We are currently struggling with technical difficulties — we’re up, we’re down, we’re taking forever to load, pages pop up instantly, you just don’t know what you’re going to get when you visit freethoughtblogs today. So for those who brave the hostile technology, say what you want, while we hammer on the infrastructure.
Computers make our lives easier.
Right?
I told them to stick with quill pens but would they listen?
And remember, a computer can sense frustration.
My date expressed astonishment that I’m able to wake up easily in the morning and then I told her it was due to a state of near-permanent existential anxiety induced by the malevolent incompetence seen everywhere you look.
I could try to deal with it with weed, but of course legalization is taking its sweet-ass time and Trudeau said “no amnesty for non-politicians caught during this transitional time period.” Well, that wasn’t what he “said” per se, but it’s what he meant.
Equality!
The page opened quickly for me.
Usually, I read this blog with the vivaldi browser. Pages take forever to load. Today, I was impatient. So I am reading on firefox with “noscript”.
Browsing is far smoother when there aren’t a gazillion scripts trying to shove annoying ads in front of me.
The Greatest Story Ever Told, and I mean that.
In Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Sorry, the link didn’t seem to take. Here it is again, without the anchor tag:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0138
Really, check it out.
Expansion of Evolutionary Energy
PZ, looks like you might need tech support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE
Interestingly, while writing this, the site went down again :)
The site has been erratic for most of the last week. The question is whether the problem is internal or external.
Damn!
Alien Covenant was a BIG disappointment. Derivative, logic flaws, you can see what will happen. Final plot twist felt like a betrayal, even though I saw it coming a mile away.
birgerjohansson:
Yeah really. I thought it was horrible. It was a thin webwork of plot surrounding mostly hole. Lots of gratuitous fanservice too.
BTW, wasn’t FTB supposed to only load one pop-under ad per day? Not only is my browser ad blocker not working right and thus I’m seeing them, I’m getting one every single time I load the page.
Well, it loaded this time but has been sporadic. I get “Bad Gateway” errors pointing at something in Seattle, but that could be meaningless. I bet it’s Russians.
It might be better than Prometheus, I guess. That’s not saying much, because it was really awful too. Not sure how to put it without spoilers, so there will be spoilers….
The “final plot twist” was … very, very silly. The timing of it was probably the most unforgivable part, since I can at least accept that they wanted to do that one way or another (even though it was very predictable). But why then and there? I instantly lost respect for the character who didn’t see it coming a mile away and apparently didn’t want to confirm her suspicions, until the situation was completely hopeless for everybody. If she suspected anything like that, why not come up with some kind of a plan (even if it’s not a good one) and try to do something about it? Instead of, you know, guaranteeing that you’re unable to do anything. Too fucking stupid.
My guess is that they probably made the movie “too long” (since supposedly nobody has an attention span), so the ending had to be cut or replaced with that bullshit. It’s just hard to imagine a writer putting that down on the page, reading it back to themselves, and thinking “yeah, that looks like a promising way to conclude this film; let’s do that.”
Also, seriously…. The first moment they stepped onto the planet’s surface, I was stunned. What the fuck were they thinking? You’re on an alien planet with all sorts of lifeforms around you, but you don’t wear a helmet or even a face mask to protect yourself from pathogens or toxins or who knows what the fuck is out there? Yet they also bothered to keep someone behind to “guard” the lander, as if they expected some hooligans to pass by and steal their ride or something. I’d say their problem-solving skills are incredibly bad, but they don’t even seem to get what is and is not an actual problem.
And this is a planet that they didn’t even know about and had no plans of colonizing ahead of time…. The captain’s an idiot, obviously, but what made them think they could just waltz around the place safely, over miles of terrain, like they were on fucking vacation? From what I remember, none of the characters even brought it up as a potential concern to be rejected somehow, nor did anybody say why they thought it’d be alright, nor did they even talk about it after they figured out what was going on. It’s like the whole problem just sailed over everyone’s heads, before and after shit hit the fan.
I guess they had the extra fuel/magic-power to just “drop by” a system to get a closer look, on their way to wherever they had originally intended. Not believable, although it’s maybe the most believable part of the whole story. But if they have all of this time on their hands, since they stopped way short of their original destination, why not wait until the storm at least clears, investigate a bit while in low orbit, look for suitable landing sites, figure out a real plan, find your spacesuits to use on the surface, etc.? Did these people get no training whatsoever? Where the fuck did they come from?
