William B Peckham

@DarkSheepArts@mastoart.social @jaykuo@universeodon.com just look at a globe and look at the center of the Pacific Ocean and notice that there's almost no land anywhere. Virtually all land on earth is on the other side of the world from the center of the Pacific Ocean. At somewhere out there in the middle, there's a little string of islands called Hawaii. It's a long friggin' way from everywhere. This lady is Wonder Woman Class Super!

@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital Best use of earbuds ever! 😁

@paninid@mastodon.world Just for contrast and information, it should be noted that there is no law against touching paint.

@occult@vox.ominous.net I think what they mean is not that mastodon or the Fediverse is too difficult to figure out how to make work or even difficult to understand in principle. It's that they can't figure out how to make money off of it. They want to follow the money and look at the income stream and are shocked when they're told it doesn't have that. They don't believe it because they don't want to believe it, and therein their interest dies. The problem is not with Mastodon or the fediverse. The problem is with the audience. (and I can see this because I ran a bullet board system in the 1980s and 90s and understood Fidonet and Maximus. I remember trying to talk about that stuff to someone who ran a wildcat BBS and it was like talking to a brick wall. Hello, there are new crop of brick walls!) 🤦‍♂️

@FoxesInLove If you have lived it, you know. My mother-in-law did this exactly like that. My mother did not, but she did a different thing. Where, if she got speaking too fast, she would begin in one sentence, skip the end of that sentence and the beginning of the next, and finish end of that next sentence, so that it made almost totally no sense at all unless you were following her thoughts rather than her words. And every time she did that, Dad would just smile at her.

@georgetakei I am about as cis as you can get, with the next time I get over there, I expect to see that flag. The convict in the dorito makeup had no right to remove it.

@Tutanota@mastodon.social I would like to see such a chart comparing additional services to at least include Proton. I will continue to use all the ones I use now, including Tutanotan and Proton, but it would make it easier to listen to someone else's needs and opinions and decide how to advise them.

@codemonkeymike @HitokiriEric @coldclimate frankly, the last time I liked what Apple did, they were making the Apple IIe

@tux0r@layer8.space @Linux@planet.moe @jon@social.vivaldi.net I did my own email domains at one time, but I did it alongside having to do it for a business as well. That was over 20 years ago. It has gotten far, far more complicated for the administrator since then.

@rms@mastodon.xyz I find that shocking, but not as shocking as the admission that some percentage of college freshmen can't read up to the level of a 10 year old. Those must be our future politicians on the conservative side.

@Rojertb@mastodon.scot I do imagine there would be immediate and emphatic action if someone were to crush HIS eggs. But I don't expect we will ever find out.

@CommonSparrow@mindly.social @stux@mstdn.social The reflecting pool was designed for the American people and anyone who wants to visit the National Mall. It belongs to the American people, not to the President or the Congress. But then the same could be said of the east wing of the White House.

@winkwinkerson@mastodon.social Okay, then let me make my position clear. I thought that work on creating the Apple computer was brilliant and I think the Apple 2 was brilliant. And there was a huge culture of experimenters and developers that worked on modified hardware for those and versions of those that would do more things, and software for those that was truly exciting. And they totally abandoned that community and culture after that, to chase the money. They adopted a policy of lock-in and lockout. And I hate that.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I don't know why that tickled me so much, but I had a giggle fit over my coffee on this one. Friggin' GREAT work! 😆

@Doreen32128 I have to admit, I did not have that on my bingo card! 🤦

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I believe this should be entirely up to you. Personally, if you make four individual panels and join them in a post, that's much easier for me to read because I'm older than some rocks. But the more important thing to me is do you enjoy what you're doing, and are you doing it in a way that avoids burning you out? Because what format you choose to post it in is far less painful than having you burn out and stop posting!

@Sonikku@techhub.social @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social A sign just like the one I made for my CP/M-86 computer!

@Tutanota@mastodon.social I never trusted Meta, or specifically Instagram, to have encryption that actually protected users anyway. Companies like that protect themselves from liability, but they don't protect users.

@freedosproject@fosstodon.org Ooo! Ooo! Don't forget the three condition if statements! That's pretty rare anywhere else, but it's core Fortran.

@heyla@toot.community @eighthave@social.librem.one I don't think they lied from the beginning. I think in the beginning the Do No Evil motto was actually honored and heartfelt. That Google fell to corruption and died and is no more. And the new Google under Alphabet has made itself a single point of failure for everything it does. Clearly then, all sensible people should avoid it whenever possible.

@Tutanota I have to ask if you have to be Canadian to sign on with that. Because I absolutely want to get behind getting rid of that kind of mistaken law, but I'm not Canadian.

@ee @Tutanota I think this is a good and wonderful thing, and it will probably make some difference for everybody, regardless of how broad they are. But, I was just curious to know. I think the assumption that they mean anyone outside the EU or outside of the vicinity of Germany is probably a valid one. But regardless of that, it is a very good thing that they're still making improvements and to making progress. That is key.

@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital Healing is now your top priority! And letting you heal is OUR top priority!

@Tutanota Abroad from where, exactly?

@tempusfelix @azonenberg @ahltorp The MRP and LRP meals are dried, even things that are liquid are so heavily extracted that you need to drink a lot of water if you consume them. C-Rats were a bit better because they had things actually in cans. But they also contained some dehydrated food products. I specifically remember the beef patty. It looked vaguely like a burger, but if you couldn't rehydrate it and had to just eat it dry, it was a dog biscuit. If you've stored dehydrated foods and you haven't stored a water processing unit, you're just fooling yourself.

