Notices by Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)

@hacks4pancakes yeah in Seattle when they see certain things on a scan the first thing they ask you is "do you have any tattoos?"

As someone who has worked in supply chain automation, there is no elegant code solution to real-world problems.

Even Amazon, who one might argue has perfected the art of moving and tracking large numbers of things, has done so through (a) massive investment in infrastructure and (b) hiring a massive number of human employees who are (c) held to inhumanly strict rules in (d) a mostly closed and highly-controlled environment.

Real life is messy; you need people (and often experts) to manage it.

@roadriverrail for example: mine.

Everyone is going to get hurt. But some people are going to lose their jobs *this week* and be staring down the barrel of homelessness and starvation - many of them in a country where social services have been suddenly defunded.

This is going to be a brutal week for everyone, but working Americans and immigrants are going to bear the worst of it.

Over $1T of stock value was destroyed overnight as a result of recent actions by the US. More is likely to come.

I feel not for the investors, but for the millions of people who work in farming, shipping, retail, and manufacturing worldwide whose livelihoods will be negatively affected by these pointless and destructive actions.

The only silver lining is that, having read Piketty, I understand that a lot of capital just needs to be burned if we are to have a chance to preserve democracy.

I just paid rent. It was free, through my bank app, and got to my landlord basically instantly. All I needed was my property manager's email address.

I could send money to a friend the same way.

This doesn't sound much different than ACH or PayPal but I assure you it is 1000% nicer.

One of the many things you don't realize living in the US is how much friction is added to basically everything you do to ensure some middleman or service provider can profit off of it.

Yo

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-leonard-peltier-clemency_n_67608b04e4b0d06419ec6367?ds

Considering signing up for a pixelfed account to replace insta for posting random pics (not that I normally do but...)

I would prefer to pick a server based outside the US. Is pixelfed.de a good choice, or do people recommend something else?

"Switch 2 is just Switch but faster" is about the best news we could have gotten, honestly.

How many times I wish for G+ style circles or even muts only posts. There's shitposting I want to do that is 100% not appropriate or safe for broad consumption.

Watching Ted Lasso for the first time and, several observations:

- Everyone talks about how nice and sweet Ted is but that man chooses violence every time and it's wonderful. He put all his points into social combat and moustache and he's all out of moustache.

- Keely is the best character in the show and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

- Damn, Rebecca is hot. Holy shit.

@inthehands in tattered death's head armor and wielding a sparking twinsword?

Because I think I've had that one before. It sucks ass.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring (Update)

Here's the thing about Biden commuting sentences for a handful of people he probably shouldn't have:

Sometimes when you do good things a few bad people benefit. It's still good to do good things.

"Program that benefits thousands is bad because three people got away with something" is right-wing thinking. Kill the cop in your head.

recycling all of the old "Welcome, twitter refugees!" posts and just replacing "twitter" with "bluesky"

Fromsoft:

*takes a huge bong rip*

"You know what's really awesome? Our netcode. Let's build an entire game around that."

One thing that always brings me joy is seeing people responding to something with 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿 and remembering what a big deal it was when they added different skin tones to Unicode and how now you can just make it so that all your emoji look like you by default.

@mekkaokereke at least they're doing it. Speaking of which I should see if donations are employer matched.

@mekkaokereke Mastodon leadership evidently capable of learning; good for them.

(Now give us better moderation tools.)

Looked up the 2024 model of my laptop. It's about 18% faster than the 2022 model. That's basically nothing. But it has AI tensor cores (lol).

Friends, we've officially hit the end of Moore's law. And I know this because they haven't figured out a way to offer faster computers to gamers.