There was very little that made me care about most of the characters, at least…. I’d normally say that’s bad, but in this case, I guess that made it all easier to stomach.
I’ll take this opportunity to say that while I do visit FTB, and Pharyngula in particular, on a daily basis, doing it on my Android phone or tablet is often infuriating due to misbehaving ads taking over the page or hard-linking to the Play Store, making it pop up on top of the browser. Now there’s an “error” I wish were corrected :)
By the way, Google is rolling out selective ad blocking in Chrome sometime in the near future and will be blocking advertising on websites that display ads that fall under a list of unacceptable types, as defined by the Coalition for Better Ads. I don’t know what the impact of advertising is for FTB, but it may be time to sit down for a chat with your ad provider.
#9 birgerjohansson, #13 consciousness razor:
I actually enjoyed Alien: Covenant, despite all of its flaws, some of which you’ve already listed. A few other things that made me cringe: Oram’s whine about religious persecution, all the more ridiculous because it turns out to be completely irrelevant; and the change to the “canonical” alien life cycle of egg -> facehugger -> chest burster -> adult -> queen. Still, it certainly is a far better movie than Prometheus, which lost me in the first 5 minutes and hasn’t changed my opinion even after a second viewing.
I’m a fan of the androids, I have to admit. Ash in the original Alien, Bishop in Aliens, and yes, David in Prometheus – the only good thing I have to say about that one – have always appealed to me. David’s relationship with daddy Wayland piqued my curiosity and I was disappointed that it wasn’t explored further in that movie. His actions in Alien: Covenant apparently come out of the blue, but I choose to put that down to the time lapsed between Prometheus and Covenant, which isn’t shown. I liked the confrontation between Walter and David, but again feel it could have been wrapped up more competently – something in the line of David winning in the end because his emotional awareness and true sentience make him cling that much harder to life. It felt to me like a so-so Asimov robot story.
So, in short: not a great movie, a great deal of plot holes and failures to maintain suspension of disbelief, but still enough juice for me to be enjoyable.
daemonios:
Agreed. One nitpick is that Walter’s accent seemed a little funny. It didn’t feel like a good fit for Fassbender. Maybe that’s just me. It was enough to contrast David at least.
There definitely should’ve been more time with Wayland, or more time exploring that at any rate. David is a bit insolent, gets on daddy’s nerves, then that’s it — off to space we go. That’s when I was sure how it would all end (way too early in the story), but there could’ve been something to make me doubt that and try to maintain some suspense along the way. (David appearing miraculously to “help” and guide them to safety didn’t do the job.)
Maybe flashbacks of David learning a lesson of some kind, so it’ll seem like he’s gained a healthier perspective on things. (And not one like “I am your master, bring me tea.”) But Wayland isn’t the sort who could help him, so I’m not sure how that could work. I guess you don’t get a clear sense of David’s outlook/motivation in Prometheus — it’s nice that things stay ambiguous, but somehow you still need a believable character arc between the Wayland scene, then everything in Prometheus, then everything else in Covenant. If that’s possible. Maybe just moving that scene to a later part of the movie would’ve been better. I do agree that it felt way too rushed, since that’s really important for everything to come, but the movie spent just a couple of minutes developing it in a pretty unsatisfying way.
Where did the alien embryos come from at the end? Was that a whole new development cycle that just appeared magically? (Gestate inside artificial person option)
It looks to me like Scott probably shot a 3 hour hot mess and someone edited it down and threw in slasher-flick-style “death while bathing” scenes – I bet in a couple years there will be a tedious “director’s cut” that’ll hammer the nails in the coffin of the series.
Anthony Burgess’s lost dictionary of slang discovered, “A Clockwork Orange author only managed entries for three words and his abortive labours were thought to have gone for ever”.
(Tidbit I learned whilst typing up this comment: I thought Mr Burgess had done the brilliant English-language subtitles for the 1990 French-language version of Cyrano de Bergerac (the one with Gérard Depardieu). Not quite. The subtitles apparently are by him, but are taken from his earlier translation of the play, at least according to Ye Pffft! of All Knowledge.)
A tragedy in South Sudan, Fifteen children die in South Sudan after untrained workers vaccinate them with dirty needles. The cold chain was also broken, with “[t]he vaccinations [sic] sat in a building with no refrigerator for four days.”
The NPR interview gives more information on what happened, albeit some details — like precisely how & why unqualified individuals were administrating unrefrigerated vaccine with, apparently, just one needle.
Whilst this story is interesting, US navy hopes cannon found by divers is from wreck of the USS Revenge (“Amateur divers located gun at likely sight of sunken schooner commanded by hero Oliver Hazard Perry, who beat the British in the War of 1812”), the key point is one of the divers who discovered the wreck, Charlie Buffum, is a brewer, who “is working on a new beer to celebrate the cannon’s recovery.”
Azkyroth, B*Cos[F(u)]==Y #11:
Extremely sorry to say but FTB is quite unusable without a proper adblocker. Way too many “third” (and fourth, fifth, etc.) parties are trying to get their nose into your traffic here and loading their scripts.
If your adblocker is not working right, try uBlock Origin which probably is the gold standard nowadays. It is available for Firefox and Chromium/Chrome/Vivaldi.
For even better control of what happens inside your broser there is also uMatrix. But it takes a bit of learning to use it effectively.
All of our ads are under the control of a third party company (Patheos, if you must know) that doesn’t seem to care much about the quality of what comes through, and also advertisers are in an escalating war to become more and more intrusive.
We’re going to shake this up this summer. I’ve got a few recommendations for better ad hosts, more suggestions are welcome!
We’re also considering a fund raiser to just pay for our yearly server/maintenance costs, and then cutting way back on the ads, which will then be just generating profit to be shared with the bloggers. We also welcome other suggestions for revenue generation. The ad model is slowly decaying into corruption for everyone.
Good news for middle-aged men;
Prostate cancer trial stuns researchers: ‘It’s a once in a career feeling’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/03/prostate-cancer-therapy-study-abiraterone
RE: “…while we hammer on the infrastructure.”
In the age of President Trump, we no longer say “infRastructure”. We say “infastructure”. Get with the program!
blf @18: Horror show!
Patheos is taking over everything!
Just saw an old Nova show on dreams. After the Redhead’s stroke in early 2012, a typical dream could consist of having to complete a report for my (then) present industrial employer, and also I need to lecture/give a test for either sophomore organic or freshman general chemistry from my academic days, also,I was trapped in a mine from Tomb Raider scenarios, and I also needed to get some sleep.
That dream disappeared after I retired. Dreams are funny.
Breaking News
Attack in London.
Six dead including three perpetrators.
Correction.
Six victims dead three perpetrators dead.
(Hum… just noticed me@19 is missing several edits; dunno how that happened, but do recall becoming frustrated with the FtB site(?) yesterday. Anyways, the last paragraph was intended to be something like the following.)
This NPR interview gives more information on what happened & possible knock-on effects, albeit some details — like precisely how & why unqualified individuals were administrating unrefrigerated vaccine with, apparently, just one needle — are sparse.
I don’t like this font.
SpaceX continues its reuse of rockets/capsules. The Dragon Capsule for CRS-11 (just captured by the CanadaArm on the ISS), was previously used on the CRS-4 mission. The next launch (scheduled for 6/15), BulgariaSat-1, will use a “flight proven booster”.
@chigau:
I wasn’t sure what you meant, but I now see that the font (or typeface) list reads “cochin, georgia”. Of course, Georgia was the default for a long time, so I guessed the problem is Cochin. I didn’t have that installed on my system (looks like it’s a MacOS-only font), but it wasn’t hard to find and put it on.
Huh.
I think I see what you mean. The apparent size of the text is smaller and less legible than Georgia. It’s also too frilly for my tastes for regular reading purposes (I could see making it a headline font).
Can you move or disable the Cochin font files on your computer?
Is anyone able to preview their comments?
It looks like FTB has been changed to permanently use https, which is fine enough. But as I recall, the actual preview code is hardcoded to use http, which causes the preview to not work by default on modern browsers that care about mixed security.
Owlmirror
I use an iPad.
I can do pretty much fuck-all about fonts.
The italic in this one is hideous.
.
I cannot preview.
and my comments don’t appear until after a few refreshes and alot of cursing
if then
Fukit
I’m going to bed
Dunno about the etiology or diagnosis, but I concur with your observation, Owlmirror.
fucking hell
test
testing
Hello.
As long as there’s an open thread, I’ll test if I can post.
It seems that you lost login cookies in the transition to a new server. I had to login again, earlier than expected.
However, that CAPTCHA check seems to be gone.
I still logged in, and I haven’t tried to post yet today, or tried preview.
