Notices by Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: (vees@epistolary.org)

Four years ago I went back to college to finish my degree after a two decade break. There was a lot of days like this writing papers and posts on my iPad during every available break and downtime. Tomorrow I do a “grad walk” and close out that portion of my life. My wife, kids, sibling, and parents will all be there. In a world that’s not so great right now, this is an amazingly bright spot for me and my family.

@hobbsc @kelvin0mql We had a few women on my local 2m and 440 repeaters in the 90s and if they were on the nets or in a conversation it was regularly 73 to the men and 88 to the women at the end of the conversations. True in both New Jersey and Maryland area.

@hobbsc @kelvin0mql @zondance It's part of the Phillips Code or 92 Code which was used by Western Union in 1859 decades before 88 could have been significant in any other contemporary meaning

Democrats are out here trying to secure county court judge seats and running campaign web sites with the URL porpoise-dalmatian-53sw.squarespace.com.

Just thanked John #Fetterman for his vote against the anti-trans legislation yesterday. If you're in #Pennsylvania please do the same. He's such a wildcard he needs all the positive reinforcement he can get. Call 202-224-4254 menu option 1, takes two minutes and you only need to talk to a voicemail.

@kims @futurebird They’d break up out of embarrassment from how comparatively awesome your relationship is?

Logged in to one email telling me to respond to the OPM "bullet point your job" email and two telling me to absolutely not. I'm not even a fed.

@kims @Holberg I’m confused if your answer to the question caused a dismissal?

Spread the news https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/02/uk-orders-apple-to-implement-secret-global-backdoor-for-end-to-end-encryption/ #Apple #Encryption #UKpol #backdoors

Note: For some reason registrations are closed, I've reached out to the organizers. Stay tuned.

The Montgomery Bar Association in #Norristown a is running a Virtual Name Change Clinic in February for #Pennsylvania folks who might not be happy with their birth name for :transgender_flag: reasons. More info here: https://www.montgomerybar.org/?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=296506&evSubAction=listAll #MontCoPA

@http_error_418 @tek @Remittancegirl My strategy is just to buy whatever's cheap and make sure I have the NAS in a 2 drive failure config (RAID6 or SHR2) with 3-2-1.

@float13 I knew it, but its important to remember that sometimes folks put out free infrastructure like instances and phpBB forums just because the world is better off for it being there.

Fediverse has sufficient size and reach to be an effective earthquake detection system like Twitter used to be.

We are apparently at the part of the Hegseth nominations where a powerful man looks at another knowingly and says: It's okay, we all beat our wives in private, that's why we go to church and pretend to repent in public.

"It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out..."
#SchrodingersCat
#ChekhovsGun
#OccamsRazor
#MurphysLaw
#ScienceHumor

@GossiTheDog What's the link where the full text of this screenshot comes from?

@tek I once got shunted to training for investigating one of the tracking URLs in the email headers with curl. Apparently it was unique to me.

Please enjoy my dog in the slightly too small cat bed for some reason. #dogs

@tek What are you reading?

TIL: Arizona does not regulate theme parks https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-man-climbing-moving-roller-coaster-arizona-lap-bar-unlatch-rcna181896