Notices by Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co), page 2

Swabbing Intensifies #Monsterdon

I wonder if it was typecasting or if Shatner himself always came on stronger than Axe™️ Body Spray with the ladies

#Monsterdon

This City Doctor is emitting Extreme Dana Scully Vibes #Monsterdon

That spider has special powers it made the City Doctor go Full Minnesota #Monsterdon

Shatner is definitely the creepiest part of this movie so far #Monsterdon

@nemeciii @thomasfuchs as a Canadian Prairie Dweller who has tried to use touchscreen controls for climate functions in -30C I would consider nice chonky knobs as essential for these functions.

In these parts we adjust the climate settings a couple times *a day* for a good part of the year too, because it is somewhat common to experience "all season days" (just recently a 15C change in temperature within an hour, from partly cloudy to blizzard)

@thomasfuchs from TFA:

Leor Sapir, who works at the Manhattan Institute, a right-wing think tank, argued that allowing "adults to do what they want" with respect to gender-affirming care was no longer congruent with "the libertarian position."

Huh. That one made my brain hurt a bit.

@smallcircles @bhaugen Client apps look simple enough to design, and PDSes look like they are easy enough to self host, but relays, as well as anything that has to process the firehose coming out of the relays like AppViews, Feeds and Labelers, look quite complex and computationally expensive to me.I don't see how AT can reliably federate without depending on organisations with significant computational and bandwidth resources. I also think this makes the AT architecture less private and potentially more vulnerable to a large scale DDoS than the fediverse.

I'm sure that there will be some interesting AT apps that come out of this, but I don't think it is for everybody--it is too "big web" by design. I think"small web" is more fun.

@NoelsRetroLab yeah the Enterprise micros were pretty amazing...they were 8-bit systems that were legit competitive with contemporary 16-bit machines in capability IIRC...flexible memory management and impressive graphics and sound

@bread80 @mos_8502

@dbsalk that was quite a drawn out #DadJoke

@mos_8502 @NoelsRetroLab also TIL that Amstrad CPC was a truly hack design, which is totally in keeping with the Amstrad Way to be honest

@bread80 oh absolutely, though I would say Amstrad's cost-driven hardware hackery skills are right up there with Commodore, the latter of whom had the advantage of owning MOS/CSG so could extend the hackery fully into the ICs themselves. Amstrad of course flexed these skills in HiFi.

The whole industry was notorious for corner cutting, but at great detriment to usability (horrible keyboards, lack of power, poor graphics and sound etc). Commodore and Amstrad seemed to be leaders in finding ways to cut cost that preserved desirable features...and sometimes caused frustration for programmers!

@NoelsRetroLab @mos_8502

@evan Small is the new big (or should be)

The goal should be one million instances of one thousand people each. If we cannot get past a thousand instances of a million people each we have failed...or still have a lot of work to do!

so the email at my work has long been outsourced to #google mail and yesterday we got a support call and I said it might be easiest to send a screenshot and a report to our support email and he was like "yeah I did that an hour ago didn't you get it?"

So i checked the spam folder and there it was...along with nearly a dozen other false positives since the end of October...as many false positives as I would have previously encountered in a whole year!

Has Google done another roynd of #enshittification lately making non-gmail providers jump through more hoops or something? Are they using their new garbage #AI to screen email now?

I have never been a fan of using gmail as our provider (that was entrenched long before I was hired) but the single reason I tolerated it was that spam control was decent. Google is trying really hard to lose this customer!

I guess I gotta check the spam folder more than monthly now :blobcheeky:

@fugueish wait HTML isn't just </div class="a-bunch-of-wierd-presentation-and-functional-directives">?

My mind is BLOWN!

It's #Monsterdon time :ameowbongo:

Watch the movie and follow the hashtag if you're cool. Mute the hashtag if you're a coward but don't worry I won't hold that against you :blobtonguewink:

This #Monsterdon is like a Smol Indiana Jones movie!

Don't be a cock

roach.

You cockroach!

#Monsterdon

@Hunter

Hiya Barbie!

Hi Ken!

Are we being taken for a ride?

We sure are Ken!

Hang on tight!

I'm a Barbie Girl
In a dying world
Microplastics, made by fascists
They pollute the air
Burn carbon everywhere
Desperation, life is your damnation

Come on Barbie spend your money!

...

@interpeer LOL the introduction is priceless! 🤣

To paraphrase:

"our advertising business allows poor and cheap people to use our customers' Big Expensive Websites and this will enable us to force them to watch our ads and also make sure bots don't cheat us out of those revenue generating eyeballs"

...and...

"people want to read news that isn't fake so this will help limit the fake news that is a direct cause of the motivation our targeted-ad-based, engagement-driven business model has provided"

It is pretty transparent that Google is trying to do the equivalent of treating cancer with opioids when their primary business model is the carcinogen here.