*clicked on preview*
Nope, preview not working for me.
@ chigau:
The file that includes “cochin” as the first font in the list is this one:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/?custom-css=49fcb49be7
Which looks like it’s PZ’s CSS additions to the site. So maybe appeal to PZ directly?
What browser are you using on the iPad? There might be a way to force it to use Georgia. Maybe. I recall doing something like that a while back on Firefox, but I am not sure it works any more, or if it would work on Firefox for the iPad.
(My own workaround for now was to just remove the font file. )
Preview is working now. For me, at least.
.
So it does.
Tooth and claw: protective mother bear cuts off Dracula’s castle:
It’s stakes, people, stakes. Not steaks.
(And I confirm, “Preview” is working, for some definitions of “working”. THANKS!)
Preview works for me … finally. Seems like fixes around here only happen by accident, but I’ll take it.
Owlmirror:
I know basically nothing about iPads, but if you create a CSS and put it in your iPad’s special magic place, you should be able to get any fonts you like for the FTB domain (or wherever you like), along with other settings if you want to get fancy. I’ve used some tweaks for FTB for a long time now, and they do still work on Firefox. (That is, after switching hosts, I suppose — was that the worry, Owlmirror?)
I’d assume you can create/modify that stuff on an iPad with no problem, but I really have no idea. (Maybe just surf with a legit computer?)
But that would only affect things for you of anyway, so annoying PZ sounds like a solid plan.
Okay, preview does work, but maybe it’ll take some more time to get back into the habit of proofreading carefully with it. Or I just need more coffee.
The preview fix was INTENTIONAL. We put our tech guru to work on it.
I’ll fix the font later today. Somehow, in the recent migration, an old CSS file got stuck in there.
Comments have been closed on the relevant post (We’ll keep Trav Mamone around) — “the correct answer. Pizza should be served with pineapple” — so will note here, Sam Panopoulos, inventor of Hawaiian pizza, dies aged 83 (Grauniad edits in {curly braces}):
I would go out and have a pineapple (with jalapeño) pizza — as a mark of respect & thanks (and a damn fine dinner) — except as I noted in the now-closed thread, “In my experience, it’s incredibly hard to get decent fresh pineapple in Europe. Too frequently the fruit you do get isn’t ripe — and I suspect is served that way, underripe — but, for some reason, rarely ripens.” Indeed, I had a bad case of unripe pineapple about a month ago, when the fresh pineapple-based dessert I ordered wasn’t at all sweet, it was damn near tasteless (basically a desert). Which was massively disappointing, as the restaurant is not inexpensive, quite new, and the owner / maître d’hôtel is a friend of mine. (He took my complaint seriously, tasted it himself, and not only agreed but also pointed out an additional flaw I’d missed.)
I do, however, have some fresh jalapeños bought this morning… hum, this needs a think…
(The mildly deranged penguin is currently stuck inside her duck-proof suit, so I was planning on doing duck (not a pizza (too many feathers (and quacks))) for tonight, with lots of cheese; and now, perhaps, some jalapeños… needs a think!)
Interesting. I notice that it says “Preview error” under the “Post Comment” button (before I click on “Preview”). Yet clicking on “Preview” does work.
Anyone else notice that?
(It might be a side effect of my browser config, or it might be something still slightly broken.)
@consciousness razor:
I don’t know a whole lot about iPads, but I do know that they are very tightly locked down with regards to modifications that the user can make to the system.
It might be possible to make the appropriate modifications if they are jailbroken, but I don’t know for sure. I don’t even know if Firefox for iPad (let alone the default browser — Safari, i think?) allows custom CSS in the first place.
Lots of unknown unknowns, for me, but I do have that one known known.
Although the point seems to be moot, now.
The current custom CSS:
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/?custom-css=6309a9b825
has the font-family setting “georgia,cochin,serif;”
So that should make chigau happier.
First Dog on the Moon reminds us, It’s Hug a Climate Scientist Day. Just remember: no surprise hugs! (cartoon): “Every 12 June a grateful planet pauses to give thanks to those brave souls who bear the burden of knowing what the rest of us can’t stand to think about”.
“This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!” Michael Palin donates 22 years’ worth of notebooks to British Library:
Owlmirror
Let’s just see what italic looks like.
OK, then.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGftsRH7A2w
That is a yutub video of Für Elise played on wine glasses.
It is quite lovely.
