@JohnBrady Sorry! A bit of carelessness there: Not acetic acid but ascorbic acid, aka vitamin C. It supposedly helps the yeast grow, just like it helps people grow. The citric acid is just to make the bread a little bit sour, because Bubbles (our starter) doesn’t seem to produce a lot of sourness.
@philipbrewer They want to use the location to figure out where you work, so they know when your payday is, and offer you a cheap deal for cheap food, if it’s the day before payday, and then offer you an expensive deal for fancier food, if it’s the day after.
@ReaderJohn For places like fast food joints, I think the surveillance is very much the point. They want location permissions because they want to charge more if they’re the closest restaurant, but less if you’d drive past a competitor to get there.
@ReaderJohn I also assure people that, if you live someplace where a general strike is illegal, I’m down with participating in a general strike but calling it a snow day.
@cheesemaker I assume it ran on a palm pilot?
@splinter Thank you so much for sharing this! Spectacular photography and excellent writing!
@spgreenhalgh It’s what I do. I try to post everything to my blog. Social media is just a way to get the word out about that stuff.
On the other hand, I do comment on other people’s social media posts on whatever social media system they use. I don’t want to try to divert that stuff to my blog.
@jeroensangers I’m glad the term has become popular, because as soon as I see it, I know I can delete that piece of email.
@ReaderJohn It’s a sad world when “We believe in the constitution” is a bold and provocative move.
@patrickrhone Good to see.
@JohnPhilpin Well, that’s properly depressing.
@numericcitizen Maybe 15 or 20 years ago, I saw a project page for someone who put a cheap LCD monitor in a frame behind a 2-way mirror. The result was a mirror that could display the stuff that guy wanted to see in the morning or at bedtime—weather, headlines, feeds in various apps, etc.
@JohnBrady That is indeed quite something!
@Miraz Yeah, they’re kind of amazingly handy, while being non-annoying for the people who live along the other side of the street.
@philipbrewer.net Maybe just no hidden datacenters. Or maybe they’re especially well hidden.
@alanbaxter.bsky.social No such thing as a bad review. All publicity is good publicity. I can’t think of a third cliche to throw in there, sorry.
@mbaileywriter.bsky.social My wife and I kept paying most of our bills by writing checks until just three years ago. And we still CAN write checks, which turns out to be pretty hand. For example, the place where we live lost access to their payment processor. But we could just carry on writing checks.