Notices by clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com), page 17
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clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 02:20:06 EDT 
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@skalman Nothing surprises anymore. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 01:28:03 EDT
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@shmibs @feld I'll be here all week, dropping dad jokes like hot potatoes. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 01:22:14 EDT
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@skalman Ugh. Apologies, it didn't do that to me, but yes, thelocal is pretty thick with ads. I won't link there again. :-( -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 01:21:23 EDT
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/02/climate-change-to-cause-humid-heatwaves-that-will-kill-even-healthy-people
> Even outside of these hotspots, three-quarters of the 1.7bn population – particularly those farming in the Ganges and Indus valleys – will be exposed to a level of humid heat classed as posing “extreme danger” towards the end of the century.
> The new analysis assesses the impact of climate change on the deadly combination of heat and humidity, measured as the “wet bulb” temperature (WBT). Once this reaches 35C, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating and even fit people sitting in the shade will die within six hours.
Wet Bulb Temperature is the temperature you can cool the air to using water evaporation only, saturating the air to 100%. At 100% humidity it is equivalent to the actual temperature. The theoretical measure can in practice be approximated with a thermometer with its bulb wrapped in a wet cloth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 01:10:04 EDT
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https://www.healthyway.com/content/how-women-ended-up-removing-hair-from-their-entire-bodies-a-history/
> In the 1920s and ’30s, women used pumice stones or sandpaper to depilate, which caused irritation and scabbing. Some tried modified shoemaker’s waxes. Thousands were killed or permanently disabled by Koremlu, a cream made from the rat poison thallium acetate. It was successful in eliminating hair, and also in causing muscular atrophy, blindness, limb damage, and death.
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> “X-ray hair removal emerged as another treatment option,” Ajaka writes. “Women would sit for three or four minutes in front of the invisible rays of a boxed X-ray machine, and the radiation would do its work.”
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> Advertisements for the Tricho System claimed that the “harmless” X-rays helped patients free themselves from “futile, dangerous and injurious means of removing disfiguring superfluous hair.” -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 00:32:16 EDT
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This happened as I was making my morning oatmeal and my brain suddenly replayed an IRC conversation from last week about bowdlerized in-flight movies, and one example was "that's what happens when you meet a stranger in the Alps" from the scene where Walter goes Walter on that sports car.
And like, to explain that scene you have to trace the whole movie up until that point and it's basically impossible to have it make sense.
"face" or "find" would be better lip-synced than "meet", surely? -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 00:27:19 EDT
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@shmibs @feld Through a series of mental jumps I am suddenly wondering if any spouse of an athlete woman ever presented her as "my awfully shredded wife". -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 00:24:32 EDT
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If I imagine myself explaining any one scene from The Big Lebowsky to someone who hasn't seen the movie, it just sounds so utterly bizarre in my head that it makes me want to go and watch the movie for the umpteenth time. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 00:01:27 EDT
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@jorty @Yato @unascribed Somebody didn't clear their dock first thing they did after creating their user. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 23:57:26 EDT
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The Swedish authorities try to filter out any customized license plates that may offend people:
https://www.thelocal.se/20170215/swedens-offensive-number-plate-enthusiast-strikes-again
But of course it's difficult for them to know what will be offensive in any of the other 20+ European languages (or for the more authoritarian governments):
https://www.thelocal.se/20180731/romanian-stirs-debate-with-swedish-anti-government-licence-plates -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 23:02:00 EDT
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@craigmaloney It's outsourcing all the way down.
https://www.xkcd.com/908/
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clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 21:33:12 EDT
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@feld @meena How do you feel about "spouse"? -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 21:30:06 EDT
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@yookoala @strypey Oh, https://loopdev.community/ looks very interesting. How many are you usually there and what kinds of projects are you working on? -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 21:26:26 EDT
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@strypey @mmn @moonman I don't think there's any need to mystify it or exaggerate it. I think it's pretty clear that force multipliers allow those with resources to overpower those without them.
Like almost any weapon, it can be used for good. I still find disarmament attractive and equalizing.
And I think PR is less social than shitposting, perhaps even anti-social, depending on how it's done. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 21:18:29 EDT
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@feld Now, "my woman" on the other hand ... -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Jul-2018 05:37:45 EDT
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> Since Japanese computers use one character to represent the entire era name (compressing Heisei into ㍻ rather than 平成, for instance), Unicode needs to set the standard for that new character. But it can’t do that until it knows what it’s called, and it won’t know that until late February at best. Unfortunately, version 12 of Unicode is due to come out in early March, which means it needs to be finished before then, and can’t be delayed.
> "The UTC cannot afford to make any mistakes here [ . . . ]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/big-tech-warns-japan-millennium-bug-y2k-emperor-akihito-abdication
Yes, by coincidence the Unicode Technical Committee is abbreviated UTC and tjey're affected by this time-related event. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Jul-2018 02:47:39 EDT
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After Trump comment, Montenegro clarifies that it is at a pretty low risk of starting WWIII right now.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17590234/montenegro-trump-tucker-carlson-nato-world-war-iii -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 23:02:10 EDT
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@strypey git-torrent was a proof of concept with a bunch of "here's a few things that need to be solved for this to be viable", and didn't go beyond that.
git-ssb is a separate work (but probably knew about git-torrent), and the append-only log offering a canonical layout of the packs solves the major issue with git-torrent -- that it's unlikely that somebody happens to share exactly the set of data you're trying to download. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 02:54:09 EDT
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@Wolf480pl @strypey @ente @webmind @pesco @rysiek Some people have suggested that instead of appointing seats according to votes as a fraction of the total votes given, appoint them according to votes as a fraction of the eligible voters. To let those empty seats remind politicians in every session what level of support they actually have. -
clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 05:44:20 EDT
clacke@libranet.de ❌
@deadsuperhero @cwebber
Point of order: MediaGoblin is older than ActivityPub, older than pump.io even.
I still remember when the guy on identi.ca with the weird cute alien monster avatar said he was planning to write a better gallery application and I was thinking "yeah right, aren't we all".
Well, he sure showed me. <3
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