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
@ry Hmm it does just say "natural sponge" so I was assuming but maybe it is just that cellulose grid. (Came with a pot unexpectedly.)
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@prehnra Oh it's entirely self-inflicted 😂
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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@nocontexttrek I didn't know you were a Friend of DeSoto!
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@jnassi Performance mostly; some rumblings about moderation problems when an instance is this big and there's a surge of new accounts.
Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022
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
Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022
Ry Nov 20, 2022
#Caturday