Notices by Esther Schindler (estherschindler@hachyderm.io)

DNS jokes are difficult.

It can take at least 24 hours for everyone to get it.

Oh my. You’ll laugh. It’s worth it. (gift link) https://wapo.st/4gaEILh

The song, "We're Not Gonna Take It" came out more than 40 years ago but I feel like we have, in fact, continued to take it.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It’s rather like getting tenure.)– Daniel Dennett, "Consciousness Explained"

Me: The reopening of LEGO stores was a big event in 2020
Gladys: Really?
Me: Oh yeah. People were lined up for blocks.

Oh, I know all of you want this kit. https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-building-instructions

Unauthorized AI is eating your corporate data, thanks to employees who feed legal documents, HR data, source code, and other sensitive corporate information into AI tools that IT hasn’t approved. https://www.cio.com/article/2150142/10-ways-to-prevent-shadow-ai-disaster.html

It’s my last day on the job. Just posted my last story.

So OBVIOUSLY I used a hero image of a cat on a keyboard, What are they going to do, fire me?

>> I was one of four producers involved in the first two seasons. During that time, I signed an expansive nondisclosure agreement that promised a fine of $5 million and even jail time if I were to ever divulge what actually happened. It expired this year.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

A thorn in the side of Rome because they exerted sufficient influence in ancient Britain and Gaul to threaten the expansion of the Roman Empire, the Druids were a shadowy class of priests, religious leaders, even freedom-fighters. They whipped up resistance and sedition that the Roman army found hard to fight. https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-archaeology-tell-us-about-the-druids-dark-arts

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he. – Karl Kraus

North American software developers are reasonably confident that #GenAI can help them improve code security. In other regions? Not quite so much.
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/04/n-a-developers-optimistic-about-generative-ai-and-code-security/

I was in a job interview. The manager handed me his laptop and said, "I want you to try and sell this to me."

I put it under my arm, left the building, and went home. Eventually, he called my mobile and said, "Bring it back here right now!"

I said, "$100 and it's yours." #jokes

Who said playing video games could never get you a job?
https://www.gamesradar.com/real-life-trucking-companies-are-trying-to-hire-american-truck-simulator-players-with-in-game-ads/

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

Sharpley-Whiting says that the grand sweep of aspirations across time is exactly what a capsule should communicate. So as she, Smith and University Librarian Jon Shaw work together to design a time capsule that will convey a message to the future university community, they share tips about how to create your own.
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/06/07/how-to-make-a-time-capsule/

If you’re still using these dated words, you’re not alone https://wapo.st/3TE9fYY

Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication. This means that more than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone, regardless of whether they are members of ACM or subscribe to the ACM Digital Library. https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/

We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The power would gradually, inevitably, run down. The instruments would shut off, one by one. The signal would get fainter. Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost.

We didn’t expect that it would go mad.
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/

Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented.