Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

siderea@universeodon.com

Psychotherapist-programmer musician-historian outsider-anthropologist healthcare-blogger science-explainer social critic essay-essayer and soothsayer. Professional wisewoman and amateur wiseass. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PsychiatricNosology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PsychiatricNosology</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnthropologyOfMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AnthropologyOfMedicine</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EarlyMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EarlyMusic</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EvenEarlierMusicThanThat" class="mention hash

Posts

Post #1157038
Hey, IT folks, what malware scanner should I be running on my Mac? What should I be running on my Android device? The Bostoniensis household just had its third credit card compromise in ~9 months. It&#39;s probably not malware getting stored cc numbers from our browsers, but we want to be sure. At least, as sure as possible.
Post #1157037
Perhaps my Google-fu is weak, but I am trying yet so far have failed to confirm the claim made in this video, &quot;Boston&#39;s tallest building almost fell over&quot; (https://youtube.com/shorts/lrjiIMbz2BE), that the John Hancock Tower in #Boston, like the CitiCorp Tower in NY, was belatedly found to be structurally unsound in high winds and at risk of toppling. This is not about the windows famously falling out, this is about the building falling over. The video claims that the...
Post #1157036
So here I am looking at RAID arrays on Amazon, and it has a little sponsored block, &quot;Brands related to your search&quot;. I would screenshot it for posterity but I can&#39;t get it all on one screen, so you will have to be contented with a transcript. It reads, in order left to right: • WD - &quot;Galaxies of Storage&quot; • TerraMaster Data Storage Master - &quot;Your all-in-one NAS for Geeks, Business, and Home&quot; • LaCie - &quot;Pros Trust the Rugged...
Post #989124
Weird anthropology of science question du jour: If there's a research journal article published in the Jan 1969 issue of the journal, what is the plausibly latest possible date the manuscript was submitted to the journal? It was a toxicology mouse study published in a pharmacology journal, in the US, if it matters. I'm not interested in how long it would take to go from manuscript submission to publication *today*, I am specifically interested in this historical point in time. And I...
Post #876754
RE: https://wandering.shop/@nwhyte/116327333332765730 This is an absolutely fantastic read and I highly recommend it. And also demand a movie treatment immediately.
Post #780224
Random fact I just learned: Here in #Massachusetts, starting last November, court records of new name changes are now impounded records. They are no longer freely available to the public. I&#39;m very curious about how/when that happened, and who was responsible. I don&#39;t know what the limits on impounded records are, and who can request them, or under what circumstances.
Post #763328
Hey, #ecologist fediverse! I have a question about the biome(s) of Northeast US and Eastern Canada. I grew up in New England, but when I was 14 I moved to California and I had a biology teacher who said something interesting in passing about the predominant biome of New England: that unlike the forested parts of England and Western Europe, pretty much all the nutrients in our mixed coniferous/deciduous forests were actually in the trees and other botanical growth. As opposed to the soil. An...
Post #594600
Gemini spilled a box of commas.
Post #522222
I&#39;m going through some old paperwork, and just found a pocket notebook that I must have had quite some time ago. I flipped it open, and on the inside front cover I had written &quot;Hotlines&quot;, followed by the tech support phone number for WordPerfect and then the specialty tech support phone number for *macros* in WordPerfect. There&#39;s also a receipt tucked in here from Tags Hardware dated May 1997. I&#39;m pretty sure I never used WordPerfect in its subseque...
Post #522221
@Schouten_B I know what you think you&#39;re saying. I&#39;m asking why you chose the language you did to express it.
Post #522220
@Schouten_B That&#39;s okay, I figured it out. Takes one to know one I guess.
Post #426706
Are there still browsers out there that throw an error on Let's Encrypt SSL certs?
Post #347444
@nuwagaba2@mastodon.social In US culture, you're not supposed to care about that. @preinheimer@phpc.social
Post #347305
@Schouten_B@mastodon.social You describe what Epstein and his cohort did and are accused of doing as being "creeps". I hope that is simply out of ignorance that the basic accusation is child sex trafficking, but may extend to forced breeding of minors, serial killing, torture, and cannibalism. The UN issued a statement that it may qualify as crimes against humanity. (PBS News Hour: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uloe_Os3lhs) Did you use that minimizing language in ignorance of the...