Notices by Offbeatmammal (offbeatmammal@mastodon.social)

@fesshole the book of feces

@fesshole that's one bus I never want to catch...!

@aral I remember when Labour were actually a left wing and somewhat empathetic party. They are now espousing policies Thatcher would have been comfortable with.

@dansup @aral I really like this. Just added a work item to a couple of projects (one personal, one work) to do the same.

@bruces I was very busy in the Y2K run-up (wonder what the COBOL market is like these days?!) so anyone dealing with Y2K38 has my sympathy (especially as the reward for doing a lot of work and minimizing the problem is to be repeatedly told "see, it was no big deal")

@aral not what I wanted to read after getting back from a consultation to be told the spot on the MRI isn't great news.

But, an opportunity to remind anyone AMAB to get their PSA checked (simple blood test) and normalise talking about testing/checking for prostate and testicular cancers.

Don't wait until it's too late (my Doc said if I'd left it another 5 years it would be a very different prognosis)

(Sorry to hijack a pithy toot, any other day I'd probably have just smiled and scrolled on)

@dansup @pixelfed I like the 2019 one. It's clean, clear, and distinctive. The 2022 version looks like a generic corporate messaging app that doesn't want to offend anyone.

@Gargron I worry that the effort of moderating the rising tide of crap from Threads will become detrimental to this server. Do you have a plan that will result in threads being defederated? What is the threshold, and why is the stated direction from Meta enough to trigger severance?

@Gargron been scrobbling since 2005 (actually visited their offices back in the day, cool folks) and use their API (especially useful as Spotify just slammed a bunch of theirs shut with no warning). Wish it was better supported by CBS, but I guess hard to justify spending money on it. https://www.last.fm/user/Offbeatmammal

@Gargron @anon_opin I still have PTSD from Firefly! Refuse to watch any show until I know they close the arc off gracefully!

@aral need more folks to help work on NVDA to help it replace JAWS in more use cases https://www.nvaccess.org/

@aral while Safari shits me in some respects, I love how Apple have stuck to their guns while Microsoft caved and made Edge into an even worse Chrome. Firefox used to be my go-to but I struggle with some of their UX/UI choices, but still have it installed for testing (and often go for days with it as my only open browser). DuckDuckGo and Brave are great for ad blocking but don't feel right for other reasons. Google played a long game and are now springing the trap