Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Might be a good idea to call your representatives about this.

@poleguy It is what I had lying around.

Sssh, no one tell my life insurance company.

#electronics #cursed

@glyph @simon I hate these things and it feels like some Soviet style bullshit that I can't turn them off on "my" phone BUT to be fair, I think "all the alerts to my phone using the system have been some kind of mistake" is approximately what I would expect here even in competent hands.

Considering that as far as I know there has never been a situation where the relevant features of the system would be useful, all such notifications are bound to be tests or mistakes. Tests must necessarily be rare for the system to have any kind of validity, and for rare things where you get one shot it's incredibly hard to anticipate everything.

To me, "Get the time zone right and don't notify people in the middle of the night" seems pretty basic, but potentially there are dozens of things that they did right that I wouldn't think of and that would seem like elementary mistakes to someone else.

Anyone have a recommendation for a case for the #Pixel8Pro? I basically want the thinnest thing that lets me put the phone down without the camera lying straight on the surface.

(Though also I guess I drop my phone all the time nowadays, and the back case of my old one is broken, so I guess impact resistance might be more important than it has been in the past)

#pixel

Though I guess they don't really make 2TB SDHC cards yet, so my plan to get a tablet with a 2TB memory card and keep the originals on it might not work out as well as I had hoped.

Given how much space I saved, it might be worth it to use 1080p and just have that be the main thing I watch on both phone and tablet.

Since my new #pixel8pro only has 1TB of space and no expandable storage, I decided that I would keep all my "on device" videos as 720p instead of the 4k 60fps originals (it's visually indistinguishable while watching them on the phone anyway, as far as I can tell).

450GB compressed all the way down to 21 GB, wow!

By the way if anyone knows of a better reliable way to get string than just randomly wandering around at night waiting for spiders, let me know.

#minecraft

This morning it became clear that I've been playing too much Minecraft when I saw some cobweb Halloween decorations and thought, "Ooh, I should collect those to make string!"

#minecraft

Aww yeah, Paw Paws delivered today.

#pawpaw #pawpawfruit

We'll see how it does against the Gom Jabbar in a couple of years, I guess.

New lesson this week is that a 5 year old will definitely earnestly repeat the Litany Against Fear if you teach it to them, but also it isn't as effective as you might hope for staving off fear of monsters at bedtime.

@Greg There is this perl script that does it: https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage

Anyone aware of something like the Speech Accent Archive (https://accent.gmu.edu/) but for Spanish? SAA has people (native and non-native speakers) read a short example phrase in English to capture their accent. I seem to remember encountering a similar thing for French years ago, I would be curious to hear the same thing with Spanish.

#espanol #Spanish #linguistics #language

@webology Thanks, I don't use Apple or Apple products (not on principle or anything, I just don't think they're very good).

Honestly, considering nearly everything I use is open source, I should probably file this as a bug report in a tracker somewhere even if I don't do the fix myself.

@itamarst I don't really know anything about bikes, and I don't especially understand what makes this one special, but my friend who is really into bikes seems to like Priority bicycles, and they do seem quite nice when I've ridden them.

https://www.prioritybicycles.com/

The interesting thing about them is they have these plastic belt drives instead of gears and a chain.

@nedbat I feel seen.

Which is good, because if you don't see me it might be hard to avoid me, what with all the wreckless biking I'm doing. 😉