Sacré beurre: fears over croissant price hike as France faces butter shortage: “Price of butter has rocketed 92% in a year and bakers are warning of a strong risk that the key ingredient is ‘running out’.”
testing again
It’s a good day.
The mildly deranged penguin recommends filling the wine glasses with vins and drinking them in tune: glug gluGLUG gLLuuuug glug glug gluggluggulg GLAUG gluggg…
blf
Shirley some *belching* (scuseme) should be included?
chigau@65, Belches, farts, and other improvisations typically happen later in the piece, as the tempo increases and the performer needs assistance refilling / drinking the instruments. Fanfares can be very exciting — how many wine glasses can one down simultaneously? Then there is the encore, typically, ah, “reverse drinking” (very colourful, but smelly and best done into a bucket).
A critter almost as terrifying as peas is finally being addressed, Chips are down for Belgian frites as EU acts on ‘unsafe compound’:
Whilst frite / frieten / fries / chips are not quite as disgusting as peas — frite have a taste, mostly of salt and grease — they are on the shortlist of abominations which are neither edible nor allowed under most arms control treaties.
There is some snarking in the New York Times — snarking in the NYT! — about men’s fashion vocabulary, How to Speak Fashion Week (edits for formatting reasons not marked):
Thus, “an authentic suiting shirting story”, other than being hard to say, means you dress with worse sense than many professors.
The other day, whilst looking for a barely-remembered song written by Shaun Davey & sung by Rita Connoll, I stumbled on this performance of Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill’s Mo Ghille Mear sung by the UCD (University College Dublin (Ireland)) Choral Scholars. I can’t seem to stop watching it…
That same group has a number of other very nice pieces. Another one I particularity like is Davey’s Free and Easy. (That is not the Davey / Connoll song I was searching for.)
Genoa airport lifts liquids ban for pesto:
Interesting results from the Australian Census:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/census-australia-as-100-people/8634318
Fuck cancer.
Happy Asteroid Day! […]: “Today is the 3rd annual Asteroid Day, and the first to be presented under the auspices of the United Nations, with live global broadcasts raising awareness about asteroids”.
Apparently, the “secret” of ancient Roman marine concrete has been cracked. The stuff is impressive, there still are partially- or fully-submerged installations which are still broadly intact, making it far more durable than most(? all?) modern marine concrete. Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays (the Grauniad’s edits in {curly braces}):
Ancient Roman concrete also did not contain rebar, which is often(?) blamed for modern concrete failure. As I understand it, rebar will rust, so if a crack (e.g.) exposes the rebar, moisture can seep in, rusting the rebar, and ultimately weakening the structure’s integrity.
Perhaps the most important point is in the last excerpted paragraph above — modern concrete production is an AGW-disaster, with little obvious scope for improvement (continuing to produce Portland cement, that is). “Innovative” ideas are needed, but have the problem of convincing people they are as safe & effective as Portland cement (not to mention cost-effective and easy-to-use).
South Korean coffee artist recreates Munch’s The Scream in cream: “Barista Lee Kang-bin is taking coffee art to the next level, recreating miniatures of famous paintings, including Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, on foamy cups of java at his central Seoul cafe”. There are photographs of Mr Lee at work, and his coffee-art (which he apparently calls “CreamArt”), at the link.
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What was that??!!‽?
And in the all-important Making Shite Up Dept., Pope Francis creates fourth pathway to becoming a saint:
Since the cult speaks in code, this has been run through the cultspeak-to-English translator at a setting of “cult: raping children”. It translates as:
I am here
68° 9′ 50″ N, 106° 36′ 52″ W
more or less
chigau @80: Qanuippit? Umiarjuap Pullimmaqpaga tattaurniq nimiraq.
chigau@80, Got lost on the way to the pizza polar again, eh?
Trainy McTrainface: Boaty McBoatface legacy lives on in Swedish train:
I have some good new. The percentage of atheists may be much higher that we have been led to believe by pew and other polls, perhaps as high as 38%. I attended a function where Will Gervais, a psychologist at th U of Ky summarised his research on atheism. He just responded to my inquiry about where to find the article I was interested in. Here is the abstract and a link to the study.
How many atheists are there?
