#soylent | Logs for 2023-02-15
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[05:44:08] <Runaway1956> Gardening is going well - I've never had this much stuff planted this early in the year!
[05:44:44] <Runaway1956> Daikon tiller radishes have sprouted, that whole area is greening up nicely
[05:45:01] <Runaway1956> Got a whole bunch of green leafy seeds in the ground
[05:45:16] <Runaway1956> Onions are next!
[05:46:15] <Runaway1956> And, almost zero weeds anywhere!
[05:46:48] <Runaway1956> Even the bushy undergrowth I cut down and/or pulled out of the ground is failing to come back up through the cardboard
[05:46:58] <Runaway1956> more normal weeds don't have a chance!
[05:48:53] <Runaway1956> Oh yeah, three varieties of cabbage, the gold variety supposed to mature in about 60 to 65 days, the red about two weeks later, and the whites a week or so after the reds.
[05:50:42] <ted-ious> Cardboard?
[05:51:07] <Runaway1956> Use cardboard for weed barrier - want to see a Youtube video?
[05:52:06] <Runaway1956> https://www.youtube.com
[05:52:09] <systemd> ^ 03Using Cardboard as a Weed Barrier with The Stupid Gardener!
[05:52:35] <ted-ious> Neat!
[06:00:47] <Ellenor> wroooooooo
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[06:56:12] <halibut> I am curious whether the nonverbal written-out vocalizations have any particular meaning.
[06:56:25] <Ellenor> i make wolf noises?
[06:56:41] <halibut> Was ``foof'' a wolf noise too?
[06:56:54] <halibut> or are you multispecial?
[06:57:13] <halibut> (What is the equivalent of ``multilingual'' for speaking various animal noises?)
[06:59:58] <Ellenor> idk
[07:00:05] <Ellenor> try not to read too much into it
[07:00:42] <halibut> Where's the fun in that? I worked hard to come up with an excessively verbose way to ask, ``What's that mean?''
[07:01:45] <Ellenor> heh
[07:02:24] <halibut> I think I'm losing to monosyllabic responses.
[07:02:47] <halibut> A single raised eyebrow would probably finish me off.
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[07:12:38] <Ellenor> ô.o
[07:12:54] <halibut> ... and how in the world does one respond to that?
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[07:30:42] <Ellenor> Trying to buy a laptop on Alibaba, I think I accidentally stumbled into a scambaiting episode. The seller wants me to pay via an out-of-band payment method which is an immediate red card if they don't walk it back. I have given them an opportunity to walk it back. The rules of the platform, as far as I can tell, do not prohibit this. However, a seller literally selling me illegal drugs was
[07:30:44] <Ellenor> willing to invent a cover story involving electronics to use Alibaba's escrow service - so this is *super* suspicious.
[07:30:49] Ellenor is now known as Mel
[07:32:15] <kyonko> ...
[07:32:22] <kyonko> i've never come across something like that
[07:32:27] <kyonko> i don't use alibaba
[07:32:31] <Mel> good
[07:32:33] <Mel> don't start
[07:32:34] <kyonko> but lots of people in the far east do
[07:32:39] <halibut> You say scambaiting. Do you plan to bait them?
[07:32:45] <Mel> A little?
[07:32:47] <kyonko> japanese and koreans
[07:33:05] <kyonko> whats so special about modern post 2020 laptops anyway?
[07:33:11] <halibut> I do hope you feel like telling us how it goes. I like those stories.
[07:33:17] <kyonko> sure EFI is nice, but if it has no back up BIOS whats the point
[07:33:23] <kyonko> hey fish
[07:33:48] <halibut> I actually got a few tech support scam calls. One time, I even got into a conversation with the person. I tried not to say anything nearly as accusatory as I was thinking, because I figure they would just hang up.
[07:34:32] <kyonko> i get a lot of shit via ss7 pstn voip
[07:34:46] <halibut> They seemed like a nice person, but given their vocation, I think all I can really conclude is that they are capable of seeming like a nice person, in certain circumstances.
[07:34:47] <kyonko> its pots if i wish, i can connect a rotary phone to the appliance
[07:35:00] <Mel> kyonko, ESP:/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
[07:35:02] <Mel> don't be a wuss
[07:35:29] <halibut> Hello, kyonko.
[07:35:34] <kyonko> i know alternative OS will work on EFI duh
[07:36:18] <kyonko> but it was nice knowing bare metal BIOS on amd64
[07:36:30] <Mel> now you have to know EFI
[07:36:35] <kyonko> live long and prosper to BIOS
[07:36:36] <kyonko> lol
[07:36:37] <Mel> including having an EFI shell available
[07:36:42] <kyonko> oh yeah I will
[07:36:58] <kyonko> like I said, there is alternative OS for EFI
[07:37:07] <kyonko> not that i would go the path of the microsoft surface EVER
[07:37:29] <kyonko> i have a terrible low end lenovo chrome book, with glass touch screen
[07:37:36] <kyonko> its aluminum and glass
[07:37:44] <kyonko> but chromeos is just shit
[07:38:14] <kyonko> it looks real shitty before the framebuffer driver is loaded
[07:38:27] <kyonko> i'm so poor its all i915 for me
[07:38:56] <kyonko> now you don't need framebuffer, but it helps to draw people into FLOSS
[07:43:28] <Mel> hey, don't knock i915. I've flown flightgear on one
[07:43:44] <kyonko> not knocking it
[07:43:48] <kyonko> it does opengl well
[07:43:51] <kyonko> if you do opengl
[07:43:56] <kyonko> which nobody does
[07:44:01] <kyonko> because everything now is in the browser
[07:44:28] <kyonko> chromium on freebsd will OOM reaper even on 6GB of RAM
[07:44:56] <kyonko> so just block literally all websites going forward
[07:44:59] <Mel> chromedome
[07:45:23] <kyonko> now firefox isn't much better, but with its full page screenshot tool i can take screenshots of modern documentation
[07:45:59] <kyonko> i think those screenshots are uploaded to a central repository then downloaded
[07:46:22] <inz> Ellenor, some aliexpress sellers have tried to reimburse me through paypal, but requiring me to cancel my complaint first, does not sound sketchy at all
[07:46:40] <kyonko> thats just backwards thinking inz
[07:46:43] <kyonko> like all in the far east
[07:47:27] <kyonko> people in tokyo and seoul and maybe not taipei love alibaba
[07:47:59] <kyonko> the junk i noticed is modern lithium ion powered remote controlled race cars
[07:48:21] <kyonko> real complex, real math intensive
[07:48:43] <kyonko> my neighbor was into those, although this is the USA
[07:49:01] <kyonko> scares the shit out of dogs
[07:49:10] <kyonko> about as bad as fireworks and thunder
[08:19:53] <Mel> inz, that's not what I am talking about
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[10:42:10] <fab23> https://news.ycombinator.com
[10:42:12] <systemd> ^ 03Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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[14:23:48] <fab23> Mel: see they will do changes, but current design will be kept -> https://blog.thunderbird.net (e.g. Folder Pane with Unified Folder Mode disabled and default density)
[14:23:49] <systemd> ^ 03Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane
[14:24:12] <fab23> "Hmm, that looks identical to the current folder pane! What’s going on here? The above iteration of the Thunderbird 115 folder pane simply has Unified Folder mode turned off, and the density set to default instead of relaxed."
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