John Blair

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange It's almost certainly an electronic terminal, not the carbon-paper thingy. More and more, the server brings a terminal to you. However, the custom is still that to signal you are ready to pay, you put your credit card on the bill (or inside the folio holding the bill, sticking out so it is visible). I sat for quite a while waiting to pay before remembering this step.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @catsalad@infosec.exchange @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange The origin of the custom is darker than you think. The Pullman Car Company built sleeper cars (wagons) with dining rooms for railroads shortly after the US civil war. The innovation was that the car and the hospitality was not supplied by the railroad operator, but by the Pullman company. Mr. Pullman "hired" recently freed enslaved people to staff the cars and provide service, but didn't pay them! Or paid them "a pittance" (depends on source). The workers were then forced to work for tips from wealthy passengers. This custom became engrained. Service industry jobs could expect a customer provided gratuity.

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @catsalad@infosec.exchange @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange The limits on USA cards are, by EU standards, crazy! My last US card had a limit of $70k. I could have bought a car, if the dealer accepted plastic.

@mulchmaxxing@blahaj.zone @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @quixoticgeek@social.v.st See the "porters" section of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Company

@webhat@infosec.exchange the last group of folks at Midnight Tosti, discussing SoC design and estrogen

this shop never has what I'm looking for

@webhat@infosec.exchange is that a dust storm? am I at That Thing In The Desert? no, just a fog machine test

@webhat@infosec.exchange Midnight Tosti happened again, Friday night!

@webhat@infosec.exchange Polybius is real!

@webhat@infosec.exchange sure! here's a 🧵 #emfcamp2026 Friday evening at dusk

@Pine_Affinity@mastodon.social Radioooooo transmission

@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com still. The earth is still, not flat.