Notices by David O'Brien (iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social)

Wee surprise while out gardening earlier. Was clearing some weeds from our raised beds before planting, when I realised I had acquired a pedunculate oak seedling.

While it would be lovely to have an #oak in the garden, I really don't want a #tree that can grow to 40m tall with a 10m girth that close to my house. So I popped it in a little pot, for now.

Thinking I might pot it on for a few years then find a spot in some woodland up the river to plant it out when it's established.

It's pretty obvious they haven't thought anything through. Or even thought at all. Or are even capable of thought. Except in the most rudimentary Nazi shaped meaning.

Nazi Germany was at least competent.

Maybe they haven't thought this through.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3006447/boeing-begins-flying-back-planes-refused-by-chinese-airlines

Well, half of them are.

@aral @HeavenlyPossum

Nice one.

@aral

Not sure who needs to know this but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

Before the web (BTW) we had these things called "Books" which stored information in semi-permanent forms. Some of them lasted centuries.

We shared this information in buildings called "Libraries" which were places where, basically, anyone, could go find out about the books that might answer their questions.

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/113907953510178561

Further evidence of @pluralistic ‘s #enshittification theory.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113845379403659477

For context, 14 tons is almost 3x the average CO2 emissions of the average EU citizen.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

One flight. One billionaire.

#ClimateDiary

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet/113675826311280839

I apologise.

I have ataxia so I am unable to cycle. I fall over.

But I know tech. So thought I’d try to help.

I shan’t in future.

@CloudyMrs

Source: https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/national-cycle-network-routes-in-the-east-of-scotland/

@CloudyMrs

https://explore.osmaps.com/?lat=56.300256&lon=-3.320838&zoom=9.0000&style=Standard&type=2d&overlays=os-ncn-layer

@CloudyMrs

Every software developer ever has said this at least once.

@dansup

To everyone whatabouting in this thread, I did say "they do the most common pretty well."

And that would mean the most common in English-language publications using foreign language words or terms for whatever reason.

Neither OS is perfect. Nor, I think, is it possible to be.

But Mac OS does a better job than Windows, as things currently stand.

I use both daily. This is my experience.

@CStamp @thomasfuchs

Yeah, but you either have to

• change the keyboard language
• Not ideal, since your actual keyboard doesn't change
• memorise some pretty esoteric unicode strings; or
• use a virtual keyboard

Tbf, Macs don't handle all diacritics that well by default, but they do the most common pretty well.

Like Option then E gets you é. Option U gets ü and so on.

I guess that's a legacy of their prevalence in desktop publishing apps in the 90s.

@CStamp @thomasfuchs

Also, we don't get ads on the OS UI.

Which is the stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard.

@thomasfuchs

I certainly did, and I certainly found it a worthwhile use of 30mins of my life.

A hugely thoughtful, wide-ranging and persuasive argument. Thank you for writing it.

And h/t @Miniver for alerting me to it.

@emilygorcenski

That is so distressing to hear.

Bandcamp paid artists fairly and was a good platform for so long.

@joeo10

OK, I get that; but my interests are very broad:

• web design/development
• tech
• politics
• science
• art
• photography
• news/current affairs

Which is why I opted for a 'generalist' server.

@feditips