@NunavutBirder What’s that bright yellow cloud just over the horizon?

@inthehands I think that was both. Read it in a news story early in the “surge,” and couldn’t find it again when I went looking recently to see if there were other details I had forgotten.

@inthehands There were 80 in all of MN before this term.

@yngmar @suearcher @withaveeay I forget exactly which store it was, but they had one of those gates, unattended. And this was when I was 23+ stone, over a decade ago. I simply walked through the gate, which opened, sorta. Some metal wasn’t the same shape as it had been before. A security guy came running after I was outside. “What!? There was nobody to open the gate.” He slunk back to wherever he’d been hiding and the gate wasn’t a problem again.

Fixed it like a vet fixes a dog, as they say.

@Tamami Sorry if you actually had an appliance malfunction, but I had to laugh.

@inthehands Sorry you in MSP caught another case of Bovino. Be nice if there was a condom or something you could wear to protect against that.

@gumnos Yeah, part of this is getting away from the phone, as well as just getting away from Apple in general.

@afewbugs @gumnos I’m planning to publish the source for the shop calendar, but first I need to get a web-server up and running, and I’m hoping to have iocaine running on it to keep AI scrapers at bay, as a preliminary experiment used a ton of bandwidth in a day of putting some (Markov-chain-babbly) source-code on a publicly accessible server. https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

So, a fairly typical yak-shaving expedition has ensued, because I would still like to have nice things.

@afewbugs @gumnos I’m not sure that this will be our long-term solution, but it sounds close enough to right that I’m spending some time looking at it, since it will mesh nicely with the work I did on my shop calendar to remind me of the “big one-off tasks” in the shop, but which also displays the “glue” from our calendar, so I don’t lose track of when I’m supposed to haul the trash to the street for pickup. https://write.as/davepolaschek/a-calendar-for-the-shop

@afewbugs I’m not a nextcloud dev, but Tim Chase ( @gumnos ) wrote a long article on how he uses remind to track “glue.” https://blog.thechases.com/posts/remind/

Since I’m (slowly) moving away from Apple products, and we currently use Apple’s calendar to track household glue (and other appointments), I’ve been looking at tools for moving events from remind to an iCal format calendar using rem2ics so my sweetie can keep using the calendar app on her phone, even if I switch the underlying household calendar.