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platypus, 2 days ago to random

Microsoft has announced a new (preview status) Windows "feature" to screenshot your work every few seconds. So you can look at it later.

It'll remain on device and locked to your user which... in no way makes it actually safe.

The good? news is Ars Technica reports some base technical specs you'll need to use it, so your current PC has high odds of being immune even when it's rolled out.

Also it doesn't record DRM which is the most Microsoft thing EVER.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

platypus, 4 days ago to random

I love that almost every All Trails review of the place I'm going to hike today is like "got lost but it was ok."

Helps me set expectations. It's a rather small place -- really the worst case scenario for being lost if you can't also use your phone's GPS (which you can, it's got coverage) is that you just have to go find one of the boundary roads.

platypus, 5 days ago to random

Me to podcaster: I’ll see you in hell!

Podcaster: tell them I sent you! with code …

platypus, 7 days ago to random

At NYU in 1970, 150 protestors broke into the computer lab.

When they left 2 days later, they rigged the mainframe with improvised napalm connected to a slow-burning fuse. (two math professors disconnected it while it was burning)

platypus, 8 days ago to random

Your friendly local metal show going gal has logged on! (Don’t worry, I have a mask and a backup mask for when I get there!)

Selfie, ec

platypus, 10 days ago to random

I have been reading the book AUTOPSY OF A CRIME LAB and it didn’t surprise me too much that there was not any scientific data on things, but I was unsurprised and extra angry to learn that:

In 1985, the FBI convened an international symposium of scientists to set its guidance for hair matching forensics. Their report was that you cannot match hair. Hairs can at best be used to exclude someone. Like my husband’s red hairs and my brown hairs.

platypus, 11 days ago to random

Just asked if someone has a portable Bluetooth speaker:

"But if you don't have one, I am capable of rigging up an extension cord, a boombox, a 3.5mm male-male cable between the boombox and an adapter for my iPhone."

Honestly, the thought makes me feel a bit tipsy with power.

platypus, 13 days ago to random

Ultimately, students are protesting mass destruction of universities, libraries, and human lives, so it is both much higher stakes than our libraries and it makes sense that the collection is pretty much fine.

“Every individual I spoke with was there to truly protest genocide, for non-violence,” Bug said. “We were all actively discouraging any acts of destruction to the books and archives.”

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/05/07/portland-state-university-library-collection-largely-unscathed-despite-building-damage-protest/

jalcine, 18 days ago to random

LRT the founding fathers very much want you to save the legacy of their free enterprise project

platypus, 20 days ago to random

I have no knowledge of this beyond they put "We prefer campy, kitchy, and imperfect [websites]" which is a sentiment that delights me https://mmm.page/

platypus, 21 days ago to random

@debcha an exciting moment as I progress in your book—one of my sabbatical plans is to take a trip to the NY reservoir system and doing some hiking around there!

They don’t relate directly to my work at all, but I’ve been fascinated by the scale and by having read about their construction as background for a role-playing game scenario once created.

platypus, 21 days ago to random

It really is—something to be raised in a culture that taught me some really hateful goals, grow up to reject those goals, and then have the people I left behind get really successful at implementing those goals.

I’m living in the nightmare world I was taught should be my wildest dream.

platypus, 21 days ago to random

TFW there's an update that not only is it a bike lock, it is the specific brand of bike lock (and chain) that Columbia's "public safety" department sells. https://www.404media.co/email/1cc25606-201a-4f10-87ce-aeefa8285c3f/

In case you needed that to counter some "outside agitator" bs anyone in your life is getting into.

platypus, 22 days ago to random

"For the fiscal year ending June 2023, OCLC revenue totaled nearly $225 million, up from $220 million in the previous fiscal year." oh cool https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/05/01/2024-library-systems-report/

platypus, 22 days ago to random

And back to education/higher education pipeline, "public high schools that receive assistance through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 are required to give the military as much access to campuses and student contact information as is given to postsecondary institutions and prospective employers."

platypus, 22 days ago to random

On my mind this week -- how this country won't fund higher education, but it will fund the war machine -- which then makes higher education beg for its money through grants.

Our agreements with the federal government are all made under Office of Naval Research rules because they are our largest federal funding body.

platypus, 23 days ago to DuckDuckGo

Ok #DuckDuckGo -- I am really curious about this one!

I searched for: david sedaris blood work

because I wanted to see if the piece was online anywhere. The result I got on both my phone's Firefox Focus and my work laptop's Firefox says "not many results contain test, search for david sedaris blood 'test'?"

but the word "test" is not anywhere in my query.

Searching for: lab blood work

does not get me this. Nor do other things I've tried.