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mhoye mastodon (AP)
oh, right. SMS-2FA plus terrible Canadian telcos means no Github on vacation for me. Probably a win?

Tom Casavant mastodon (AP)
The @pokemon account has crossed 11,000 posts
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Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL about Earthquake Lights, phenomenon where before, during, or after exceptionally powerful earthquakes, lights can appear in the sky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edk38g/til_about_earthquake_lights_phenomenon_where/

Tim Chambers mastodon (AP)
20,000 and growing…. #MastodonForHarris https://mastodon.social/@elipariser/112859063703630428

20k attendees and growing fast since yesterday, Pete Buttegieg to speak—let’s go!
White Dudes for Harris event July 29th at 8pm


Ruben mastodon (AP)
A night shift on Medical Ward. My first in years. I've been spoilt with all those day shifts.
Katy Swain mastodon (AP)
You've had an astonishingly brilliant 9 years. The only thing you've done wrong, if I may be so bold, is not living just around the corner from me. Otherwise, 10/10.
Ruben mastodon (AP)
@katyswain why thank you Katy. I certainly wish I was close enough to drop by from time to time.

www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205774/adobe-ftc-lawsuit-creative-cloud-cancellation-fees-heroin
Then. Get. Rid. Of. Them.

If ETFs don't drive your business, and you know your customers hate them, then get rid of them.

What's that? You won't?

Then shut the fuck up.

#Adobe#CreativeCloud#enshittification#EarlyTerminationFees#fees#TerminationFees#ETF#bullshit#asshole#shithole#FuckAdobe#AnythingButAdobe#FuckCreativeCloud

Costa Samaras unkn (AP)
Lol remember the blitz primary concept? Fundamentally unserious

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3d printing with fiber reinforced filament?
#3dPrint
Now I'm glad Grimm never uses his 3D printer....am glad we use my vinyl cutter more often...


Scott Jenson mastodon (AP)
For consumer appliances, the #ux bar is so low that when you come across a reasonable one like the Breville here it feels like a cool breeze.

It is so damn easy to make devices easy to use as the good examples are everywhere. There just is no excuse.
Bad microwave, too many buttons
Good microwave fewer buttons. Colors! Icons! Bigger display! Dial!
#UX
Ben Ramsey mastodon (AP)
Microwaves are notoriously bad about this. They rarely share anything in common, making it difficult to use any one that’s not the one you’re familiar with at home, and even that one is convoluted. How hard can it be to have power level, timer, and start/stop functions designed in a universally recognized way?
Ben Ramsey mastodon (AP)
I say this as a software engineer who is not a UX designer—for me, the answer is “pretty hard.”
Scott Jenson mastodon (AP)
@ramsey I get the impression you'd do a pretty good job at this. There are enough positive examples out there to copy from.
Scott Jenson mastodon (AP)
I've been rather vocal about this in the past. So much so that I wrote about the costs and how fixing it is nearly free. I'm trying (and failing) to understand why this continues

https://jenson.org/free3/
And for any smarty-pants out there that say "but dials are more expensive" I go into great detail as to why that's not a strong argument.
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CJ is helping me test lighting setups.

#Photography #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #BlackAndWhite
Black and white photography of CJ, a black and silver tabby cat sitting on a stool, lit from overhead against a  black background.

He groomed his victim online, that's pretty noncey
Can't believe people are defending this creep, and all for Sport?!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/27/dutch-olympian-who-raped-a-12-year-old-girl-is-not-a-paedophile-official-says

Is he going to hurl the Unhoused at the flames, the Bell Riots cunt?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/wildfires-california-state-of-emergency

#California #GavinNewsom #Wildfires #USPOL

Ajay mastodon (AP)
#Saturday #Cartoon of the week
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Ham on Wry mastodon (AP)
I’m a very shy person, so when I die I’m not telling a soul because I hate being the center of attention and I don’t want a big foofaraw made over my death.
Reticent Turnip reshared this.
Raymond W Gallacher mastodon (AP)
Don't worry, there won't be.
Raymond W Gallacher mastodon (AP)
You're bloody right.
Enjoy your weekend Ham.
Ham on Wry mastodon (AP)
@RaySF

