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.
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@Reiddragon @me
@Reiddragon
DJ UNK and I basically have a show that's just about what @me does.
BREAKING
GREEN TEA ADDED TO MENU AT PARADISE SUSHI
so according to classic Bell labs at worst jlamothe is a minor success ;p
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.
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I honestly didn't think veilid managed to get anywhere, which was sad.
VeilidChat exists but I think that's the only productive/useful project.
Development on the repos has really slowed down post-announcement, which isn't inherently a bad thing, if it's "done", but I don't think it's done - instead it feels stalled.
Maybe it all moved on-network and to places I can't see? That'd be cool.
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Dear spammers:
If you're going to create fake accounts, maybe don't choose a profile photo with an iStock watermark...
#FediBlock
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@Alex :autism: :neofox_flag_ace: Good to know. I don't like to use third-party lists, because I use defederation as a last resort, and want to make those calls on a case-by-case basis as I become aware of them. Fortunately, I'm a small enough server that that's been a sustainable policy so far.
I'll check out those other two, though I'm pretty sure I already have at least noagendatube.com
blocked already. It sounds familiar.
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?
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.
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as having a higher operator precedence than ||
. That led to a fun little bug.
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...
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@screwlisp At the moment, the only way in is by teleportation. I've requested a link in from TinyTown, but the person who owns the area hasn't been online in about a month.
You can use @go #43453
in the meantime.
I'll link it into my already existing area if necessary, but I was hoping for something more central.
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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?
@PerryM ✅ I don't understand Freedom Units, but I tried to put everything in the same unit (grams) to give an idea of the sense of scale. My main takeaway is that the glucose measurement makes up somewhere in the ballpark of 0.1% by mass. The fact that it's possible to get that precise a reading from a single drop of blood is downright bananas.
Edit: 0.1%, not 1%. 1% would probably be lethal.
Jon, I was "pulling your chain". Your math is perfect and your amazement logical.
Not questioning the accuracy is nearly the same as not questioning the building an ARK big enough to hold 2 of every animal on earth and feeding them and what comes next and even getting all of them on the Ark without DHL!
Seems to have been inspired by this: archive.ph/G4ai1
Reporting in the Washington Post that the CDC says one day of isolation is enough for COVID cases.
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#Amazon
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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.
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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'.
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#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #StarTrek #TWOK
Should I dive down the rabbit hole of learning #Godot while I already have so many other projects on the go? Probably not.
Am I? Of course.
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