One crucible for theories of religion is their ability to predict and explain patterns of belief and disbelief. Yet, religious nonbelief is often heavily stigmatized, potentially leading many atheists to refrain from outing themselves even in anonymous polls. We used the unmatched count technique and Bayesian estimation to indirectly estimate atheist prevalence in two nationally representative samples of 2000 U.S. adults apiece. Widely-cited telephone polls (e.g., Gallup, Pew) suggest USA atheist prevalence of only 3-11%. In contrast, our most credible indirect estimate is 26% (albeit with considerable estimate and method uncertainty). Our data and model predict that atheist prevalence exceeds 11% with greater than .99 probability, and exceeds 20% with roughly .8 probability. Prevalence estimates of 11% were even less credible than estimates of 40%, and all intermediate estimates were more credible. Some popular theoretical approaches to religious cognition may require heavy revision to accommodate actual levels of religious disbelief.
https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/7nzfp/providers/osfstorage/588666cf594d9001f547f4bb?action=download&version=3&direct
BYW, I have not been getting notifications of new posts for a couple of months. Anything I can do?
Sent from my iPad
(This is a test, I’m having considerable trouble commenting on Nastik Deliberations’s thread UK to stop funding homeopathy medicines thread here at FtB — I keep getting
invalid security token.)Is the Royal London “Homeopathetic Hospital” — now apparently called the Royal London “Hospital for Integrated Medicine” — still being funded by the NHS? From memory, ten-ish or so years ago, it was the biggest(?) single woo-woo drain on the NHS, several million pounds a year.
I ate a blueberry.
Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House
… which is a big scary title for an article that might be better summarized as “What the Department of Energy actually does, and may stop doing because Trump and his appointed Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, have no interest in finding out what the Department of Energy actually does.”
(Trying to cast it in Trumpspeak:)
“You know the nuclear, Mr Trump? Very important stuff, the nuclear. Very big, very important. You need to send someone to the Dept of Energy who knows about the nuclear and can work with them for the best interests of the United States of America and the world.”
I found an old comment of mine where the emoji characters were showing up as question marks. The hell?
Reposting to see if it works now.
U+1F493 BEATING HEART 💓
U+1F494 BROKEN HEART 💔
U+1F495 TWO HEARTS 💕
U+1F496 SPARKLING HEART 💖
U+1F497 GROWING HEART 💗
U+1F498 HEART WITH ARROW 💘
U+1F499 BLUE HEART 💙
U+1F49A GREEN HEART 💚
U+1F49B YELLOW HEART 💛
U+1F49C PURPLE HEART 💜
U+1F49D HEART WITH RIBBON 💝
U+1F49E REVOLVING HEARTS 💞
U+1F49F HEART DECORATION 💟
They show up fine for me, Owlmirror, but not animated.
I see them, too.
happy little poo 💩
Success!
Speaking of emoji, that same thread also referenced the then-yet-to-be implemented skin tone modifier to emoji, and the “live long and prosper” Vulcan salute.
Which have by now been implemented. At least, it shows up in preview:
🖖🏽
Emoji now show up as svg files rather than png files. Whatever, it works.
What the fork happened to the non-gravatar avatars???‽
@chigau: monsterid.
Feh.
Here’s a Greasemonkey script I use to change all gravatars to identicon (that is, the ones with symmetric geometrical shapes that used to be standard for Pharyngula):
// ==UserScript==
// @name identiconify postload
// @namespace example.com
// @description Change Gravatar to identicon, after loading (eg, for Disqus comments)
// @include *
// @grant GM_registerMenuCommand
//
// ==/UserScript==
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Does nothing unless you click "Fix Gravatars" in the
// Greasemonkey menu "User Script Commands".
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
GM_registerMenuCommand("Fix Gravatars", FixGravatars, "f");
function FixGravatars() {
Array.forEach(document.images,function(image)
{
if (image.src.indexOf("gravatar")!=-1) {
if (image.src.search(/(d|default)=/)!=-1) {
image.src=image.src.replace(/(d|default)=[^&]*/,"d=identicon");
}
else {
image.src=image.src.replace("?","?d=identicon&");
}
}
});
}
Owlmirror #93
Yeah, fine.
but you are a coding God
I use an iPad.
Geneticists trace humble apple’s exotic lineage all the way to the Silk Road:
Apple apple.
🍏 🍎
ladybug
🐞
We thought to go out to a local meat-grilling place, tonight, for a bite.
But we forgot: It.Is.Fringe.
No parking and the food was prepared by a 3D printer.
Fringe. Noisy.
Helicopter traffic increases but I think it’s all Emergency stuff.
Can pistons fly after dark or are they strictly VFR?