Notices by rellik moo (idlestate@toot.cat)

@woozle

(I'm trying to ask this in the spirit of having those discussions, and to avoid any sense of recrimination.)

@zkat @GrouchyHydra

@woozle

So this temporary, now-reversed block: Was it a silence, or a suspend?

Because the latter has effects that are not all that reversible.

A lot of pixels have been spilled about the sudden stux defed from .art and how many follows that broke, as a big and recent example.

I like the .art model--be quick to silence and, if warranted, to unsilence. Suspends need at least a little warning in all but the most egregious cases.

@zkat @GrouchyHydra @news @osslate

@redoak

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110567561923047973

@trashheap

@goatsarah

It's the uranium tamper & the primary that'll really set you back tho

@theresnotime

wow. each element is of course unique, but as the lightest metal, lithium's abundance & uses, both chemically & physically, have in recent years really piqued my interest as I learn more about it.

turns out, in the context of its use as fusion fuel, confusion about the role of lithium-7 elevated the Castle Bravo test to be even more of a specific tragedy than the background tragedy of nuclear weapons development and testing more generally

Natural lithium is a mixture of lithium-6 and lithium-7 isotopes (with 7.5% of the former). The enriched lithium used in Bravo was nominally 40% lithium-6 (the remainder was the much more common lithium-7, which was incorrectly assumed to be inert).

from

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

@goatsarah
@theresnotime

@DoctorDNS

as it happens, I'm pretty sure a computing language first satisfied the language requirement (for chemists) my first year of grad school

@inthehands

@DoctorDNS

oh, that's cool. mine was ... later.

and I meant 'first' only in the context of that program.

@inthehands

@Annalee

"never write down your password"

turned into

always using the same, single, simple password for everything

@hollie

... and The Egregious Pickles

has the makings of a band name

@apps

yes, but only if you go to the web interface using the same browser as was used to do the authentication.

this is not necessarily obvious to do, and how to do, especially if one doesn't usually use a mobile browser, or doesn't use it for that instance.

@Linecutter

@apps @Linecutter

When using two accounts on the same instance, trouble arises when the 2nd account is being added and the web browser is opened to do the authentication.

If that browser hold credentials for that instance from the first account, those might be used instead of the second account's credentials.

The work-around is to clear the web browser of these credentials in between adding each account.

@Rachel_Thorn
@lunasspecto

I blame 1980s-era Republicans who turned "liberal" into a catch-all othering perjorative