Notices by Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin), page 10
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 23:11:58 EDT 
Joshua Judson Rosen
On the 50th anniversary of the #apollo #moonlanding, I had to consider the #progress of the last half-century: not only can we no longer visit other worlds, we can't even make a damned decent piece of #toast anymore....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:28:43 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
!TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:25:48 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Hmm..., @jd it looks like your #toaster might have some competition... sort-of... maybe? http://status.hackerposse.com/url/18983
This whole "toasting without desiccating" idea is fascinating. Especially after I blew through a whole loaf of bread last week trying to get enough toasted-but-still-soft-enough-to-bite-through slices for 3 sandwiches....
Is this another case of "easy 50 years ago but impossible now"? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2019 02:44:52 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
I wonder if I'd be less critical of this sort of !hack'ability of systems of law if I'd ever seen anyone actually use the power for good; but it seems like it only ever gets used for..., I don't know—for teh lulz? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2019 02:34:26 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@mjd I hope #NULL plate guy does follow through and can have an effect. This ` !hack the #law that rules everyone's lives by selling #government shitty legacy #software with no support contract' thing does appear to be... a thing. An extremely #dangerous thing. #consideredharmful -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2019 02:18:44 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Slightly more detail at Mashable: https://mashable.com/article/dmv-vanity-license-plate-def-con-backfire/
«"Basically," observed Droogie, "this is bullshit”
After contacting the DMV and the LAPD, and painstakingly explaining his situation, they both told him the same thing: change your plates.
"I said, 'No, I didn’t do anything wrong.'"» -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 22:40:52 EDT 
Matthew Davidson
Now that's funny: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/geeks-idea-to-get-null-l.html #SQL -
Joshua Judson Rosen
A Teenager’s View on Social Media (Backchannel@Medium)
Written by an actual teen
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 22:37:28 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
I think I learned something about #Facebook today: people use it because it has #groups like !GNUsocial! Well, sort-of? @palmella tells me that, *unlike* GNU social groups, Facebook heavily moderates (modulates?) the delivery of group-posts to users' home streams in ways that don't necessarily have obvious explanations.... -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 16:20:14 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Comparing #communication features of !gnusocial, #Facebook, #Twitter, #Mastodon...: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248#issuecomment-521361507 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 13:58:43 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Someone just asked me to recommend a good #git #book; I finally conceded that `do a #websearch for "git config.ff only"' is probably best—because any teacher who doesn't tell you to do that as part of your most basic git setup is probably someone you shouldn't listen to. -
John David Heinzmann (jd)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2019 14:12:59 EDT 
John David Heinzmann
@rozzin Indeed. I collect them, clean them up, bring them back to life, pass them on. So a number of family members and my neighbor also have one. You can get them for $20 to $200 on eBay. Why not? They are the best toasters ever made. Sunbeam appears to have made a lot of them. And they last. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2019 15:45:46 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@jd aaah—I was thinking you just *really* liked #toast, if you had a toaster for every room ☺ -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2019 04:48:30 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Wait..., when you say "I have several toasters"...? -
John David Heinzmann (jd)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 09:10:06 EDT
John David Heinzmann
Indeed, I have several of those exact Sunbeam Automatic Toasters. I prefer the oldest T-20 models before they started engineering cost out. They are wonderful. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 03:42:57 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
A new way (or a #GNU way...) to feel #olde: "why, I remember when all these #POSIX standard features were still GNU-specific!" -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 03:15:24 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
I do love the origin story for the #POSIX #name, from #rms:
«The committee put on "IEEEIX" as the concise name. I did not think that was a good choice. It is ugly to pronounce—it would sound like a scream of terror, "Ayeee!" …» -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 03:09:55 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Oh, hey—I was recently quoted in this article on opensource.com: "What is POSIX? Richard Stallman explains—Discover what's behind the standards for operating system compatibility from a pioneer of computer freedom" https://opensource.com/article/19/7/what-posix-richard-stallman-explains -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 02:18:09 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Hmm..., I think @jd said he actually had a #toaster like this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y #amazing! -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 01:07:22 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Looking through pools of XMPP server stats.... Why am I not surprised by this? https://compliance.conversations.im/server/420chat.me/
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