Signal fills an incredibly important spot in a spectrum of privacy and usability where it’s extremely usable without sacrificing very much privacy. Sure, to the most concerned privacy enthusits it’s not the best, but it’s a hell of a lot easier to convince friends and family to use Signal than something like Matrix.

What are you on about right now? I don’t mean that sarcastically, I really am wondering what your concern is. Are you concerned that because your phone number is associated with Signal that police will know you use Signal?

I don’t know.

As all of them should! We’re too deep into it to fix it, but it would be nice if 12:00+2 equaled 14:00+0

I cannot express how much I hate that timezones aren’t flipped. 12:00+02:00 should be equal to 14:00+00:00 like a math equation!

Oh, lol, well, I guess I mean 2 + N where N is the number of layers Linux is already on

Only on Windows and Mac, right? On Linux it’s just two layers, yeah?

I promise you we have better space than city sidewalks for carbon sinks.

Carbon sinks? Dude, people are planting trees in cities for the shade.

On Chrome it becomes a smiley face. I use Firefox and my wife still uses Chrome.

Allow me to try and persuade you. The problem is bright blue LEDs. It’s still stupid that they make them so bright, but the problem isn’t the color. A hypothetical bright red, green, or amber LED would also be a problem.

Someone, possibly a different person than sent the original Nicole spam, shared a gore image claiming it was Nicole dead.

I always put my seatbelt on when I sit in a car. I always text the parking deck row/floor to my wife as we park.

How’d you do it?

I got Fira Code, which tracks, I’ve used it before. I use Comic Code though. (A monospace comic sans type font.)

I use Comic Code. It’s not free, but it’s so whimsical.

For the curious, here is a similar but free font. https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

Idk, does he have any blue?

It’s crazy how much Canonical has trashed their reputation.

Ubuntu in 2009 or so. Booting school computers onto the live DVD felt like hacking. I think around 2016 I installed some spin of Ubuntu on my laptop and used it somewhat regularly. Prior to that it was just random times I felt like using the dual boot function. I mostly used Windows. It took until 2025 for me to switch my desktop to Cachy OS.

Had a similar thing once. Some how, some way, the DBA copied and pasted something wrong. Oracle DB had some odd extra syntax for left and right joins that other DBs didn’t (or at least that I’d never seen). My best guess is that he auto formatted out of habit and maybe it took those symbols out.

It took a long time to find that. Because the only evidence something was wrong was that ONE of our customers wasn’t being billed for ONE product. Everyone else was fine. Basically they were using it in a very atypical way. The left joins made sure to include them in the billing even because they didn’t have whatever was on the right of that join. Everyone else did.