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Hot sauces are either "This is Bittertree Arachnid Tears. It has mango extract, black garlic, tahini, single-malt scotch, and Dorset Naga and Scorpion peppers. It's 750,000 scovilles and it was made by an Amish dominatrix who lives in Brooklyn." or "This is Ass Fucker 69000XX: Da Reaper Returneth. It has every pepper in it; no one knows how many scovilles is in it because it tastes like ass. It's made by some conservative shitlord in South Carolina who puts 'Don't Tread On Me' on every label."

Happy Vore Day! 🍽️✨

Yeah, so in the 1970s, the exchange value of the pound collapsed and there were a bunch of kids in highschools who wanted to play tuba in the bands. So if you were a band director and wanted an adequate, affordable tuba, you bought the British ones.

I can't recall the brand name, but I would recognise one anywhere. British tubas of the era were "compensating" - they were extremely stuffy with three valves. At the bottom, they have an inexplicable big brass ball. A lot of people, myself included, eventually just sawed off the ball, but you can identify them for having a weird diamond shaped re-enforcement or a dented spot or a ball just smashed into the bottom. They're also tall. Presumably any that are still in use have gotten new mouth piece receivers by now, but they did have some weird imperial size.

I have no idea how many schools still have these horns and their accumulated half century of dents. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing ones that aren't crushed are probably repairable and playable, but they are probably more than half way through their usable lives. Probably most of them were replaced with cheap miraphones in the mid to late 90s.

We should reflect on this actually.

Here's your scenario: Someone with an iPhone/Pixel and dabbling level knowledge of Windows who has never had to think about security/privacy in their life is suddenly in a situation where they need to send a secure message to a third party.

You're not talking them through setting up GPG. Matrix's E2EE UX is awful and I dislike how reliant on a hosted Element a newbie would be. XMPP has a host of problems regarding finding a server and setting up OMEMO.

Telegram secret chat or Signal may be okay-ish but I wouldn't link them to my real phone number.

Ugh.

I think it's actually a giant pile of shite that all of the secure, deniable, private methods of sending a message I know of are grossly user-hostile and basically require base level Linux knowledge.

Part of it is my trust floor is really high, but part of it is the venn diagram of people who can write secure platforms and the people who know the first thing about usability looks like an 8.

just saw someone boosting on mastodon a twitter crosspost with a screenshot from tumblr itself containing a screenshot from reddit

commission for TFrostlight on twitter

#FediTips don’t use your legal name as your username when you sign up because there’s a pretty good chance you will want to change it within a year or two

This is not really a joke