Notices by Jonobie (jonobie@social.coop)

@anildash This is cool - thank you for sharing it! I'm finding that it's doing pretty well using in the gemma:3:12b model in Ollama on my laptop at home. Used it to review some of my therapeutic handouts and it's prompted solid suggestions for updates.

@skinnylatte Ive never seen this in the light rail and now I’m a little sad about it!

It's a random thing, but I'm feeling really happy about having my small business give an annual donation to a couple of open source projects it depends on.

Huge shout out and thanks to all these for being so useful and solid that I *can* depend on them:

- OBS Studio (@OBSProject), used basically daily to get local videos of sessions for supervision and study

- LibreOffice (@libreoffice), used weekly or a few times a month

- Linux Mint (@linuxmint) which is my backup machine's OS, someday to become my main one, hopefully.

@skinnylatte There is an odd emphasis on footwear for this trip!

@skinnylatte It’s really cool to “see” some of the country through your eyes. Also my brain just broke about the idea that you can see three countries’ cell networks from one spot! How does that even work with billing? 🤣

I love Atlanta. It is SUCH an interesting and vibrant city. Great food too.

The thing about being surrounded by other SE Asians is interesting - I remember when I first discovered “ethnic grocery stores”. It was in COLLEGE. Because I finally was in a city. I suddenly wondered how on earth the few immigrant families I knew of in rural Ohio shopped. Because out there there weren’t any and the “international aisle” in grocery stores was absolute crap. Like, La Choy soy sauce and kits, El Paso taco kits, and maybe some matzo crackers. 🥴 In Seattle, even my local Safeway has some basic stuff like, say, shrimp paste, presumably because they’re responding to local needs.

@LifeTimeCooking @seanbala This is making me want to try to make one of these. Though that seems a little wild since I’ve never had the real thing so don’t know what I’m aiming for!

Women are 73% more likely to be severely injured in a car crash, and 17% more likely to die than men. All because car companies have been resisting testing for women since forever. I’m not surprised on several levels. As I’ve gotten older and have larger breasts, seatbelts basically are impossible to put at the right spot on me anymore. And that’s just one example.

Apparently there’s a current She Drives act in the senate that’s aimed at fixing this, which could use support.

NYT gift article about the history; https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/opinion/car-safety-women-crash-dummies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VlA.E5Pw.EZIR7otGFPSa&smid=nytcore-ios-share

She Drives act: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/opinion/car-safety-women-crash-dummies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VlA.E5Pw.EZIR7otGFPSa&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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@kims I'm curious, have you talked to other people about below-nose masks? How does that conversation go? (I've often wondered what prompts people to wear them that way, but have never felt up for the convo.)

Does anyone here do #SeatWeaving? I've got 6 old Ikea chairs like these, and the Danish paper cord on them is starting to fray. I LOVE them and they are discontinued. Trying to figure out if it's folly for a beginner to attempt to cut off and reweave. The curve looks daunting and I'm not sure which way to start warping (front to back versus left to right).

Anyone here done anything like this and have words of wisdom? #AskFedi #Weaving #Furniture #FurnitureRestoration #Restoration

@skinnylatte I saw that today in front of the Trader Joe's in downtown SF and had a chuckle. Took me a moment to realize it was them.

@catsalad I’d follow

If @skinnylatte suggests a recipe for you, DO IT. Just made the “Vegan Salted Fish Skin”, and damn.

It is So. Freaking. Good. Crunchy, salty, deliciousness. A little work to make, but probably easier if I did a double batch. Also, the fake “salted egg” with cashews, Kala namak (black salt), nutritional yeast, and turmeric is something I wanna put on everything crunchy.

Thanks @skinnylatte !!

https://www.periuk.my/recipes/vegan-salted-egg-fish-skin/

If you take a generic form of the ADHD medication Vyvance, be aware that there's been an FDA recall for November 2025: https://www.health.com/adhd-medication-recall-november-2025-11842155

@skinnylatte Damn, YESSSSSSS. My mouth just watered.

@skinnylatte ...Also was curious whether a touch of black salt powder (kala namak) would work with some other spices. (Maybe those?) Because basically I wander around my life trying to figure out what to use it on. I love it... in very small doses.

Made the NYT "Fire Crackers". Basically an olive oil, garlic, red pepper, and other spices mix on oyster crackers, briefly baked to re-dry them out.

I can't tell if they're good but I keep "testing" them, which I think means they're good? 🙃
Next time I'd double the crushed red peppers-- these have a very mild and slow burn, but I'd love the "fire" to be more evident in the first bite.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026018-fire-crackers

I also feel like these could have, er, "less white" spices on them. (It's literally a homemade ranch mix. 🙄 With at least the red peppers added! )

But what might those be? 🤔

Let me know! What spice mix would "fire crackers" have if you ruled the world? 👇

Bleargh, my kindle (Paperwight, gen 6) seems to have a crack in the screen. Is this repairable?

If not, what do you recommend as a reading device that is single-purpose for reading, lightweight, and works well with Calibre?

@clacke Yanno, I hadn’t thought about it, but unless costume designers are ridiculous, I’ve got a well-enough tuned clothing eye to place European clothing to within 50-75 years. I don’t have that for hanboks or Korean headwear, and so without thinking about it, I’ve been assuming time travelers were going to the same small period in the Joseon. 🙃

That said, it feels like a LOT of the k-dramas on Netflix are about time traveling!

Now I want to learn about different period clothing in Korea.