@cat @ellavescent campaign for patients to have control over the contents of their medical records, when...
@mathewi Ha! I heard this story from a friend of mine at Brown in the late 1980s. We always used to joke about "everything in this room is cows!" (I'm not sure where that exact quote came from, and unfortunately $friend* is no longer around to ask.)
@riley Seems like too much of a compromise to me; my opening offer would be:
@artemis The problem I run into with that is that my memory is so bad that I can't be sure what I said, even if I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have intended to say what they claim to think I said.
At some point I started just saying "don't believe anything I tell you out loud, if it's important; always get it in writing."
Scientists vote to end leap seconds, redefining how the world keeps time
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-vote-to-end-leap-seconds-redefining-how-the-world-keeps-time/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Scientific American @scientific-american-SciAm
Huge news! End-to-end-encrypted relays (via the Noise protocol) comes to Spritely Goblins and OCapN! https://spritely.institute/news/end-to-end-encrypted-relays-for-ocapn.html
Relays are federated (there is no "official relay", you can easily run your own) but also oblivious, and merely manage routing encrypted messages. A big milestone!
@brooke ...but do you have... Duck Dodgers in the Twenty-Fifth and a Halfth Century? (It's Michael Garibaldi's second-favorite thing in the universe, you know.)
@scanlime I'd rather have text that at least briefly says what's going on, preferably with quantitative progress indicators if it takes more than ~1/2 a second...
...but that's just me. :googlyeye: :googlyeye2:
If there are any #trans or #queer folk in #Maine or #RhodeIsland who might be interested in a house-share, get in touch. I'm looking for places for myself, but am starting to be more open to living with another given the cost of rents in New England.
Seems like there's room for one more system, then...
@sundogplanets - has there already been discussion of this option? (It seems extremely unlikely that I'm proposing something new; it seems like a kind of obvious idea.)
@mosgaard @alisynthesis @composergreg @ranjit
Aha, now I get it! (The first video didn't really explain what was going on, but Nils made it clear.)
Seems like something all pianos ought to have, really -- maybe have a pedal that overrides the key-press-damper-override, or something along those lines, where there isn't room or budget for a whole separate damping mechanism.
@SeanCasten When stuff like this happens, I have to wonder what the mix is between (a) honestly not understanding the situation and (b) having secret goals which result in seemingly counterintuitive stances.
@farah @hellomiakoda @JessTheUnstill
(Even without being one of the test-group, I find this quite affirming.)
@sundogplanets I keep thinking well, we clearly have more than one different application for time, in which it means subtly different things -- so why not establish official standards for each of them, separately?
...like, the transaction-servers can have one clock which is fixed to an atomic standard; the astronomers can have another which is fixed to regular measurements of the Earth's rotation... and just let them slowly drift apart as they may.
(I imagine there's probably some reason why this would make everyone unhappy, but I don't know what it is.)
FWIW, the few times lately I've had to look at how Win11 configures audio (...or anything, really), I find myself thinking something like "what madness is this" when compared to configuring it in Linux.
...and I use one o' them fancy-schmancy multi-channel USB ADACs for multitrack music recording, whch should maybe be difficult but actually isn't.