Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 6

I see I made the right call to purge Arc browser from my computer a couple months ago https://arc.net/max

(For the reply guys, I don't need advice on creating a throwaway BBC account. I also know that things like Instagram etc do this already. Uggh to them too. I'm complaining about the BBC copying the pattern.)

If you ask about penises first you have better luck.

@clive @tim The second problem was that instead of crushing that second group of people, whole swathes of the culture industry jumped in with them because of the vulnerabilities and opportunities produced by…software eating the world. So I get why people are mad as hell about “content,” but it’s an artifact of the real trouble, which I think comes down to “massive sociotechnical shifts suck.”

newton tootin'

If suddenly many of the people all around you had HIV (detectable levels of HIV, in the 80s or 90s, before effective treatments were available)… and you were watching them all have unprotected sex with lots of people, intentionally infecting other people — what would you think of them?

Why is Covid any different? People are infected. They know they are infected. And yet, they are making decisions to behave in ways that will definitely infect dozens or hundreds of other people.

They are often pretending they don’t have COVID.

“It’s no big deal. People don’t get that sick.”

“I took a rapid test and it was negative. That must mean the positive PCR test from yesterday was wrong.”

“I was exposed. I have symptoms and am sick. But the rapid test was negative, so it’s safe for me to be around everyone.”

“If people get really sick, that’s their fault for being vulnerable.”

“It’s ok, I have COVID, but I’m wearing a mask. Except when I want to eat or drink.”

i know starlink's been good for some folx but wow musk knows how to pick a loser https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/spacex-projected-20-million-starlink-users-by-2022-it-ended-up-with-1-million/

Like, for language-learning, getting an instant, accurate, detailed discussion of a particular word is insanely useful. You can also set competency level and have conversations. It also helps with code and it slices my comics into panels and resizes for instagram. It's real shit!

@tuomas_h spotted an iSight camera box!

@thomasfuchs But at least they refuse to work instead of exploding (if everything is spec conformant), and the higher speed cables and higher power USB power delivery sources generally work with things needing lower speeds or power.

Still better than barrel jacks anyway.

some of you people still read reddit and it shows. muting this

Step 9: add eye and lids
#food

“The permanence of library collections may become a thing of the past,” said Jason Schultz, director of New York University’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic.

“I wish the publishers had not sued, but it demonstrates how important it is that libraries stand firm on buying, preserving and lending the treasures that are books.” -me, Digital Librarian

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html

S. Moaraf: studying zebra finches in the lab and their response to artificial light and also melatonin. Monitor behavior with cameras, gave melatonin as creme on neck of birds (noninvasive). Found more neuron growth with artificial light (counteracted effect with melatonin) - points out that more neuron growth isn't necessarily a good thing b/c taking resources from elsewhere.

#ALAN2023

My dad died in January of 2020, and I’ve been slow to deal with his stuff. He had hobbies — complete nerd hobbies: computers, astronomy, stamps — and I want to make sure that all his nerd-hobby stuff stays in the hands of nerds.

He spent so much time assembling it all — assembling it so carefully — that to just abandon it would feel like it didn’t mean anything. It did. It was who he was.

There is someone out there who is just like that, and will _love_ this stuff.

I posted about switching to Firefox as my "daily driver" browser as a little tiny step away from Chromium browser hegemony, and I had a ton of people in the replies suggesting I should just use Brave or Edge or Opera or Vivaldi instead.

I'm a little concerned that people don't realize just how pervasive this problem is. Every single one of those sits on top of the Chromium codebase.

Wait, now I'm somehow getting pages on that site to load and I don't know what changed.