Notices by Brian R. Pauw (doc@mastodon.social)

@ParadeGrotesque but the experience of @aral might be different.

@ParadeGrotesque we got one, they were very delayed in production and now the barrel socket and usb-c socket seem to have loose contacts, making charging very difficult. 😞

@goatsarah could be, does the US version come with usb-c as well?

@goatsarah weird, because I bought an iPhone 15 (base model) from the Berlin Apple Store recently for one of my parents, and that didn’t have a tray.

@goatsarah the current one is also eSIM only. As I found out the hard way when i needed to configure one for a parent.

@goatsarah what’s the advantage to making the switch?

@ryanhoulihan congratulations! Already looking great!

@goatsarah ah shit. At least you’re docked and safe.

@goatsarah tides around there are something to behold. Hope to be able to follow your path one day. Good luck out there!

@goatsarah congratulations! How many miles was that? Did you plan the passage timing well with regards to the tides?

@goatsarah @rachel just FYI, I think your draught is a bit overkill for a boat that size 😉. Good to see you’ve made it to France though.

@ryanhoulihan in so sorry to hear that. I hope the next eight months will go by quickly. Or that they find you a spot sooner.

@ryanhoulihan wishing you all the best of luck with the surgery! 👍

@JoshuaHolland for me, the term antisemite has become very diluted since the attacks last year. The term has been thrown about so indiscriminately that it’s lost its meaning.

@aral not just there. I’ve been in ISO standardization committees that were rendered pointless because of company interference. They don’t want to implement anything they don’t already do, which in this case wasn’t a lot, and would only agree on the lowest common denominator. I got out as quick as I could.

@Ruth_Mottram @rewildingmag I’ve stopped writing impersonally in my papers. It’s not necessary, and the old papers didn’t do that either (case in point: Heisenberg’s paper is surprisingly readable!). Seems like somewhere along the line, someone came up with that “rule” and made scientists believe it, but it distances us from normal people unnecessarily.

@aral probably coincidence, but if I set my VPN to Germany (Nuremberg of all places) the site is blocked for me…

@fitheach nobody on that picture looks like they actually want to be there.

@anildash same. I had a good network of colleagues on there who seemed interested in my posts and interacted a lot with it. That is now gone, unfortunately, until that moment when they decide to move. LinkedIn seems to be a bit of an alternative to them but to me, it’s another walled clickbait garden full of ads.

@Gargron happy birthday.