Since I'm going to be breaking out the air mattress so I can kip downstairs where it is cooler this week, I began to wonder what other things I should do for the full EMF-at-home experience.
- put my router in a Playmobil datenklo
- ask next door to play Amsterdam trance from 7am
- park my car five streets away
- ask the other next door to converse in German
- all the pride flags. All of them. More.
@grumpybozo I think your mental model of “most people” may be a bit skewed. Sure, all the people who know what they’re doing are using a password manager. A typical person has two, plus several TOTP apps depending which one a given site recommended, and a bunch of saved passwords in three different browsers.
The easiest way of testing if your self-hosted mail server can scale to cope with thousands of messages is to order £5 of stuff from AliExpress.
I’ve not really done anything today but scroll through social media because it’s too hot to be active, and I’m in a funk on things I could inactively do. This has been a terrible choice and yet here I am.
I’d love to see someone attempt to use behaviour like this to bust through Meta and co’s argument that they’re neutral platforms and so shouldn’t be held responsible for material published on those platforms as they don’t make editorial choices.
https://mastodon.social/users/pixelfed/statuses/113849098386232034
@Andres4NY possibly the answer is that all devices should allow installation of any software you choose by default but also every family must nominate someone to be the family MDM administrator. They get to decide who’s authorised to just install software and who has to ask for approval first.
@Andres4NY I’m endlessly divided on this because I’d love to be able to do whatever I choose with my (iOS) phone, and yet at the same time I wouldn’t trust my Dad with the power to install arbitrary software on his phone for a minute, it would be riddled with malware harvesting his every move, word, and keystroke while he complains about how Apple have messed up battery management almost immediately.
Last night we had to go in the back door to the central library in Dundee instead of through the shopping centre. Standing outside, I happened to look at the bike rack, and wtf, why oh why are there feet?
@JustFi I think the real question is why don’t all bike racks have little prehensile feet?
@farah back when he was younger any time my son and I played Minecraft together I’d end up assigned to digging a giant hole. These days he’s hard into the PvP side of things and I simply refuse because being repeatedly killed by someone swooping by on an elytra just isn’t fun.
Spent this evening writing a hacky little server to consume telemetry that has been added to my favourite game of the last 12 months specifically for EMF and feeding it into my flat’s lights. God I love the mad things this event allows to me get up to!
@Techaltar man, I have no great words of wisdom here, just want to express sympathy at being in that situation. I used to go with something along the lines of “have you seen these clowns, they could conspire to have a piss up in a brewery, never mind take over the world”. Given recent revelations that yes, they did in fact have a secret child trafficking ring kept covered up for decades, it’s gotten harder to do that with a straight face.
@dramypsyd there should be sites you can publish unsolicited embargoed press releases to on principle.
[touches ear] ahh, I’m being told this is in fact a cookie consent dialog. As you were.
“We and our 226 partners”… damn, these polycules are getting out of hand.
@fesshole fair. It would be awful if your neighbours knew you found joy in anything.
That time at Wimbledon Women's Doubles in 2017 when a spectator ran his mouth a little too much from the stands... then this happened:
#tennis #wimbledon #humor