Notices by Frank Bennett (fgbjr@indieweb.social), page 3

@jvagle This is extremely cool.

@SteveBellovin @Popehat I'm a collector at heart, I guess. :-)

@playingwithdust
Text above a picture of Peter Falk as Detective Colombo:

"Just one more thing sir, then I'll be outta your hair ... it's probably not important anyway. But I noticed a box of Jerry's Pizza on the table there. Now me, my wife loves Jerry's, can't get enough of them. But here's the thing, I thought you could only get it in Romania..."

@Popehat Had no idea this guy existed, so of course I immediately ran to YouTube, and learned that Tucker Carlson pulled the old heartstrings in a recent interview, which included the startling statement that "it is hard to be a man."

(Personally, I've always found it pretty simple to be a man.)

https://youtu.be/2FEEt3mqFTo

New Year repair job. Years ago we bought a cordless vacuum (Ergorapido, by Electrolux) that has recently been lasting only a couple of minutes on a charge. The battery pack isn't modular, but with some scratching around online I found the battery set with wiring harness from a Chinese supplier, which I assume are output from the same factory that produces them for Electrolux. Took some doing, but the new batteries have been squeezed into the case, and it all seems to work.

We should find comfort in the certain knowledge that Twitter is working fine for everyone who truly believes that Twitter is working fine.

Local-local news. The air conditioner on the huge white box of a house to the south of us has been ticking loudly from a bad bearing or failing piston for the past couple of days. The noise isn't a nuisance particularly, but I hope someone is home over there and it's not going to end up catching fire from the friction.

@laseletzky If he can just find the right people to fire this time, I'm sure the service will stabilize and confidence in his managerial insight will return.

@naunihal Sorry to hear that. Hope things start looking up for you soon.

@PerryM @Linux_in_a_Bit @thelinuxcast Oh dear.

@Blackfist I'm white, but this does ring bells. First was in North Carolina, during a working break from Uni in California to see the South. Stopping at a bar near a local college with a black friend, he refused to get out of the car: "I can't go in there." Then much later incidents at that level and higher, mostly involving my wife from Japan. She passed away this year, but those experiences and the better memories remain. It's targeted, you can stand next to the person and not notice.

@mmasnick Purely due to space constraints for the headline. The full version would have read:

"The age of 'mavericks' like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Kanye West is over 45."

@dangillmor Particularly hilarious given that he jumped from the Bahamas because prison conditions there did not meet his high standards.

@walkerbragman I'll have to wait for the https://twitterisgoinggreat.com version.

@kingsley He's invoking the stupid little game of hide-the-ball that "libertarians" pick up from breezy lectures on utilitarianism that filled them with awe as well-fed children—the so-called "law of unintended consequences," under which the Best of All Possible Worlds can best be achieved through the mean-spirited rapaciousness of cold-blooded sociopaths.

To borrow a phrase from the artificial person Ash in Alien, they admire its purity.

@alaric This year I'll be working to set up a media diet for myself that is devoid of advertising.

@waldoj +1. (I think ours has been in the house for about 20 years.)

Make no mistake.

When this is over, #Buffalo's unconscionable structural inequalities will be laid bare like never before.

Poverty, inadequate housing, homelessness, underinvestment in mental health & domestic violence prevention, systemic racism... all of it.

#BuffaloBlizzard

@AkivaMCohen I'm only following this end of things in passing, but the most interesting part of it seems to be in the various ways in which it can be implemented. And the flexibility in that line will depend on how it is represented in the ActivityPub protocol. Standards discussions can be annoying and the issues may seem sometimes trivial and petty, but when the discussants have the energy of commitment behind them it can be worth the candle.

@AkivaMCohen Heard that the big stuff is slated for release in thread #69. Elon's orders, but, you know, the NDA and everything.