Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)

wtf Imogen Heap's new song "Noise" is just a load of random trippy noises. I suppose it does what it says on the tin.

Why do YouTube Shorts people have to shout and scream so much? It's always in a ridiculously echoey room with tons of compression as well.

Bit rich of us to name a competition Miss Universe when we're most likely not the only planet in the universe with life on it.
When we make first contact there will be a lot of explaining to do.

Woke up from a weird but pleasant dream that @hag posted about a sign saying that someone was doing elephant rides in Manchester somewhere, so I went to try it.
The elephant let me sit on her back while the bloke who was her handler was on something attached to her side, and we just rode around talking about random stuff.
It was quite a weird elephant because it was covered in fine fur that felt like cat fur. Apparently she grew this fur when it snowed earlier on in the year.

Really handy that you can set the tick boxes for important push notification settings in the Klarna iOS app to either "switch" or "switch".
I'm glad I'm finding this out now when I haven't bought anything through it and not when I'm wondering why it hasn't notified me of upcoming payments for the last few months.

I think I finally understand why people like iOS widgets. I've just made a new home screen with some on and it's handy to have info there rather than digging through an app. I'm not sure about the Smart Stack though. How can that know what I want to see better than I do?

It gave up and emailed me to say there aren't any available.
I used to prefer using chat sessions when dealing with companies before LLMs.

I'm currently waiting for the support AI chatbot to connect me to a human. I could be some time.

Companies will hound me sometimes daily about filling out surveys but when I want to contact them myself it's a bloody pain in the arse.

Has YouTube sacked their accessibility team?

lol there's yet more vibrating shoes, or in this case, things to attach to your shoes to make them vibrate. They claim it'll be a navigational aid.
What is it about these people that make them think us blind people really want vibrating shoes.

@GreenSkyOverMe It makes no sense at all.

The other day I decided to google Skibidi Toilet to see what the hell it is. I still don't understand it after reading the Wikipedia article. Beings with toilets for heads fighting other beings with electrical appliances for heads or something. Fuck knows.
Also I watched a video of it,. To me it was just a horrible song that says "skibidi" in there somewhere. I assume the audio's the same in every single one.

Just came across an image of a book on Facebook about the Minimoog, which is what I was able to glean from my iPhone's on-device image recognition.
Facebook's server-side image recognition on the other hand told me that it "May be an image of oat biscuits and text".

@Akki yeah. Sadly I never told him. I shook his hand and asked in when the audiobook of his autobiography was coming out.

@Akki That would've been great wouldn't it?
Congratulations, you opened up the 2000th bottle of oestrogel! For that, you have the privilege to meet Stephen Fry.
Only 2 tickets per entry djpodijdpipjoaspoapsiopjsjpsj always read the label.

10 years ago today I met Stephen Fry.

Got my phone updating to iOS 18.

I'm not sure that bundling the stock app settings pages in with the third party ones is a good idea.

The VoiceOver tutorial is fantastic. It gives you just enough info to get going. I would've added info about the split tap gesture though.