Padraic Harley @pauricthelodger@mastodon.social

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/

"Google bosses have tried to contain the anger by shutting down employee access to documents about the China search engine. Following leaks from an all-hands staff meeting last month, sources said, the company has tightened rules so that employees working remotely can no longer view a livestream of the meetings on their own computers — they can only watch them inside a designated room at a Google office overseen by managers."

yeah that'll work

@cypnk This Firefox extension redirects AMP links to the regular alternative. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/amp2html

"If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor." - Haitian proverb (alleged)

- a microSD card weighs somewhere around 0.4g
- the highest capacity microSD that's easily available is 256GB
- a trebuchet can throw a 90kg projectile over 300m

90kg worth of microSD cards is 225,000 of them

Therefore a trebuchet can throw 57.6PB of data over 300m

This would have the highest throughput of any telecommunications network ever created

Pubs/restaurants in train stations should list an "average cooking time" so you know how long you have to get it and eat or before your next train.

Some weird point I keep seeing on Birdsite is that CWs steal due attention and deserved views away from content creators...

What happens in actuality: [CW: Horny, Strange Fetishes, Don't Open Unless You're Down to Clown]

Y'all:

@pauricthelodger
Modern Postman Pat is "Postman Pat SDS", "Special Delivery Service", where he appears to work for a courier outfit with no respect for his personal time. Genuinely not even kidding.

Riker: If I didn’t know you better, I’d say that you were procrastinating.
Worf: Klingons do not procrastinate. It is a... tactical delay.

announcing fediverse.space -- an interactive map of active mastodon and pleroma communities. check it out and lemme know what you think <3

https://fediverse.space/

The f is Chrome doing to urls? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410

US voting machine vendors and officials insist that it's OK to build wireless networking into election systems https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/what-could-go-worng.html

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Big news in #OpenAccess:

- No more embargoes
- No more copyright transfer
- No hybrid journals
- A cap on APCs

...for practically all European-funded research from 2020 onwards. It's called #planS, and it's fantastic!

https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/

https://sunbeam.city/media/8gBXXT-Fp1yeAMZhMGA

Was watching old political jokes in Pinky & The Brain when suddenly