Notices by John Wilson (crazybutable@mastodon.social)

@inthehands hey I have to miss minnebar this year due to a funeral, I was looking forward to meeting you there

Hello #fediverse, I am looking for some #cybersecurity help about #safari on #iOS

I told my mom to always look for the #SSL lock in the URL bar before typing anything into a website (and check URLs for validity and so on).

Today she was trying to put a freeze on her credit, but equifax didn’t have a lock when it asked for her social security number.

I checked and what I found is she never gets the SSL lock in Safari for any website. Ever. I tried to google why and am stumped. Any ideas?

@petrillic @ColesStreetPothole

“Underserved”?? Really? Because the ideology of free markets, and what Jeff Bezos calls personal liberties (I’m going to say “culture war bullshit”) seem like the rails our societal train runs on

Let’s see the Washington Post come out in full throated defense of trans people to live their lives as they choose. No? Then that’s not very “personal liberties” of you bro

Or does personal liberties mean “freedom to say a bunch of nasty shit and not face consequences”

@Remittancegirl @StillIRise1963 the GOP this time around had extremely targeted messages to racial groups. GOP messaging to

Latino voters
Muslim voters
MAGA faithful
Liberal / centrist voters

Was all very carefully calibrated and absolutely nothing alike. And none of that shit leaked out, like, I don’t remember seeing any news stories on how drastically different the message was

media discipline was uncanny

Can you imagine Dems tailoring their message

The other day I was driving in the car and scanned through the stations and landed on our local college radio station, Radio K. And as I was listening, it struck me.

This is music that is not curated by an algorithm or AI playlist.

It's real, local people, sitting behind microphones! In some cases, recommending real local bands you can go see in person!

So many colleges stream their station for free on the internet! It's such a banger replacement for Spotify/Apple Music/whatever

@jwz I feel like if anyone would find the bug, cosmic forces would dictate that it would be you

@mekkaokereke only leftover pie was three slices for my son, who came down with something and got sick Thanksgiving day

I gotta give credit to his 6 siblings, they did indeed listen to their parents and none of them got into his pie

I had to make an extra trip to the store a few days later to buy whipped cream though. He got better and wanted his pie, but they didn’t leave him any whipped cream, not the tiniest smidge

@clayrivers @StillIRise1963 I have a soft spot for our local Minneapolis/St Paul news team. During the George Floyd demonstrations they said “to heck with the format” and it was a bunch of journalists running around in cars and interviewing people and giving live updates about what was going on, where and when

The energy of the news matched the energy of the situation. And since it was 99 percent live,, it felt less like spectacle or exploitation.

@clayrivers @StillIRise1963 it was the lack of the slickly produced, predetermined conclusions, everyone gets a sound bite format that resonated. There was very little cutting back to the studio, there was almost no acknowledgement of the studio for vast stretches of time. The studio covered official statements, road closures and curfews and the weather

That said, I’ve grown a lot over the past 4 years. There’s probably some fuckshit shit going on that I didn’t realize was fuckshit at the time

So wtf am I supposed to use on Windows? Edge, the friendly AI browser? Chrome? The ad surveillance OG? Or Firefox, run by a company desperately diving head first into more ad surveillance?
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113246768350299784

Cash for clunkers was the first supply shock that ratcheted up the price of used cars. So many cheap cars taken off the roads

Then Covid hit and auto manufacturers killed their own supply chain by cancelling microchip orders, so they had to decide: where do we allocate the chips? The highest margin cars, of course!

There were years of supply chain disruption, leading to car companies getting addicted to high margins

Now the consumers are fucked on the low and high ends
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/113222450975041152

@inthehands @Catfish_Man a post about blank space. Could be discussing a Swift song, could be talking about Swift handling white space in Unicode strings

@Catfish_Man wait, Taylor Swift or the programming language?

Also as much as I have been in denial about it all day, the smell is getting worse, and I think something has crawled into my garage and died

If I am lucky it’s in the rafters because I store nothing up there. Can’t check until later because the ladder is in the house. But if it’s there, it should be easy to check and dispose of.

Or maybe I’m unlucky….

I think I identified what part of garage the smell is coming from though, so I have that going for me at least.

I woke up at 8:00 am and started cleaning out the car and it’s 8:49 pm and I’m still cleaning out the car.

I got so much stuff done today avoiding the car. Did a lot of bicycle maintenance. But also the car was a lot of work, call it 4 solid hours. All six traction sandbags started leaking at the same time so after I took those out, I wound up filling my (smallish) shop vac, twice

Anyway, please clap.

@inthehands @mathaetaes @homelessjun @MisuseCase @mekkaokereke hey, remember all the random gunshots in Minneapolis for about 6-9 months after the George Floyd riots?

I remember seeing multiple videos on Twitter of big SUVs with blacked out plates, rolling up in a neighborhood. Big jacked white dude wearing a mask gets out, fires a weapon a few times, and drives off.

So weird!

@inthehands @lenny_wonders

The earliest verb form of humbled in the sense of “I have been struck down by an external force” is Shakespeare, 1591

But! The verb form of humbled in the sense of “I am bringing myself low” is actually from 1380! It’s the earliest sense of the word!

🤯

This is fascinating because inventing the dynamic sense of an external event forcing humility upon a person, is very Shakespeare.

@inthehands @sysadmin1138 or sports venues putting clauses in saying they can use any captured footage of you to train their AIs (you already generally agree to a waiver to appear in ads)

@inthehands @sysadmin1138 not only privately held data that already exists

Just like you get access to certain services in exchange for you watching ads, in the future companies may compel you to produce new data for the continued use of services

Who wants to be the first company offering free or reduced price phone service in exchange for them recording your calls for AI training purposes?

@inthehands yeah we had chive cakes and one of the other ones you recommended (cha korieng?)

Number 17. It was delicious