Notices by Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange)

I always think it funny when the #airline flight attendant sounds like they’re saying “Please store your smaller carrion under the seat in front of you.”

#flying #airtravel #travel

I recently drove a car whose whole control and entertainment system was a gigantic iPad-like thing mounted to the dash. It caused me to have a realisation about the #Ui and #UX of touch screens.

There is no way to touch a touchscreen without it treating that touch as intentional. What I mean is: without taking my eyes off the road, I can grope across the dashboard, find a knob or button—by touching it—without activating any function. Touching the volume button or temperature knob doesn’t DO anything until I do it with more force and intentionality. Not so for a #touchscreen.

My mobile #phone (an #iPhone 13) has no dead space in its face. There’s no part of the phone face I can touch without it assuming I meant to do that and I wanted to activate whatever was under my finger. Old iPhones that had physical home buttons also had dead space to either side: a safe space to hold the phone without DOING anything.

Computer keyboard have little raised pips on the F and J keys so you can find them by touch without looking. I do this all the time. But I don’t type the letters F or J. Touch screens have no such affordances.

I look at the #blackberry keyboard in this photo and I see a raised space bar. It’s an #affordance that lets you orient your fingers, and orient how you hold the phone, without looking.

I miss buttons.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/

Dude says "I have a search warrant". So much wrong. (a) this is 19th century Germany? so, not a thing, (b) if it was a warrant, nobody looked at it. It was just a folded piece of paper, and (c) don't you have to get search warrants by having specific reasons and named people/places? It's not just a paper one carries around.

#monsterdon

You walk in and find her sitting there on a golden throne like that, and the only question you have is "why did you want to meet here?"
#monsterdon

I gotta hand it to the cinematographer on this one. The lighting and the scream were really well done. #monsterdon

I got some new followers this week, so let me warn you about #monsterdon on Sunday nights. We're gonna watch a cheesy film (see the linked toot below) and we're gonna snark on it. I usually post 20-30 things during the 90 minute film. You might want to mute the hashtag if you're not following. If you ARE following, there's usually around 3000 toots in 90 minutes! It's fun.

https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/114014569898153010

@SaanichGuy @davidaugust Have you ever opened the hood of your car, looked at the engine and thought “I don’t know what this part does. I think I’ll take it out and see if the car still runs”? How about a computer? You open it up and say “I don’t know what this chip does. I’m gonna remove it and see if the computer still works.”? Funny how we don’t do this in other parts of life.

But these fools look at the US government and they’re like “I don’t know what this department does. Let’s fire them all and see if it matters.”

Stupid. Just stupid. #uspol #trump

doesthecowdie dot com
#monsterdon

As I recall, in the 1980s, microwave ovens were relatively new. And people had a bit of apprehension about what it's doing to food and whether it could blow up and stuff.
#monsterdon

We are going to have a lot of nipples in this film, aren't we? #monsterdon

Here’s how NOT to handle a situation like this. Somewhere around 6pm-7pm EST, #Sony’s #playstation network basically “went down” (I hate that term, but there’s no better one). They have had the same useless status message ever since. People trying to play on a #PS4 or #PS5 simply can’t use any network services.

The two things that bug me: (1) it’s been 12 hours and they have no new status? And (2) they use this absurd qualified language “experiencing issues” and “You might have difficulty” when the actual situation is very different. The services are straight up unavailable. And it’s not “difficult” when something is simply not possible.

They should have more frequent updates and they should use plain language to explain what’s going on, not this corporate speak that feels like they said something when they didn’t.

https://status.playstation.com/

@shellsharks So you are leading the Squishing Movement to get rid of stupid -ishing terms? 😆
@cR0w

The top 3 boosted toots:

1. This toot from 4 8 15 16 23 42 (Taweret@octodon.social) had 20 boosts.
2. This toot from Cherizilla 🍿 (Cherizilla@mastodon.social) had 19 boosts.
3. This toot from Paco Hope #resist (paco@infosec.exchange) had 16 boosts.

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Summary of #monsterdon generated at Tue 4 Feb 2025 11:28 EST.

• We looked at 2196 toots posted between Sun 2 Feb 2025 20:00 EST and Sun 2 Feb 2025 23:09 EST by 133 different participants across 72 different servers. mastodon.social contributed the most toots at 434
• Most toots were from 'Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈' (Lazarou@mastodon.social) who posted 105

Additional details are replies to this toot.

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And here's the graphs from #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures, last week's #Monsterdon. I've never seen a histogram like this with such a triangle down slope. It's clear that people bailed over time and didn't stay to the end. They almost all have more of a bowl or U shape, with a lot at the beginning and a lot at the end. Not this one.

The top 3 most-replied-to toots:

1. This toot from So many dynamos (Zerofactorial@noc.social) had 31 replies.
2. This toot from 💀Maggot McFear💀 (tankgrrl@hachyderm.io) had 24 replies.
3. This toot from Cecelia (helianthropy@tech.lgbt) had 14 replies.

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The top 3 favourited toots:

1. This toot from Kim Possible (kimlockhartga@beige.party) had 32 favourites.
2. This toot from Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net) had 25 favourites.
3. This toot from Miriam Robern (miriamrobern@dice.camp) had 24 favourites.

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@floatybirb I should add “Certified Shitpostologist” to my resume right next to my PhD in Reverse Psychology. 😜

Space women poppy cock. There's a line for the ages.
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@dashdsrdash @feld Ah. Great. Now I need to find the 240V version. I had 2 240V circuits run to the garage and I have 2 240V UPSes. It’s another thing I hadn’t thought of.

Now I know what they’re called!