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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 38m

I got some rainbow suncatcher/rainbow maker clings for my work windows and it's brought me an outsized amount of joy

Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

After months of roof work at work I am finally back in my office without smells or loud noises and it's so nice. But of course they are doing construction down the hall 😆

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

[IRS audit despite staff cuts] @potterybyosa I was wondering if this would be the case, and suspected so. Thanks for confirming.

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Looking for comprehensive online resources for learning docker/containerization for development work (I know, I know, I’m behind the times). Please link if you know of anything good

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence […]

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@Sempf @Shanmonster I was also going to suggest Obsidian. The markdown format is a little fiddly to pick up, but once you get it down, it gets out of the way of the writing process. It really depends on how much formatting one needs, if you use a lot of tables and special formatting (changing […]

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um […]

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/07/2026

My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

$a tiny random fraction of books in HathiTrust 1931-1980 in English that include the word "philosophy" somewhere in metadata$

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

This is the summer of weird construction stuff. My work office smells like glue so I have escaped to work in the stacks 😆

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I spent a lot of time redesigning and improving the new fediverse.info it would mean a lot to me if you boost this, and spread awareness of this powerful onboarding resource ❤️

fediverse.info

The bespoke fediverse guide and people directory.

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Today in "Karin complains about microsoft" I (stupidly) changed a setting in sharepoint views and have now broken the entire sharepoint for everyone. Happy Monday!

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

@mike Even most people I know in the USA aren't supporting the US team at this point

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

This is what every analytics report looks like now. More users! More events! But active time on the site keeps going down since bots "read" faster than humans.

A dashboard view of an unknown site
Active Users: 13.8K, up 7.44%
New Users 13.7K, up 7.25%
Avg engagement time 1 second, down -47.7%
Events 49.3K, up 7.07%

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Usually I ride my bike to avoid this, but it's supposed to be super hot today and I injured my back (healing but not all the way better), which is just enough to make me want to drive.

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

So far today I have spent about half an our trying and failing to figure out how to park on our other campus, where I need to go for a meeting. This is so dumb

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

What's the best way to collect family tree info to later turn into visualizations/html tables? We have some amazingly detailed messy family trees that live currently in photos of massive white board drawings and I am kind of at a loss as to what to do next.

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

@electricarchaeo I get more bitter about this process every year

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I never want to utter the word "migration" again after these last two years (but I will, so many times)

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 12/06/2026

It's a grim question and one that, obviously, pales into insignificance beside the human cost if this happens, but: what happens to a university's institutional repository when the institution fails/goes bankrupt/closes? Has any university taken digital preservation precautions?

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Back to back to back to back meetings day, 8:30 am to 4 pm let's gooooooooooo

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James Louis Smith @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

The Static Site Export plugin for @Omeka Classic is great! I managed to make a little Hugo static site of my old Lough Derg Omeka project in like 30 mins. james-l-smith.github.io/digital-der…

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Digital Derg: A Deep Map

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

@dalias Love it when companies give me an excuse to never give them any more of my money

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Had my raincoat in my bike bag for two weeks, took it out yesterday and GUESS WHAT it's supposed to be pouring when I ride home 😆

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Having a talk with a colleague about how so many website collaborators have this impulse that goes something like "I don't want external links, I don't want people to ever leave our site" I have been seeing it for over 20 years, just got another example today. We used to offer the […]

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

After I click through, you get to a page where you can't do anything before adding a credit card. lol Good luck charging us, I guess

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

This flag appeared at the top of our Free Educational GitHub organization account. "GitHub Copilot billing for CDRH is now usage-based. Set a per user budget to manage costs." We don't have any billing info associated with this account, and have never paid […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Flag that appeared at the top of my org's github org page that says: Test of the flag is in the post

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Today, the digital open edition of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities has been published on Manifold! Hurrah! Congratulations to @ayliu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies. Here's my chapter: Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures […]

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

It's amazing how much having my hair off my next helps me think. One of these sweltering days I swear I'm just gonna buzz it all off but I don't like the upkeep of buzz cuts either.

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Small joy: I got new ponytail holders (the spiral kind, which I assumed I would NOT like) and they stay in all day without pulling my hair.

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

does anybody happen to know if the results of the #europeana Linked Data Task Force have been published somewhere? This page here pro.europeana.eu/index.php/project/… states that "apaper detailing the proof of concept was prepared and shared". I've tried to dig this […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

A hundred watts is a guy and every time I make a cup of tea that's like having eighteen guys in my kitchen pedalling on static bikes hooked up to dynamos sweating while I moan "This kettle takes ages, I miss English kettles that run on thirty guys"

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

AI has enabled my work to make so many required trainings. SO MANY TRAININGS.

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

@quinnanya.me Jealous about slaying your last drupal zombie! I think the only one I have left is a Mukurtu site

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

@ElenLeFoll yeah, feels like a false sense of security thing 🤷

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

@ElenLeFoll I see this all the time and have mostly stopped clicking on bluesky links as a result. One person told me they had it set that way because they didn't want AI to scrape it (they could anyway of course but it would be a little harder, I guess)

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

My gaming nights got moved from Wednesdays to Tuesdays this week, weeks are going to feel extra long for a bit (I keep thinking it's Thursday)

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

As text completion continues to enshittify at a horrifying pace, I am finding I need to work on my accurate typing skills again. Please share if you have a nice easy way to practice typing (like, games are nice, but only if they work on all the keys, not just a few)

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

(the football coach would have to pay $3500/month to park in that case lolol)

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

In general it will be the poorest employees this affects, since they also sell an expensive, guaranteed space permit that no one making under $50k can afford. Those spaces sit half empty half the workday. Employee parking passes should be scaled to how much one gets paid

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

My workplace/university charges $50 to park on campus, but that's only a "hunting license" - it's no guarantee there will be a space available since they oversell. And now they are closing a 300 space lot for a year with no word on any additional spaces added. I am sure glad I live close enough […]

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

@forteller I am super curious now! it looks like an all in one pen but I am not sure

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I was frustrated with the microsoft planner design options, and a colleague pointed out that the design options are based on the board title, so if you change the title until a design comes up that you like, you can choose the design and then change the title […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

a design selector in planner, the board title is "cat" and the first two design choices (after a blank one) are pictures of cats

a design selector in planner, the board title is "bokeh" and the first two design choices are bokeh like images (the last one might be too, it's a bit harder to tell)

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Karin Dalziel @nirak.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Apparently I am nearing twenty years at my job and it's making me feel some kinda way (I can't possibly be that old, can I???)

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