John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

"In 1900, food expenses were 43 percent of the typical American household's budget." ("Junk Food Nation," NYT Book Review, 2023-09-03)

Tower, singular, John.

I think I have a type. Who else writes stories/books with focus on construction of fantastical cities/environs?

#books

Ted Chiang's story "Towers of Babylon" gave me big "Invisible Cities" vibes, in a good way.

#books

Step 1: Listen to all 579 episodes of the @penaddict podcast

Step 2: Buy a pen store

Step 3: ????

Step 4: Profit?!

It's pretty cool that a bank can have unadvertised immutable ACH daily and monthly limits, that you don't know about until you hit them. And no way to send a wire transfer without physically visiting a branch (which may be multiple states away). You could use a paper check, if you had one, which you have not needed for any reason in...a long time -- and certainly shouldn't suddenly need one to transfer money *to yourself*.

Yes, we are your bank, and our job is to not give you back your money.

Public Knowledge and iFixit, fighting for just desserts?

https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-petitions-copyright-office-for-dmca-exemption-for-ice-cream-machines/

#DMCA #DRM #mcdonalds

Right, everyone who currently downloads #NFL games not available on their broadcast television would certainly pay the $300 annually for NFL Sunday Ticket if those downloads were not available. Does anybody really fall for the way these companies calculate their "damages"? Unfortunately, yes.

https://www.engadget.com/the-nba-nfl-and-ufc-want-instantaneous-dmca-takedowns-200047711.html?src=rss

the race is on to see if I can figure out how to make copy/paste work right in less time than I can just type '0 263 times.

I assume I am doing something wrong, but not sure what. Clearing direct formatting and then reformatting either as text or a number doesn't seem to change anything -- the '0 is still displayed both ways.

#LibreOffice Calc says to preserve a leading 0 in a number, put a single apostrophe in front of it: https://help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/scalc/guide/integer_leading_zero.html

If I type that in manually, it indeed works.

If I do find and replace to put a '0 at the start of every number in the column, the ' is displayed in the cell. Same if I paste in the cell contents.

Yeah so Chapel Hill public school Chromebooks disable View Source in the browser.

Super great that UNC Chapel Hill police are sharing important public safety info -- photo of a suspected shooter at large -- on Twitter and not on their own public alert site.

I so wish I could reply to every SMS OTP I receive with "Dear Company, Thank you. Sincerely, John"

I often don't eat breakfast until I've been up for a couple hours and it's no problem. But tell me I have to fast before a morning doctor's appointment and I'm ravenous as soon as I wake up.

So sad to learn of Brian McBride's passing -- he was known in the wider world for his music as Stars of the Lid, but I knew him from his amazing work and mentorship in the narrow world of high school and college policy debate. So smart, talented, and kind, and carried himself in a way I always wanted to emulate -- just total genuine coolness.

https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/