Notices by Upthorn (upthorn@brontosin.space)

@ryanc What? Why not?

@ryanc wild and crazy guess: you've learned something interesting about the timing of the device's wi-fi probe signals?

@ryanc paradox intended?

@ryanc That seems like poor decision making! In a similar situation, I would simply choose not to break my toe!

@Arcaik @ryanc there is traditionally some liability for an inventor to recall and/or repair their product when it malfunctions catastrophically.

"Don't overwrite my file" should mean your existing files are completely unmodified, and can result in unrecoverable and potentially catastrophic damage to users of the product when this is not the case.

@Arcaik if someone made diy batteries, and passed them out for free, would "provided as-is, without any warranty of any kind" absolve them of liability if they then all ignited and burnt down every recipient's home?

Should it?

Or should the distributor of a product have some duty to ensure that it is not actively harmful to its users in the course of normal operation in accordance with instructions?

@ryanc oof. Worst possible answer 🤢

@ryanc not sure whether "disappointed, but not surprised" or "literally sickened" to learn this, depending on which of your former employers.

Our cat has been eating very poorly this past week. We hadn't been too concerned about it, cause he's got chronic kidney disease, and he's been having a high-appetite low-appetite cycle for a while.

But this one just kept getting worse, so we took him to the vet

And... he's lost 15% of his body weight since his arthritis shot last month, and may need to be hospitalized for starvation

His kidneys are suddenly doing much worse and they want to keep him three to four days to see if aggressive fluids can help

The estimated cost is $1000 above my credit limit.

Edit: okay, I can at least cover the first two days

Edit 2: oh. The "first day" is just until midnight tonight.

https://gofund.me/8ee74ec0 Please help if you can

@ryanc Spent quite a while going "what's weird about switching from a blacklist to a whitelist" before realizing their blacklist included an impossible option

@nocontexttrek

@ryanc @danluu Also, Google used to be famous for constantly tweaking the ranking algorithm to combat SEO spam.

I don't hear anything about anybody doing that anymore...

@joriki @ryanc @danluu
It should be pretty trivial to add a negative weight for each advertisement placement the page contains. This would at least cripple the "million ads no content" model.

But it would also be counter to google's interests as a company that collects tax on ad placements.