Notices by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) (uliwitness@chaos.social)

@quephird Fun little side-note, especially for HC nerds like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Media_Objects

@quephird Oh wow. Deep dark corners of the DB engine!

Say, reading Oracle Forms there ... I don't suppose you ever used Oracle Media Objects? It was a cross-platform HyperCard clone that Oracle licensed as a way to have a Windows and Mac GUI that could talk to their databases until they could come up with a proper GUI of their own.

Habe tolle Kindheitserinnerungen an dieses Museum.
https://zdf.social/@3sat/115507357512510978

Has anyone invented a timer yet that you clip on the handle of your cup that goes "beep" to remind you to remove the teabag?

Also, what about a tea machine that goes beep when the water temperature is below "I'll burn your mouth"?

Can‘t quite nail it down yet, but feels like my AirPods Pro sometimes randomly increase their volume. I can just turn it down again, but still annoying.

(iOS 18)

@babe yeah that was ... I mean, if your *entire* topic is computers, how would you not get some people in charge that ... like, have ever seen a computer?

exhaustive case

exhausted from käs'

On the one hand, I boycott The Asylum mockbusters, because they try to trick people into buying the wrong movie.

On the other hand I'm a Babylon 5 and Tron fan.

Bruce Boxleitner: *has a role in The Asylum's Transmorphers movie*

🤔 what to do?

When you get a Slack call ("Huddle"), iOS rings like a phone call, and will present a UI that looks like a phone call.

Which doesn't have access to the feature where if you put your face to the phone, it turns off the touch screen.

So I pick up a "phone call", and my cheek hits the "speakerphone" button, making sure the volume hurts my ears, and the mute button, making sure nobody hears me.

AND people expect me to be able to see any screens they are sharing.

In the middle of the road.

Is there a way to tell Slack that I don't want it to ring a particular phone ?

I ordered a Micro SD Card. It came in a box large enough to ship me 5 14" MacBooks.

Supermarket a little farther away has a fresh Sushi stall. Also import elderberry fanta. Time for a chill evening meal on the balcony.

Impressive how the complaints people have about people using their phones in public haven't changed in the last 30 years.

Heck, they're the same arguments people made against people listening to music on their walkmen in the 80ies, and they were fallacious back then.

It's no different than two people having a conversation, get a grip on not being alone in the world, maybe?

5 power supplies, 3 hard drives, and not a single fecking drive has its voltage printed anywhere on it.

Are Apple really forcing people to buy HomePods or AppleTV's to keep using their smart home appliances?

I'm getting a notification I'd have to upgrade my Apple Home or it'd stop working.

But whenever I click it, it just tries to upsell me.

Is there a workaround?

Signs that you're watching AI slop YouTube videos:

- Voice-only, no speaker video
- Still pictures with barely a connection to what's talked about (i.e. just a random word from the text, not the topic)
- Subtitles on the pictures might as well be the search-term used to look up the stock image ("20th century")
- Absurd emphasis in the voice-over exposing the "speaker" does not understand what they're talking about (like "famous root beer makers A, and W, and Mug, ...")

@aral How old is that letter?

I remember reading a year or so ago that OpenAI used to have a charitable charter, but after their boss provoked being ousted to then have shareholders insist he be brought back in and then cleaned house, I remember hearing that these rules in the charter would get removed.

I'm presuming they're of the impression that these clauses are still valid, or the removal took its way to wind through some bureaucracy and they're now trying to stop it one last time.

Accessibility tip:

If your post is about the funny joke someone posted on SpaceBook, don't make the accessibility discription:

"Screenshot of Spacebook Post"

Put the actual joke in the accessibility description.

The goal of alt-text is to allow non-sighted or low-vision people to understand the post just as a sighted person would.

@thomasfuchs I mean, in the gaming industry, "AI" has meant "state machine" since the 80ies.

@thomasfuchs Could just be Finder lying and including reclaimable space (or whatever it's called — I think Disk Utility shows it differently?) and swap in the "free" space? I think one or two restarts might make it reclaim free space.

Did you delete a bunch of files within, say, the last half hour? That usually just makes it reclaimable instead of actually free.