#apropos — Public Fediverse posts
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#apropos #birds i made a new friend today :goose_peek: :goose_walk: #lovemyhood
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But the most interesting part, to me, was using those #hostnames with `finger` and `talk`. See a machine name listed with a domain that was clearly a university or technical school, use `finger @hostname` to see who was logged on, and then `talk username@hostname` to see if they wanted to chat.
On university machines, the users were mostly students. And lots of them were open to #chatting with some random other student in, say, Canada.
I did a lot of dialing into the #university machine I used in the evenings. And I'd look up machines at schools in Europe - mostly the Nordic countries, as they seemed to have good connections to the internet. Lots of machines at schools in Sweden (.se), Norway (.no), Finland (.fi). I remember some in Germany (.de), Denmark (.dk), Belgium (.be), the UK (.uk), and probably others. But the Nordic countries were my favourite.
Luckily for monolingual me, many students on these machines spoke English to one degree or another. Had lots of interesting chats with people studying computer science, engineering, physics, and astronomy, where those fields used a lot of computing tools.
I recall lots of discussions with those sorts of people. Sometimes I wonder if any of them were `[email protected]` or some of the other contemporary or future luminaries in #computing circles.
Anyway... to mangle an AT&T marketing slogan (apropos for Unix - and so is `apropos`), in those days, you really could "reach out and finger someone".
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Neue Ausgabe #apropos: Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Romania
Obwohl die Human-Animal Studies in geisteswiss. Disziplinen fest etabliert sind, hat die Beschäftig. mit Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen bislang nur begrenzt Eingang in d. romanist. Forschung gefunden. https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/apropos/de/issue/view/127
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@Wolf yes I read that book a few times back then, and agreed it is very #apropos and #notsureyouknew 😬 #Dune #FrankHerbert
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"Where the Web was born - Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world."
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web
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#apropos "#Borrowers are currently used as "shock absorbers" for Australia's financial system where variable-rate home loans dominate the market.The #ReserveBankAustralia acknowledged that the pain from their rate rise will be felt unevenly in the community."
oh really #rba ain't that the truth 😬 :blobsad:
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#apropos #weird this has been said about #awesome #notsureyouknew
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RE: https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/115923999858762015
this also works on non-penguin days #apropos #iluvu #urdoingr8
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some light evening read #plague #bubonic #apropos #notsureyouknew
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often i think the world is a kaleidoscope or at least my view on it is... you only ever get to see a splinter of what is going at any given moment... with all possibly changing the very next move...
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Legale Halle statt dubioser Hölle
https://www.apropos.or.at/legale-halle-statt-dubioser-hoelle/?ref=ActivityPubWas mit Lust am Spiel und Freude am kleinen Nervenkitzel beginnt, kann schrittweise zum Zwang werden. Von Spielsucht betroffen sind allein in Salzburg Tausende. Nun sollen konzessionierte Spielhallen eine bessere Überwachung der Branche bringen. von Wilhelm Ortmayr Die Verluste werden zunächst noch bagatellisiert, noch prahlt man mit den Gewinnen. Dem sozialen Umfeld und sich ... Der Beitrag Legale Halle statt dubioser Hölle erschien zuerst auf Apropos.
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Legale Halle statt dubioser Holle
https://www.apropos.or.at/legale-halle-statt-dubioser-hoelle/?ref=ActivityPub
Was mit Lust am Spiel und Freude am kleinen Nervenkitzel beginnt, kann schrittweise zum Zwang werden. Von Spielsucht betroffen sind allein in Salzburg Tausende. Nun sollen konzessionierte Spielhallen eine bessere Überwachung der Branche bringen. von Wilhelm Ortmayr Die Verluste werden zunächst noch bagatellisiert, noch prahlt man mit den Gewinnen. Dem sozialen Umfeld und sich ...
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Ich bleib noch eine Weile dran
06-30-2025
https://www.apropos.or.at/ich-bleib-noch-eine-weile-dran/?ref=ActivityPub -
Gemeinschaft im Alter erleben
06-30-2025
https://www.apropos.or.at/gemeinschaft-im-alter-erleben/?ref=ActivityPub -
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#apropos of nothing and #notsureyouknew I didn't know that Shelley's #Frankenstein played out in #Ingolstadt, the town where #Audi makes their Audis 👾🚜
(*also #Illuminati 🥸¯\_(ツ)_/¯) -
Zum Arbeiten in der Stadt
Apropos 06-02-2025
https://www.apropos.or.at/zum-arbeiten-in-der-stadt/?ref=ActivityPub -
Welt-verträglich unterwegs
Apropos 06-02-2025
https://www.apropos.or.at/welt-vertraeglich-unterwegs/?ref=ActivityPub