Mastodawn

jdw Nov 25, 2024

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen our competition bureau publish useful things like this. #canada

www.canada.ca/en/competition-bureau/news/2024/11/the-urgency-is-fake-but-the-deception-is-real.html

The urgency is fake, but the deception is real

We have all experienced it – the pressure to buy right away to get a great deal on a product before the sale ends or to snap it up before stock runs out. Marketing tactics that create a sense of urgency to encourage you to buy quickly are known as urgency cues. When you shop for deals, remember that while some urgency claims can provide valuable information to a consumer if they are true, some can be deceptive or fake.

Government of Canada

jdw Nov 25, 2024

For the approximately 10,000th time I have deactivated my #facebook account. Wish me luck.

jdw Nov 25, 2024

abadidea Nov 25, 2024

Good news: The Dell firmware update utility definitely checks whether update executables are signed.

Bad news: Dell is posting unsigned update executables to their website labeled “critical” which then fail to install due to the good news

jdw Nov 25, 2024

What is the actual command to use to approve my first user on a new #mastodon instance? The documented “RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl accounts modify alice --role Owner” gives me all sorts of ruby errors (wrong ruby version, can’t find ruby, etc. ) rabbit hole that I can’t climb out of. #fedihelp

jdw Nov 25, 2024

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Oct 4, 2024

“Researchers from the Univ. of Montreal have created a first-of-its-kind electrode-lined crochet beanie that can be used to…conduct EEG brain scans on felines without having to sedate them.”

Aside from being adorable, the little hats assist scientists in learning how to help cats with chronic pain.

Embedded in the article is a video explaining how to crochet feline beanies 🐱

~ Researchers put little hats on #cats to measure their brainwaves ~

#science #crafts #pets

https://www.popsci.com/technology/cat-hat-science/

Researchers put little hats on cats to measure their brainwaves

Faced with uncooperative feline subjects, scientists turned to YouTube for help.

Popular Science

jdw Nov 25, 2024

How many until it’s exterminator time? #dogsofmastodon

jdw Nov 25, 2024

I honestly thought this was going to be a lot more whimsical than it was.

From: @hn50
social.lansky.name/@hn50/113540039116093038

Hacker News 50 (@[email protected])

Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming Link: https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228146

Mastodon

jdw Nov 24, 2024

Imma little freaked out listening to Leo on TWiT talking about digital price tags potentially being used for “surge” pricing on groceries. #dystopian

jdw Nov 24, 2024

Nova Scotia will lose almost $3 billion (with a B) which is 17% of its revenue from the feds “tax holiday”. Who is going to make us whole? It’s just too bad so sad for HST provinces?

Srsly. I’ve voted Lib pretty much my whole life but even I can’t get behind the Liberals this time around.

#canpol

www.perplexity.ai/search/what-portion-of-nova-scotia-re-6EK8IPE2QuKFHIggXicI_Q

jdw Nov 24, 2024

David Akin 🇨🇦Nov 24, 2024

🆕 #nspoli poll: ABACUS Committed+Already Voted: NSPC 48% | NSNDP 28% | NSLP 22% | n=645 NOV 21-23 online.