Notices by maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io), page 2

@skinnylatte

i do have a piece of commercial only runs on windows professional software that requires locally install excel for one small feature to work. at least I don't need the cloud crap anywhere near the locked down windows VM.

and i only use that piece of commercial software when clients pay for me to use it. the FOSS alternatives do the job surprisingly well, and the only "innovations" the commercial app has are cloud features irrelevant to the core function of the software.

@thomasfuchs

My dad had one of those from work.

Played "Need for Speed" on it. Graphics weren't great but did the job!

@thomasfuchs

okay but is it being rendered by pistols at dawn?

@inthehands

a murder is what gets trump? after everything else? dunno, wish it were true but won't be holding my breath.

killing Ms Idaho - that'd have more impact than epstein.

@inthehands

yea a little oops on that vis-a-vis oil - Canada is doing that already and we're the largest supply of "foreign" oil to the US - we produce the same heavy crude Venezuela does and previously supplied US refineries with, until relations between the US and Venezuela soured whenever it was.

trump picked a trade war with us and it's not going well for the US. We're already pushing back, and we're not backing down.

boycotts work. we're doing just fine without.

@skinnylatte

these are pretty good too (and easy to shake up the recipe too)

https://ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipes/spicy-nuts

@skinnylatte

regular or jumbo?

@inthehands

the bell curve is still round at the top

@skinnylatte

looks like she may be scheming to end some of your enemies in a bond villain kind of way.

@skinnylatte

that look looks more like a:
Hi. Good morning food, pls.

than a:
Hi good morning, food pls.

@thomasfuchs

"god-given *viagra enhanced* masculinity"

@inthehands

indeed. and one of the real saving graces, is the really dangerous stuff is really really really hard to get a hold of.

security by obscurity 😱

@inthehands

In 1974 the supreme court in the US that the main Chicago broadsheet could in fact publish a 2 page spread of a suitcase size nuclear bomb.

A journo went to the public library and basically researched everything necessary to build such a device. So the design was based entirely on publicly available knowledge.

The Department of Energy (iirc) tried to stop publication, but because the design did not include details of the mere 3 actually classified top secret components (which I'm not going to mention) SCOTUS found that it was within the 1st amendment to publish the design.

So, on the internet? Probably not. On a back catalog microfiche somewhere ...

It turns out there's very little that's actually *secret* about nuclear bomb design.

@skinnylatte

most Americans also don't seem to know how many feet to a mile, or how many yards. It's a whole number of yards, and so mush be 3x that many feet.

I have no idea but it's less than 6000ft which is a nautical mile but only planes and boats use that so sorta generally useless.

@skinnylatte

roughly a quart is not quite one litre and a pound is not quite half a kilo.

thanks to watching miami vice as a child, I learned a kilo was 2.2lbs, so yay to drug smuggling math?

@thomasfuchs

release the epstein files?

@skinnylatte

the current or previously oldest cat was 27.5 year old tortie. I lost track and can't find it anymore.

Torties have some unusual longevity for cats.

@skinnylatte

close! 88!

first year is like 15 human years
second year is 9 more human years
then 4 years for every year after that

Enya made it to 24 and half years, or 114!

@skinnylatte

and only 12 days of vacation is usually the norm too. sigh.

@skinnylatte

same in the UK - until I got permanent residency I wasn't eligible for any social service/benefit - except the NHS, and I only got hte NHS for free because of grandfathering, while people who came in a few years after me had to pay £1000/year extra for NHS - which helps keep everyone healthy - not just native Brits but everyone in the community.