Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Ransomware:

I have installed an unlicensed copy of Oracle Database somewhere on your network. Give me five Bitcoins by the end of the week or I will inform Oracle's legal department.

Dieting Myth: "if you diet too long your 'metabolism' will slow down"

Now it *is* true that if you go on a diet and lose 30lbs (and don't change your activity level) you'll find you burn fewer calories daily. But, I think people are overlooking the obvious reason why. Imagine carrying a 30 pound weight around all day. That'd be like... well extra exercise.

The main reason you need fewer calories after loosing weight is because you weigh less. There is another factor at play. 1/

e-mail is a failed federated service. anyone can become a provider, but only a handful can even dream about actually delivering a message to an inbox hosted by Microsoft, a major provider used by lots of entire companies.

stop comparing e-mail to the fediverse.

The progress bar GUI widget was created so that a program could show its progress to users in a nice, linear, and moderately predictable way.

But now the progress bar is used primarily to show a complete lack of progress, moving back and forth in the progress tray like the light on a Cylon's face, as reassurance to the user that, no, the program hasn't frozen, only that the company behind it couldn't care less about its users.

Babe are you ok? You’ve barely touched your new domain name.

It's the last day of #AceWeek! I hope all my fellow Aces have had a good week - you are all wonderful and valid! ​

Also will toss it out there if anyone has any questions or wants to discuss the subject of asexuality, I'm always open to share my thoughts and experiences! *hugs* <3

Does this book exist?

"How Universities Lost the Internet"

or has someone done research on this topic? That is, the fact that many North American universities have ceded all technical capacity to Microsoft, Google, etc?

It used to be students could get web hosting, email, and even some cool experimental online stuff through their schools. Now every online communication channel is locked down.

I went to my optometrist this morning. They don't require customers to mask anymore, but were happy to have all their staff wear masks, including receptionists.

After my appointment finished, I noticed that all the waiting patients had masks as well, which I originally thought was just good luck. However, the receptionist told me that every customer had entered without a mask, and within a few minutes they all either put on their own mask or asked for one from the receptionist, noticing that they were the odd one out.

This experience powerfully showed me that for many, the decision to mask or not is heavily influenced by peer pressure.