Nostr notes by randulo (Randy)

what was before laconi.ca ?

2026-08-17T16:27:26Z

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what was before laconi.ca ?

Lemmy? https://join-lemmy.org/ I had to look it up, never heard ...

2026-08-17T16:07:12Z

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Lemmy?

https://join-lemmy.org/

I had to look it up, never heard of it.

Have you had an account on: Boosts would help get some numbers to ...

2026-08-17T16:01:54Z

Have you had an account on:

Boosts would help get some numbers to qwench my thirst for knowledge on the descendants of the first federation.

“Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent ...

2026-08-11T05:32:23Z

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“Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about."

My wife and I do this for each other!

If you know an Irishman who visited France for two weeks in July ...

2026-08-10T06:10:31Z

If you know an Irishman who visited France for two weeks in July and who saved my life at the Piscine du Grand Parc, get us in touch. He'll remember as much as I do. They visited all the swimming pools in Bordeaux.

Please boost and see if anyone is on Mastodon who can help.

#Irish #Ireland

To remind you that greatness exists and can flourish, if too ...

2026-07-28T06:04:42Z

To remind you that greatness exists and can flourish, if too briefly, in unfavorable conditions. Roy Hargrove left us too soon.

https://youtu.be/1w3FVfkBVTE

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2026-07-26T10:13:58Z

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116967906745828691

I'm reading this right now and I believe it to be the most important book on this topic ever published. I'm reading it thanks to Libby and my library. I think you should try to gift to anyone who is worried about robots making us extinct. Anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of Magic (my personal substitute for AI) should read this. The authors have done a great service to us all by writing this thoughtful analysis.
#AI #books

quoting
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Happy UK paperback release day to our book!

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070/the-ai-con-by-hanna-emily-m-bender-and-alex/9781529949902

w/ Alex Hanna (npub1e2z…n97d)

"Tuner" turned out to be better than I expected! ...

2026-07-24T10:05:04Z

"Tuner" turned out to be better than I expected!
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1340206-tuner

1. Lack of education in schools, inadequate parenting on civics ...

2026-07-23T08:56:05Z

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1. Lack of education in schools, inadequate parenting on civics and govt branches

2. Every citizen should be obligated to vote.

3. All voters need to understand policies and how they and theirs will be affected. (Non-whites who voted for Trump?)

4. The realisation that the 2025 Project was written down and available, few read it, and now you're seeing enacted, step by step.

5. Voting day on national holiday

⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (npub1xw7…r9m5) Jones Murphy (npub1va2…4a00) Deb Nam-Krane (npub1yq0…hfrz) That Man Dopes (npub1k72…g27v) The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 (npub1wqn…qeed) myrmepropagandist (npub1ppe…qv2g)

It would already be good if anyone trying to reach an audience ...

2026-07-22T15:20:11Z

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It would already be good if anyone trying to reach an audience created a presence on the Fediverse AND of course, told people about it repeatedly, flaunting the advantages of independent distributed networks. I still have a Twitter account with my Mastodon address visible in my handle. I don't post there, though because it's trash as is Instagram.

Wow, eye of the beholder. "Our meat" open to ...

2026-07-20T16:57:55Z

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Wow, eye of the beholder. "Our meat" open to interpretation to "dirty minds".

Kind of funny, in the UK, when people have had enough, they just ...

2026-07-16T16:43:42Z

Kind of funny, in the UK, when people have had enough, they just change the government. None of this four years of watching the country sink into a state of ruin. I doubt I will ever return to my country of birth, a country immigrants have flocked to with dreams of a happier, richer life. I'm so ashamed of what Americans are putting up with, some even cheering the cruelty and injustice. It's not right, any sentient being should see that. People deserve better. Do better.

So SETI got an unambiguous one-bit message from outer space on a ...

2026-07-16T05:17:01Z

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So SETI got an unambiguous one-bit message from outer space on a very low frequency.

I was impressed at that young age you could by a car in L.A. at 3 ...

2026-06-20T15:14:03Z

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I was impressed at that young age you could by a car in L.A. at 3 AM.

Ralph Williams had the dog Spot, IIRC?

2026-06-20T05:19:18Z

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Ralph Williams had the dog Spot, IIRC?

My "better half" is out at a dinner for her association, ...