@mhoye Let us say you are a parent and you think that having operating systems report the age of the user is a good idea. The browser connects to a social media site and it asks and the browser pulls the operating system and gets the age group and reports it to the social media site. Now the site only presents age-appropriate material, right? Except if there are predators on that site watching that flag: And what they have now is a clear and updated indicator for what accounts represent vulnerable young people who have not the knowledge to defend themselves. A victim list, if you will. /S isn't that a wonderful idea? S/..

@davidrevoy My next quest is to save the life of a wizard who knows only how to make a bag of holding. We will make out like bandits without any risk.

@signalstation@raggedfeathers.com I truly believe that librarians used to be information ninjas. Don't look now, but I think they still are.

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org wait, what? The Pope only leading by 12 points? I would have guessed more like three times that!

@grote pretty, but I do not see how you start a manual update scan of the repos. Or how you do manual app updates. Those were normal procedures I do at least once daily with the older version. It should be interesting to see how this differs.

@drmikepj actually, helicopters can be used for city center to city center travel. Other than hospital to hospital, they're not used very much for that, but they can be. It just costs a frig-ton of money to do it. I remember reading some articles from before my time where, before helicopters, they thought that autogyros, which are a simpler technology, would be the commuter car of the future. I seriously wish they had put their efforts, imagination and money into building better mass transit. We could use more local electric trains.

@warandpeas@mastodon.social Poor Sally!

@ee @Tutanota That was my first thought. But the I have to wonder what they REALLY mean. Because when you have clients all over the world, it is important to specify. And people who live in different places mean different things when they say abroad Among all the English-speaking people, it seems to match the definition, but the definition leaves a bit of ambiguity. Especially if you live on an island or an island continent. (I lived for a time on an island in Lake Michigan. There's even one place where you can live on an island in a lake that's inside an island that's in a lake. And the meanings of definitions start to get a little confused.)

@kde perhaps part of the lesson should be "don't use systemd"!

@Tutanota@mastodon.social That is not Google not being evil. That is just Google being evil less obviously. It still seriously stinks and I am not happy. And since I live in the USA, I still can't buy a Norwegian non-Android phone.

@lopta MintDE.

@winkwinkerson That might depend on your perception and definition of great in this context. Our perspectives are clearly different and I think we'll just agree to disagree on that.

@seabass@social.seabass.systems @kde@floss.social As easy and as well established as that is between Android and Linux, or Android and anything else, the ease of Linux to Linux communication if you have a non-Android Linux phone can be just as startling to the uninitiated. If only we could rip Android development lead away from Google and put it back in open source where it belongs Would it not be wonderful if KDE Connect capabilities were built into the Android kernel?

@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social you say that as if you think he's gone. He's just out of office. He's not out of politics. I mean, there are places where one means the other, but Hungary isn't one of those places.

@heyla@toot.community @eighthave@social.librem.one That does not connect to anything that either of us said. And neither of us said anything to indicate that we are or agree with Nazis or other fascists. Perhaps you could explain your comments?

@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com B just look at how few people actually know how to use a B battery. 😆

@isagalaev @wezm I think not. To properly use the seasons, you have to qualify them. Even in the northern hemisphere. I'm in the USA, and if I'm talking winter new Mexico, that's the 62 day period when you might get snow in the morning, but it will be gone by noon. If you're talking winter in some parts of Alaska, you're talking about the best nine months of the year. And of course, if you're talking about anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere you have totally flipped expectations unless you say where it is in the southern hemisphere. Why is it so hard for people to figure out that the planet is a globe?

@FediThing I have to say that that does sound something, but random isn't it.

@ee @Tutanota "..but particularly Tuta users abroad..."

@ee @Tutanota Right. In this context, what does abroad mean? Where, exactly?

@jaykuo@universeodon.com According to the doctors, the worm died. I guess it couldn't stomach him either.

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net @aburka@hachyderm.io @AAKL@infosec.exchange @janvlug@mastodon.social @zetabeta@mastodon.social @ferricoxide@blahaj.zone @geomaster337@mastodon.social @MattMerk@mastodon.social @johnhenrythe3rd@mastodon.social @lopta@mastodon.social @InkySchwartz@mastodon.social @gbsills@social.vivaldi.net Not one non-google OS is compatible with my $250USD Bold-N4. And the closest match to it in non-googled phones is about $1000USD. There is another for a bit less, but it's not available in the US.

@dw_innovation@mastodon.social @hackernoon@mas.to I first read the evaluations of the people testing the Automated Incompetence engines and read someone who spent six hours getting results and debugging results from such a machine to accomplish an uncommon but relatively simple task. The machine never gave a correct answer, but over time its answers got better, and it finally gave one that could be fixed by any competent coder. But any competent coder could probably solve the problem ad hoc in 20 minutes by working without AI. At that point, I determined never to waste my time with Automated Incompetence.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com You know, if you put these guys on television with this act, it would be absolutely hilarious. What makes it scary is they're destroying the country and the world with this garbage!

@lehtimaeki@snapp.social @fdroidorg@floss.social I was so thrilled at the features of the new F-Droid clients that I went to Neo Store and uninstalled F-Droid. It gets me to the same repositories and the same applications, and refreshes on command instead of at some time schedule that is not under my control.