szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

u mnie na dzielni odnotowałem już 2 godne pochwały przypadki anszytikacji biznesu, to jest sytuacji, w której jakieś obsrane korpo najpierw kupuje jakieś przyzwoicie prosperujące maleństwo, potem je zaraża zdolnością do zamiany w gówno wszystkiego czego dotknie a następnie zamyka bo powinno wyjść inaczej, a w odpowiedzi zgrana pracownicza załoga otwiera w tym samym miejscu taki sam biznes, pod innym szyldem i radzi sobie fantastycznie. chcę tego więcej

Winter in our house includes figuring out what the ladybugs are doing. They sneak inside late fall, somehow, and the reminder of winter will find them doing ladybug things like circling the rim of a water glass for a few hours or dropping into your latte just as you finish making it.
Here we find an odd pyramid of plastic bottle caps with a ladybug on the third tier. The day before it was on the first tier. Did it really spend twenty four hours scaling bottle caps? Will it summit??

I feel a bit weird, sharing this here, but if it helps one person, I’m happy to.

The TL;DR - get your colonoscopies.

A few months ago, my insurance company sent me an at home fecal test. I did one a year ago and passed, but this time I got a positive result. I was sure it was a false positive. I didn’t have any symptoms and, to my knowledge, no one in my extended family has ever had cancer of any kind.

It took two months to get a colonoscopy scheduled. The result? Fourteen polyps removed 😳. I just got the lab results and they were ALL precancerous. Thank goodness BCBS sent me that test or I’d still be growing those things.

My takeaway - even if you have no family history or symptoms, get screened. The prep is a pain in the ass, but not horrible and the procedure is nothing. You never know until you know, and then it might be too late. I really feel like I dodged a bullet.

Did you know that a 17th c. Irish woman went to war in disguise?

"Christian Davies" ran a pub until, aged 26, her husband vanished. Upon learning that he was in the British Forces, she cut her hair & joined.

She fought in the Nine Years War, killed a sergeant in a duel, soon fought in the War of Spanish Succession...& found her husband after 13 yrs.

But he had cheated, so she instead stayed a soldier.

It would be 16 yrs until she was discovered.

She was buried with full military honours.

And another unfortunate security thing I learned today is that .svg files can contain JavaScript, and that your browser will happily execute that if someone directly views your image (so not through <img>). This has consequences for anyone hosting user supplied images. Thank you Wander Nauta for pointing this out. The painful story is here: https://github.com/berthubert/trifecta/issues/38

„Film bardzo stary, z roku dwa tysiące(...)”

17 stycznia zmarł David L. Mills.

Wymyślił #NTP Network Time Protocol (dokładny czas w internecie), współtworzył #ping czy pierwsze implementacje #FTP. 85 lat.

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if God didn't want the homeless to be homeless, why would they be homeless then?

The second sentence doesn't support the first. FFS. Why are we so bad at this?

I've been meaning to write up my experience of getting a heat pump all year, and have finally carved out time to do so: https://greenallianceblog.org.uk/2023/12/22/my-heat-pump-a-personal-story-about-a-broken-heating-industry/

It's part personal story, part policy take on what it'd take to make heat pumps the default for all home heating.

The short version is: heat pumps are great! Mine heats my not-very-efficient Victorian house well and is cheaper than gas heating. But I got lucky with an innovative installer - a rarity. The home heating industry needs a big shake up.

This is what my street looks like right now, and the #philadelphia streets department just came through and collected my recycling while it’s actively snowing. However much sanitation workers make, it’s not enough.

I shared a "teach sign language instead of cursive" thing on Facebook, and was reminded why I shouldn't spend time on Facebook