2026-06-10T16:05:51Z

My "better half" is out at a dinner for her association, so I make stuff she wouldn't eat. I just made a killer black bean dip! Leftover red onion from the fridge, fried with old garlic, threw a small can of black beans in and added a little tomato sauce and some seasoning with "Mexican" hand written on it. Quantities? We don' need no stinkin'. Great with home made corn tortillas. I love improvising food, it's the next best thing to music.

#food #cuisine

I came to your site to take a quick look at an article, but you ...

2026-06-10T15:58:33Z

I came to your site to take a quick look at an article, but you had to slap up the cookie thing that forces me to hit "options" and then "refuse" all", so WTMFF do you think I'd want to enable notifications on your site that I'll never see again? And why would you think I'd want to subscribe to your newsletter?

In the early 1970s, I wrote a track for lap steel guitar legend ...

2026-05-28T13:51:14Z

In the early 1970s, I wrote a track for lap steel guitar legend Freddy Roulette called "Mr. Roulette". It was recorded around 1973. It was a nod to Thelonious Monk. The most recent version was released in 2024, a collab with New Zealand saxophoinst Alex Nyman. It's a short and sweet modified blues. You can hear it free in our 6-track album "A&R" on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/randulo-alex-nyman/

#OriginalMusic #Music

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116634215640538926 Audiobook ...

2026-05-25T08:48:01Z

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116634215640538926

Audiobook can be ordered on https://libro.fm/search?q=doctorow as can his other audiobooks.
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I missed my 9 year "Mastodon anniversary". I tried to ...

2026-05-01T10:26:36Z

I missed my 9 year "Mastodon anniversary". I tried to drag all my friends to Mastodon and Diaspora. A few showed up. Remember Twitter was poppin' then.

Streamed live on Sep 1, 2017 with Eugen Rochko (npub1vl7…f6g0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFndOGVpTU

#Mastodon #interview #federation

I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. ...

2026-03-16T09:24:58Z

I'm in no way an AI hater. It has some very good use cases. But in the commercial world, if you are promoting a product or service, the phrase "AI-powered" translates to "didn't read the room". The majority probably don't see that as a plus? (I could be wrong!)

Boost if you will to get coverage. The results will be interesting if enough people vote.

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2026-02-08T09:10:18Z

#SilentSunday

Yellow flower with a face (and beard?) ...

2026-02-04T14:02:36Z

Yellow flower with a face (and beard?)

Good morning. I've enjoyed Mastodon for 8 years now. It ...

2026-01-25T07:41:47Z

Good morning. I've enjoyed Mastodon for 8 years now. It wasn't a problem until recently, but I am convinced that the CW feature should be systematically used with the mention #uspol.

I am not telling anyone what to do. Currently, I'm obliged to mute people who post horrendous images or article shares about the violence. I want to see posts that make Mastodon what it is; more intelligent and thought-provoking than other platforms. I don't need to get news from a social network.

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2026-01-13T08:35:14Z

https://spectra.video/my-library/video-channels/manage/an_intercontinental_jam/general

I'm starting a music channel:

https://spectra.video/c/an_intercontinental_jam/videos

#Music

My wife was on a Mastodon instance that apparently folded. She ...

2025-12-03T12:48:52Z

My wife was on a Mastodon instance that apparently folded. She did not receive notice. When I tried to find her a new instance at joinmastodon dot org, I saw how incredibly hard it is to choose an instance.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115410747619552338 Well ...

2025-10-21T09:36:19Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115410747619552338

Well deserved! Congrats, Daniel!
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We'll be ripping it out of apps in a few years ...

2025-10-09T07:47:52Z

We'll be ripping it out of apps in a few years

#authors I just read a story by one of my all time favorite SF ...

2025-08-15T13:15:57Z

#authors I just read a story by one of my all time favorite SF writers. I've read most of his books from the 1960s on. This "lost story" from 1956, was published last year.

The story was awful, had nothing at all to recommend it.

I write this to remind new writers. You see, even a giant starts in steps.

And of course this is true for any art. Vincent Van Gogh's early sketches? Frank Lloyd Wright's designs?

You have to start somewhere. Keep on learning, practicing, improving.

It's tiring that when someone with a huge following says ...

