Notices by @kmicu@mastodon.social (kmicu@mastodon.social), page 18

@lthms [jokin⸮] But anything supporting Unicode has those too. So what’s all the fuss about‽

@Drops on a phone with LineageOS and no GApps (Google Apps) there is no Play Services and no such messages.

But installing a new ROM is probably not what you are after.

@rixx isn’t Goodreads that centralized service bought by Big Corp Amazon?

[joking] I will not help you put JavaScript inside a PDF ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CTAN/info/pdf-forms-tutorial/en/forms.pdf NEVER! Go straight to hell!

@pasqui023 @devurandom we need to keep in mind that a lot of Scandinavian wealth has roots in (or exists thanks to) oil/gas/etc money and colonialism (source: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-hitchhiking-scandinavian-way-to-the-imperial-riches).

@orbifx my problem is that the author starts with talking about physics with verifiable experiments, moves to things that physics cannot explain yet and from there extrapolates to some non-falsifiable statements. This is not how science works.

Searching for truth is not about [quoting the author] ‘ultimately defending our views’. That’s how religion works.

This is not the first time Aeon published a fishy article. I hope in a week or two they publish a rebuttal (like in the past).

@orbifx so many red flags ‘In my book…’, ‘This is the view I ultimately defend in…’, ‘This essay was made possible through the support of a grant from Templeton Religion Trust to Aeon and a separate grant from the Templeton funded ‘Pantheism and Panentheism’ project to the author.’, ‘recently finished my first book’. I guess Aeon is in real need of money if they publish such things from time to time. :/

@luka [sarcastically] A for-profit company baked by a venture capital does something wrong, where ‘wrong’ means returning invested money with profit via aggressive monetization? How unexpected! 😺

@unfa [Johnny walks to the apartment rooftop]

Johnny: I did not hit her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her!

[throws water bottle]

Johnny: I did *not*. Oh hi, Mark.

Mark: Oh, hey Johnny, what's up?

@breton I do not hate reCAPTCHA. I ‘hate’ when non-Google web services use reCATPCHA. Those folks are the real problem. They are like ‘we have a spam problem, let’s use reCAPTCHA. It’s “free”.’

@evilscientistca and BTW

Only Bad Astronomers Forget Generally Known Mnemonics

@evilscientistca So back in the 1920 stars were classified based on the prominence of H-beta Balmer absorption line ― alphabetically, from the most prominent ‘A’ to the least ‘O’.

Annie Jump Cannon projected those A,…,O scale to the temperature based OBAFGKM (missing classes were too close to other classes and were dropped), where the surface temperature smoothly decreases from O to M.
The new scale preserved old names, but at the cost of losing relation between them.

Damn trade-offs!

@MicroJoe @cy it was enabled by default exactly that https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_Dialer/commit/5c0ab46bd57d502a9ba49f5752608801ffb249ef

@pho4cexa it is not dumb device and for sure it is better than a refurb laptop.
You do not need to charge it every day and it is distraction free *out-of-the-box*. No additional steps required.

*But* you can connect a keyboard to an e-reader (hell, you can even use it as a remote screen https://github.com/borzunov/remoteink).

Still, an integrated&dedicated device is better for creating healthy habits and has better accessibility, especially for elders.

Not everyone can afford DIY solutions/hacks.