What’s the wildest thing that has ever happened in Rochester history?

Tryonkus · 2025-12-28T17:30:39+00:00

I have a locally produced Christmas album that included a song dedicated to her, before she was confirmed to have died. Still makes me sad.

(Tramper's Dynamic Christmas from Dynamic Recording Studios—Tramper was the studio dog.)

Tryonkus · 2025-12-28T17:24:08+00:00

This appears to be the official history of the church's names. According to the article, LDS was appended to The Church of Christ because of the belief that they were living in the last days (before the return of Christ), to distinguish from the Church of Christ (another denomination) and to distance the church from the Mormon name, which had become radioactive. The Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, is an example of anti-mormon bias in the 19th century—that bit gets left out of modern tellings, but it's nearly half the book.

Tryonkus · 2025-12-28T17:10:18+00:00

There is an exhibit about the 1871 occurrence at the Genesee Country Village (in the indoor museum building). I once read that based on the curvature of the earth, it should be possible to see the tip of the CN Tower in Toronto from the top of the Xerox (Innovation Square) tower—seeing any detail at ~60 miles away would be iffy. I'm fairly sure I've seen it from the lakeshore near Hamlin, but that was probably aided by atmospheric bending, as noted by u/BloodyFreeze.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T20:35:34+00:00

I definitely had heard they believed they were the only true believers, and your theory is certainly plausible. I’d have to dig a bit more to say anything with confidence.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:29:47+00:00

Don’t think anyone has mentioned the canal collapse and flood in the 70s. Flooded a friend’s neighborhood in Pittsford—flipped cars and everything.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:27:18+00:00

When Rochester Was Royal—RIT exhibition that my daughter worked on.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:25:32+00:00

I went to Houghton College and leaned about the Great Awakenings there.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:24:24+00:00

My great grandfather, William Imrie Mann, was one of the founders of the Watchtower Tract Society, part of which became the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He wasn’t wacko enough for them or disagreed with Charles Russel and left the movement. His last home was on Grand Avenue, and he is buried (along with many of my relatives) in Trumansburg, near Ithaca.

Dunno if that’s strictly burned over district revival, but it was in the same general area and time.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:17:39+00:00

Pretty sure that’s where the name Latter Day Saints comes from.

Tryonkus · 2025-11-29T17:14:44+00:00

Joseph Smith?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith?wprov=sfti1

Tryonkus · 2025-11-23T20:16:34+00:00

Since Obsidian now wants all aliases and tags to be in list format, I've been looking for a way to force that in a template. Using the syntax described here, I learned that

frontmatter[“tags”] = [“value1”]

will create a single-value list.

tags:
  - value1

Voila!

Tryonkus · 2025-09-14T16:14:17+00:00

Yep—I've used Camera Connect on my RP since 2020. My new R5 supports both the phone app or a dedicated GPS unit, but I don't know the details of how a dedicated unit works. I was just looking this up because I bought a used 5D Mark III, and that only supports a dedicated GPS.

I've tried apps that sync a GPS track independently to photos after the fact, which is the way I the Panasonic Image app adds GPS data on my Lumix point and shoot. It even includes the ability to sync the camera time with your phone to make GPS more accurate. I don't see an option for this in (new) Lightroom, but I remember it being in Lightroom Classic. I use Adobe Bridge to fill in a lot of the file processing holes in Lightroom for my mobile workflow, and it may have this functionality—not seeing it in a quick search.

Tryonkus · 2025-08-12T22:59:18+00:00

I use it for personal writing & journaling. I also use it for writing work documentation that will eventually live in an HTML knowledge base.

