Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)

@evan Think of them as phase-change nucleation sites. When the time is right, change will happen fast.

@evan What animates the Skeleton!?!

@evan What animates the lone skeleton?!?

@evan The fashionable people will arrive after most the kids are done trick or treating, so no conflicting schedule.

@evan I think that you might be on to something!

@evan Involuntary, of course.

@evan Undirected, of course.

@evan @2001x24 Two more seconds left, now.

@dansup I feel abandoned having an early account on loops.video. No web interface, no federation.

@evan I'm assuming today is your birthday; I hope you are having a happy one!

@evan @arstechnica Now when I speak into my cable-box remote saying "Apple TV" and it works, I'll be correct as well. Saying "Disney" still neither works nor is correct when I want Disney+.

@evan I dodged the bullet.

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@evan Ouch

@evan "that's obviously wrong and he knows it" perhaps with an epithet attached and move on. If he doesn't fight fair or in good faith, no need to treat him like he does.

@evan @mpjgregoire I agree with this.

@mpjgregoire @evan
I can see the concern about a wayward SCC but I'm not sure how people being upset with, for example, Danielle Smith's use of the clause, are supposed to feel relieved about its existence.

@evan
TIL about IRIs.

Tangential opinion question:

Do you think having a GUI (native or web browser) that somehow subtly highlights which characters are ASCII vs those in UTF-8 that aren't when displaying IDNs would help to prevent or mitigate IDN homograph attacks?

@evan @JessTheUnstill @mpjgregoire
Legitimacy in the plain English sense of the word, something like "morally valid", is something that is earned in the eyes of every individual, not claimed by force.

Legitimacy in the sense of according to the law as defined by those who would execute it, well that is taken.

Don't mistake the latter for the former. Don't mistake law for justice.

I'm a fan of the notion that the purpose of a system is what it does.

@evan @2001x24
It feels so creepy to me. Sterile.

@evan I do like how phanpy.social makes DMs stripey. Very visually distinctive.