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Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn't brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

  • mineral oil [...] innocuous

    From an electrical standpoint, sure.

    From the standpoint of making an enormous mess if it escapes, it's very much not.

  • Don't put an official government ID in there. A separate card wallet is always a good plan. Put any card IDs in there instead.

    Do put a card in there with your name and contact details along with name and contact details of next of kin. If your wallet didn't come with such a card, any old bit of cardboard or folded paper will do, so long as it doesn't look like a joke.

    Doing that saved my bacon once or twice, or at least I assume that's how the people who found me knew who to contact.

    As for what money to put in there, amounts and so on, it's going to depend on how often you pay cash, how much you pay when you do, and how much you'd be OK with losing if you lost your wallet (or worse).

  • Did you miss the part where I said "It's not there as an alternative." or are you being deliberately obtuse?

  • The point of them putting Discord itself into their page of Discord alternatives. It's not there as an alternative. It's there for comparison purposes.

  • You missed the point. They're using it as a baseline (literally their word), a basis for comparison, a control (in the sense of experiment) if you will, before leaping off into the alternatives.

  • At first glance, sure. But then, strength in conviction and leadership mean nothing if you're strongly leading your people and your country into ruin.

  • Ah. Graphic novel. Close enough, I suppose. Carry on.

    (Take this as you please. I'm no moderator.)

  • Nice art, but I'm not sure it's a comic strip.

  • This sounds like my experience before I burned out. And while I was in the process of burning out, I still would have preferred to work from the office because home was, and is, my safe space. I don't want work intruding there.

    This does not mean that I haven't worked from home - I was the on-call tech more than once, nor does it mean that I think WFH is a bad idea. In fact I'm all for it for those who can handle it.

    I like the idea of unnecessary layers of manglement sweating because they can't justify their existence through pointless micromanagement.

  • Most of the age verification things I've seen are wise to that and require a video camera, not a still one.

  • Sounds like Google doesn't create per-account cookies and uses one cookie set per browser instance, so you're either logged in or you're logged out, one account at a time.

    Browser containers or profiles might be the answer to what you need.

    I've been using different Firefox profiles to run accounts in parallel for well over a decade at this point. Containers might be able to do the same thing, but on account of the aforementioned, I've stuck with the old way of doing things.

  • *wither

    "whither" is also a word but it's an old, mostly dead, one that means "to what place"

  • The main Fediverse mathematics hub that I'm aware of is Mathstodon, a Mastodon server. Caveat: There may be many others I'm not aware of.

    That said, it's supposed to be for people who live, breathe and work in mathematics, so it might not be the best instance for an amateur.

    I have seen more amateur stuff (in both positive and negative senses) under #math and similar hashtags on Mastodon though. Much of that isn't from Mathstodon.

  • Also not what you're looking for, but it may scratch some of the itch: déjà vu

    That is, (you think) you're inducing a sense of déjà vu and disgust within Sebastian.

  • Common misquote. The original is closer to "What is the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything?"

    That italic bit is a very important plot point.

  • Additional to other answers, back in the early days of alphabetic writing, some writings alternated left to right then back again right to left on alternating lines. This is called "boustrophedon", literally "(as the) ox walk(s)" because it's the same way oxen are used to plough fields.

    There's documented evidence of both early Latin and Greek being written this way. What's less clear is which direction they chose to start those writings.

    The problem with that is that you have to learn to read both directions. They often wrote the letters backwards when text went the other way, which came with its own set of problems. You probably don't have a mirror. You basically have to learn to write almost twice as many symbols. Some letters are their own reflection and you can't always tell which way something was written. etc. etc.

    Eventually someone influential will have chosen the direction for presumably a good reason (to them) and everyone else eventually followed suit.

  • This will be uplifting when and only when she succeeds. Until then it's merely hopeful.

    I don't say this to minimise what she's trying to do. I hope she succeeds. But she has a hell of a mountain to climb. It's not that long since VAT was eradicated on those products here in the UK, supposedly a modern, forward-thinking nation.

    She's in Pakistan. There's a lot more religious and cultural misogyny to fight there.

    Value Added Tax. Roughly equivalent to both "sales tax" and "luxury tax" elsewhere.

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  • Argh. That doesn't work. The "were-" in "werewolf" means "man" and there are no humans in that comic.

    Unfortunately there don't seem to be many ancient synonyms for "house" like there are for "human", so it's not really possible to obfuscate the meaning in the way that "were-" does.

    house-warehouse doesn't really roll off the tongue well, and it's open to the misinterpretation of "houseware-house", which is something else entirely.

    Badly translating back into Old English gives hūswāruhūs, which, if you corrupt vowels to "huswarahus", does kind of sound like a cryptid.

  • Some people genuinely do not understand the concept of GUI windows and how they work. They do not generate a full mental model of the desktop and the windows on it and only see the whole screen as one bewildering interface. They focus on what they do know in order to get by.

    This may be especially true of people who learned their IT with small screens or low resolutions where running an application full screen (or as the only active application!) is required to get anything done.

    Your colleague saw you click on part of the interface they were ignoring because they didn't understand it and magic happened.