Notices by Brian Hawthorne (bhawthorne@infosec.exchange), page 2

@evan My last New Year’s Resolution was about 40 years ago:
“Resolved, this shall be my last New Year’s Resolution.”
I have successfully kept it for four decades!

@benpocalypse @thomasfuchs Unless you went to the doctor to get a real test, odds are your “not covid” is Covid. Current dominant strains in the US generate many false negatives on the home rapid tests. If you have Covid symptoms, assume you have Covid.

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.

So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.

I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

@kranzkrone @aral I prefer the term “people.”

@BethanyBlack @Mabande Please do remember that we seem to have a healthy population of neurospicy folks here.

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Kinda crappy there for a bit, but I played it well at the end.

#DailyWordleClub

@oldrawgabbit @lednabwm I follow people when they say something interesting in a reply or in a post that someone else boosts, so that I will be able to read their future posts. Why would I follow someone who doesn’t post anything?

@Jain @blogdiva @CrebboElodie @Poe "when will Mastodon add quotes"
Use the Mona app for Mastodon. Quote boosts work great.

"when will Mastodon add configurable text-limits"
Join a server with the glitch-doc fork. Mine has an 11K character limit.

Etc. Most of these are available to those who want them.

Israel continues its illegal attacks on civilians in response to Hamas terrorism. Netanyahu apparently plans to simply destroy everything and everyone in Gaza in retaliation.

Ambulances targeted. Hospitals out of fuel for generators. And Israel keeps killing more and more civilians.

You know that the country has stepped over the line when even Israel-apologists like the Washington Post are publishing balanced articles that call out the Israeli attacks on civilians.

This is not “self-defense.” At this point, Israel is conducting either state-sponsored terrorism or the beginnings of genocide. You decide.

#GiftLink
https://wapo.st/45r2mwC

@jots @thomasfuchs My initial reaction was, “Wow, that’s a lot of p-tests.” I figured the study was just another case of p-hacking. Then I looked at the size of their study and the size of their effects. It’s pretty convincing.

I would love to see a follow up to see whether this effect exists for PASC/LongCovid as well.

@RickiTarr @theropologist Evolution is not purposeful. It does not progress. It is just an ongoing process that sometimes produces species and individuals more fit than others.

Humans who are able to remember things are better able to survive than humans who cannot. So, there is clear selection pressure for memory. Similarly, the genes of humans who can share their memories with other humans in their community who share many of their genes or who will cooperate to protect them are also more likely to survive, so there is clear selection pressure for what we might call story telling.

Is there selection pressure for remembering accurately vs remembering approximately? Maybe. Probably. Is there selection pressure for perfect recollection vs. pretty good recollection? I’m not sure. We do have individuals with eidetic or highly superior autobiographical memories. And they are not necessarily the happiest or fittest individuals from the point of view of survival. See for example: https://time.com/5045521/highly-superior-autobiographical-memory-hsam/

@AnarchoNinaWrites Fortunately, I do not know “the bad touch” by name, and I am not looking it up.
Unfortunately, the old BK whopper radio jingle is now stuck in my head. Leniency be-damned! Two-fisted burger indeed.

@dansup I use the original slow cooker, a cast iron Dutch oven, but the theory is the same. You get so much more flavor development with long, slow cooking. Surprisingly, McGee’s classic On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen, has very little on slow cooking, although the section on browning reactions is helpful. I always brown (meat, onions, etc.) at a higher temperature to get those yummy flavors from the Maillard reaction, and then turn the temperature down for long slow cooking to develop the umami flavor.

@jeffcliff @longcovid Never mind. What he calls “shitposting”, I call “trolling.”

Look, some of us have to actually deal with being disabled by this.

Blocked.

@jerry I’ve never figured out why flat earthers always put the arctic at the center of their disk and Antarctica around the rim. Everyone knows that it should be the other way around. Antarctica is a small continent, not a giant ring. And the Arctic Ocean is therefore a ring around the whole world.

[Edited to add image credit: Strebe • CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azimuthal_equidistant_projection_south_SW.jpg#mw-jump-to-license)]

@jerry Well, from now on, that’s my new go-to map for dealing with flat earthers.

@jimcarroll What copyright/licensing model are they using for the code?

@jimcarroll @admin Well, C&S spammed multiple Usenet groups with their green card scam, not e-mail, but I know what you mean.

@jimcarroll @admin Gotcha. I am not an admin, so I am wondering if that ends up in the same queue as reports?

@jimcarroll @admin Don’t forget to use the report function to report these to both your local instance admin and the admin at their home instance.