Notices by 🚲 (dx@social.ridetrans.it), page 2

Vlaada Chvatil said something to the effect of (paraphrasing) “we inked this deal back in the summer of 2024 when we didn’t know better” …You mean back in the summer when JKR was loudly and publicly bullying Algerian boxer Imane Khelif?

Showed the kids Mr Rogers for the first time and they were completely enraptured. I would have guessed it would be too old, too distant culturally and aesthetically, but they were hooked.

Onion is the best vegetable.

@kingrat Because I want to get an epub from my phone to my kobo and those are the only tools I have to hand. And it’s also easier than all that noise even if I had my computer with me.

Plus if I had my computer, I would simply plug the kobo in and drag and drop the file.

https://send.djazz.se/ coming in clutch once more (facilitates sending ebooks from mobile to ereader)

We want to start a family wiki-ish thing with restaurants/shops/parks we’ve visited and notes about them for our own memory but also to share with guests. Should be private, easily editable on mobile, online. What would be the best tool for this? Notion?

@Labay @maxleibman Long day as a cement salesman.
Just couldn’t get my clients to commit to anything concrete.

#LongdayAtThe

“I’m sorry, Ms. Delacourt, but your son has tested positive for Linux.”
“Give it to me straight, Doc. How bad is it?”
“It’s terminal.”
[anguished cry]

@kingrat I can see that. I grew up in a non shouting family, while my partner grew up in a shouting family. It doesn’t bother me, but I remember being a kid and being vaguely shocked when visiting friends’ houses where they would carry on a shouting conversation between floors.

“Name?”
“Jim.”
“Is that short for Jimberley?”
“What? No, it’s short for James.”
“Yeah right.”

I don’t think anyone who hasn’t had exposure to it appreciates how very stupid even “smart” people are. Even if Musk were a super engineering genius (he isn’t), it would still be a bad idea to listen to anything he says about government or anything else that isn’t engineering.

@kingrat Random thought: Imperial would be a great name for a Metric cover band

I drew a silly one

And for discussion: which apps are these?

Maybe I have more exposure to science and government than your average person, but I’m seeing a lot of friends and family *directly* impacted by these attacks.

Are there any web browsers where I can easily (without installing an extension) create more than two instances that don’t know anything about the data in the other ones? Chrome and Firefox can easily do two by using a regular window and a private/incognito one, but any additional windows/tabs will share data/state with those. I know there are extensions that let you do this, but I’m curious if any browsers support this out of the box.

I mentioned to my wife that Notepad prompts for a sign in to a subscription service in the latest Windows, and she said, “What’s Notepad?” “It’s the thing you write text files in.” “You mean Word? You’ve always had to pay for that.”

My mind is a bit blown that somebody could have used windows for years and not have ever encountered Notepad.

I don’t go on LinkedIn regularly because why would I, but I have an account because I need to be employed to afford life. Anyway, I logged in today and what a bizarro world. The shit people are saying in there versus a place like here…

The internet is so dysfunctional and broken that all the browsers had to add a “reader view” just to make anything legible

I was trying to sell somebody on Mastodon and they were unconvinced said, “I don’t know, I just hate all the ads on social media.” I blinked for a second, “Oh, well, yeah, there aren’t any ads on Mastodon.” and they immediately grew more interested. I forget how nice that is, and that it would be a major selling point.