artifex

It's John Henry all over again. Dębiak should make sure he gets some proper R&R now, just to be safe.

Too close to home.

Fun fact: the protein-digesting enzyme bromelain is found in pineapples. So in some sense, while you're eating the pineapple, the pineapple is eating you . Do with that what you will.

Give yourself some credit! Your human-level intelligence is only using about 20W. The other 80 is for the meat robot it has to pilot to get stuff done.

I pulled 4 of these bastards off of myself and a kid in the last 2 weeks. That's more than I've had to remove over entire summers in the past (both as a kid myself, and when my own kids were smaller and more prone to roll in the dirt). They are definitely everywhere now.

Also learn to identify the symptoms of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever , the other nasty thing these ticks can carry. It's easily treatable if you catch it early, but can seriously fuck you up or kill you if not.

I think the main one is that Nostr is supposed to be really simple, and derive some security/privacy from that simplicity. Whereas ATProto and ActivityPub store and forward content so that each rely has a copy, on Nostr nodes the messages are all ephemeral. So it has something of a following with crypto bros and privacy enthusiasts. With nostr IDs are also based on public/private keys unlike ATProto/ActivityPub that use a username@instancename scheme, so signing and identifying content that belongs to a user is easier and more guaranteed to be correct, and your username isn't tied to any specific server "instance"

I kinda agree Twitter was born of a more innocent age, and he was just a tech kid with a good enough pitch to get Silicon Valley VC. The problem is that he did little to rein in powers that were purposely using the platform for social manipulation. Then -- when he already knew better -- he went and started Bluesky, which he specifically said was going to counteract all of Twitter's deficiencies, but capitalism got the better of him, so to make the platform attractive to VCs, advertisers, whatever, his team started to ditch what made Bluesky unique in favor of business tools to help it make money. Business is gonna business, it's not 100% his fault, but I can't imagine what will change a 3rd time around.

Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the "2nd sphere", effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.

Geez, it's like you go and get absorbed into one ostensibly socialist authoritarian eurasian empire and it's all anyone can remember.

ah, gotcha. I thought maybe there'd been some spicy fediverse drama that I had missed :)

words that mathematically fit following the prompts

if only we had a word for applying math to data to give the appearance of a complex process we don't really understand.

is there a story here?