stripey

@stripey@meow.social

He/Him/This Unit
My great grandfather invented boxer-brief underpants.
Avatar by Chris Goodwin;
Header image is the top of a Series I Bridgeport J-head vertical milling machine (but it's not mine)

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futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Cars just keep coming. Evenly spaced.

I see a gap. Yes! Move quickly to walk through. The car about to pass sees; slows. Doesn’t stop. LOL Nooooo not that! just slows enough to destroy the gap.

I bet they feel so considerate!😡

Another gap. Huge gap! This time I don’t move. Don’t wanna spook ‘em. Soon as this car passes I can go! But they see me looking & slow! Desperately I wave for them to go. Confuses them more: they crawl rubbernecking at my misery. But don’t stop. Gap is gone.😖

stripey,

@futurebird the only people I've ever (ever) heard invoke jaywalking as a Thing are suburban drivers. Even if they now live in the city, they still mostly drive and lived most of their lives in suburbs

stripey,

@eyrea @futurebird a dear friend of mine, a decade or so ago, was railing against some pedestrians in a marked crosswalk because he was trying to make a right hand turn.
"They don't have a walk signal!"
"Dude, chill. You don't get to sentence them to death because you're mildly-inconvenienced. You still have to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, regardless of the state of the signal."

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction. Hello?

stripey,

@gulfie @rbreich you can also just call it Twitter; there's no brand committee that'll get upset with you and suspend you or some other such nonsense

stripey,

@gulfie @rbreich cool cool cool. Just be aware that your personal preference for being cute messes with others filters. If you're cool with that, well, I guess you'll be cool with catching blocks.

molly0xfff, to web3
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

stripey,

@molly0xfff aaaaand how does he propose anybody delete a post from an immutable ledger?

stripey, to random

Hey given the news from @universalhub about the explosion and fire, I'm wondering where most of the old DSLJ-type neighborhood discussions have moved. Anybody know?

notpike, to random

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stripey,

@notpike reasonably-sized motor vehicle for the win!

TheConversationUS, to history
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide.

That’s long enough to wrap Earth 10x at the equator – and is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza COMBINED.

https://theconversation.com/new-england-stone-walls-lie-at-the-intersection-of-history-archaeology-ecology-and-geoscience-and-deserve-a-science-of-their-own-216701
@histodons

stripey,

@TheConversationUS @histodons INTENSIFIES

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

As long as I’m meditating on the dark of winter and the soundless void of space I’d like to see if anyone has found any good “scary math movies” (or books) too often attempts at “mathematical horror” are just about how people who like math are kind of strange and maybe that’s “scary” but I don’t feel that. No what I want is for the math itself to be scary.

And not in the “oh no he learned too much and went cuh-ray-zee!” way.

stripey,

@futurebird "I found that I could not halt this terrible transformation. I might impair it, for a little while, only by optimizing myself for the inevitable later progression"

geerlingguy, to random
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social avatar

This morning's project... it's the MNT Reform laptop!

stripey,

@geerlingguy @mntmn is here on Fedi, as well!

CTD, to random
@CTD@mastodon.social avatar

Circular Slide Rule of the Day
#Retro

stripey,

@RandomDamage @MichaelPhillips @Landa @michaelgemar @cstross @nyrath @CTD @FredKiesche @anmwinter It absolutely is, but the question is "how easily?"
Total ethanol immersion with gentle stirring, followed by warm circulating air and finally complete relubrication would certainly sanitize it.

stripey,

@RandomDamage @MichaelPhillips @Landa @michaelgemar @cstross @nyrath @CTD @FredKiesche @anmwinter one hundred percent. An autoclave would destroy the temper of the springs.

rmd1023, to random

Has any Boston-based film ever used someone intentionally double-Storrowing as a scheme to make pursuit difficult? If not, someone should.

stripey,

@qurlyjoe @rmd1023 it happened yesterday; @universalhub has a picture

stripey,

@rmd1023 @qurlyjoe @universalhub I figured; there's another respondent asking what a double-Storrowing is

stripey,

@universalhub @rmd1023 @qurlyjoe heck, maybe I'm old-fashioned; it's only a Storrowing if you're past River St, Eastbound. Everything else is just Sparkling Negligent Operation of an Over-Height Vehicle. ;)

