Notices by Brian Campbell (unlambda@hachyderm.io)

@dalias I'm not in a state where these kinds of laws are likely to pass, but my company went above and beyond with the new facility a few years back. The other facilities all already have private entry single user bathrooms, this one they actually have stalls but in a way that works gender-neutral as well.

@badnetmask @hazelweakly @shanselman It's really quite different than bash; unfortunately they add a few command aliases that match Bash and common Unix commands which can make you think that, but the language is quite different and you get frustrated easily if you think of it just as a variant of Bash.

Better to actually learn it as powershell, and I wish they would drop some of the aliases (especially "curl" which behaves nothing like the real curl).

@dalias @vincent It does feel like it's gotten better to me; but I share the concern about it getting better because it's hallucinating.

That's one of the big problems with software as a service; you can't just compare against old versions to cross check.

Maybe it's time to check out and see if there are any worthwhile open source local models for this task. Would be good to work on de-googling.

@dalias OK, after digging around a bit to verify that things are properly uninterruptible and support passthrough, I found https://voltaicsystems.com/v88/

A bit big and not cheap, but it looks like it meets all your requirements. They have smaller/cheaper ones but that don't support USB-C PD or not up to 20V.

@dalias Hmm, fair enough, I guess I usually use them for either extending the range of things that already have batteries, or things that I don't really care if they power cycle. I have used my power banks on passthrough power before without noticing any issues, but as mentioned it was nothing critical.

@dalias The usual term for these is USB power bank, and yes there are power banks that meet those specs and more: https://www.anker.com/products/a1340-250w-power-bank?variant=43739694465174

@dalias #bunday post just for you

@mekkaokereke

@dalias @mcc I'm gonna disagree on Princess Mononoke, it get pretty violent in places, while there are some kids under 10 for whom it might be OK, there were a bunch screaming and crying in the theater when I watched it when it was first released.

@dalias Yeah, I get that too in a private window until I search for or watch something. Rather pleasant, actually! But of course once you watch one video you start getting suggestions again, so I don't think it's honoring any do-not-track, just not making tracking assumptions based only on info they can get in a private window and not giving generic recommendations.

@liztai "Neutrality Studies" just makes me think of Zapp Brannigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ws_APXilE

@malwaretech I have never talked to a recruiter for a technical position who actually had any idea what the position was actually about, or what the team was actually like.

The recruiter usually doesn't have any more information than what's in the job description either.

@bagder @thejpster Presumably the concern here would be a MITM attack with a protocol downgrade.

@liztai Thankfully happened at 1:30 AM. This would have been much worse if it had happened at rush hour or even mid-day.

@kriswd40 Actually, there's a paper that answers that questions recently: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3

@bcantrill You haven't taught them to count in binary?

@gminks @peterbutler @fivetonsflax @mekkaokereke Oh boy, if you think that Boston is devoid of black people, wait until you visit Vermont. SNL had a pretty good skit on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKcUOUYzDXA

I love Vermont, but I do sometimes find it creepy how white it is.

@evan My chosen role isn't on the list; I've picked worker, choosing my job based on that which would be likely to have one of he biggest impacts on climate change that I could.

@VaughnVernon @shiftleftist @nova and then go check out the local and global feeds on the instance. Search for hashtags you are interested in on them. These are a few methods of discovery on Mastodon. On big, general purpose instances, I've found the local and global feeds too noisy to be useful. On Hachyderm, it's a focused enough community that I find conversations to join on the local feed fairly often, though the global feed is still a bit noisy.

@VaughnVernon @shiftleftist @nova so to choose an instance, take a look at who the admin is, if they have any public info about how they keep the infra running, how they fund it, etc

Look at the moderators and mod policy; do they match with your moderation expectations? Will they allow trolls to make your life miserable? Will they cut you off from someone you want to follow because of some beef with the admin of that instance?