Notices by Mark ☑️ (mhjohnson@noauthority.social)

Okay, this is a strange bug in Linux (or Debian?)

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/y2232-bug/

Where you cannot set a date later than
2232-04-18 16:47:15
or you will get an error. The magic number is
0x1ED5D7403

WTAF indeed. (first comment)

The second comment suggests you use google to search for
year 2232 bug
I did that and got an AI explanation for the cicada broods from last year. WTAF!!

@eriner
Yeah - lightning can be a big problem with long runs. A sort of close strike can cause 1V per foot of voltage on a line. At 300 feet that would be 300 V. Not good w/o lightning protection (cheap if you buy it ahead).

@djsumdog

Criticism from "Reason" about Trump expansion suggestions

https://reason.com/2025/05/04/what-if-the-president-tries-to-annex-greenland-and-canada/

LONG and goes into a lot of detail. Claims at the end that Trump can't get a deal to acquire territory without bloodshed.

I'm thinking the author looks too narrowly at the situation. Effective control doesn't necessarily require occupation.

@YoungBlood
Looks pretty bad actually.

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/trump-portrait-complaint-colorado/article_e6d8fa15-a87c-4933-9623-e6d1179801e9.html

Supposedly bought for $10K by some crowdfunding campaign instead of the normal process.

MAGA Don speaks

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/sunday-shows-trump-administration-delivers-results/
Another Sunday, another story about supporters making statements on Sunday morning shows.

@Doll @adequate
My HOA chose to plant a few grasses that look like that in the winter. Just got chopped down to about one foot high. They will grow taller than I am this summer.

jwz has comments about the block button in Mastodon

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/on-blocking-mastodon-hoa-edition/

Specifically related to complaints about image alt text. Some people want it to ALWAYS fully describe the image - even when it may be repetitive or ruins the joke.

Too bad - block.

I guess being on a "freeze peach" server means I never see these rude messages since those servers already block us. Yay!

@slamy @rw @djsumdog @Richard @TikToc

https://www.wyff4.com/article/nc-officials-address-misinformation-related-to-temporary-housing-for-helene-victims/63014376
The NC fire marshal claiming no one was kicked out of an Amish built tiny home.

@rw @TikToc @Richard
Apparently 1500 already (plus 2500 already there) - maybe up to 10,000 total.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/army-tells-units-prepare-deployment-us-mexico-border-immigration/
"to support the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security in obtaining complete operational control" of the border.

@ILoveAmericaNews
There is no Spanish site for the Trump White House that I am aware of. It was just something Pinocchio Joe told people to put up. There is probably some press release describing it somewhere.

Here is something from 2021 about Biden putting it back up
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-01-20/la-casa-blanca-returns-spanish-language-version-of-white-house-website-back-under-biden

@DarthRadar @ILoveAmericaNews
Obsolete link, now here
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/es/

But yeah - turns out to be a cute meme.

@DarthRadar @ILoveAmericaNews
The whole Biden White House site is now hosted at that new address. The new Trump White House site is at whitehouse.gov.

Nothing was "taken down" - just moved. They did this on the Trump -> Biden transition as well and several before that one.

@ILoveAmericaNews
Are you aware that isn't "The Guardian"?

One tech story

https://notthebee.com/article/more-than-140-facebook-mods-in-kenya-have-been-diagnosed-with-severe-ptsd/

Where over 140 workers for Facebook in Kenya have been diagnosed with severe PTSD & other problems. They were working as safety moderators - describes some of the stuff they were hired to review.

Lawsuits incoming.

@ageha
Umm. There are a few left
https://apnews.com/article/kmart-closing-sears-blue-light-last-store-6b302bbaec8c003351f62aefcf0528b4

The last "full sized" Kmart in the continental US closed Oct 24, 2024. There is a smaller one in Miami still open.

A few Kmart stores remain open in Guam and the US Virgin Islands.

@zephyrotv @sun

Jim Cramer suggests a Harris win

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/cramer-says-mondays-action-suggests-some-anticipate-a-harris-win.html

Time to bet on Trump!

@freemo @randahl
Yeah, sort of.

But then I see reasons like
"Federates with the usual suspects"
or
https://fba.ryona.agency/?reason=Federates+with+the+usual+suspects
where we have over 800 rejects with that (or a similar) reason.

Where we have people who block servers because they talk to the "wrong people".

SMH.

@djsumdog
A few suggestions
- could you post a picture clearly showing the front of the case?
- could you post a close up picture of the logo?
- if you pull it out, is there a label on the back panel? Thinking of a model number, lot number, serial number, or other identification.

I also found this
https://hexus.net/tech/news/chassis/1235-computex-2005-thermaltake-put-new-spin-cases/
Not a black case but what was demoed at Computex 2005.

@Twig
Zero for agricultural work. You got paid by the pound for picking fruits or vegetables. IIRC, a penny a pound for green beans.

I worked at a car wash for a few weeks in 1974. The minimum wage was $1.60 (federal) according to
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2014/01/oregons_minimum_wage_1968_to_2.html
I think I got paid $2 or $3 an hour plus tips. The "manager" got $5 an hour.

I got a GS5 job at McNary Dam later that summer & was paid more than the car wash manager. Had to pay for a spot in a trailer park though - maybe $30 a month.

@chris
Okay....

TL;DR - Too verbose.

The FAQ & Glossary far outweigh the content of the story. Being a cheap bastard I just use GPT4All on my laptop with Mistral-Instruct and even it generates way too long responses.

It is this kind of stuff that will make the AI models worse over time as they take this as input into later iterations.