2025-08-10T18:01:14Z

It's tiring that when someone with a huge following says something, hundreds of commenters swarm in, regardless whether they actually have anything to say or any knowlledge on the topic.

Let a post scroll by if you can't ADD VALUE.

Consider the source ...

2025-06-11T13:59:53Z

Consider the source

Wanna help reduce spam? Have a domain name you can configure? ...

2025-06-07T07:15:57Z

Wanna help reduce spam? Have a domain name you can configure?

https://www.projecthoneypot.org/index.php

Wonderful idea! I have two "nominations" for women who ...

2025-06-06T06:12:19Z

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Wonderful idea! I have two "nominations" for women who are little known but have effected important positive changes.

I don't want to be the guy that blames all society's ...

2025-05-24T07:31:00Z

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I don't want to be the guy that blames all society's ills, on technology, but there's one salient point:

Before we were all connected 24/7, inputting rivers of information, disinformation, and everything from sport to AI videos, humans were pretty much forced to do what we do much less now; we interacted in person with other humans and were not drunk on the glut of data. It came in more slowly, at human speed.

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2025-03-30T13:15:31Z

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/03/30/france-slams-us-interference-in-firms-diversity-programs-france-and-europe-will-defend-their-values_6739659_19.html

Done.

2025-03-13T16:49:11Z

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Done.

Bandwagon: Another initiative for indies #Musicians Bandwagon is ...

2025-02-19T06:56:24Z

Bandwagon: Another initiative for indies #Musicians

Bandwagon is an open social app for indie musicians and bands. It is the alternaative to big centralized servers where you don’t always fit in. Anyone can run their own Bandwagon server and share their music on a site they control.
1/3

Oh, a label? Yeah, if they financed the recording and PR, then ...

2024-12-31T15:49:51Z

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Oh, a label? Yeah, if they financed the recording and PR, then that is the way it goes. What's the name of the band?

The 4M streams should be worth at least $8,000

2024-12-31T07:57:14Z

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The 4M streams should be worth at least $8,000

I described this in my article "I Am Your Wallpaper" a ...

2024-12-30T18:00:48Z

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I described this in my article "I Am Your Wallpaper" a few days ago. Do any of the listeners know it's me? My theory is that they're not even listening. Radio is a good name for something playing in the background while doing something else. Here's the whole 4 min. read.

https://rocknheavy.net/after-repeated-listening-to-this-album-i-felt-that-any-comments-you-would-be-unnecessary-af095e22dfe4
4/4

All ten of the top streamers are in Spotify playlists (as well as ...

2024-12-30T18:00:42Z

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All ten of the top streamers are in Spotify playlists (as well as many other playlists). Other than one in an editorial playlist, the rest are all in algorithmic playlists. They are all served in the Radio list, which is pushed to free accounts as well as those that accept suggestions.
3/4

Most of those non-earners are available elsewhere, such as ...

2024-12-30T18:00:37Z

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Most of those non-earners are available elsewhere, such as #onAmpwall at https://randulo.ampwall.com

I'm posting this not to advertise, but to share what I have found about higher stream numbers. I looked at the top ten tracks to see whay they are streamed consistently, day-to-day. Read on.

2/4

#spotify is an obscene word for some, but I am studying it ...

2024-12-30T18:00:32Z

#spotify is an obscene word for some, but I am studying it closely with regard to 95 tracks I have there. In 2024, when they went to the 1,000 stream minimum, I pulled off about 130 other tracks. I felt that they should be in inventory unremunerated, even if it's pennies.
1/4

There are a hundred reasons to have music constantly playing, but ...

2024-12-22T18:36:39Z

There are a hundred reasons to have music constantly playing, but few are as unlikely as actually listening to it!

I was in theprocess of adding people and got interrupted for an ...

2024-12-04T15:13:30Z

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I was in theprocess of adding people and got interrupted for an hour. Done, 58 accounts in the pack. What is the limit?

Starting a Starter Pack #music https://fedidevs.com/s/MTU/ ...

2024-12-04T13:00:39Z

Starting a Starter Pack #music

https://fedidevs.com/s/MTU/

MUSICIAN? BAND?

Add yourself to the list at https://fediverse.fans and enter music in the keywords. I'll add you to the pack.