(Of course I kid. Though certainly there was a time where just one bridge was the most-usual suspect, and almost-always it was BU kids moving in)

ktemkin, to random
@ktemkin@chaos.social avatar

I swear, half the CVEs I hear about are “if your computer is connected to the internet and someone sends you a text message, they now have your power of attorney”

and the other half is “if a trained thief were to sneak into your house and replace your hard drive with an identical copy, an attacker with an exact predictive model of that drive could interrogate the SSD wear leveling algorithm and reduce the search space for your bitlocker password by up to 12 bits without you even noticing”

stripey,

@ktemkin and most "analysts" have no idea how to tell the difference between the two and it is infuriating.
"Our scans show all these critical CVE's!"

"None of them are actually exploitable in this configuration."

"OMG you have to patch within 24 hours!"

"Pack sand, champ."

chrispackham, to random
@chrispackham@mastodon.social avatar

It was pretty funny watching Battlestar Galactica eliminate one by one all the possible solutions to an early mystery until the writers finally painted themselves into a corner they could only escape in the final episode by saying "It was angels from heaven"

stripey,

@futurebird @chrispackham
I used to announce my predictions aloud, and my Darling began making her irritation with this known with some gentle sarcasm.
"Yes, love, you are the VERY BEST at Watching Television."

futurebird, (edited ) to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

When men want glamour they write about mercenaries. They write about efficient killers— oh but also they have feelings and maybe trauma—- or not. I hardly even notice it when I’m reading a book. Until I realize the protagonist is some kind of ethically tortured mercenary again and then I have to put down the book and pick my eyeballs off the floor having rolled so hard they popped out again.

I just don’t get it.

stripey,

@futurebird real people are oftentimes complicated enough to match both of these categories of archetype

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Are Trump's lawyers naturally terrible, or do the conditions of their job, probably getting yelled at for making reasonable suggestions... train them to be terrible since it's the only way they can keep the job?

If they aren't getting paid weekly... they aren't very bright.

I expect it's similar to a NFT or crypto reddit forum where there is a "no FUD" (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) rule. Of course he'll win!

At a recent event he said that he "won all 50 states"

Yeah. And they all clapped.

stripey,

@futurebird Kise insisted upon being paid his 3million up front, according to WaPo

neurovagrant, to random
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    stripey,

    @neurovagrant you may already know this - and I apologize if that's the case - but "less permissive" in this case means, really, that a commercial provider is now not able to offer a commercial SaaS offering by just... running their own Matrix instance. AGPL has many flaws, but I can certainly understand why it seems to be finding increasing adoption.
    That having been said, Matrix also has many flaws, principally down to the protocol design.

    stripey,

    @neurovagrant I'm having trouble finding the writeup that first gave me pause. I will keep looking.
    In the meantime, it boiled down to a key-sharing error. I believe that this has since been fixed, but it broke E2E encryption assurances.

    foone, to random
    @foone@digipres.club avatar

    It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
    Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

    I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

    stripey,

    @foone I have been trying to figure out how to do this without actually taking the job at the interim place

    xgranade, to random
    @xgranade@wandering.shop avatar

    I really like Ubuntu, but the idea that apt install foo just does snap install foo behind your back can go fuck itself. There's sometimes good reasons to want stuff to run outside of a snapd-jail.

    stripey,

    @xgranade wait when did that start happening?
    They're shipping their own apt fork?

    stripey,

    @xgranade FUCK THAT

    futurebird, to random
    @futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

    "Incogni" is a company heavily advertised online. They "protect you from data brokers" going through the motions of removing you from mailing lists.

    But I don't see how this service can work as a for-profit corp. There is always the risk Incogni goes under & your data, now more sought after gets sold in the liquidation.

    No, what we need is something like incogni, but a not for profit corp. That charged for most services based on what you could pay. With lawyer and a big ol endowment.

    stripey,

    @futurebird It's interesting to me that Incogni does not seem to have any of the standard third-party audit certifications I have come to expect technology vendors to secure. (SOC2, ISO-27001,etc) Or if they do, I didn't find them posted

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