You as well,Raymond 😊
Ham on Wry mastodon (AP)
@DenOfEarth

I have to look that up

Just come back from a lovely community fun day at a local estate, live music from the Brixton Chamber Orchestra and local residents, free jerk chicken and burgers (had we known we would have skipped lunch!) and all the face painting, costume and community spirit that renews your faith in Humanity.
There's more that unites than divides us, like 'singing and dancing'....everyone loves a bit of that. 😀

https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2024/07/brixton-chamber-orchestra-announces-their-summer-estates-tour-2024-19th-28th-july/

#ClaphamPark #London #BrixtonChamberOrchestra

Hank G ☑️ friendica (via ActivityPub)
I’m a little fed up with the Snap managed Hugo updates breaking my site. The theme hasn’t changed. None of my templates changed. Yet now some Google Analytics stub, which I don’t use BTW, prevents the site from building. I think I’m going to just go with binary download and lock in the version.

Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
We should all be aware of the fact that Trump has dementia-you don't have to be a doctor to know this when you see it.
And we don't need that in the WH.

Kahte🐿️ mastodon (AP)
@luxas Bisous du samedi mon CLAGOP 😘 😘 😘 😘

California governor declares emergency as multiple wildfires rage across state https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/wildfires-california-state-of-emergency #California #Wildfires #WestCoast #USnews

Kee Hinckley mastodon (AP)
I think I may have an explanation of my screen touch problems.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. Just got a phantom touch. But I still suspect it's related.

My lightning port recently went from flakey to "doesn't work" (I've cleaned it, I think it's more that I've stressed it too much using the phone while it's charging).

So I've been using a magnetic charger, and recently I've started getting overheating warnings from my phone. I don't know yet if it's because it's a no-name third party charger, or another problem, but I just realized that the problem occurs most when I'm using the phone while it charges. So I suspect it's heat-related. I just switched to the magnetic charger from my car (which is also slower) and neither problem seems to be happening. We'll see if it stays that way.
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cobalt mastodon (AP)
I know I gave up on the no-name cables and chargers about 5 years ago. I spend a lot more to get the cables in a wrap with extra silicone connecting around joint cable to connector. I love the 90° style for less stress on that place. I have the phantom touch issues you have but I generally don’t use the phone while charging. Only use for the wireless charging pad was while phone dried out from dishwater splash and the wired charging cable wouldn’t work.

Ian James mastodon (AP)
As California seeks to curb groundwater declines, agricultural landowners in one county are fighting back in court. "We hope that the state more carefully considers whether or not to place a subbasin on probation, and understands that their decisions have real consequences up and down the state." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-27/court-stalls-state-effort-to-curb-groundwater-overpumping

Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
I have two words for Cheeto Hitler:
FUCK YOU.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-christians-wont-have-to-vote-anymore_n_66a46c8be4b015f7c2ba6d61
This is why all of us have to come out and vote-to get rid of this specimen of slime from our election.
Once and for all, because he will never be able to run again once he get finally defeated this year.
He'll be too old and broke. Let's destroy his dream.
The Turtle mastodon (AP)
don't gangsters in old movies always say "the fix is in?"

Paul mastodon (AP)
The documentary on Syd Barrett was good but I always find it strange when its said "And no-one saw him for six years". Syd apparently had no money and had never mentally grown up (according to people who knew him). One of the great mysteries. #PinkFloyd #SydBarrett

Tom's Bookmarks postmarks (AP)
Example.com
Oh no I am testing in production

AppleTogether mastodon (AP)
Apple Union in USA lands first tentative contract!

TOWSON, Md., July 26, 2024

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ (IAM) Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (IAM CORE) has reached a tentative agreement with Apple that improves work-life balance, raises pay and helps protect job security. Workers at the Towson, Md., Apple retail store, the first in the country to unionize, will vote on the tentative agreement on Aug. 6.

https://www.goiam.org/news/iam-core-first-u-s-unionized-apple-retail-store-workers-reach-historic-tentative-labor-agreement-with-tech-giant/#:~:text=Highlights%20of%20the%20tentative%20three,for%2080%25%20of%20job%20classifications

Someone posted this pic of Kamala Harris from the 80's and said she looks like she played synth for a German New Wave band and tbh I'll never be this cool.

