Notices by Sheldon (sysop408@sfba.social), page 2

Microsoft Outlook is already my least favorite email program ever. Every new edition of it reaches an even lower low.

Behold #Microsoft 365 Outlook. It's a fitting name for the champion of worst in class products. There are 365 days in the year and on every single one of those fucking days my Microsoft products ruin them.

They released a calendar and email manager that doesn't let you export your email or calendar unless they were tied to a proper Microsoft Outlook service. That means you can setup your own mail service, save a bunch of shit to your MS Outlook and now you can't move it. It's fucking stuck on an island with no obvious way to export it.

Good job Microsoft! 👏

BTW, I don't need suggestions for new mail programs. I don't use Outlook. I just have clients who do and so I have to help them figure out why nothing ever works.

@inthehands every time I get asked if I'm nervous about some random technology replacing my skills as a developer, I laugh. The tech isn't the roadblock. The humans are. Until humans are better at humaning, I'll always have a job understanding what the humans really mean when they say they want this vs that.

I got into doing tech work an unusual way. I was a physical therapist before and I spent my days hearing people's theories on why their knee hurt. It was the weather. They sat in the wrong chair 10 years ago. They took the wrong supplement. It's because they wore shorts on a cold day... and then after all that I'd conclude they actually had a hip or a back problem or needed new shoes.

Figuring out what humans want with technology has actually been a lot easier than understanding humans well enough to help them understand how their own bodies work. I had no and still have no certifications, but leaned hard into my interviewing skills to gain an edge as a late starter.

@tess

@mattsheffield she also pointed out that people leave his rallies before they’re over and by the 60 minute mark, I had sympathy for everyone who went to one expecting more than 15 minutes of material rehashed over and over again. He was worse than just being a liar. He was a boring liar.

The verdict is in on tonight’s presidential debate between #Harris and #Trump. My #cat Lu does not like angry orange people yelling at him on TV.

He got very distressed about 15 minutes into the #POTUS debate and eventually retreated to his safe place underneath the bed.

The Trump years sucked for him and he’s not going back. He was homeless.

@darnell ok, but the thing I’m wondering is just how much celery was this farmer selling?!?! Anyone selling a full ton of celery might actually be more sus than someone selling meth. 😳

Oh, it was in transit. The headline made it sound like someone hid 2300 lbs of meth in the celery at a farmers’ market… which would have been quite impressive!

@timnitGebru I've only recently heard that not having quote posts is unfriendly to Black people. Why is that?

For the record, I'm 100% for having quote posts, but never saw it as a cultural thing or a feature that people saw as being positive for safety.

@dave

@FlashMobOfOne read his memoir then. You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train is one of the most impactful books I've read and it is exactly the vibe in this quote.

@stevesilberman

#Covid’s going nuts again. Time to bring my #Aranet4 indoor air quality posts back. I’m in Monterey to photograph 4th of July festivities. I’ve been in 2 restaurants today, both with CO2 readings of below 600.

This one is a small Japanese cafe that’s almost filled to capacity. With 24 people in this smallish space, the CO2 reading is 540. I was standing for 5 minutes deep in the restaurant when the reading was recorded.

Just one door and a commercial kitchen hood can refresh the air at an amazing pace. This place had 2 cross vented doors and a hood.

Most *casual* restaurants I’ve measured have far better air quality when semi-full than a typical office. If you choose a crowded house party over a restaurant during a Covid wave, you may be choosing the higher risk.

Most people will choose to take risks, including most people reading this. Learn to choose the less risky option.

For reference, the outdoor CO2 on this day reads at 450. 540 in a small crowded cafe is very good considering.

@selzero or the version with fewer independent clauses: "The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

#SilentSunday #StreetPhotography

@evan you are either one of the most even keeled people on this planet or you made a bot that answers just this one question ad infinitum. I think I would have taken a bite out of my keyboard by now.

@ATLeagle @ai6yr ugh yeah, if I had to choose to wear a mask in only one place, it'd be on planes. My dad just went to Taiwan for a month and didn't wear a mask on the plane.

"How was your trip" I asked when I picked him up at the airport.

"Terrible. We had a severe cold the entire time."

Even if it was just a cold, if I'm traveling halfway around the world, I don't want to spend my entire time there sick.

Do you use your iPad as your only computer?

@WarnerCrocker

@fromjason didn’t get to vote but I’d say thousands. None of my friends did so even though I asked them to federate. The setting to do so in Threads isn’t exactly easy to find. I’m following my own Threads account and that’s about it beyond some of the popular names everyone is following. I would be following more if they were available to follow.

@paninid

What's up with men and actually showing up when they agree to volunteer? Almost every woman who signs up to volunteer for things I'm coordinating has followed through. Hardly any men sign-up to begin with and even fewer show up.

Teenage boys don't have this problem. They're good for their word. It's just older men.

I hate to say this, but if I see a guy on my volunteer roster. I immediately put a question mark next to his name because I'm going to need an alternate lined up just in case.

#volunteering #men

Happy #Caturday from Lu. He gets so satisfied when you pet him that he always has to jump on his favorite blankie and bliss out like this.

@deadsuperhero Twig is a popular and very good templating engine typically used in Symfony framework based PHP projects such as Drupal. It can be used in any PHP project, but I haven’t tried outside of the usual suspects.

What you just encountered is perfectly valid. Not ideal, but it’s WordPress and almost anything WordPress is light on structure. They just did that weird concatenation thing for readability.

Do you typically use WordPress for PHP projects or is this a side adventure?

https://twig.symfony.com

@gme

@microblogc I never owned one myself, but the company I worked for at the time had a few of them that they handed out to all their creative types at events.

One of my roommates also had a very early Kodak digital camera that used a floppy. It was terrible, but fun for its time.

@thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs I loved the versions that took 1.44MB floppies. I felt so legit walking around taking photos at events with a stack of floppies my shirtpocket. 😂

I'm a little bit late, but happy Daylight Savings Time to America or as I like to call it, #Non24 Day!

Today's the day when everyone gets to experience for one day what I experience on an everyday basis. On this day, people you get to feel what it's like when your body clock is forced to wake up an hour earlier and go to sleep an hour earlier.

People who have Non24 have circadian rhythms that aren't sensitive to sunlight so we can't follow normal 24 hour days... not easily at least. My normal day is 26 hours long so every single day I have to go to bed and wake up 2 hours later or it becomes impossible to get any quality sleep.

Mostly it sucks, but there is one limited advantage to having Non24. I'm able to naturally stay awake for 1-2 additional hours without fatigue. This is usually more than negated by the chaos created by not being able to sleep well, but when facing urgent deadlines, the extra hour of clarity gives you more time to be at peak effectiveness.

#DST #sleep