Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Paleontologists investigate whether T. rex and other predatory #dinosaurs had lips like lizards, or protruding teeth like crocodiles (though as the article notes, pop culture has latched onto the latter).
https://wapo.st/3zlDnNK
(gifted article link)
@science Oh cool, at least one of the paper’s authors is on the fediverse and has posted an infographic on the analysis:
We have reached the stage of video streaming where it would have been faster to go to blockbuster and rent the damn DVD than figuring out which streaming service and how to access it through what account without messing up existing subscriptions.
They might've had the movie too.
Tubthumping:
[] A song that reminds you of the good times
[] A song that reminds you of the better times
[] Chumba-what?
Just some #mosstodon from a recent hike in the Palos Verdes Peninsula hills near Los Angeles. There’s a nature preserve along one of the canyons with a stream running through it that actually has water after this winter’s repeated storms, unlike when I went there last summer (or was it fall?) And it was completely dry.
I’d guess the mangling has more to do with Mastodon not trying to render the “Article” type yet than it being from a group. Mastodon has the same problem with reviews from Bookwyrm and blog posts from WriteFreely.
I mean, at least it shows the title and link, which is better than the “this type isn’t supported yet” from Takahe, but with the size of its user base, Mastodon *really* needs to get on just treating an Article the same way it treats a long Note!
Time for another episode of Admiral Grouchy vs the Slime Creatures From Outer Space.
Rep. Weber just accused tiktok of pushing chinese propaganda and “woke” propaganda in the same sentence — thedextriarchy
I think their mind would be blown if they knew what Chinese state ideology thinks of the things they call “woke.”
Not exactly big on minority rights, racial equality, acceptance of non-traditional gender roles, or awareness of and wanting to dismantle state abuses of power in enforcing conformality.
Interesting: apparently Norovirus is the shortened form of Norwalk Virus, which was first identified in an outbreak in Norwalk, Ohio.
So a noro-bot wouldn't be a computer virus, it would be a robot from Norwalk. 😜
Misparsed “norobots” as “noro-bots” instead of “no robots” and briefly wondered what kind of virus they were referring to.
Opened up my work laptop after lunch to find 5 messages on Skype. Worried I’d missed something important that should’ve gone to my phone.
No. They were all from Bing, introducing itself. 
TIL that #Firefox autocorrects the nonexistent .xom and .vom TLDs to .com, which is seriously convenient!
Sometimes I'm reminded of the fact that my high school experience was not typical.
How to get rid of the extra “discover” page on the Android home screen:
https://www.theverge.com/23643205/google-discover-android-how-to-delete
USB thumb drives are kind of like the data crystals from #Babylon5. They’re small, hold a boatload of data, and can be plugged into almost any computer around.
OTOH, B5 never showed anyone needing an adapter to do so.
Hot take: If we're serious about encouraging more small and single-user instances to join the Fediverse, we really need to work on improving the setup and upgrade experiences.
Managed hosting is great for this, but it re-centralizes the infrastructure, and it's going to be hard to find the less well-known platforms, so that re-centralizes the tech stack.
Pre-configured images at hosting companies are also great! But again, you're mostly going to find the bigger projects, and you still have to upgrade it.
In other news, #DreamHost migrated my main VPS with no hiccups as near as I can tell. I had to manually launch Agate for my #gemini capsule, but I suspect that’s only because they brought up the new system before moving the users over to it.
Here’s hoping it’s more stable than the Nginx one. I think I may just not have allocated enough RAM to the Nginx box, since the new plans don’t let me choose in-between sizes like 1.2 GB, 1.7GB etc. like the old plans did. The VPSes both ran rock solid for years, but DreamHost’s nginx support has always seemed like an afterthought.
I’m probably going to drop the Nginx VPS at some point. I just need to decide what to do with the last remaining site on it: Consolidate on the Apache VPS (possibly with more RAM), or set up a dedicated Nanode and manage it myself (and find out what resources it actually needs on a lighter-weight system)
Funny to think:
Newsgroups and early mailing lists were all plaintext, so people came up with conventions like using asterisks and underscores.
Web forums were able to display rich text, and they used markup to implement it.
Early social media like LiveJournal and such supported rich text via raw HTML
Twitter was designed to fit in an SMS message, so it was plain text.
And everyone went back to using asterisks and underscores. Plus abusing Unicode lookalike chars.
Website: Would you like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card?
Me: Credit card. I don't want give PayPal more of a cut than I have to.
Website: OK, Credit card via PayPal!
Apparently there’s a known issue where some games will trip Sophos’ “HollowProcess” detection rule.
Including, as I discovered, StarTrek Online via Steam.
Workaround here if anyone needs it
No, brain, it’s Martin Guerre, not Martian Guerre
OMG it would be a perfect match: Astronaut goes to Mars, comes back…different. Is it really him? Is an alien presence hitchhiking in his mind? Or is it a shape-changer like The Thing? Or did he simply have a life-changing experience on the mission?
It could be played for comedy, horror (body or psychological), or anything in between.