@djsundog i miss bass boost

So I see that those Bird rental scooters have arrived to litter the sidewalks of downtown Detroit.

Come winter, I wonder how many of them will find their way to the bottoms of grimy snowbanks in parking lot corners only to be revealed again in spring with the fossilized dog poo?

@rowan Oh hey, that pitting on the right looks like how I mostly destroyed my first PowerBook 12" just by touching it

I was sweaty and present for the brushing of a very fluffy little dwarf bunny. No bigger than maybe two small apples.

Now I wear a bunny fluff coat and need to send my entire epidermis out for sandblasting.

Getting a real No Man's Sky vibe from Steven Universe s5e11 "Jungle Moon"

@Adora Matters a bit if you like some of the local folks. Also helps to get away from the super popular instances to kind of self-load-balance.

Other than that, um, hi there you're coming in loud & tootin :)

@Adora Yeah, that's at least 25% of why I set up camp here heh

@ajroach42 ooh what's in the palm box?

@ajroach42 Super wanted one of those before I ended up with a Centro

Now I kind of need some Sadie Killer and the Suspects official merch

Woo! I got a local instance of Mastodon running on Windows under WSL. Now, time to do unseemly things to it.

I think my birdsite account (which because I'm sick I still check every few days) is slowly becoming just a quote-retweet stream for @BotEquippedWith

Every time I read news about Bioware's Anthem, I just think "We heard you didn't like multiplayer in Mass Effect, so we removed the Mass Effect."

@Kiki This seems like something @qdot would know about

@cheepytiger Ooh, this is gorgeous

@br That boy needs therapy

I have had "SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)" stuck in my head for almost a week now. Please share in my predicament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E

@fraying Oh no, I'm so sorry. We've had a half-dozen buns over the years, my condolences as a fellow bun caretaker

After playing with Glitch for fun & side projects and now Cloud9 in AWS for some work projects - I have to say I don't at all hate having an IDE in my browser.

This reminds me of the other idea for a tattoo I found: "Move intentionally and make things"

IIRC, I saw that in a tweet from Amorelandra on twitter https://twitter.com/Amorelandra

And when I think of getting a tattoo like that, it's not so much that I *am* that so much as I want it carved on me as a cheat sheet to remember the goal

Oh yeah, here was the tweet https://twitter.com/Amorelandra/status/689161824764166144

Oh and also I'm a little afraid to get a tattoo like that because someone can look at it and say "feh, you're not doing anything like that, you loser"

@liquidcrystal Why can't we have both?

@ceejbot I kind of feel like if I let myself totally go, I'd end up like the guy in Memento with stuff written all over him :)

@mossop@mastodon.technology Funny thing is I did file an issue about that last year and supposedly there was a fix to help address it https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1004

@mossop@mastodon.technology Hmm, looks like that particular fix was reverted this past May, replaced with a different fix, then that fix was sacked

@mossop@mastodon.technology Because this bugs the crap out of me, I filed another issue :) https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8630

@mossop@mastodon.technology 🤦

Still trying hard not to talk about current events & politics.

But, I will say that I'm watching the Kavanaugh hearings on the WaPo Twitch channel.

Chat just started expressing appreciation for Blumenthal's sign-presenting aide - both for his apparent graphic design skills and cuteness.

@ceejbot oo gimme

@js @thomasfuchs I work at mozilla, though I'm not up on everything we're doing. I know of one opt-in Test Pilot experiment with a partner that involves sending history to a server, but as far as i know we're not *selling* any history data

@js @thomasfuchs as far as i understand, there's no selling involved. I might be wrong. Definitely not for anyone who hasn't explicitly turned on the experiment. From what i know of the experiment, it's just trying to see if users find recommendations based on history useful

@js @thomasfuchs i *think* this is what you're talking about. Doesn't do anything unless you turn it on to participate https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/advance

@js @thomasfuchs i guess I don't understand what you mean. This history thing is an experiment you have to install before any history data goes out

@js @thomasfuchs yeah, i think we backed out the ads thing. And part of why test pilot is a thing now

@js @thomasfuchs what was interesting about the ads thing, though, is history data didn't get shipped anywhere. A blind selection of promos were sent to firefox and client side code made private decisions on what to display

@js @thomasfuchs well, I can't predict the future, but i can say leadership gets an earful from mozillians when things like that happen and they seem to be happening less

@js @thomasfuchs i guess what I'm saying is *we* expect better as mozillians and it feels like it's happening. Like no nefarious deals to sell out users i know about, and what i hear from leadership is the opposite.

@js @thomasfuchs and i guess when i say "happen less" i mean we're failible and make missteps but as far as i know the direction is not to monetize users through surveillance