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I was at an event recently, and one of the speakers was a hair over 100 years old, born in 1925. They were remarkably articulate, and it was so interesting listening to the perspectives they had with the massive amount of life experience they have. It was super impactful listening to them talk.

I'll also comment to say that the "cancel" part of this is stupid and should be reconsidered. (There seems to be a pretty thorough consensus on that). Isn't the whole point of this to have options, to spread the resources out to as many points as possible to prevent a single point of failure, corruption, or censorship?

I ended up at Piefed, because I'm interested in self-hosting, and I understand Python more than any of the other languages represented. That's really the full depth of my choice, and I'm not sure there should be much more thought behind it other than "How does this particular software package perform and meet my needs?"

I was hanging out with some people this weekend, and we somehow got on the subject of fiber consumption, and how americans eat far too little fiber. Over the course of the day, we continued to joke about fiber, and built a made-up authoritarian town government based around maintaining healthy fiber intake for its citizens. Increased septic pipe diameters, Navy Bean distribution infrastructure, mandatory weekly stool scans, "fiber re-education" camps for failing a scan. When people die, their fiber will be reprocessed and returned to the citizens (like the sacred water in Dune)...

When we all parted ways, later in the evening, one of them sent a link to the group chat they had been talking about earlier in the day. IMMEDIATELY someone responded "This isn't fiber related :("

It's been a long time since I've witnessed the birth of a stupid inside joke, it was providing smiles all day. "Hey Alex, I bet that tree bark has a TON of fiber..."

I was just talking about this with someone this past weekend. For me, it has been removing most "smart" features from my phone.

• I've disabled Chrome, so I can no longer access the internet.
• I've disabled the "google" app, so I don't have a back-door to the internet, as that seems to have a browser built in. This also disables voice to text, which I never used anyway.
• No social media, games, etc. of any kind.

The only thing I use my phone now is calling/texting, navigation, music, a calendar, and a notes app. It's taken me a long time to get here, almost 3 years at this point, but being able to take my phone out, use it for the one intentional thing I need, then put it away... It's so liberating. I use Olauncher, which is a minimal text-based home screen, and it also tracks your daily screen-time and displays it on the home-screen. I'm down to around 30-45 minutes MAX of screen time per day. Most days its 15 or below.

That's what I suspected with the name, and I tried to do a little poking with some translators, but it wasn't really working as I had no understanding of the correlation between the syllabic spelling vs the hiragana. Thanks for the little breakdown!

https://www.amazon.sg/Marbee-MIN-125-Mini-Nipper-inches/dp/B00ADX7OBW

Also showing up a couple places as the brand "Marubi"

"Best tool co ltd" both sounds like it could be some generic no-name brand, or an OG manufacturing titan who still makes stuff that lasts. The brand sounds vaguely familiar to me, but more googling isn't bringing anything up... I might be remembering Festool, which conveniently rhymes with Besttool.

Waking up feeling refreshed and actually rested was a nice change of pace this morning. I did a lot this weekend so I was supremely exhausted Sunday evening. Started watching some Youtube content about the recent GPU releases and fell asleep far before my normal bedtime. Woke up in the morning with YT still running on some absolutely unhinged niche rabbit hole about battle strategies of various skirmishes during WW2, which is completely unrelated to any content I ever consume lol.

As a chill person who likes to take things slow and deliberate, but is living in the greater Boston area where everyone is in a rush for no reason and nobody slows down for even a second... Trade?

I recently took a trip to the Netherlands, and that is the kind of place I want to be. Not even just Amsterdam, I traveled to a couple other smaller cities. The "You mind your own business and don't be a dick and I'll do the same" mentality was very pleasant, as that's how I try and live anyway... Interestingly, I talked with some Dutch guys while I was there, and they all seemed to hate it, and one of them wished to move to the southwest USA and live on a ranch with tons of land or something. The classic "You want what you can't have". I want affordable reliable robust public transit, walkable car-free infrastructure, and healthcare lol.

It's funny, I was JUST hankering to take my SW out to browse the airwaves, and then I log on to see this post.

I have a Halicrafters S-119, still runs on tubes. Picks up 2-16MHz.

I already spent some time rummaging around for my antenna, but I can't find it and don't have a spool of wire handy, so I'll need to work on that. Last time I had it set up was a couple years and 2 moves ago.

Mmm, like writing myspace profiles back in the day... I kinda dig that!

Thanks again for tackling that so quickly! I honestly didn't expect anything for a long while!

Amazing! Thank you! Definitely works.

Though, will it eventually become a checkbox for the specific hide score feature? Or could there be some kind of documentation for the other portions of the interface that might be able to be modified with this? An open-ended text box to put some code seems like a good way to confuse people who don't know the underlying code. It kinda feels like the old days of hunting for cheat codes in game magazines.

Interestingly, the score is still visible in the page inspector, but I'm not THAT addicted to post score, so it's not a problem lol. (I went to check to see what the page code looked like to try and understand what exactly was happening)

That solidifies my suspicion that it's a standard Android feature... I also don't get many spam calls, and only distinctly remember performing that action on this most recent phone.

Based on OP's comment "...I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side...", I figured maybe they didn't know about that feature and/or have an iPhone and they somehow don't behave that way.

I also miss the old days of Android... I got a smartphone specifically to play Pokemon go in 2016 lol, up until that point I was still rocking one of those Casio Gzone indestructible flip-phones. Walked into WalMart, bought the cheapest LG whatever phone I could find (Android 5 I think?), caught a bazillion Pokemon. I remember buying multiple batteries for longer sessions, because you could just pop the back off and replace it on the go.