Cade

CadeJohnson@toot.cat

<p>retired engineer, sailor, and farmer. Living in Naranjito, Puerto Rico and working on carbon dioxide removal projects (moving to Virginia in 2026). Sometime gamer, wild eyed liberal. This is an AI-, LLM-, bot-free account <Alt-text profile picture: cartoon pale-skin face with white hair and beard, green shirt, and stars and planets in background.></p>

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Post #4346136
NYT apparently ran an article speculating on how Trump might meddle with election results after the fact. He could convince Speaker Johnson to fire the House clerk who makes the roster of new members, and replace the clerk with someone who would make a roster conforming to how Trump wished the election had gone. I think the NYT left out an important prior step: considerr that the VP acting as President of the Senate, certifies the vote before the clerk begins his work. Trump could shoot the VP (...
Post #2242748
Having been out of the States these past 25 years, and beset by all sorts of weird and exotic place-names; it is comfort to come to a traditional old town like Richmond with place-names like Chickahominy and Chimborazo that sound AMERICAN! /s
Post #1775192
I too read of the age-verification feature being added to systemd, with some dismay. But although it seems to provide a tool for &quot;age verification&quot; is also seems to be a wonderfully weak tool. As I understand it, they have added a data field for &quot;BirthDate&quot; for users in a Linux OS (using systemd), which can be entered by the system root user. Someone here pointed out yesterday that a particularly lovely (malicious compliance) date to enter would be 13December...
Post #1686058
Yesterday, we sold our house in Puerto Rico(!) and we&#39;ve been putting a toe into the Venmo cesspool as a result: the place we will rent in our new home accepts rent payment via Venmo. Due to a minor misunderstanding about the balance due on rent, we overpaid and the landlord _returned_ some money(!) This gave me a positive Venmo balance. I could roll that back onto the debit card for a 3% fee (no, thank you), or return it to a bank balance absolutely free. FREE, you say? Oh hell no. To...
Post #1686057
@woozle I really appreciate you hosting toot.cat - surely do not say that often enough.
Post #1686056
Damn Uber! I signed up and rode an Uber on March 31, and since have been barraged with spam. First I unsubscribed from marketing emails, then various notifications, but finally I&#39;ve had to mark them as spam, and block the texting altogether. Do they do this to everyone? Who would tolerate it?!