Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@molly0xfff
Some posts just quietly whisper "you really don't want to read the replies on this one." So I won't.

@fulelo if the images projected on Windsor Castle in themselves constitute malicious communication, surely the news reports reproducing them must also be malicious communication.

@fulelo
What they did doesn't meet the legal definition of what they're charged with. Not even close.

@sundogplanets If the meetings run past sunset, I know how for the bargain one-time price of $50,000 you could get another 0.4 seconds of daylight in which to wrap things up.

I just noticed that "positronic" is an anagram for "postironic". I'm sure this signfies something.

@w7voa

ISTR whenever you talk about reducing carbon emissions the usual suspects would yell "what about China??? No point if China's not doing it!!!"
China now leads the world in solar power development... and yet here we are.

@bruces
I live 8 blocks from a genuine weirdo hardware store. This looks like a Home Depot or something

@mathaetaes @w7voa
Clearly Taylor Swift is implicated here

@johncarlosbaez

"Your intellectually insulting aspect reminds me of you as the Marie Antoinette of theoretical physics influencers.”

This is not a sentence a mentally sound person speaks. This is lately-I've-started-collecting-my-toenail- clippings-in-mason-jars stuff.

Having had three cups of strong coffee in as many hours, try soldering 36 x 0.1" pitch pins on a board that has an unprotected LCD display surface-mounted perhaps 5mm away, using the sort of blunt-tipped soldering iron better suited to, say, repairing a watering can.

Amazingly I got away with it, but it's not the neatest job i've ever done.

@sundogplanets

I really do need to find these people who'll throw billions at a project that won't work. I've got lots of ideas.

@Ruth_Mottram @alphapony

Brilliant. (Debian here, on the rare occasion i install something for predominantly desktop use. The rest of the time it's Devuan if I need to run some kind of big complicated service application with lots of dependencies; Void Linux for straightforward servers running well-known services, daemons, CLI apps etc; and Alpine for appliances.)

As an aside, a remarkable weakness in all the browsers I just tried: no context menu option to copy Alt text!

@w7voa

When you're born into his world, or are really any combination of prominent and right-wing, then consequences are for other people.

And before anyone says it, this ISN'T cynicism. It's manifestly the case and has been repeatedly demonstrated, including -- one might even say especially -- in his case.

@EugeneMcParland
Helping someone rise to power is not only no guarantee of safety, it makes one very possibly the greatest threat to that person.

Once you're in power, it's safer to surround yourself with people who just plain lack the competence for such machinations. Say, a blundering drunkard as Defense Secretary, a vacillating weakling at State...

@sundogplanets
Maybe the Incas bred them to be weird for some social reason which has since been lost to us?

@PizzaDemon @evacide
Seven-fingered gloves, for people who are AI generated

@pivic I'm running an extension to suppress Google's AI summaries, since the URL parameter and search term flags have stopped working, and what it does is simply expunge it from the page at render time.

It's still burning all that coal and drawing down the water table because Google desperately doesn't want to not do that.

@fedops @lorenzofb

Yep. Unless the client is open-source, e2e is just marketing.

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @luckytran

Gonna be damn hard to change anything if we can't flip some of the saner ones, and you don't do that by being tribal.

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @luckytran

Yes. Worse is they way I hear some people insisting it should be called the Democratic Health Alliance. As if further entangling it with politics will do anything but harm. As far as I'm concerned if a purple state with a red Governor or red-leaning House wants to reject the Trump administration's dismantling of healthcare and join in, that'd be all to the good.