Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@rallias @GrapheneOS @SecurityWriter @neurovagrant @mttaggart @tris @Viss

Then don't be that guy. Replies in a public forum are usually expected to be read by everyone reading the thread, that's why they're there rather than in an email. If a respondent feels that someone else's statement is incomplete enough that a less-informed reader might not get an accurate picture, they spell out those details in a reply. HTH

For reasons not worth going into I looked up Samuel Beckett, and couldn't stop laughing at a description of his father as "a quantity surveyor of Huguenot descent". Never change, Wikipedia.

@w7voa Golly. Maybe that's all they have to do to keep us distracted. Just blink one guy off and on.

@BashStKid

More like Uruk-Low, amirite?

I still think somebody needs to write an engine that automatically threads fediverse postings into usenet groups

This guy always strikes me as the answer to the question: what would you get if you molded 1/8th of a ton of house brand canned luncheon meat into the approximate shape of a human?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-border-czar-tom-homan-living-separately-from-wife-due-to-death-threats/

Product branding quality labels just get sillier and sillier. Take SSDs and storage cards. How do I distinguish between "Ultra" and "Extreme" from one brand, or between "Elite" vs "Premiere" on another? The assortment of performance labels such as A1, V3 U3, etc are often the same. Even comparing the price tells you nothing, as the retailer is constantly playing with those.

It's like the companies have the equivalent of Main Character Syndrome: they think everyone is paying close attention to them all the time, at the expense of living their own lives, like nerdy fanboys. Who is that invested? I don't know any nerdy SanDisk or PNY fanboys. At least, I hope I don't.

@w7voa Has any member of any administration ever been held in contempt of Congress?

@w7voa ...and consistently lied to congress' face

@jplebreton @molly0xfff

well when you put it like that

@EugeneMcParland

Y'know, the British taxpayer wouldn't miss ONE torpedo

@randahl
I appreciate your optimism

@w7voa "The wisdom of the markets". Christ.

It's a nice day so I'm working with the door open. The thing is, hummingbirds always announce themselves with some happy chirps when they arrive at the feeder, so I have to get up and go look at them. So I'm getting less work done than I might...

Subjectively it seems like Mastodon engagement has dropped off a cliff, just as Bluesky is taking off. I suspect this is for two reasons:

1. Even people who prefer organic, open solutions want to spend at least some of their time where the action is, and that's going to be where a broader swathe of humanity is, which in turn is going to be where the money and media buzz is.

2. Like it or not, algorithms can and do promote engagement. That's what they're for.

@somafm

The best place to get OCR-A is in the south. It's good fried or in Gumbo