Notices by Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) (suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte I’ve been learning so much from your writing. I’m looking forward to your books!

@thomasfuchs it would make a good game.

@thomasfuchs I have been called a pedant before but never an ableist, for my vocabulary.

@mattly It's so disappointing because it's completely predictable that they would lean on ancient/obscure cultural icons. Aren't there any young people in #NoKings leadership? Do they not have any advisors? I'm not super young anymore but I know how to recognize a band that will draw a crowd, and this ain't it. #RiseUpSingOut

@skinnylatte If I could cook anything decent I would have dinner parties all the time. I made a friend here on the island, @Withmagsy who holds brilliant events at her home. She and her husband Mike started off with professional chefs but since the fee is so high, now cook themselves or hold potlucks for invited guests. I’ve met so many people this way. It’s a lottery system so you sign up for her newsletters and get sent an RSVP link that expires in 48 hours. You pay for the cost of the meal and drinks, if desired. She’s even had concerts with a picnic bbq served in her backyard!

@inthehands added that guy to the defeat roster.

@thomasfuchs 👏😻📕📙📒📗📘📓📚📖🧑🏫

@thomasfuchs do you have a favorite kind of bookshelving system? How do you organize your books?

@mattly Why yes, I do think that is the accurate term. I don’t remember if these were 900 hotline numbers specifically, or if there were charges, but I do remember a directory of topics in the phone book and corresponding phone numbers you could call to get more information on said topics.

https://priceonomics.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-1-900-number/

@skinnylatte we camp with a skillet and make a lot of 1 pan food. I also bring along meal kits sometimes. Nobody in my family will tolerate nuts and granola but I love camping.

@thomasfuchs yeah someone didn’t think this through very well. I get that there is a balance with privacy and accessibility to be maintained, but this doesn’t provide anything like the experience it could. Yes, it’s a distributed systems problem. I don’t know if we need to have centralization or not to make a proper search happen on Mastodon. Is another approach possible? It sounds like the ATProto makes you have a copy of the whole network and I can’t see that being sustainable. One of the good things about the fediverse is the startup cost is low, and needing to store a copy of everything on the network would negate that.

@thomasfuchs the search doesn’t work at all man. Like, it’s not oh this search is poor. No. It doesn’t work at all. Why even have a search button if you’re not really going to implement a feature? It’s frustrating.

@mattly I recently had some kind of bug with homebrew and a few formulae that wouldn’t update, and I got nothing but garbage error messages. I found a branch that seemed related to fixing the bug and checked it out, and got past the bug. Everything has been normal since, but I feel much more like this is a project I need to monitor because it doesn’t just dumbly work.

@mattly uh oh what’s happened this time?

@mattly @thomasfuchs I don’t understand how any of this got past design review. It’s ugly. It’s broken. You can’t see shit, and what you can see looks all misaligned and pixelated. Functionally unusable, really. The only thing that’s good is I hear the apple guy responsible for this dumpster fire of desktop has jumped ship for Meta. Sad that Apple didn’t ditch him before he wrecked their UX.

@skinnylatte
That makes sense. This was my best friend’s mom’s recipe. I worked in their restaurant as a busser on Sundays for the church crowd. Everyone thought it was funny because I was a gringa being paid under the table 😆
@CStamp

@skinnylatte
I grew up with burritos filled with shredded chicken in Northern California, I can’t find it anywhere else. I guess it’s tinga de pollo? I don’t enjoy any other Mexican chicken meat preparation. I really miss my hometown burritos. 💔
@CStamp

@thomasfuchs do it!

@inthehands I’ve been thinking about this a long time. Decades. What I came up with is we need a new social movement based on the arts. Basically an artistic revolution or renaissance.

@thomasfuchs well, they’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to work backward from the problem to the solution, and design a tool that affords solving it.