Notices by John M. Gamble (jgamble@fosstodon.org)

@steter

Let's not forget the importance of matte backgrounds.

[shakes fist at green screen technology]

#Monsterdon

@Taweret

Voted for half of them again. Of those three though, I'm secretly rooting for The Raven.

In unrelated news, I recently found out that there exists two movies, meant to be a double feature, titled

Billy The Kid Versus Dracula

and

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

They are both on Tubi, and based on the titles alone I think they are worth an October vote, perhaps?

Not at the same time, of course.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

I've never been affected or fascinated by those whirling spirals. Is anyone else affected by them?

@WarnerCrocker

Yeesh. How did those polls go when the question added the information that the technology didn't work?

The only support I've seen for Shotspotter was from people who own SoundThinking stock.

Illinois bans native plants bans. Take that, HOAs.

This is the second Ban ban Illinois has passed, the first being the ban on book banning.

#Illinois #Plants #Gardening

https://news.wttw.com/2024/08/27/homeowner-associations-can-t-ban-native-plants-thanks-new-illinois-law

The Music Box Theatre is back!

#Chicago

https://www.wbez.org/2024/09/06/music-box-theatre-reopening-makeover-new-seating-noir-city-chicago

@ryanc

Part 2 of my 3-part password making system.

(Part 1 *is* deterministic, but it's useful to me so it stays. Part three isn't deterministic, but I'm also not revealing it.)

@xbezdick @aral

What?

Red Hat was a 3.4 billion dollar company at the time of its acquisition by IBM. You don't reach that solely through unpaid volunteers.

@futurebird

I'll toss my hat into that ring.

Adding to my exasperation, the people who write goto-ridden code to "prove" how bad FORTRAN is. C'mon, people, F77 has been around since 1977, it's in the name.

@libreoffice

Latest LMDE, latest or nearly so Libreoffice (it's Saturday morning my time, I am not turning on the computer for a while).

I have to ask: why on Earth would LO choose to add the adjective "OLE"? It adds no useful information (even for Windows users) and merely clutters up the menu list.

@libreoffice

Apologies for nit-picking, but your help page says the menu choice is "OLE Object" when it is in fact just "Object".

I consider it a failure of Wikipedia that there's no List of Prominent Russians Who Met Their End Falling From a Hotel Window.

Yes, I looked. I was curious about the timeline.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64101437