Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)

Technically if your product is named '365', you are allowed 24 full hours of outage in every year which is divisible by four but not by 100 unless also divisible by 400

Everybody was tai chi fighting
That qigong fast as lightning

My cellphone company just texted to ask me if I, and I quote, 'need more data to gram my dish'

I'm not very familiar with kids today and their extremely online slang, but I assume they're asking me if I want to buy drugs using Bitcoin

Fascinating glimpse into how Youtube became such a nest of conspiracy videos: a Google-led drive for engagement above all, starting in 2009.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-02/youtube-executives-ignored-warnings-letting-toxic-videos-run-rampant

<<Beginning around 2009, Google took tighter control of YouTube. It ushered in executives, such as sales chief Robert Kyncl, formerly of Netflix, for a technical strategy and business plan to sustain its exploding growth. >>

Oh good. Facebook gives advertisers your two factor authentication phone number.

<< They found that when a user gives Facebook a phone number for two-factor authentication or in order to receive alerts about new log-ins to a user’s account, that phone number became targetable by an advertiser within a couple of weeks. >>

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/09/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-contact-information/

The Modern OSI Model

https://xkcd.com/2105/

https://mobile.twitter.com/Klonick/status/1085685104901533696

<< Me, starting Internet Law class w/a joke: Guys, the last time this course was taught here the cutting edge case was Napster!

[blank stares]

Me, horrified: Wait. DO YOU KNOW WHAT NAPSTER IS?

[sheepish shaking of heads]

Me: I'M ONLY 34 I CAN'T ALREADY BE THAT PROFESSOR >>

but seriously, somewhere between 2000 and 2019 the IT industry seamlessly transitioned from

"we provide precision engineering tools, your data is yours, you should not need to trust us or anyone, mathematics is your guarantee, crypto 4 ever. "

to

"give us your data. all of it. give. no secrets. hold nothing back. in return we will... train AIs on it.. and provide unspecified 'services'... for someone, who may be you... that can change at any time... and we are funded by, uh. Look, a unicorn!"

What I don't get about Slack or any other 'chat as a service' system is why tech companies would willingly backdoor themselves with a surveillance system to harvest all their most private in-house discussions.

All those chat logs must be worth quite a bit to the right buyers.

I want to play this RPG

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dungeonmaster

Aesthetic

aka 'Three Function Keys Should Be Enough For Anyone'

Narrator voice: They were, in fact, too many

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Model_4

Text files are the cockroaches of the modern information ecosystem.

They might not look pretty and they scare kids, but they are SUPER well adapted and functional and they'll survive almost anything short of total hard disk failure.

<< These branching connections were marked by red numbers within the text, close to the place that needed further explanation or information. Since any of these branches might require further continuations, he also had many slips of the form 1/6a1, 1/6a2, etc.

And, of course, any of these continuations can be branched again, so he could end up with such a number as:

21/3d26g53 for -- who else? -- Habermas.

These internal branchings can continue ad infinitum -- at least potentially. >>

http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html

Luhmann's original Zettelkasten numbering system is intriguing! A little like Ted Nelson's Xanadu Tumblers, maybe @enkiv2 ?

<<Thus, when he felt that a certain term needed to be further discussed or the information about it needed to be supplemented, he would begin a new slip that addded a letter, like a, b, or c to the number. So, a branching from slip 1/6 could have branches like 1/6a or 1/6b, up to 1/6z. >>

how many zettels could a zettelkasten cast if a zettelkasten could cast zettels

https://zettelkasten.de/posts/how-many-zettelkasten/

NASA has released 19,000 hours of audio tape from the Apollo 11 mission to the Internet Archive

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/nasa-releases-19-000-hours-audio-historic-apollo-11-mission-ncna903721

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Apollo+11+MOCR+ACR+Collection&page=2