Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 32

The Gaston diet:

* 5 dozen eggs qd

Stop diet when #gainz approximate the mass of the ocean-going vessel of your choice

Can today's meme be: cool biology facts (with appropriate and descriptive content warnings)?

Like, little fuzzy animals and stuff?

Boy oh boy

Do I wish

That Microsoft Word were compatible

With Microsoft Word

the "analogue hole" refers to the idea that no matter how hard you try to make sure nobody can make illegal copies of videos, music, or text, there's always a "hole" in the protection that occurs when it's no longer digital. digital content can be protected - video files can be encrypted, music players can limit you to five devices - but analogue signals can't be. for example, itunes can disallow you from putting a song on more than five computers, but if you play the song through your speakers and record it, what you do with it is beyond apple's control.

one of the few remaining analogue outputs on a modern device is the audio jack. this is where you connect your headphones or speakers. your laptop only knows that something's plugged in. it doesn't know what's connected. you could be playing it through earphones or a massive speaker system and it wouldn't be able to tell. meanwhile, HDMI is a digital output format. it can tell if it's been plugged into a TV or a recording device, and can automatically disable output if you're recording it to make it harder for you to make copies of movies.

if the audio jack is replaced by USB-C or bluetooth, it becomes possible to tell what you're connecting to the laptop or phone. your phone might disable audio playback on anything but headphones to prevent you from hosting a public event with the music. it could also detect a recording device that you're using to (for example) make a copy of a song you're listening to on spotify and turn off the playback.

of course, at some point, digital needs to become analogue. humans can't watch electrical pulses, we need to see patterns of light. we can't listen to streams of 1s and 0s, we need vibrations in the air. this means that it's impossible to truly defeat the analogue hole - no matter what you do, someone can always just point a camera at their TV. it'll have worse quality, but it can never be stopped.

the analogue hole is one of many ways to circumvent DRM, or digital rights management. you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

#LynneTeachesTech

The existence of "meat space" implies the existence of "vegetable space," "dairy space" and "bread space"

🍍

In Trek canon, the Vulcan word for a person's essence is "katra"

This is a morphologically acceptable as a Lojban {gismu} and future iterations of the Vulcan language should just be straight-up Lojban

But not like CLL Lojban

Should use xorlo, with selpahi connectives

If CBS needs to hire a writer who can write Lojban for this reason, I will make the sacrifice and take on this lucrative dream-job

‘Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in great astonishment. ‘I never heard of such a thing!’

‘—but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both ways.’

‘I’m sure mine only works one way,’ Alice remarked. ‘I can’t remember things before they happen.’

‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.

- Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

It's a pity that desktop OS's stalled at only one clipboard and multi-button combos for invoking copy/cut/paste

Like, a "cut to clipboard 1" button, a "copy to clipboard 1" button, a "paste from clipboard 1" button and then n more clipboards

Idk maybe the num lock button could change the number pad into 3 sets of cut/copy/paste or something?

I'm a pineapple now

I'm not particularly worried about people who have worked with cops before or people who have ever had dealings with them (where would you draw the line?)

The policy was worded to include people who are employees—cops / people who draw a paycheque from law enforcement

Then some dude from another instance comes and loses his shit about it, saying (among other things):

> Your instance is specifically designed to work well with the FBI.

(Direct quote)

Yesterday, it occurred to me that if a cop ever did show up here, there's nothing in the Community Standards that says they're not welcome

So I added a clause about it, just in case one comes along in the future

I don't mean that I'm gonna start investigating users or whatever

This is in case someone shows up and literally says "I'm a cop"—better to be able to say "you weren't invited in the first place" than to say "we made a new rule to exclude you"

I love clicking "delete" on emails

Not "archive," but "delete"

Goodbye

Get you a man who looks at you the way that Garak looks at Bashir

Before jumping into someone else's mentions:

✅ Am I being contrarian?
✅ Do I already have a relationship with this person, or am I being inappropriately familiar?
✅ Am I "ironically" doing exactly what this person just said not to do?
✅ Am I derailing another legitimate discussion in order to get on my own favourite hobby-horse or to one-up this person in my knowledge of social issues?
✅ Am I saying "Are you surprised?" when they're disappointed?
✅ Am I providing unsolicited advice?

Best places I've found to get free ebooks:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

http://gutenberg.ca/

https://standardebooks.org/

Do you have other favourite places to get free ebooks? Feel free to boost or reply with others!

@sandrockcstm

Dear Walter,

Please find attached an unsolicited screenplay for "Avengers 31: Cap 'n Bucky's big gay wedding" as well as an invoice for: $ million dollar.

No edits will be required. I expect to start filming within the week.

Best regards,
The research fairy

Academia: Publish or perish!

Journals: Yes, signing away your rights to receive royalties for your work was certainly done voluntarily and without coercion this sounds legit