#minirant — Public Fediverse posts

Really weirded out by this sudden wave of scholarly publishing industry posts about 'trust' and 'trust signals'.

Trust is really really the wrong word here. The publishers _want_ you to blindly trust everything they publish... so naturally they are talking about trust a lot. What we actually need to do is NOT trust things blindly. Test. Validate. Statcheck. Re-run.

Trust as a strategy for those reading or building-upon research just doesnt work.

#MiniRant

American cheese isn't cheese.
#RandomThoughts #MiniRant

Yay for our neighbor (directly uphill from us) finally taking out the four dead Arborvitae they claimed we killed after they did a big project that abused their roots. (Guess we all like to blame someone else?) BUT .... wish they'd also take out the ivy on our side.
#BorderWars?
#MiniRant

Jedes 💩 Plugin für WordPress wirbt jetzt mit KI-Unterstützung:
"Lassen Sie KI ihren Content erstellen und haben Sie mehr Zeit für wichtige Dinge"
Sehr toll... KI schreibt Dinge ins Netz mit denen dann weltweit KI-Systeme trainiert werden, die dann Dinge ins Netz schreiben...
Merkt ihr da draußen denn überhaupt noch irgendwas?
Nein. Ich will den Mist nicht!

#MiniRant #KI #WordPress #Internet #Fail

Remember when all the right compained about was that eco-conscious lefties wanted to make energy more expensive by imposing a carbon tax.

Now those same people are now cheering on a frivolous war with Iran.

#USPol #IranWar #Oil #MiniRant

mini rant: I hate having to email companies to find out what is in their product. Half the time they don't know themselves.

This rant brought to you by shopping for shoes and home exercise equipment with a latex allergy. #latexallergy #minirant

#MiniRant:

Any digital zoom on any still camera should just be a crop.

Stop wasting storage space on your crappy interpolation, ya hosers.

Capitalism is the Great Evil

Sorry
Just needed to get that out there

#miniRant

Friends don't let friends use Title Case. Yet again I see examples of titles and subtitles that are inconsistent because Title Case is such a poorly defined and understood standard. Do. Not. Use.

#MiniRant

To whom it may concern:
I now no longer click on Mastodon links that lead to locations on Threads, BlueSky, or YouTube.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled scrolling.
#SocialMedia #MiniRant #Threads #BlueSky #YouTube

Today is my first workday on standard time and let me just say how frustrated I am.

Rest? It was okay. Woke up sleep drunk yesterday, felt pretty rested today, which is very rare because of my night owl tendencies.

But my office smart lights turned on for their sunset offset at 2:30 and they're sitting on their warm white wind-down color. The one I use to help myself not be quite so awake.

I went out to try to find some metal bits I lost with a magnet on a string at 3:30 because it's miserable out and I knew I was losing light.

I have OPINIONS about standard time vs. DST. And they all boil down to "please for the love of GOD let me see the fucking sun!" Fact of the matter is DST doesn't make people not sleep; that shit became irrelevant with electric lights.

This should probably be a full #RantOfTheMoment, but you get a #MiniRant for now.

I've got less than a week to write my Episcopal Church confirmation letter and no idea what to write.

Usually these things just come to me, I hope this is no different.

I'm not even sure what goes into one of these. My life story? My spiritual journey? What's too much, or too little?

I don't like writing about myself, I can never come up with anything that seems meaningful to me.

Then again, maybe that's the point?

#episcopalian #reception #minirant

Der #Boomer, sorry,aber du warst schon locker um die 50, im Konzert gestern, der sich erst vor mich drängelt, um dann das halbe Konzert mit seinem IPhone zu filmen hat erst damit aufgehört als ich ihm vorgeschlagen hab, er soll doch die DVD kaufen -.-'
Immerhin, dann war das Handy den ganzen Rest nur noch 2 mal in mein Sichtfeld, das war voll in Ordnung.
Allgemein auffällig es sind selten die jüngeren oder nicht mehr ganz jungen oder die richtig alten ;) die mit ihren Handys dauerfilmen, das seid ihr in der Mitte. Kriegt euch mal ein Smartphones gibt es schon ne Weile, 30 Minuten Videomaterial mit schlechtem Ton schaut sich niemand normales mit euch an. Macht schöne Erinnerungen damit und gut ist.
Danke

#Stuttgart #Schleyerhalle #MiniRant

Not going to link to the post, but it's about how a news site is letting you pay to not be flooded with cookies for ad purposes.

God, does nobody use an ad blocker?

Do yourself a favor:

1. Download Firefox
2. Install AdBlock Plus or Ublock Origin, doesn't matter which
3. Supplement it with NoScript
4. Enjoy the entire Internet being usable into the thousands of windows and tabs

Firefox has Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default. This means it essentially doesn't matter if anything serves you cookies; they're blocked cross-domain, so whenever a site requests them, Firefox serves it its own cookies right back. There's even a check mark to tell sites automatically not to sell your data.

All of these are solved problems.

#RantoftheMoment #MiniRant #ad #ads #AdBlocker #Firefox

Seriously can't wait for the 1st, gonna be headed down to The Grotto in Portland; hopefully it can help dislodge some stagnant energy.

#minirant #exhausted #SoDone

Decided to reinstall Sims 3 on my laptop after not getting my Steamdeck, I'd opted to go through Facebook Marketplace; that was a big mistake. Oh well, you win some, you lose some; though I'm only familiar with one part of that expression...

#sims3 #minirant

Lo de @correos en Collado Villalba es para hacérselo mirar: me ha llegado hoy un sobre, enviado el 13 de mayo desde París, con propaganda electoral para las europeas.

#correos #colladovillalba #minirant

@RickiTarr

* Wheelchair users who can walk exist. They're called ambulatory wheelchair users.

If you see a wheelchair user stand up, no, you did not witness either a miracle or a scam artist.

Stop making bad jokes about this!

#Disability #Wheelchairs #Ableism #MiniRant

Everyone who implemented a dropdown for number entries: Please don't do anything near UX ever again. Thank you very much.

#minirant

Me: :chromium: ultimamente tiene un bug donde si ves la lista del historial del botón atrás ó empiezas a escribir en la dirección pero para búsqueda se congela un ratote. *le dá la oportunidad a :firefox: *
Firefox: *se bloquea* :nc_googly_drool:

*sighs* :nc_sad: no hay para donde irse :neko_sad:

(No me recomienden otros browsers que están peor, pesados, llenos de cosas que no se ocupan, con spyware y/o son estafas)

*abre surf ALV*

#miniRant

WHUT??

I keep hearing people on YT say the word deluge as de-LUGE.

NO.

It's DEL-uge, DEEELLLL-uge.

#MiniRant

You can only pick 2:
:pacmanblinky: Fast turnaround
:pacmanpinky: Same level of resources
:pacmanclyde: Satisfactory work product

:pacman: Don't blame the analyst when you unrealistically demand all 3 in the face of ever increasing workloads. Don't even dare to say that some other undefined entity can, why can't you?

This is not happening to me personally but seeing it happening to a friend makes me :flan_molotov:

#Managers, do better.

#DFIR #DigitalForensics #MiniRant