Notices by Tim Lavoie (tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca)

@evan Anything fun?

@evan @tlariv Have you watched Arrested Development? @tlariv just has some jean shorts for the shower, not judging.

@babe Had to look it up, these look hilariously tiny. Like "fancy art project that will mostly scare the cat", but still get seized at an airport.

@evan I prefer that error messages not barf back the unsanitized inputs that are causing the problem. Soooo much XSS that way.

@domo @aral And, well, torrents?

@rpf @domo @aral Looks like there's already a torrent out there though, e.g. search for "Gaza.How.to.Survive.a.Warzone.2025.1080p.HDTV.H264-DARKFLiX"

@tek A _clever_ intern, quite the optimist, eh?

I think I'd rather code slow, and just keep the "WTFs per minute" metric low. Though I'm quite enjoying the "dicks in mousetraps" thread.

@tek The real question, I think, is why anyone thinks we should trust any of them. They're all created by fallible people with their thumb on the scale, from whatever information they could steal the easiest.

@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.