That rolls off the tongue a lot easier than its new “official” name.

I grew up three blocks away from Bell Helicopter Textron where the Osprey was built (partially) and those damn things terrified me when they would test fly them. I’ve seen two of them crash, like personally, witnessed crashes. They are also indeed very loud.

That’s how I do it too, but after reading your “hand in the blob” comment, perhaps I’ll start wearing gloves.

But that’s true of any network connected messaging protocol, making sure a message is delivered could be implemented client side. The issue with AP objects not making it to other clients / servers is more about federation discovery.

I definitely look forward to a future where I might not have to consume NSAIDS like candy anymore, because those are definitely doing some real damage.

It is very interesting and amazing stuff, no doubt about that. The future of medicine is only going to get more amazing, but I suppose I just really have very little confidence in that space because of a lack of understanding in oddball humans like myself who have somewhat bizarre physiology. For the vast majority of people, I think having a pain medication that doesn’t also slowly kill you is obviously a net positive.

I know how that is! Seems like I’m constantly wondering if I just made this or that up. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The developer of Pixelfed - an Instagram-alike (and now Loops.video - a TikTok like platform) announced that he is working on an ActivityPub messaging service called “Sup.” There’s nothing else really known about it except that he’s developing it. AP would actually work fairly well as a messaging protocol aside from the lack of end-to-end encryption, but that too is being worked on.

I have chronic pain and I’m all for innovation in the realm of pain management, but I personally won’t even think about taking that drug for many, many years. Fucking with sodium channels sounds super dangerous. There are so many variables they just could not have tested or even guessed at. It also doesn’t help that if there’s an adverse reaction to be had, I’m gonna have it.

I’ve been wondering that as well and I had a kind of scary thought; maybe there is no opposition party this time around because what’s happening is exactly what all parties involved want to be happening. I’m just so baffled by the state of politics in the US that I can’t help but to feel like we’re witnessing some kind of sea change in the fundamental structure of the government. Unfortunately it is not a progressive or thoughtful change in ideology.

That’s fantastic! Might have to integrate that one into the local vernacular.

We call it “The Big Eat” here in my household.

Damn, I didn’t think of it quite like that, but yup, that’s exactly the result.

Indeed! Kinda makes me want to come up with some sort of “snac-service” idea.

That is obviously good for people who’ve amassed a lot of medical debt in the US. Anecdotally, most of the people I call friends have at least a few thousand dollars worth of medical debt and the idea of trying to build credit or get loans is alien to them because of it.

That’s a really cool use for snac! It’s perfect for something so straightforward and uses so little resources that I would imagine if you eventually have the entire planets weather forecasts being published it would still only use a tiny amount of bandwidth and power!

No longer pissed and you don’t bother me…

I don’t know of a single word or bit of slang that describes that (annoying) type of personality. It’s a bit contrarian with a dash of experience hijacking. There should be a word for that though. Any ideas?

I think another big part of it is simply visibility. Audible is Amazon, and Amazon is (seems like) the “only” place to buy anything these days. I checked out Libro.fm a while back and at the time they had a rather small selection comparatively, but after browsing for a while yesterday I see they have grown quite a lot! I think I’ll give them a go next time in looking for something.

I looked into that a few years ago when my kid was still a door slammer, thankfully those days are over. I think.