Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@ColinTHFC I saw a proposal to do basically that with one of those barges they bought to house asylum seekers.

@jmaris They defeated the Massif Central. But at what cost? At. What. Cost????

@alexlunaview@mastodon.social Because the EU famously likes having its chain jerked.

You may not be given the option. Certainly not with the same long list of broad accommodations and carve-outs.

@annaghughes Oh won't someone think of the ants

(teasing. this was nice to read.)

@Jeramee @1br0wn @void_friend

Good thinking. I'm just going to redirect to something called "dream journals of the woefully unmedicated". Enjoy the next generation of AI hallucinated content.

@1br0wn @void_friend

(... reads blog entry. Quietly whimpers something that sounds like "any IP blackhole lists?")

I've just donated to archive.org for the first time. We've entered the age of memory-holing and we stand to lose far too much, far too quickly.

@woozle @bruces "Aren't blue states net contributors to federal funds, anyway?"

Overwhelmingly so. NYC is a gigantic economic powerhouse as well. Attacking it is like giving yourself a splenectomy with a pizza cutter

I wonder to what extent airlines with routes to and from Canada rely on connections through the US? For the safety of its citizens and visitors, I suspect Canadian airlines and their partners are going to have to open more direct routes to other countries.

@neurologo @juniyonul @bruces
It depends what you mean by "easier". You may not understand the position that some professionals and academics are in.. The US has only been an autocracy for three months, and people, companies and institutions haven't adapted yet. These things don't change overnight.

The time is rapidly approaching when international conferences will no longer book the US, but for a time there will still be people who need/want to go to the US for some part of their career, and right now they have hard choices to make.

@martinl @bruces Yeah. And putting enough stuff on there to look realistic is getting into secret agent territory. It's horrific that we're already at this point, and yeah, most people are much better off simply staying away.

@juniyonul @bruces
I don't keep much work on my laptop; it's basically a thin client for office servers, VMs, remote desktops, etc. If it's possible to do your work/presentation via a network tunnel or VPN, probably best to do that. Perhaps not even bring a computer, ask them to make one available to you.

@juniyonul @bruces
I wasn't suggesting bringing a computer, let alone the one you backed it up to.

@bruces This is the problem with things like iCloud backups: even if you factory reset your phone, if you're made to give the nice officers access to it, they can restore whatever they want. Best thing is to delete all cloud backups, back it up to a computer you control instead, wipe it and do the "new phone" initialization before coming to the US. It'll still work as a phone, for browsing the web, etc. Restore it when you get home.

@heartofcoyote @TofuTheSquirrel @ct_bergstrom

I'm from the US Southwest, where evaporative cooling, aka swamp coolers, is the norm. It works really well, is more comfortable than AC and you don't feel guilty with doors or windows open since that changes nothing about how much power you're using.

@ct_bergstrom Truly we live in an age of wonders. The other day I saw a bin, with wheels affixed, that could be moved freely upon the Earth.

Thanks to the risks and burdens imposed by the preposterously draconian blunt instrument that is the #OnlineSafetyAct (UK) of 2023, I've just unceremoniously closed down a collaborative website I've operated for almost exactly 27 years.

@bruces Oh, this one (patsy) based on another Pico uses a 3.7" e-paper display to present an overview as well as a simple forecast formulated from current NOAA data for the next few days. It sits on a bookshelf at the other end of the room.

@bruces
Hm. I built something similar using the Pi Pico and the same sensors, about a year ago. It sits in a shaded spot strapped to the outside of the back deck railing, using the case of a scavenged obsolete router -- much larger than necessary -- for an enclosure, and communicates by wifi with a server and a couple of displays.

(Its name on the network is "tim", after the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Other elements of the system are dennis, patsy and concorde. Dennis uses the same Adafruit ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT used in the video. It sits on the media console in the living room displaying things from its own and other sensors, including indoor CO2 concentration.)