Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

The ashes of Arthur C. Clarke and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry just burned up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot

Check it out! 👇
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-ashes-of-arthur-c-clarke-and-star-trek-creator-gene-rodenberry-just-burned-up-on-re-entry-to-earths-atmosphere-after-a-failed-moonshot

The worst thing about talking on the phone is not being able to use the phone to look at other things so you can ignore whatever is being said on the phone.

It's probably a case of confirmation bias, but I had to impulse-buy this (comic) book on how the many ways in which the vision of space colonization makes no practical sense. After reading @pluralistic 's review:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead

[shaking a magic 8-ball]
me: will my vision ever get better?
coconut:

Because he had been told to "beware the IDEs of March".

I still don't know how I was ignorant for so long that crows travel to big communal roost sites in the winter, and when our four neighborhood crows show up in the morning they have basically just commuted to work. https://audubonportland.org/our-work/rehabilitate-wildlife/having-a-wildlife-problem/urban-crows/downtown-crows/

#portland #crows #corvids

#3GoodThings

1. Completeness check for security role exercise was quick and easy.
2. Listening to one of the nieces share random facts out of her trivia book after dinner.
3. #Violet nesting in the blanket pile.

Ready for the ride
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #Humor #DogsOfMastodon

Sometimes when I’m having a particularly lousy day, I say “Computer, end program.” You know, just in case.

It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws

#cybersecurity zealots often shame humans for writing down their passwords, but as someone who just had to excavate the digital remains of a loved one who died suddenly:

*please* write down your credentials somewhere a trusted human can find them, especially your phone passcode and any primary passwords (like for email accounts, password manager, etc.)

the humans who care about you will need that access for many reasons; a "badass" threat model will only add helplessness to their grief

2024.. The year that #Mastodon no longer messes with the caps of my hashtags? 🙏

Don't auto-change them to lower-case, as for many hashtags that worsens how they are read in screenreaders.

#Accessibility #a11y

@hireillo I didn't even know there was a #DragonAppreciationDay ! 😄 I like drawing dragons with unconventional hoards, so here's one who loves to hoard buttons, and another who has a decidedly less savory infatuation. 😅

#dragon #dragons #dragonHoards #fantasyArt #art