Notices by David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social), page 2

@apps Is this just in the official FediLab app? I tried it in the web interface and it does nothing.

@mgrahamwoods
https://bookwyrm.social/ is on the Fediverse, isn't owned by billionaires, and doesn't use machine learning to recommend books... #Bookwyrm
@bmacDonald94

@phaedral
No problem! As a third-generation descendant of public school teachers, I'm a fan of public schools!
@alice @axnxcamr @actuallyautistic @PeteLittle

@phaedral
It was the only school option here for gifted ADHD students on Oahu. At least it wasn't a for-profit school; I loathe for-profit schools! Hawaii DOE doesn't do a good job for such students. My in-laws' gifted kids attended a gifted program with about 40 students until the school principal discontinued it. He didn't believe in doing anything for students that weren't his idea of "average". The school district supported his decision. :(
@alice @axnxcamr @actuallyautistic @PeteLittle

@alice
One of the best things our gifted ADHD daughter learned at the private non-profit school she attended through sixth grade was *how to get along with non-gifted kids*. I was a gifted, verbally-precocious kid. Such kids can be very impatient and cruel to kids that don't learn as fast they do!
@axnxcamr @actuallyautistic @PeteLittle

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/gophers-mount-st-helens

> Everything within eight miles of the huge volcanic blast was wiped out almost instantly. More than 40 years later, scientists reveal how an unorthodox experiment involving burrowing rodents brought life back to the Washington State mountain.

#volcano #environmental #restoration #gophers

@sullybiker Interesting. About 20 years ago, a large private school system I used to work for finally got around to demolishing the interior of an old building. In the process, they found a Novell Netware server, still running, that much earlier remodeling had walled up inside a storage closet.
Sounds to me like old Netware rules the reliability roost!

@sullybiker
Oh, the first real job I had in Hawaii was with a consulting service that ran their financial accounting on a very old Prime minicomputer. When they went to wipe its array of disks (spread across a wall of cabinets), they set off a wave of disk failure messages. I guess the hardware had been on the edge of failure for years, as disk controllers silently corrected errors until forced to wipe disk sectors they'd left alone for years.

@br00t4c
Cat (and dog) bombs on video meetings were always fun! We all loved them.
@DeborahLeagueFineArt

A gathering of assorted small birds sits on the roof line of a small building roofed with solar panels. They're all about the same size. Some are dark, almost silhouettes. Some in the center are lit by a beam of setting sunlight. All the birds are reflected below in the solar panels. The sky behind them is light blue with four fluffy white clouds forming a smile-like arc above the birds.
#birds #Hawaii #sky

@evan
False dichotomy. Why can't it be for both?
@RMiddleton

@dansup @pixelfed Cool!

@dansup
Will the app be in F-Droid in any version?
@pixelfed

@scalzi Of course! The American automatic reaction is, "WE HAVE TONS OF MONEY FOR GUNS AND BOMBS AND KILLING! Healthcare, housing, that other stuff? Sorry, nope that's too expensive, we don't have any money for that."
Stupid USA!

@MaybeMyMonkeys
I think the first people to be in the frontlines should be the political leaders that start wars. And not esconced in safe shelters, but out front with weapons in hand, doing the fighting themselves.
@scalzi

All humans are complex: partly real, and partly imaginary.
#mathematics #psychology

@dansup
Hmmm. Possible to have both a Mastodon and Pixelfed account? I have a small, old Deviant Art site.
@pixelfed

@dogweapon
Hmmm. Because the USA's religious roots come from the Puritans, opposed to "worldly pleasures" and obsessed with keeping everyone "pure" by erecting religious laws and forcing others to abide by them?

Thus, opposition to sex and support for fascisim. This also fuels oppression of women and those they considered "impure" (nonwhites, adherents of other religions, people from other cultures).

Sometimes I think the bad parts of American culture are due to fear of strangers.
@RMiddleton

@Gargron
I always read "AI" in the news as "Artificial Idiocy." Although the terms "Augmented Idiocy" or "Amplified Idiocy" just came to mind.
@etherdiver

"Which witch is the rich witch, that's what I want to know!" - An October Halloween golddigger addressing the three witches in Shakespeare's play.
#badjokes