Notices by John Wilson (crazybutable@mastodon.social)

@inthehands temp inversion?

I was outside around that time and noticed that everything smelled like leftover BBQ smoke

@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes did they use AI to write it, because that sounds like the kind of mistake that AI would make

Of course they could just be that brazen

@killyourfm I’m not saying you aren’t right about the iPhone having opinionated post processing. Only pointing out that other cameras by other brands have the same thing going on. Maybe the opinions are hidden behind menu options. I know I can get some pretty weird “out of the box” results with my Fuji depending on what film simulations I use interacting with ambient light and color temperature

@paul @inthehands you think the backlash would have been less if it was a woman who got elected? 🤔

@killyourfm you are making me want to get out my camp stove

@inthehands @Mark tie the commercial license to the hood height and curb weight

@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.