel LakelandJul 9
@rdp
She's thinking of that other artificial sweetener, Funk 'n Down
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@dlakelan 🤔 I would try it once at least.
Show threadDaniel LakelandJul 9
@rdp
Comes in a delicious chocolate wrapper. Motto is "put a little funk in yo tea, put a lotta funk in yo coffee".
Show threadSteven SandovalJul 9

@rdp I think it's based on this late 19th century poem of the same name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_and_Low_%28poem%29?wprov=sfla1

Perhaps the treble clef was used since it was more recognizable than the bass clef.

Sweet and Low (poem) - Wikipedia

Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@baltakatei I'm sure you're probably right about the recognizability. It's still going to bother me regardless. 😅
Show threadJonathan YuJul 10
@rdp @baltakatei Treble clef notes are sweeter, surely?
Show threadJohn Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️Jul 9
@rdp it sounds lower when you think she's a soprano but she's actually a bass.
Show threadJosh “Space Phrasing” CubertJul 9
@rdp @LexPendragon Also, “why do they call it ‘sweet and low’ when it’s clearly powdered fiberglass?”
Show threadClive ThompsonJul 9

@rdp

<neo voice>

whoa

</neo voice>

Show threadOblomovJul 9
@rdp because sadly most people won't understand what it was if there was a bass key there 8-(
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@oblomov I hate that you're right.
Show threadOblomovJul 9
@rdp me too 8-/
Show threadAlex, the Hearth FireJul 9
@rdp my only context is The Music Man, but there "Sweet and Low" is sung by a soprano
Show threadagent.umbraJul 9

@rdp

Here's my speculation:

That's exactly what it was proposed to be, then some idiot exec couldn't wrap his head around the concept of a bass clef symbol and so they changed it to the more recognizable treble clef.

Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@ringagentumbra I completely agree with you and would argue, with the benefit of hindsight of course, that a few random musical notes 🎶 would have served even better in that respect.
Show threadMike KnellJul 9
@rdp Probably because of all the viola players who would show up and ask why they weren’t using the alto clef.
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@m You can always count on violists. 😅
Show threadStoneface VimesJul 9
@rdp oh god, yes. Should be a bass clef, of course it should.
Show threadGordon FawksJul 9
@rdp most people who are not musically trained will not know the difference.
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@GordonFawks I *AM* musically trained and I haven't questioned it like... ever. How embarrassing. 🙄
Show threadcrazyeddieJul 9
@rdp My true entry into the drug scene right there.
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@crazyeddie Who among us hasn't freebased Splenda in a corner booth of some run-down diner?
Show threadcrazyeddieJul 9
@rdp Does Splenda get you high? Sweet n low does. Horrible headaches on the down though.
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@crazyeddie Wait, for real? I thought we were kidding around here. I had no idea.
Show threadcrazyeddieJul 9

@rdp Yeah, a small group of us in middle school snorted it. We did it for a couple weeks and got tired of it.

I think there's been kids die from it. We weren't smart. I'm "fine" though so...

Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@crazyeddie Damn. "TIL" indeed. 🫨
Show threadChad McCulloughJul 9
@rdp 🤯
Show threadJustin DerrickJul 9
@rdp What's a powdered chemical sugar substitute got to do with musical notation anyway? It's a bizarre graphic design.
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@JustinDerrick Don't question the whimsy, Justin! 😅
Show threadfeldJul 9
@rdp I think it's because the name is derived from this song

https://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2016/08/sweet-and-low.html
Show threadRyan PollardJul 9
@feld You are almost certainly correct.
Show threadSteve CanonJul 10
@rdp Plenty of sweet and low instruments are normally written in treble clef. Bass Oboe and Clarinet, Subcontrabass Tubax, etc
Show threadTofu GolemJul 10
@rdp
Thanks. I feel even dumber now.
Show threadJigme Datse6d ago
@rdp While, I'll be... Never considered that...
Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮5d ago
@rdp Because (I guess) only music people know what a bass clef is.
Outstanding observation though.