Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)

While I also occasionally suffer from the regular FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), I mainly suffer from KIMO (Know I’m Missing Out) about the following behaviors:
- Belonging to a cult, whether it’s religious, sports or political.
- Believing individual words have any inherent power.
- Enjoying recreational drugs, including alcohol, smoking and coffee.

And I feel it makes it harder for me to find a meaning for my life given I’m not experiencing the full range of behaviors it offers. 🤔

My company's latest internal training about business ethics contains this uncut gem:

Keep in mind...

... if you’ve indicated where you work on your personal social media, people online might reach out to your employer to complain about your online actions.

Compared to the rest of the training, the more informal tone of this tidbit with the ellipses makes me think it was a last minute addition after Things Had Happened.

How do I know that a Meta engineer is working from home in my apartment building? Probably the unclaimed-for-days bubble mailer in the shared package room addressed to "[redacted] Meta Platforms, Inc" that has sticker labels on it saying it includes a Yubico pass key and an "Open Me First" document.

#OpSec

German language capitalizes all nouns, sure. But why not go all the way in composite nouns, like ComicHeft or BundesDatenSchutzGesetz?

#linguistics

Quoted anonymously because I do not want to hurt their feelings, to the question whether we’re the only intelligent life form in the Universe:

[…]the arrogance required to assume we're unique in the vastness of the universe seems deeply human to me.

I’d argue that mainly basing oneself on a perceived humanity trait to answer a question that has been asked so many times that we probably have a pretty good statistical model for it seems equally human to me.

Not saying they’re wrong, but the arrogant ones might not be wrong either just because they’re arrogant.

I finally pulled the trigger and bought a second-hand copy of the #LEGO 71411 The Mighty Bowser set lego.com/en-us/product/the-mig…. And at almost 3,000 parts, it’s a hefty chonker. On the plus side, his eyes and eyebrows are posable, for delightfully silly effects. On the minus side, without the by-bag sorting of a new set, the paper instructions have a terrible color palette and I made several color errors during the build, which made me think I was missing more parts than I actually did.

In the end, the set looks pretty close from the original #Nintendo subject and my main issue will be to find a spot in my apartment for this large and rather heavy model.

friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos…

Last week someone contacted me out of the blue in my #LEGO BrickLink store to offer me money for the design files of the Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) “Bigfoot” vehicle they found a picture of in Google Search.

I was surprised because I only posted about it on here, and my Friendica node isn’t indexed by Google. It turns out Google indexed a copy of my post on a Diaspora server diasp.org/posts/22954129, and through the #LEGO hashtag it contained, found another post by me where I promoted my BrickLink storefront store.bricklink.com/MrPetovan.

Here’s the thing, I can’t find this post anymore on my own Friendica node, which is a little sad and worrying, but I’m glad it lives on in the larger decentralized social media network it is a part of.

I ended up spending a couple of hours cleaning the design and working on the instructions and I sent the result free of charge to the requester which made him happy.

Here it is on my NextCloud server nextcloud.mrpetovan.com/index.… if you’re interested, the ZIP archive includes a Stud.io file and the instructions PDF. It’s loosely based on another MOC that I bought on Rebrickable so I’m not sure I can submit it over there but I can distribute it here.

I didn’t include a separate XML parts list file since the requester didn’t ask for it, please let me know if you’d need it.

friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos…