Notices by Thomas "Vax/Boost/Mask" Fuchs (thomasfuchs@mastodon.social), page 4

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1991

One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel

Sunrise

Haskell says hi #catstodon #mastocats

Computers were a mistake https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/08/06/researchers-discover-troubling-new-security-flaw-in-all-modern-intel-processors/

The micro sd card stores 1,000x as much data than this 70lbs hard drive

Well played, local used bookstore

A BASIC bitch

The desert often doesn’t look real

#mastocats #catstodon #caturday

Glad you asked!
1. Pages load twice as fast
2. Laptop battery lasts longer
3. My privacy isn't invaded by 50 different douchebro Silicon Valley companies
4. Your fucking site doesn't slow down my computer to a crawl and I can actually read your fucking articles

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

"But ICE could data mine driver's license photo databases."
"No no, the government would never do that, it's totally unrelated agencies, and states wouldn't allow federal agencies to do that anyway."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/us/politics/ice-drivers-licenses-facial-recognition.html

Even after 7 years living in the US, I still sometimes get culture shock moments, like at the tangent of car culture and patriotism going overboard (here’s a Arizona license plate design)

Hating on computers has a long and storied tradition

Sofa buddy

Novelty calculators are a weak point of mine

The saddest cat in the world contemplates DST

#Retrocomputing