Notices by Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org), page 3

I'm thinking of heading out to get breakfast, but what do you think? Let me know down in the comments below.

@evan After extensive litigation, I have determined that an open-air aqueduct is indeed a river, but is not a sandwich.

I hope this email finds you well
I hope this email minds you
I hope this email brings you in
And in the darkness binds you

I thought I saw a murder of crows, but I wasn't 100% sure.

I merely had probable caws.

Nice headline, SFGate. That's the way to do it.

Whenever I go group camping, I bring a few camping chairs with me. One of them was a few years old, a $20 Walmart chair which survived multiple trips despite all the odds, and was firmly in the “why aren’t you dead yet?” category.

Well it finally happened: last weekend it was destroyed when it fell in a campfire during some wind.

Rest in peace. You were cheap and kind of uncomfortable, but it can never be denied that you were a chair.

Fun fact: the name of the chief engineer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was changed when the show was localized for the American market. In his native home of Space Ireland, his actual name was Kilometers O'Brien.

A reminder that you should keep your bank USERNAME secret and hard to guess, because many banks helpfully allow anyone in the world to lock you out of your account by entering a wrong password multiple times.

> A spokesperson for TSA told SFGATE cargo pants tend to set off body scanning machines because the attire is somewhat out of style and the technology isn’t trained on scanning pants with extra pockets.

I misread that as "parachute pants", and forgive me, but I had to use an AI generator thingy.

Reply from @ckape: "Getting arrested after being singled out for a pat-down but insisting U can't touch this"

Just opened a packet of cornstarch which exploded on my black shirt, ask me anything

Here's that quick-and-dirty Python script I was working on last night: downloads all Mastodon posts for a user (default: you), along with their media attachments, and can be cronned to pull down updates.
https://github.com/rfinnie/rf-tools/blob/main/bin/mastodon-downloader

They tempt you with the clearance price to get it inside your house, then they start listening

Get yourself a junk flush cutter and then trash the hell out of it. This one started life as a fancy and relatively expensive Hakko which was used for soldering work, until I did something stupid with it and the blades got nicked.

I replaced it and this one became the “JUNK” tool. And I use it ALL THE TIME, precisely because it’s not sacred. It’s particularly useful for flush cutting zip ties.

@ariadne I once spent a bunch of time in line at a Raising Cane's before getting to the window only to be told "it'll be about 10 minutes while we cook the chicken".

Their entire menu consists of chicken strips and fries.

Currently under a Tropical Storm Watch, first time I've lived in an area subject to that... and I live in the desert in California.

To put things in perspective, this is the first time the National Hurricane Center has issued such a watch for Southern California since... uhh, ever, since its founding. And the last recorded instance of a tropical storm making landfall was in 1939.

Background: Grew up in Green Bay, WI, moved to the SF Bay Area for 2 years, then lived in Reno, NV for 20 years, now I live in SoCal.

I actually studied a decent amount for the written test when I moved to SoCal, because I originally failed the CA test with no prep.

It was all for nothing. Turns out I was still in the DMV system, so they treated it as a license renewal with a 20 year gap, no test. I even have the same license number as I did 20 years ago.

https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/110817094430015257

So, like, did every local TV market in the 80s have a MST3K-quality show with a personality (probably the sports announcer by day) in makeup showing licensed-broadcast-grade horror movies, or was that just a thing locally?

In Green Bay, this was Ned the Dead, host of Chiller Theater.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11474488/

Does DDR4 automatically clock down to the least common denominator? I just got an old cheap HP 1 liter PC which has an i5-6500T (ARK says max 2133MHz), but all of the cheapest DDR4 available these days is 3200MHz. Will that Just Work if the BIOS doesn't have fancy memory overclocking options?

@mlinksva @evan Good times. I ended up sniping dent number 10,000 on 2008-07-03, and dent 10,000,000 on 2009-09-14. There was hidden functionality where, instead of "@foo", you could do "T FOO" (and it had to be uppercase) to link another user, after a meme in an IRC channel we were in.

UPDATE: https://badidea.zip/ now gives you a zip file named badidea.zip which contains a png of a QR code which takes you to https://badidea.zip/