Thanks Anže (npub15wd…rte4)

How are they built?

2024-12-04T12:00:05Z

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How are they built?

Decided to try to do a local restuarant's Veggie Bowl at home ...

2024-11-20T16:12:04Z

Decided to try to do a local restuarant's Veggie Bowl at home and you know what? It's just as good!
But it takes over two hours to prepare, and requires several baking dishes, pots, a frying pan and utensils to wash. It takes about 20 minutes to get a bowl at the restaurant and they're nice folks.

I am totally confused about Threads. I see people have long ...

2024-11-17T07:04:49Z

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I am totally confused about Threads. I see people have long interactive discussions, and then a lot of us post to the void. I'm still happier with Mastodon, but I've had years to curate the feed. Right now, there's a lot of talk about Bluesky since Nov 5th... on Threads!

On the way to shop, in had to stop and look at this! ...

2024-11-11T16:14:53Z

On the way to shop, in had to stop and look at this!

Without passing through the chatbot! These services are ...

2024-11-10T07:43:47Z

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Without passing through the chatbot! These services are available, but most companies have decided to improve profits by not paying for them.

I used a chat to ask a question about a product and when the name ...

2024-11-10T07:40:34Z

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I used a chat to ask a question about a product and when the name came up, I asked, "Are you human?" He said "yes", and it appeared he was. One clue, longer delays to find answers. It was exceptional, most of these chats are AI and just waste your time until the "Want to talk to an agent" happens.

I've been kicked off Instagram and know others who n-have ...

2024-11-10T07:33:14Z

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I've been kicked off Instagram and know others who n-have been for no reason, citing "community rules". There was absolutely no rule broken in either case. She posted photos and short articles about travel. I post about music and some original photos. Meta uses crappy AI, too. They all do it now!

I've had that happen once, too! Obviously, nothing wrong with ...

2024-11-10T07:30:09Z

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I've had that happen once, too! Obviously, nothing wrong with the review. Most of my reviews are "if you can't say something good..." but only once did I leave a long and scalding review. It did not get scrapped.

Here's an excellent resource for Mastodon accounts by topic. ...

2024-11-07T07:31:21Z

Here's an excellent resource for Mastodon accounts by topic.

https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/

Depends on the noise factor, doesn't it?

2024-10-29T06:42:44Z

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Depends on the noise factor, doesn't it?

I think bigger batches would be a detriment to my health! This ...

2024-10-26T07:21:28Z

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I think bigger batches would be a detriment to my health! This was four or five tortillas. Now that I understand the baking process (after cooking them on a crepe pan, no oil), the world is mine! I just need to find the best seasoning.

It takes over an hour to do a batch 😂

2024-10-25T17:02:28Z

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It takes over an hour to do a batch 😂

They're very good but the seasoning needs a little ...

2024-10-25T16:42:00Z

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They're very good but the seasoning needs a little adjustment. I *think* I remember the proportions?

I know! There are worst things to be addicted to, but really, ...

2024-10-25T15:57:47Z

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I know! There are worst things to be addicted to, but really, it's an effort to pass them by when there's a new variation of sweet pepper. Right this minute, I made a bunch of flour tortillas and they're in the oven crisping up. Testing the recipe which may be too peppery and not sweet.

I considered getting one of the safes you can lock for 24 hours!

2024-10-25T13:52:11Z

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I considered getting one of the safes you can lock for 24 hours!

Uncontrolable. Must resist buying them!

2024-10-25T13:33:52Z

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Uncontrolable. Must resist buying them!

Maybe just one more... ...

2024-10-23T18:25:04Z

Maybe just one more...

The site is just starting for this new project: ...

2024-10-14T17:49:31Z

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The site is just starting for this new project:

https://www.eachhitmusic.com/an-intercontinental-jam

But is it real, or did the person who took the photo set it up? ...

2024-10-14T05:46:26Z

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But is it real, or did the person who took the photo set it up?

Fact-checking. 😀

The sad thing is that this should never need to be said!

2024-10-02T06:06:01Z

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The sad thing is that this should never need to be said!

Do you use 2FA/MFA (multifactor authentication) with an app? Not ...

2024-08-03T12:32:00Z

Do you use 2FA/MFA (multifactor authentication) with an app? Not email or text, an authentication app.

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