Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 2

@morganth There was an Encyclopedia Brown cookbook?!

@morganth I remember enjoying Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid (our teacher in, I think Grade 4) read a few of them aloud to us in class and I probably read a few myself. I'm glad that I have forgotten all the plots, because that thread is just full of WTF moments.

@diffractie It's really remarkable the rare time you see a history or biography that actually notes a person being especially bigoted *even for the time in which they lived.* One of the only examples I can think of is a thing I once read about HP Lovecraft, which stated plainly that he was incredibly racist even by the standards of the era.

@adasauce One of my first thoughts was: can Pidgin run on Android?

@adasauce Too bad all the big corps were too greedy to stick with jabber as a common protocol.

Disa is also no longer worthwhile. It functions, but only supports Facebook messenger, Telegram and SMS. WhatsApp has been depreciated due to API changes and no other services are available. The hunt, possible futile, continues...

OK, so scratch Snowball off the list. It doesn't work on Android 10.

@Paul It appears to be non-functional on Android 10, at least when I deny it location permission and a few others that I can't see why a messaging inbox (note: not a messaging service) would need. And upon installation is does explicitly state it was designed for an older version of Android and may not function correctly. :(

@Paul https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/squanda/snowball/snowball-2-1-2-release/snowball-smart-notifications-2-1-2-android-apk-download/

Oh! Apparently there are (or were?) a few apps that actually did this. None of them seem to be available in the Play Store or on F-Droid, but APK Mirror has at least one. Gonna test it out and see if it actually works with the latest version of Android. Apparently it's still in active development/maintenance.

I realize this is probably impossible and the only reason unified inboxes for multiple email accounts are possible is because all email uses the same standard (right?).

Wanted: a single inbox for all non-email messages (SMS/MSS, WhatsApp, Signal, XMPP, etc) that retains the encryption on the protocols that are encrypted, but basically just lets me send and receive to all the fucking messaging apps from a single app/inbox/outbox on my phone.

@msh @Shufei I would have been too young, yeah. Interesting to know, though.

Kragk's life in the dungeon was much shorter than Cacw's. I don't have the obituary in front of me, but it was minutes, not hours. I was less attached to him, but his death felt sadder, in a way. He foolishly thought all the cave orcs would be his friends, once he accepted their religion. He was an overzealous convert who didn't even realize he had joined a sectarian religious war. When the other orc magicked him to death, he was called a heretic. From zealot to heretic in an instant.

Cacw was followed by a hill orc monk named Kragk who accepted the dark god Beogh when a cave orc priest called out and invited him to join their religion. The once hostile cave orcs joined him in his quest until he descend another level and got into it with another band of orcs who didn't recognize him as one of their own. Kragk tried to flee their dark magic, but was struck down before he was able to regroup with his gang. Together, they might have been victorious. Alone, Kragk was no one.

OK, I'm officially "into" roguelikes, or at least Dungeon Crawl. My first character died in mere minutes, and it was during hint mode so his death was never even noted. My second guy, a minotaur berserker named Cacw, descended into the first branch, reaching the Lair after a bit over 2 hours (8,400ish turns) where he was immediately in over his head and killed by a pack of Blink Frogs that he'd waited too long to run away from. Overconfidence was his folly. Truly, a death of classical tragedy.

@keithzg @mpjgregoire Also, no, often they do not pay taxes. Multiple rural counties and municipalities are owed a lot of money in property tax by oil companies that are simply not paying it. I'll see if I can dig up a recent article later

@keithzg @mpjgregoire Quite often, the oil companies operating here are essentially shell companies that declare bankruptcy as soon as their operations are done, as well, and by the time the receivers have taken their money there's nothing left for clean up. And it's hard to sue a company that no longer exists.

Dammit, GChat, history should be *off* by default.