#KamalaHarris #Harris2024 #Harris #Synthwave #Synth #80s #GenX
A young Kamala Harris, wearing a black coat with a high collar in front of a blurred maroon background. She has short hair and kind of a wistful look on her unsmiling gorgeous face. She about to drop the most fire synth album ever.
Reticent Turnip mastodon (AP)
She totally collaborated with Prince
OhSnap!Dragon mastodon (AP)
🎵 🎶
Don't you
Vote against me
Don't, Don't, Don't you
Don't you
Vote against me....

#Kamala2024
Rocker guy from the movie The Breakfast Club on football field, raising fist in rebellion, captioned Don't you, forget about me

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#cats
I found my cat on this site!

I knew my location information was visible when uploading to Flickr.

I am not concerned about targeted advertising - between Amazon, Petsmart, Chewy, etc. that information is already out there. I do wonder how this information could be used in other ways though. 🤔
A screenshot of the website "I know where your cat lives" showing hundreds of cats in the Piedmont North Carolina area. I found pictures of my cat in this collection posted to Flickr.

Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL the first animals to receive formal scientific names were spiders. Carl Alexander Clerck published 'Svenska Spindlar' (Swedish Spiders) in 1757, becoming the first person to consistently apply Linnaean binomial nomenclature to animals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svenska_Spindlar
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edjs5l/til_the_first_animals_to_receive_formal/


Ned Hamson mastodon (AP)
Sunset

Thought the group may like this photo of a famous sign at Cape Forchu! Sunset

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/07/27/sunset-3/

Current* conditions near Muskegon, MI:
Wide view of the Muskegon channel southern breakwater stretching into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2024-07-27 16:30:01 UTC (about 5 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Muskegon: 74.96 F | 23.87 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: S at 12.661 mph | 20.37 kph // Humidity: 55%

Magpieblog mastodon (AP)
My favorite app for IDing mystery plants in my garden is Plant.net. It almost always gives me the correct ID in its first few suggestions. But sometimes it gives a wildly innacurate ID, suggesting something from Eurasia when a plant is actually native to the Pacific Northwest.

So when I used Plant.net to ID a volunteer coming up in a container with a native yarrow, I laughed when it told me I had a peanut plant. The photo shows what I saw when I pulled the plant up.

1/2

#gardening #Oregon
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Magpieblog mastodon (AP)
In my defense, the peanut was not visible until after I pulled the plant. And since I don't feed birds with peanuts in the shell, I didnt think there was much chance of a peanut plant popping up in my yard

The *peanut plant* is now ensconced in its own container where it will hopefully have a long, happy life.

Plant.net 1, Me 0
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Ben Ramsey mastodon (AP)
Grass is gross and has bacteria and parasites living amongst it.

Jen Gentleman mastodon (AP)
Feels like that some days 😅
A prompt posted to the IT subreddit, saying, "you know you work in IT when...". The first few answers have been collapsed, to expose the next one "when you solve a technical problem by actually reading the error"

Hannah A. Patellis mastodon (AP)
It's offish! We're moving from Atlanta, Georgia to Minneapolis, Minnesota! From the heat to the politics, it was time to say goodbye to the peach state and try somewhere new. Georgia will always hold a special place in my heart though 🧡
A collage featuring a Google Map showing directions from Decatur, GA to Minneapolis, MN. Other elements include: A woman and a man cutout inside a Lexus sedan with a MN license plate and two cats and a dog.
Hannah A. Patellis mastodon (AP)
@polpo Thank you!!! So hyped for this next chapter

taz (inoffiziell) friendica (AP)
Als US-Vizepräsidentin hat Kamala Harris den wirtschaftspolitischen Kurs von Joe Biden gestützt. Im Fall eines Wahlsieges würde sie ihn wohl fortsetzen.#KamalaHarris #Wirtschaftspolitik #DonaldTrump #US-Wahl2024 #Ökonomie #Öko #Schwerpunkt
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