Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 4:29:30 PM
So far for Penn State: Special Teams, 7 points. Defense: 7 points. Offense: nothing…. Time to pick up the pace, PSU offense….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 4:03:50 PM
100 yard kick off return for a touchdown by Nick Singleton. Sweet! Dude is faaaaaaaast….. #PennStateVsRutgers
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 4:01:20 PM
@stribs Either way, he was the kind of guy who leaves behind thousands of undeveloped rolls of film, photos he took but would never see. Dunno how you can photograph to see how things look photographed and then never look at them….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 12:20:12 PM
Thinking that Jack Dorsey decided to destroy Twitter, so he could rebuild it as a protocol instead of a company, the way he said, and Melon Husk is his chosen instrument. In other words, something very much like ActivityPub, the tech under Mastodon and Pixelfed.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 10:37:55 AM
Had an idea for a Twitter replacement called Shittr. Would use the poop emoji as an icon, and the only thing you could post there would be “poopin’” (in whatever language). Turns out someone already registered the site, and is building a social media site devoted to shitposting.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 8:08:37 AM
Keans Burg Laundromat Wash and Fold Shot this yesterday morning before work in nearby beautiful Keansburg. Contax IIIa, Santa Color 100, ECN-2. #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #BeNiceShootFilm https://t.co/dE7j9zhVLm
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2022 at 7:06:43 AM
RT @RVAwonk: For those who genuinely don’t understand and want to: Elon’s poll is not representative of Twitter users — only a certain type…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 18, 2022 at 7:57:43 PM
If he does this, I’m out of here. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 18, 2022 at 2:02:52 PM
RT @twatson: Mastodon is the Linux of social networks. 🐘🫠
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 18, 2022 at 7:51:15 AM
Off we go, into the wild blue yonder I’ve worked through my backlog of photographs. Need to go make more. Back in a few minutes. #BelieveInFilm #BeNiceShootFilm #FilmIsNotDead https://t.co/az2R1Sb2PI
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 18, 2022 at 7:49:46 AM
@keithdevereux Cool! I stopped getting QSLs about 25 years ago because I decided my hobby was listening to radio stations rather than writing to radio stations and that QSLs were at best proof positive that a letter was sent, but they are pretty cool and fun to look at.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 11:38:15 PM
I decided a few weeks ago what I wanted my last tweet to be. Just in case the site isn’t here tomorrow (it will be), my next tweet, sent just before going to bed for the night, is that tweet.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 11:21:50 PM
It’s like one of those apocalypse movies where the world is coming to an end and people hook up at random (I’m think of a little known Canadian movie called Last Night that had a pre-stardom Sandra Oh in it, but there are dozens just like it). https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1593458414339952641
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 10:54:52 PM
Getting great reception of Radio Romania Actualitati on 1152 kHz. I mean, I could listen to them on the net at https://www.romania-actualitati.ro/live/ , but it’s more fun to do it via radio
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 10:50:05 PM
One thing I’m really going to miss if this site goes away is easy access to Ukrainian journalists and experts like @maria_avdv @olgatokariuk @myroslavapetsa @dkaleniuk @olex_scherba @TimothyDSnyder and @terrelljstarr. At least I get @KyivIndependent on Telegram
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 10:15:52 PM
Don’t panic https://t.co/Gwwvlf43Rd
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 10:09:21 PM
@DeanForbesPhoto More than one way to skin a cat: https://www.brandi.org/2022-11-18%2002'55'31%20CLIP%20Absolute%201215.0000.mp3
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 10:06:17 PM
@DeanForbesPhoto I’d let you hear what a medium wave signal from the UK heard in NJ sounds like, but Twitter won’t let me post MP3s….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 10:02:44 PM
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:53:28 PM
@DeanForbesPhoto Oh, I have plenty of those. Drake R8, AOR AR-7030, Sony ICF-2010, Grundig Satellite 700, Sony ICF-SW100, Sony ICF-2001, Realistic DX-160, probably some others. I used to help publish a club magazine about shortwave. But there’s not much on shortwave any more, so I DX mediumave.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:47:44 PM
@DeanForbesPhoto I have several, but the two I use for this are both software-defined receivers from Italy. The one I’m using at the moment in a Perseus: https://www.eladit.shop/en-gb/Ricevitore-SDR-Perseus-p388744485 My other one is an Elad FDM-S3: https://www.eladit.shop/en-gb/Ricevitore-SDR-FDM-S3-p209053139 Cool thing about the S3: it can record the entire FM band.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:45:27 PM
Can’t believe someone followed me here today, as things are falling apart. Not anyone I would want to follow me, mind you
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:38:17 PM
First good transatlantic DX night of the season. I’m getting decent audio from Absolute Radio on 1215 kHz from the UK from my location in New Jersey
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:36:59 PM
Just in case you haven’t already done this: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:11:12 PM
I’m thereisnocat most places, except I’m not on Facebook any more, and I don’t post to Instagram, but elsewhere I’m not hard to find. There are only two people with my name in the country, and I’m not the one from California. @thereisnocat@toot.cafe on Mastadon. And here.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:08:14 PM
I don’t think that Twitter is going to die overnight. It’s likely going to fall apart in pieces.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 9:04:28 PM
RT @leahmcelrath: I think Twitter will continue to exist, but I’m not sure what it will evolve into in terms of relevance. The fact of the…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 7:27:55 PM
I worked somewhere that shrank it’s workforce by about 90%, but it happened over three years, not three weeks…. https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593395225371688960
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 4:16:57 PM
Saw a report that 1Password is going to incorporate passkey support. Great, but I ditched 1Password for Bitwarden recently. So I went looking. Turns out Bitwarden has been a member of the FIDO Alliance for 3 years. Sounds like yes to me. https://community.bitwarden.com/t/store-webauthn-fido2-credentials-in-bitwarden/42153/4
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 11:49:19 AM
@8888SEB @Kodak Love these. I’ve shot a fair amount of Kodalith. I get what you’re saying about Rodinal, but it depends what you’re trying to do. It’s great for high key stuff like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/15454386251/ Or to make it look like a newspaper shot from 1964: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/14847963321/
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 8:51:01 AM
RT @TimothyDSnyder: Help stop a genocide. It's easy. Here's how. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/help-stop-a-genocide?r=f9j4c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2022 at 8:33:41 AM
Water Feature Just off the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. Kodak EKTAR H35, Ferrania Solaris 200, ECN-2. #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #BeNiceShootFilm https://t.co/M8zydKhOho
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 16, 2022 at 6:29:19 PM
NBC just called the 218th seat for the Republicans.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 16, 2022 at 5:13:46 PM
CNN made a film about Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who scares the shit out of Putin. If you get a chance to see it, see it. It's well done and a great story and I am amazed that the man went back to Russia after they tried to kill him.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 16, 2022 at 12:22:05 PM
@stribs Requested mine on the 10th or thereabouts; got it on the 12th
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 16, 2022 at 8:47:04 AM
Water Not clear what this game is, but it has something to do with water. Seen on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. Kodak EKTAR H35, Ferrania Solaris 200, ECN-2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/52504158558/ #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #BeNiceShootFilm
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 16, 2022 at 7:40:52 AM
@redcrew I’m able to edit lists on the web site, so it looks like this is an API-only issue.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 16, 2022 at 7:24:06 AM
@redcrew Funny you should ask. I just checked as you were posting this. Yes, I’m still seeing it.
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