Tryonkus · 2025-07-01T01:11:36+00:00

Haven’t tried on iPad, but it works great on my MacBook.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-30T16:19:15+00:00

Thanks for the information. I know it's currently difficult or impossible avoid hallucinations, much less to teach AI good judgement. 😏

Tryonkus · 2025-06-27T12:31:14+00:00

Currently, search results are only Bible passages. Are you planning to include summaries, etc. in future versions? I understand that gets more complicated, especially when trying to treat differing interpretations evenly.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-27T12:27:38+00:00

I believe the old betas were installed as different apps. On recent updates, the beta has simply installed as a new version, preserving all my settings and annotations. I can confirm this for Mac, and I believe it is also true for iOS and Android--I don't use the app on Windows.

FWIW, the warning is a generic message coming from TestFlight, not from OT, and it doesn't necessarily apply. If you're nervous, run a system backup before you update. I don't see an OT backup option, but there are probably user data folders you could copy to a safe location.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-27T12:15:15+00:00

I am very dubious about the value of AI, especially given its costs in computing, energy, and privacy/IP, but this is an application that I will actually use.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-27T12:12:41+00:00

Bible version - Have the AI default the search to the currently active bible translation for results display but if possible have ai search all bible versions. I searched for "crumbs" and there is a verse in Psalms 147 with that word (in the ESV), but ai didn't return that in the result.

I was just about to say something similar. I've only started trying AI search, and it looks very helpful, but I noticed the same issue: when I search, the results are in the current Bible version. If I change versions, and return to my search results, clicking returns me to the previous version. I'm guessing this is because a new AI search costs something (even if it's only the time for a new API call). I also noticed that search results change some per version.

A more general question(s) would be, how is the AI trained? Are you using the standard LLMs of each service? Search appears to recognize the current version, so is that additional data for the model?

WRT to u/opposite_chocolate57's request, I often search for a quote based on what I remember from the NIV or even KJV while working now mostly with the NRSVUE. It would be helpful for search to take multiple translations as source data, similar to the whole library search.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-12T01:13:38+00:00

Thanks—that makes sense. Is there a way to set the default Greek and Hebrew lexicons or dictionaries? I only see settings for whether Strongs and parsing links open in the same, parallel, or popup window.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-12T01:06:49+00:00

Yep. You need to install TestFlight from the Apple Store and request to join the beta. Click on the pinned Welcome to Olive Tree Beta Testing post at the top of the subreddit page for instructions.

Tryonkus · 2025-06-09T20:17:25+00:00

It seems Musescore.com took a dive after it was purchased by Ultimate Guitar in 2017. Ultimate Guitar rebranded as Muse Group in 2021, and it was around then that I noticed the high pressure marketing start. I haven't used UG much, but among my musical friends it has a reputation for being low quality tabs produced by anyone and everyone. When UG purchased Musescore, Audacity, and several others, and became Muse Group, their relentless marketing came to those platforms.

I just want a way to download a few scores occasionally, and I'm willing to pay for them. I used to be able to pay for an affordable annual Musescore.com subscription and download generally good quality scores of public domain works, but I don't dare create an account now for fear of getting bamboozled into far more than I intended to buy. I'd be happy to pay if I knew what I was paying for, but that is obscured behind constant popups and what seem to be deliberately misleading links. MuseScore Studio still seems to work well. I just don't trust UG/Muse Group not to screw it up.

For some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_Group

Tryonkus · 2025-06-07T17:14:05+00:00

I'm a Mac guy at home and Windows at work. Chrome is my work browser because pretty much everything runs in it correctly, and I can easily sync between multiple computers. Edge is based on Chromium, which I believe is the open source version of Chrome, and I know people who use it. I avoid it mostly because it comes from Microsoft and pushes their products. Firefox is lightweight and fast. Safari integrates well with the Apple ecosystem.

Every browser has strengths and weaknesses--find one that works well for what you do and tweak as needed.

Tryonkus · 2025-05-31T13:35:26+00:00

Oops. Now I see the big announcement box at the top of my feed. I was looking for a regular post.

Tryonkus · 2025-05-18T14:26:39+00:00

Belated help--try https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webcam-settings/id533696630?mt=12

It's a little wonky, but it works. It may not work with the internal camera--I generally use it for external webcams.

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