Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

Airports: people aimlessly wandering, abruptly stopping, agglomerating into slow walls of flesh and knee-high wheeled bollards, merging with scattered gawpers spilled out ends of moving sidewalks.

giving a very quiet shout-out to librarians

Sure would be nice if all these abandoned old Android/iOS phones and tablets were useful.

So #Apple is no different on privacy? I guess when all you have is 'trust us', you kind of gave away the game.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/26/siri-human-analysis-voice-recordings

so the weirdest thing in shoreline right now is a rash of art pianos appearing overnight in public places and like, either this is a weirdly specific civic program or we have a cabal of guerilla piano decorators

RT @dominucco@twitter.com

My son asked me what I am doing told him Im installing @elementary@twitter.com and he asked if it was Apple, I said no “my friend Cassidy.” He wa so excited at the idea of software by “friends”. This is how we get #FOSS to the next gen @CassidyJames@twitter.com @ChrisLAS@twitter.com @wespayne@twitter.com @carlrichell@twitter.com #linux

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1154880632847310848

If you're a US citizen, don't forget to collect your $125+ from Equifax's data-breach settlement: https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/

https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

I scored an old oscilloscope today. It's from 1982 and made in Victoria by a company called BWD. It's in pretty good nick, though the screen seems to flicker a bit when turning various knobs. I found a service and repair manual for it too. Apparently these are easy to repair. I can get three more if I want too. Now to make a function generator. Maybe I'll use that Arduino kit I've had for ages. I found a thing on the internet using a Arduino nano.

Good stuff. Discussing the ethical implications of “ed tech,” or technology in education. https://pca.st/3u8L

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US residents:

Jump on the Equifax leak claim wagon. You get $125 in the settlement, automatically. ALSO, you can be compensated at the rate of $25 per hour for time spend remediating their fuckup, and only have to provide documentation if you spent more than 10 hours unfucking them. The official claim site is https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/