Skydancer
@Skydancer@pawb.social
- Comment on Question about flip cap bottles on mastodon, do you have any suggestions where to get them? 2 days ago:
Do they need to be wine bottle shaped?
If swingtops that are shaped for beer work for you, find a local independent bar or pub. Stop by before opening and ask if they’d mind saving their swingtops for you.
When I did this, the answer “Sure, just bring one back for me with your first brew.” More, they already had a box of them set aside.
Grolsch bottles are by far the most common and will be 450ml, green, and with a raised glass patterning. Those are the most common. 9 ounce bottles from small commercial breweries will be smooth clear or brown with paper labels you’ll want to soak off, and they’ll have significantly fewer of these.
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 2 months ago:
Except even flappers aren’t universal. Some toilets use flapperless flush valves
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
Nailed it. Yes, it’s a US thing.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
No, that was an excuse. They claimed people could mistakenly send unencrypted messages. Easily resolved by changing the color of conversations and send buttons to flag SMS as insecure.
It was really about moving development resources to features like this one. Unfortunately, it makes it much harder to convince people to use (or keep using) Signal, meaning more messages that go by insecure messaging instead.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
Great. Now can we get text messaging back so that it’s possible to convince people to use it again?
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
That makes sense.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
And how is it nobody seems to have noticed the two jawbones mounted above?
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 3 months ago:
Polk salet, anybody?
- Comment on The 1900s 3 months ago:
Early second millennium CE
- Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? 3 months ago:
Absolutely not. At those densities, the write speed isn’t high enough to trust to RAID 5 or 6, particularly on a new system with drives from the same manufacturing batch (which may fail around the same time). You’d be looking at a RAID 10 or even a variant with more than two drives per mirror. Regardless of RAID level, at least a couple should be reserved as hot spares as well.
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 4 months ago:
The most encouraging thing in the whole talk for me was when he told a roomful of IT folks that they need to join or form Unions and they cheered.
- Comment on Bramble Royale: A Meteorfall Story pops D&D party mechanics into a roguelike deckbuilder reminiscent of Adventure Time 4 months ago:
not being released until next year.
- Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 4 months ago:
Americans used just over 100
trillion megabytesexabytes of wireless data in 2023Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.
- Comment on World’s highways could host 52.3 billion solar panels, say researchers 5 months ago:
Which is again, not what they’re suggesting. This article was about putting the panels above the road
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 6 months ago:
Florida.
- Comment on Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights 1 year ago:
The last time it went to the Supreme Court, they couldn’t make up their minds. The current court would probably support it.