Notices by Tim Lavoie (tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca)

@evan @timbray Minority, but oh so close. I usually like minority governments though, it makes them play well with others. I like to think that proportional representation would give us that more of the time.

@mirabilos @rysiek I did get a handful of legit ones lately, but they were expected. My old credit card expiry had passed, and these were services I'd given it to at one point. As a heuristic though, you're spot on.

@rysiek On the flip side, it is also important to welcome phone calls out of the blue from people whose Spidey-sense has tingled a bit, and who trust you enough to sanity check what they're looking at.

Gives me the warm fuzzies, every time.

@mkornblum @inthehands Awesome, thanks. I'm not *quite* in the market yet, as I still need my Civic, and my wife things I've got too many bikes already.

I do manage sometimes with a trailer, but that can be a lot of work on hills. (To be honest, I should do this more often first.)

@Shrigglepuss "Boost my own toots" sounds much like doing a "Dutch oven" on yourself.

Probably a fitting analogy though, when it's even funnier to have someone trapped in there with you.

@inthehands I must say, minority governments tend to be my favourite governments. I would prefer proportional representation instead, but it's always better when the parties involved actually have to learn to share the sandbox with others.

@evan Too often, according to my wife.

@evan Scotch broom is everywhere here, loving disturbed soil, so it's often along road sides. Beautiful yellow flowers, which at least help find the survivors from last year's purge each year.

Himalayan blackberry too, but they're tasty, so I just apply some control there.

@evan SMS is well-federated, but also the very lowest common denominator. It excels at nothing else.

The designers of systems are making choices, often based on how much access they want to your data.

I'm happy to use Signal, because they don't want my data.

@jasonkoebler I wonder if these sorts of sites could mitigate the flooding issue most of the way through policies and strict validation of the submitter. Since this one has shut down, it's hard to tell what they had, but some friction is necessary. Submit one piece of garbage, be put in purgatory for a time.

As for Amazon encouraging crap, well, they're blatant. What was their restriction, "only" three new books published per day / author? Ugh.

@evan I like A so much, I keep giving away free samples.
(Over 100 units now)

@evan @zuck Elsewhere, not reading Zuck, until he got boosted here.

@evan They work very well with tiling window managers for example, where another desktop is just a keystroke away.

I'll typically have shell windows & Emacs on 1, Firefox on 2, note-taking app on 3, Signal on 4. With a largely keyboard-driven workflow, there is a minimum of hunting around with a mouse pointer.

@evan Excellent reminder to back up whatever data is on your devices, ideally before cracking them.

@evan Sometimes, software archeology is called for.

@clacke Why borosilicate? Planning to keep heating up your tankards?

A local artisan specializes in artsy bongs with borosilicate glass, but mixing the two would result in the world's skunkiest beer.

@evan Plot twist, recent news.
Can the President take a dump in his Depends so large that his attendants start gagging?

@evan Also, there are ads, and then there are ads defined through behavioural tracking and profiling. I might find billboards and TV ads annoying, some like them I suppose.

I absolutely loathe anything like spy-based ads, and will sabotage them at every opportunity. (Reminder to myself, "Surveillance Capitalism" is sitting right here, in my to-read pile.)

@evan @bplein @timbray Interesting, yes. Reassuring, not so much.

@evan @bplein @timbray True, but I can't believe that the solution to insufficient controls on SEO spam is, "add more bullshit."