TJ @TJ_dacks@qoto.org
Physics, planetary sciences, low temp
Joined Nov 2022
TJ
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🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse
🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse
🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse
TJ
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I remember family/friends giving me hell in the late 90s and 2000s because I wouldn’t let them use my desktop PC (at least not very often)
Today those same people walk around with passcode-protected pocket computers (phones) they guard with their lives, and it’s the same exact reason
We’re offloading data storage and cognitive processes to machines, and those contents (like your brain’s contents) should be private by default. We are all cyborgs now—I was just a cyborg earlier than most
@DecaturNature I know, right? The only thing I wish I could import from the bird app is my block list. I worked hard on that!
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After First Contact, humanity was disappointed to learn that while the galaxy was full of space-faring species, there was no interstellar trade.
"No goods are worth the cost," the aliens said.
They returned the next week.
"Those 'books' you gave us, do they have sequels?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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ok time to try out this dang thing
I would like to address the idea that "food companies have scientists whose whole job is perfecting the sweet/salty/fat flavors to make their products ADDICTIVE."
I want to know who really thinks it takes a 4-year degree to figure it out that it's awesome to fry potatoes
@trinsec thanks a bunch!
@trinsec you're right it looks like I didn't save on the first try. I also just hid all media, which seems to have taken the jumpy thing down a notch.
@trinsec Thanks! I found slow mode right after posting this, but the Federated feed still scrolls by so fast there's no way to read it and it jumps around like it's loading all the media at random. I would rather make it work on Chrome, one less app to manage, I just wasn't sure if the site was designed to work better on something else. I'll keep poking around settings.
Is there a preferred interface/app for this? Using Android Chrome browser the feed is constantly flashing/twitching/scrolling. Impossible to read. And I can't search because it hides the search bar while I type. Why?
