The original veggie burger.
‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/26/surprisingly-tasty-putting-neanderthal-cooking-to-the-test-recipe
Category: Wandering.Shop
I just looked at the Archive Team twitter collection again — in the last couple …
I just looked at the Archive Team twitter collection again — in the last couple of days they’ve changed the thumbnail image for new collections from a bird with boxing gloves to…well… (warning, it’s a bit musky) 😂
NVIDIA's RTX 4090 card has been getting so hot its *power cables have been …
NVIDIA's RTX 4090 card has been getting so hot its *power cables have been melting*! 😱
Apparently it's hard to tell whether the power adapter has actually snapped in, and if it's just a little bit off, it can come loose enough to overheat.
#hardware #nvidia #weird #safety
Got a text message allegedly from my ISP about an soon-to-be-due bill that was roughly …
Got a text message allegedly from my ISP about an soon-to-be-due bill that was roughly *twice* my monthly bill, and click here to pay it.
Oh, hell no!
Then I remembered that last month they were revamping their online payment system and said they couldn't accept payments at that time, but wouldn't count them as late if paid with this month's bill.
Which means it's actually legit.
Still not using that link when I pay the bill, though.
This Sarah's Scribbles comic is so true
This Sarah's Scribbles comic is so true
#email #spam #comics #funny #SarahsScribbles
Pokemon Go head canon
The reason Arlo, Sierra and Cliff all act like they’ve never lost a battle before isn’t just posturing. It’s that Giovanni neuralizes them after every defeat. If they can’t remember losing, it can’t affect their confidence, right?
(Not to be confused with head *cannon*, which of course you can find on Genesect.)
Beginning to wonder if someone used to generate the archive export files by hand and they got fired.
Beginning to wonder if someone over there used to generate the archive export files by hand and they got fired.
At-home Covid tests (good news)
Updated shelf life and expiration dates for at-home #covid tests, now that there’s been time to collect real-world data.
If you have an “expired” test lying around, check the list – it might still be usable.
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/covid-19-at-home-tests-expiration-date-science
Awkward: Thanks & Thanos differ by only one letter
Awkward: Thanks & Thanos differ by only one letter
Anyone know how to change the scroll wheel speed on Gnome Web or other Chromium browsers?
Anyone know how to change the scroll wheel speed on Gnome Web or other Chromium browsers?
I really like the way the Mastodon web UI works as a PWA installed to the desktop, but I’m really frustrated by the much slower scrolling compared to Firefox (which, annoyingly, won’t install a PWA)
It is so weird to see triple-digit boosts in the feed.
It is so weird to see triple-digit boosts in the feed.
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The funny thing is all the viral posts about how Mastodon is designed to make it harder for things to go viral.
With comment threads longer than I’ve seen in ages.
(Harder, of course, doesn’t mean impossible!)
(And yeah, I’m guilty of boosting some of them too!)
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Time for me to stop contributing to the problem of over-saturating the feed with meta-commentary.
(Oh no, I’m doing it right now!)
In the process of disentangling connected accounts from the birdsite…
In the process of disentangling connected accounts from the birdsite, stumbled on #IntenseDebate. I’m not sure I’ve seen a site using them for comments in years.
And considering that the list-your-other-social-sites-on-your-profile still has spots for Digg, FriendFeed, MyBlogLog, and Orkut, I have to wonder…is Automattic doing anything with it other than keeping the lights on?
Speaking of stumbling on things, I miss StumbleUpon
Picard season 2
It’s too bad they already used the “Nemesis” title.
uspol, perspective
Made the mistake of reading comments on a WSJ editorial with people simultaneously accusing the entire democratic party and mainstream media of living in a bubble while also claiming that Biden and the DNC are “far left.”
I think it’s fair to assume they’ve never stepped out of their own bubbles and heard what actual leftists have said about Biden and the DNC.
bitcoin, infosec, weird
DOJ seizes stolen bitcoin from a 10-year-old heist against the Silk Road (remember them?), some of which was stored “on a single-board computer that was submerged under blankets in a popcorn tin stored in a bathroom closet.”
It’s like the classic saying about the only way to guarantee your computer is safe from hacking.
Search warrants, on the other hand…
via
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23445125/bitcoin-silk-road-recovered-investigators-billions
Or, now that I think about it, the plans for demolishing Arthur Dent’s house.
Oh jeez, I bet there are a lot of bitcoin aficionados who would file stuff under Q on principle
Drug/animal reference, national parks
Actual WaPo headline:
Please stop licking psychedelic toads, National Park Service warns
“As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of night, please refrain from licking.”
A link shortener is just an extra layer of complexity that can go wrong.
Reply to a poll about custom link shorteners
Personally I think a shortener is just an extra layer of complexity that can go wrong.
If you’re in control of your own URL scheme for your site you can make it human-readable and short enough to avoid word-wrap on email, and it’s not going to take up any extra space on Twitter, Mastodon or anything else unless you’re sending it in an actual SMS message.
Found myself thinking about this old joke about operating systems as airlines, and the punchline …
Found myself thinking about this old joke about operating systems as airlines, and the punchline on Linux Air.
https://fossbytes.com/what-if-operating-systems-were-airlines/
#humor #ComputerHumor
The things that go bump in the night, tra la!
The things that go bump in the night, tra la!
From a link swap spam I got this morning:”I recently read one of your articles …
From a link swap spam I got this morning:
“I recently read one of your articles (https://hyperborea.org/journal/category/entertainment/sci-fifantasy/page/35/ – to be precise).”
Precise. 🙄
I swear, they don’t even try! 😆