scriptjunkie @sj@social.scriptjunkie.us
Phineas Fisher's hacktivist mayhem bounty appears to be happening!
https://twitter.com/lorenzofb/status/1243166923019485184
Banning stock buybacks is moronic. Sure, you might stop the executives' net worth from being as high as they might be otherwise, but they're unlikely to sell in a dip anyway. You know who has to sell now? People trying to live off their 401k's. That's who you're screwing.
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Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.
I'm seeing a ton of annoying, cringey, offensive, and just generally stupid takes when looking at the bird site today. Every one of them is a suggested tweet. It seems they've changed the labels and my filters aren't working.
[video] a dozen inmates broke out of the yakima county jail.
https://www.yakimaherald.com/photos_and_videos/videos/watch-jail-break-at-the-yakima-county-jail-caught-on/html_98ae0aa4-6d8d-11ea-83fa-eb379eae76e7.html
Good but sobering update from the Tillett's:
"Danbury Hospital, in Danbury Connecticut, saved my husband’s life."
https://www.gofundme.com/f/xpcwgy-conquering-covid19?viewupdates=1
Great thread on why Japan, despite early exposure with no lockdowns, little social distancing, no business shutdowns, crowded trains, and not that much testing seems to have avoided much COVID-19 cases, deaths, or pneumonia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/a-coronavirus-explosion-was-expected-in-japan-where-is-it
https://twitter.com/ShaneJ614/status/1240793224517545984
If nobody guesses correctly by tomorrow night, I'll just post it. You have 20-ish hours!
https://twitter.com/scriptjunkie1/status/1240811360902144000
Let's play a game: after endless frustration and experimenting with options over months, I finally solved the bad-WiFi-in-one-side-of-the-house problem. Each reply with something I tried gets 1 point, the correct solution gets 10 points.
Nobody's on the road because of the virus, which means it's a perfect time you'll never see again in your life to make a record setting cannonball run!
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-new-york-los-angeles-cannonball-run-arne-toman-doug-tabbutt-20191203-n7byqnii4bchtb3vpq3ko22jwq-story.html
Dragging to the bookmarks bar doesn't work on Chrome. Just make a new bookmark and paste the javascript string as the URL
1. Highlight the below text
2. Drag it to your bookmarks bar (or if you don't have one, Ctrl+Shift+B)
3. Click it whenever you need a good secure password
javascript:alert("your new password is "+btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(9)))))
Researchers… have found the Japanese-developed anti-flu drug Avigan effective in treating patients infected with the new coronavirus… clinical trials by two medical organizations… involved 240 patients and 80 patients… drug is highly safe
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200317_48/
Inconvenient truths: study after study shows reusable bags are unsanitary and a threat to public health. Also public transportation. Yes they're still efficient. Tradeoffs suck. But I can't imagine any honest risk analysis would conclude banning plastic bags is a good idea.
I guess that's why I was on hold for an entire hour and a half today to make a flight change.
