Notices by ⛅ w chance of bears (teejeh@mastodon.social)

@silverwizard People's obsession with innovation is putting the cart before the horse. It's a (potential!) path towards an objective; treating innovation as an intrinsic objective itself is inane.

Sure, innovation may be required when established means can't achieve a goal.

Sure, when someone makes something we didn't know we wanted, their innovation can be retroactively impressive.

But just demanding innovation? "Why won't you change I dunno what to achieve I dunno what?!"

@silverwizard I'm looking at this as a web application returning a response code. HTTP is a protocol; some of the participants of that protocol will be extremely content aware, others less so. The very notion that holding coffee violates a teapot's nature is a philosophical conceit that would be odd for a low awareness system to express in the first place.

On the other hand, I suppose that attempting to french press in a teapot would be my idea of a 500-series teapot error.

@silverwizard A teapot is mechanically a vessel that implements a catch-all "add liquid" or "pour liquid" more-or-less transparently to the actual identity of the liquid (barring extreme properties). When trying to put coffee in a teapot the method is implemented and the data would be valid, except that the teapot czar intervenes with an externally imposed rule which adjudicates that the data is actually invalid because reasons. 403 Forbidden.

@silverwizard It's like rejecting form data that's of the right type based on validation against the field's semantics. Which would be 400 series.

You can put coffee in a teapot, though. The rejection is administrative.

@silverwizard It's a common and likely hypothesis, yes.

Although I feel like these days I'm more likely to run into people taking video calls on speakerphone in public than blasting their music.

I want the parallel universe where phones kept the headphone jack and it was the cameras getting pushed out into dongles/BT.

@silverwizard ironically that particular absinthe is also uniquely easy to get not through the LCBO due to the distillery being in southern ontario

@silverwizard oh that's fun

@silverwizard If you're looking for CD-quality downloads, iTunes unfortunately still only sells with lossy compression. (Why, when their streaming service has lossless across the board?!)

Recently, Qobuz became available in Canada, so their download store is now a decent option for finding lossless downloads from artists on major labels that won't be on Bandcamp.

@silverwizard There should be a convenient way to make Google pay me at a bare minimum $1000 for every time I run into recaptcha.

@silverwizard When I see people arguing over faceid ve touchid, I find myself considering suggesting that if biometrics are secure enough for their use case then just leaving the phone unlocked should also be up for consideration.

@silverwizard I love how so often the "how dare you steal this joke" posts are about such low-hanging fruit, the most obvious riff a person could make about some current thing jokes. Maybe they saw that joke and reposted it, or maybe dozens of people came up with the same thing independently.

@silverwizard Yeah, most of my TOTP tokens are mirrored across my Yubikeys largely to save headaches when changing phones. I have one on Entrust's app that I can't do that with and the couple of times I've had to move it were a pain finding the instructions again.

But using Yubico TOTP also basically primed me for "password manager TOTP is functionally the same as Google TOTP but with the convenience of device portability"

@silverwizard Mostly I find myself weirded out by people acting like authenticator apps are high friction in comparison to SMS 2FA. The user experience of "hopefully the code arrives quickly" makes it just that bit unpleasant even when they often *do* come promptly. (Yubikeys have a very obvious $$ barrier to being the norm for individuals.)

@silverwizard In which case ... did you know that "absinthe and coke" somehow manages to kind of work? Now you know.