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

@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.

@dsfgs @rms Don't worry about the location data that Google has, a quick request to your ISP will get a track of everywhere your phone has ever been while it was turned on. Some ISPs don't even require a search warrant.

@tchambers @mastodonusercount Part of the entire point of the Fediverse is that you cannot track it that way, or at least not easily or accurately. It is not only distributed and decentralized, it is fluid and ever-changing. And that is by design.

@georgetakei The conservatives want to defund the police but have the liberals take the blame for that.