Nicolas Ward

@ultranurd
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Cloud securitician and software engineer. Married to @Andrle. I like Star Trek, books, games, Lego, and political news. Opinions are my own. Ⓥ
My avatar is a picture of me wearing a Classic Mac graphic tee standing in front of a Max Classic and an Apple Computer poster at the Living Computers Museum.
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Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022

Trying to decide how bad of a #vegan ethical violation it is using a natural sponge that came free with something.

Phylogenetically they're clearly animals but don't really have any of the features we associate with animals. They're sessile, don't really have specialized cells or organs, let alone a nervous system!

Probably the impact of making an artificial sponge is worse...

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blaineNov 19, 2022

Hey, US folks newly running Mastodon instances: do Future You a *huge* favor, mitigate your potential liability, and register with the copyright office and designate an agent to receive DMCA reports *right now*. https://copyright.gov/dmca-directory/

(Via [email protected])

DMCA Designated Agent Directory | U.S. Copyright Office

DMCA Designated Agent Directory

Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022
Time to make the jump to a smaller instance while I figure out if I want to run my own with vanity domain.
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Bad news for the GOP chairwoman who is now an octillion times worse.
Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022

Everybody wake up, new SI unit prefixes just dropped!

Welcome ronna (R, 10²⁷, octillion) and quetta (Q, 10³⁰, nonillion) and their tiny cousins ronto (r, 10⁻²⁷, octillionth) and quecto (q, 10⁻³⁰, nonillionth).

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137985619/metric-system-measurement-prefix

#science #InternationalBureauOfWeightsAndMeasures

The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up

The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.

NPR
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#Caturday
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trans rights
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rob HAS MOVEDNov 19, 2022

McSweeney’s recently ran a feature called, 'Are You A Parent Of A Toddler Or An Assistant To A Male CEO Of A Tech Startup?'

Telltale signs include: “he routinely overestimates his abilities”; “he won’t stop talking about how he’s going to build a rocket ship and blast off into outer space”; and “when he says something that doesn’t make sense, you smile, nod, and tell him he’s a genius”. See the link for the full list:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are-you-a-parent-of-a-toddler-or-an-assistant-to-a-male-ceo-of-a-tech-startup

#parenting #startups #tech #technology #satire

Are You a Parent of a Toddler or an Assistant to a Male CEO of a Tech Startup?

1. A disproportionate amount of your time is spent cleaning up messes and bringing him snacks. 2. He summons you by screaming your name at the top ...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022
Haven't been tweeting much except in reply to a few folks still active there and a meme or two about the collapse of the birdsite. Bringing Trump back is what I had said would be the end for me; need to decide how best to handle my account. Placeholder unused? Delete tweets? I'm not sure I even want to do mostly read only anymore. Also don't really want to potentially lose my handle on what might still be a high profile site for many.