Notices by LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net), page 13
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:15:47 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://nu.federati.net/url/293295 [www livescience com] Polar bears may be affected by spread of Influenza A H5N1 bird flu. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:35:29 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke We have a lightly regulated and lightly mixed market. Not as regulated as I would like for sure.
Definitely not a #free_market, because #USDoJ does not break up monopolies / oligopolies / monopsonies / oligopsonies aggressively enough. And very limited safety net. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 19:21:39 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Discovering that most mail clients seem to no longer have a way to show senders' e-mail addresses before you open the message.
I want to set it so users see "some-paypal-scammer@fake-domain.scam" as primary. Then "PayPal Help" as secondary. Then maybe I won't get panicked calls about some fake notice someone got. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 18:13:42 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1228690068/target-black-history-month-book-civil-rights-icons-errors [www npr org]
Don't their editors do any basic fact-checking? The publisher should be embarrassed. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 00:46:27 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke It has only been a year or so since I first encountered -ium. That was in a YT video. I still haven't seen it in writing. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 09:15:23 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
The other day I was sweeping the sidewalk and porch. A cat saw my trash pile and started rolling in it. I bent down and moved the cat out of the way. The cat decided that it was very important to get in the way of my cleaning.
I eventually got it done, but the cat was covered in everyday dirt and dust. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 09:11:41 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Speaking of cats, I suspect that a neighbor cat sprayed odorous graffiti near the water dish and now the cats which live here are taking turns trying to cover the urine marking with their own version.
They aren’t very careful, so sometimes you look and the water is yellow.
I tell the cats that no one else does such things, but the truth is that humans do this all the time … we do it by dumping waste and toxins atop aquifers … the same ones that our wells draw from. We’re not even doing it to mark territory or recruit girlfriends. We’re just too lazy / too cheap to dispose of our wastes in less polluting ways. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 09:06:39 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
My sister says that one of the neighbors has three giant cats. They are on our porch in the morning, next to the dry food plate, which has been completely empty (“licked clean”).
I said that I haven’t seen cats do this before, and suggested that maybe a dog has found a way to get into the yard. I know that dogs will lick a plate clean if they are hungry or the food just tastes good.
But she insists that the giant cats are doing it. I’m not arguing. They could very well be doing it. They are gone before I get up in the morning, so I haven’t even seen them. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 20:39:05 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke Indeed. Our home phones used to be powered by the phone line. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 20:24:01 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
In some ways, it reminds me of the war in Kosovo, when Serbian posters invaded USENET to unironically denounce us for “supporting Nazis” [1]. They made the newsgroups where I used to go unusable. After the war ended, I thought “I’ll try it again” but the spammers had seen how a determined minority could make things unusable for the majority. [2]
[1] In WW2, Croatians looked at invaders from Germany and Italy as rescuers against Serbia. Thus Serbia claimed that anyone who opposed them was Nazi.
[2] I know most USENET clients had killfiles and so on, but I didn’t know how to use them, so I did the next best thing and dumped USENET entirely. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 20:02:29 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Large public #Matrix rooms are under a prolonged #spam assault. I don’t run any rooms nor any servers, but ISTM that something similar to WordPress’s Akismet should be possible, automatically blocking most spam from propagating to or through specific servers and rooms.
A deluge of spam can easily push a room’s useful post / unuseful post ratio down into unuseful territory and chase away users. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 19:56:17 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
That’s #lazyNephew … but I’m trying not to call him that anymore.
Now that he’s in his 30s, I can see that he’s almost a clone of his dad … not just physically, but in the way he approaches life, work, and relationships. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 19:54:27 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
My nephew went out with his on and off girlfriend to celebrate a birthday. She sat her drink down somewhere and someone put something in it, so she had some nausea and dizziness for a while.
They left and later found out that they’d picked up #COVID-19 / #2019-nCoV … which spread to all of her family members and their baby. Since they can’t afford to be off-work, I suspect they’re going to work anyway. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 19:50:47 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#Daddy_A sent a picture of 11 year old #A1 playing in snow. I immediately noticed he had no gloves, so I asked. Yes, he has gloves, but he doesn’t like them so he doesn’t wear them unless it gets really bad.
I’m wondering whether that is (A) he doesn’t like gloves in general or (B) he doesn’t like those specific gloves. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 19:48:09 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I made pancakes from instant mix last night and thought I should learn how to make them from pure flour. It cannot be difficult.
I sent a picture of the finished product to #GD2 with that comment and she said they looked good already, but that would be a good thing to learn.
So maybe we’ll hang out in the kitchen when I visit. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 19:45:29 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke Speaking of the ‘plot hole’, in the US, if you get fiber from the telco, they make you sign a form that you understand that cutting your copper landline and replacing it with voip over fiber doesn’t give you 9-1-1 emergency access when power is out. They usually install a battery backup, but within a year or two, the battery usually dies. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 23:04:56 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Late to the laundromat today. Two familes filled over half the washers and dryers, so it took longer.
The owner was there doing maintenance. With his beard, he slightly resembles a certain LA Dodgers pitcher.
#coin-laundry -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 09:26:17 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@fu But you're right that they don't say clearly that human overpopulation is a big part of what is wrecking this planet. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 09:20:29 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@fu They do say:
> Population growth is a difficult topic to broach given the not-too-distant history of eugenics and ethnic cleansing practised in many nations around the world. However, Merz and colleagues insist it is important to confront the issue as population growth has cancelled out most climate gains from renewables and efficiency over the past three decades.
> “It’s a question of women’s liberation, frankly,” says Barnard. “Higher levels of education lead to lower fertility rates. Who could possibly claim to be against educating girls – and if they are, why?”
They also wrote:
> Merz and colleagues believe that most climate “solutions” proposed so far only tackle symptoms rather than the root cause of the crisis. This, they say, leads to increasing levels of the three “levers” of overshoot: consumption, waste and population.
So they did mention overpopulation a couple of times, but not by name.
https://nu.federati.net/url/293272 [www theguardian com] -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 09:12:19 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#USGS reports M5.1 #earthquake near Prague, #OK, #USA. 2024-02-03 05:24:28 UTC. 33.534N, 96.764W 3km | 1.8mi depth
Pager is green, with estimated fatalities 0 and estimated economic losses of under one million dollars.
Looks like it was somewhere between 50 and 100 miles away from Oklahoma City.
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