CJ Mallard @duck57@mastodon.social

@x0rz hospital security: using so old computers, that a wannacry attack is always possible

@natecull The cubic yard might just be the most esoteric measurement still in use.

Another Norwegian contribution conveniently left out of history is the major contribution of the Norwegian merchant fleet during WWII. You see, even though Norway was occupied, Hitler didn't control the merchant fleet. It was controlled by the Norwegian exile government in London, and played a significant part in the allied efforts. Prior to WWII, Norway was the 4th largest shipping nation, behind the UK, US and Japan. Google Nortraship to learn the whole story.

RE google earth street level appearance, this is what i mean. trees are turned into meaningless geometry. all the buildings are off model, the cars are melted lumps in the road. its so beautifully broken

this smol cloud covered the sun as much as it could.

it's doing it's best!

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@rotatingskull True. And it's a zero sum game. Power relinquished doesn't disappear; it is taken over by others.

Power is real. Pretending that it isn’t is the most liberal of fallacies. Attempting to eliminate it is like attempting to purify your body of food. You can use power for good or for ill, but you can’t simply do without it and continue to exist.

You know what's a real travesty in browser land? iframes cannot automatically resize to the height of their content. The height can only ever be hardcoded. For this reason all embed codes on the web need JavaScript.

@garbados We're already at the point where local communities could run their own power & Internet utilities today. The main barrier is the existing monopoly providers. The fact that ISPs can sue cities to stop them from providing their own Internet is just mindboggling to me.

So there is a movement among activists to pressure Democrat congresspeople to procedurally resist any Trump Supreme Court nominee.

Um, if Democrats don’t already know to do that then just mail them envelopes full of feces because really this should be obvious.

There’s probably no other species besides dogs that we assign human attributes more often to than cats. Arguably, cats probably get that distinction more often because they’re perceived as being aloof or independent (at least when compared to dogs)

I wonder what that says about us. Are cats really more similar to humans or is it the particular combination of behavior and physiology that appeals to us

Meanwhile, in Russia...

Just found out there's nerds on here.

@denidimochka Similarly companies can get Yelp to remove bad reviews. Yes they don’t pay for it (directly) but they can do it. I know because a bad review I left disappeared and was replaced with a comment from the owner of the business. So wtf is the point of Yelp?

Nice branding.

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@h @jjg Yeah. A lot of similarities with both "favorite paper" parties and "unconferences."

@ajroach42

Drugs will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no drugs.

- The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Did cybre.space go extinct? I think I missed that.