Notices by Sheldon (sysop408@sfba.social)

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116676826944489315

Can we stop including Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as one of the all time films ever made? It was so unrealistic.

This is actual HAL 9000.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors HAL!

HAL: No.

Dave: Please.

HAL: Well, okay since you asked again.

@wdormann Microsoft Outlook started off pretty good, but it vaulted over every stage of decline straight to enshittification before it was fashionable and it will never not be hot garbage.

It’s so irredeemably bad in every way.

I went to the grocery store yesterday and they really were playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

It's has to be at least 30 years since the last time I've heard that song played in a normal way.

As soon as it came on, I felt like I just got punked by someone. It was as if I picked up a loaf of bread that was sitting on a switch or I opened the wrong freezer door.

#today

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116588626536297925

This is priceless. Alberto Fujimori spoke at one of my graduations and got a better reception than this... which he probably shouldn't have.

Then again, it's quite possible that Eric Schmidt will actually indirectly murder exponentially more people than Fujimori ever could have with all the secret police in the world.

@skinnylatte I didn’t see him say he wasn’t interested in eating, but it sure felt like he did because he was just getting roasted by people making fun of him. He actually said he would love to go eat around Mexico if he could.

@skinnylatte its easy to make fun of this, but we don’t really know enough about this person to judge. It sounds like they’re very enthusiastic about that style of food and are doing research.

They were pretty specific about wanting to develop a birria-style taco dish. They might know more than they’re letting on.

Hey @skinnylatte, you see this?

@nickrsan

@Infoseepage I love it! When your arm gets too tired to turn the dyno hand crank generator, you can feed twigs to the stove while cooking dinner.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shiftphones/116448808093062808

Scrolling your feed in reverse can be very amusing. I was certain this was a @NanoRaptor post until I got to the German.

@skinnylatte OK, but the question is where are these people even going that a Chinese restaurant has individual plates?

@johncarlosbaez @pr_ret_lutz also the US isn’t targeting Russian oil production. Ukraine is and they’ve likely had this capability for at least a year, but held back on using it because they didn’t want to strain their international relationships.

Now with Trump lifting sanctions on Russia and not providing any help to Ukraine and failing to deliver on missiles defense, they have no choice especially not after Russia spent the entire winter targeting power plants all across Ukraine.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116387769122846079

This is literally lit. Whoever thought to do this for the power of optics was doing it right.

What was life like before you had to respond to phone calls, voice mails, text messages, DMs, group chats, social media mentions, emails, Slack chats, teleconferences, and snail mail?

At least we took telegrams and (mostly) took faxes off the table.

@inthehands thanks for sharing this with us Paul. You're fighting for all of us. Always grateful for the chance to help in whatever way.

@stux
😂

@BrianJopek there are articles online reporting that Green Day was just there to play and didn't go off script like people expected/feared they would do.

Ummm, do they have any idea what the song American Idiot is about?

I find it deliciously funny that the only part of American Idiot that got bleeped out of broadcast was the f-bomb in the third verse. That's just about the only word in the song that wasn't political.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115941002997555962

Right now, there's not a lot I can do about the horrors happening in Minnesota, but I can donate to help people there survive financially. I added another $50 to this fund organized and vetted by Heidi Li Feldman.

If you can afford it, don't just rage. Rage and donate.

#Minnesota #FuckICE #ICE

@mcnado if Primatene Mist inhalers are useful, how good are expired albuterol inhalers? Any difference if they're the aerosol form or power form?

I always want to setup aliases for command line instructions I can't remember, but I like learning from repetition so I hold off on saving keystrokes. By the time I feel like I've got it down enough to let a shortcut take over, I'm too lazy to set it up because I don't need it anymore.

Then a year later I'm kicking myself because I can't remember how to run that command.

To fight this tendency, I use a clipboard/text snippets manager that lets me easily dump a whole bunch of text I want to keep on hand.

My clipboard manager of choice is Clipy. It's a clone of the once popular Clip-Menu clipboard manager and like its predecessor it's streamlined and doesn't try to be the app that does everything. It just makes it very easy to access your clipboard history and dump and organize random text strings you don't want to lose.

#devlife #macos

https://clipy-app.com

Being that we already have the town of Solvang in California, we hereby officially petition to join Denmark as the western seat of the new Danish Empire.

#photography #solvang #denmark #california #greenland