Dear OpenBoard,

I have you set to English (UK) for a reason (because English (CA) isn't an option). Quit trying to autocorrect "colour" to "color".

Thanks.

Diving into the #Veilid documentation... or what I can find of it.

I have an idea that may well turn out to be vapourware, but my brain won't let me drop it if I don't at least try to build it.

I've been itching to do something with Veilid since @The Gibson first announced it.

Fun fact: If you comment on a #Lemmy or #kbin post from #Friendica, it lets you see specifically who up/down voted you.

I wonder if people on those platforms know that their votes are not as "anonymous" as they are on #Reddit.

Dear spammers:

If you're going to create fake accounts, maybe don't choose a profile photo with an iStock watermark...

So, I'm eating a Wagonwheel for the first time since childhood. I'm not sure if they've gotten significantly smaller, or if I'm just remembering them as being larger than they were.

Probably both.

There's this little Chinese restaurant that Katy and I like to order from occasionally. Because this is Canada, the fortune cookies tend to have English and French on them (one language on each side of the paper). They're manufactured in such a way that when I crack them open, I usually see the French side first, which usually isn't a problem.

I'll admit that my French is not as good as my English, but I'm more or less bilingual. This time though, I swear the French side of the fortune was generated by a Markov chain or something. I was actually forced to read the English side to figure out what they were trying to say.

The French side:

Vos yeux délicieux, voire dynamiques, ont fait naître un admirateur mystérieux.

The English side:

Your dynamic eyes have attracted a secret admirer.

Am I just forgetting how to speak French, or is this a really clumsily constructed sentence?

Why did people join Threads only to be outraged by them doing Bad Things?

I mean, at this point, I feel that's on you.

At some point (apparently last December) a new #Friendica version came out and I hadn't noticed. Finally got around to upgrading, and it seems to be running much more smoothly than the previous version.

Also, there's a "channels" feature now? Gonna have to look into what that is.

The reason I dislike pure free-market #capitalism is that it invariably leads to decisions being made by accountants that should instead be made by scientists and engineers. When this happens, people tend to die.

Since the capitalist typically doesn't suffer these consequences directly, the only factor that ends up mattering is what it does to their balance sheet.

Strong regulation can translate these human costs into financial ones. To those who argue against this approach, I submit that the only alternative solution to the problem is decidedly... less kind.

Today while I was out, I saw a guy at a busy intersection holding a handwritten sign. Obviously, I assumed he was panhandling, because people frequently do that there.

As I approached, I saw that his sign only had a URL on it. Out of curiosity, I visited it. Turns out it was some bitcoin mining scam.

While this was definitely a novel marketing approach, I wonder how they figured this particular tactic would instill confidence in anyone...

You know what feature I find conspicuously absent from the #LambdaMOO programming language?

Lambdas.

TIL that "ACAB" is in Nintendo's list of "banned words" in #AnimalCrossing. I suppose this makes sense if they want to remain apolitical.

Interestingly enough, "MAGA" is perfectly fine... so I guess there goes that theory.
#ACNH #censorship

When you think about it, blood glucose meters need to be shockingly precise. Let's take a real-world example to illustrate this.

This morning, my glucose levels were 6.7mmol/L. What does that mean? Let me dust off my high school chemistry and bust out a calculator.

The internet tells me that glucose has a chemical composition of C6H12O6, which would give 1mmol of glucose a mass of about 180mg (0.18 grams).

A reading of 6.7mmol/L means that in a litre of blood, there would only be about 1.2 grams of glucose.

For perspective, a litre of water is 1000g. I don't off hand know the density of blood, but I imagine it's not too far off.

My meter was able to tell this from a drop of blood.

That's pretty wild. Can someone check my math on this?

I'm working on building a sushi bar in #LambdaMOO. Katy and I had the following conversation regarding the waitress I'm currently programming:

Katy: I'm surprised you didn't make her a robot.
Me: I thought about it, but a lot of the other shops are basically run by vending machines. I wanted to give mine a more human touch... though, right now she crashes when anyone talks to her. Humans don't do that.
Katy: Well, some do.
Me: Okay, fair point.

Sitting in a waiting room in a medical imaging place and they have an ad for their app to get your results on a mobile device. Among other things, it reads:
"Permanently store them with bank level encryption" (emphasis theirs)

In my experience, if banks are their gold standard of #infosec, I really don't want my medical data anywhere near this system. Just sayin'.