Notices by William B Peckham (wbpeckham@techhub.social)

@rms I cannot sign the petition. It requires one to leave a mobile phone number, so if you don't have a privacy stealing device, you're not allowed to sign it. It won't take your signature without it. How did you do it?

@skinnylatte I grew up in a place where morale mushrooms could be found if you knew where to look, and I can recognize them. There's a whole family of mushrooms called puff balls that are all safe to eat, although they don't all taste good. I just go by the assumption that unless I'm with somebody that knows what they're doing, anything else that looks like a mushroom that's not a puffball and it's not a morale might be deadly.

@stevendbrewer @dalias @X00001 to my knowledge OSMAnd does not use AI. Just use map sites that are crowd, rather than AI, based.

@dansup what is a loops?

@georgetakei When they are done, they will have fixed the country the way my vet fixed my dog. The difference being that the parts of the country that won't work anymore were kind of important!

@georgetakei Maybe if those critics were busy volunteering to fight forest fires or to aid refugee victims who are homeless, they would be too busy to be critical. If they don't have enough time to help, they ought not to have enough time to open their big mouths.

@georgetakei Perhaps you lack perspective. ( You know, because of with one eye and no binocular vision, you've.... never mind. I'm gone.)

@aral I don't know who you think you're talking to, but you should be talking to the administrator of your Mastodon site. Each individual site has an individual administrator and that administrator is the one who can decide to allow or block on their site. If they all choose to block, then we don't have to deal with that. If yours doesn't, you might have to move to another site with an administrator who won't put up with this.

@rms To sign the petition, it wants at a minimum, my name, my zip code, and my email address, and a phone number. And there's a note there that they may send me SMS messages or emails. It does not allow me to sign without providing all of that. If you will not or cannot provide a phone number or they can SMS you, you can't sign the form. Or at least not at the page that your link leads to.

@rms The form will not allow me to sign the petition without my going out and buying a mobile phone and then giving them the number. I'm not doing that.

@phaedral @jaykuo Anything in the line of a fairness doctrine would require force of law behind it. Getting anything like that through this Congress would be different at best and getting it through the next Congress is going to be worse. The best thing we can hope for is sanity at the midterms.

@georgetakei Nobody messes with Grandma!

@georgetakei if only! ♪♪ ♪♪ Living at a lighthouse for retirement sounds absolutely wonderful. At least as long as you're relatively healthy.

@thomasfuchs @ask I have used a basic on CP/M, on an Interact model J. Microsoft did not invent BASIC. BAS, Chipmonk, or YABASIC are among the viable options that might be leveraged. Microvideo 8k color basic (written for the 8080/Z80 cpus) might be an option for compatible platforms. Basic did exist before Microsoft did exist, so don't be limited by Microsoft.

@thomasfuchs @ask That is absolutely not true. I was using two different basic interpreters before Microsoft existed.

@georgetakei but they could not talk about it in Klingon! nuqneH!

@praetor @augieray I think that, in the USA, the CDC gave up. The only people following their epidemic protocols and best guidance don't need to hear it again, and the rest of the country isn't going to follow it anyway. The last numbers I could count on said 2,000 dead per week and increasing in the USA, but the CDC either stopped tracking it or stopped reporting it: good numbers are now hard to get. PS: my family still wears the mask.

@augieray @praetor when I go to the CDC covid tracker page the only numbers are in percentages up or down rather than numbers, and if you try to sign up for the summary email it responds with the message "The CDC News & Updates information you are trying to subscribe to is no longer available."

@praetor @augieray I have a problem seeing "ignore the doctors and just drink tea" in the middle of an epidemic being a sensible thing!

@rms but the first warning came from independent scientists in 1912. While there is no excuse for them, there is little excuse for the rest of us either.