Notices by Jimmy Havok (jhavok@mastodon.social)

@Gargron If you cat's nails bleed, you have cut too deep and probably hurt them badly. Always be very careful and just cut the sharp tip, do mot go anywhere near the pink area of the nail. It's the equivalent of your nail bed. Every time you nick it, you make it harder to trim the next time, and you risk allowing infection into the nail. As you gently and carefully trim your cat's nails, over time they will learn that you aren't going to hurt them, although they may still remember a trauma.

@arstechnica plague rats in the legislature.

@eff Just heard a bit on a true-crime podcast about catching a perpetrator with a bite match. Horrible that this long-discredited method still is being used.

@arstechnica Tonedeaf project.

@nixCraft Sam Bank and demonstrates the old rule, don't steal from rich people.

@arstechnica A refrigerator or smart TV botnet seems more likely.

@arstechnica I have an orphaned Pebble smartwatch, the company was bought by Fitbit for its patents then shuttered. The Pebble gets a good 5 days out of a charge. Orphaned by a company that couldn't even make a competitive product with the tech they bought.

@eff Have too many police been caught breaking the law by Ring cameras?

@Gargron Movie execs are timid. They aren't willing to risk the production budget on an unknown quantity, so they remake something that is already popular. That will continue until people get sick of remakes.

@nixCraft HP products seem to break down shortly after the warranty period expires, in my experience.

@nixCraft Wasn't Captcha intended to train AI?

@nixCraft I have conjectured this would be possible. But is it able to do this for anyone on any keyboard, is it tuned to a particular keyboard, or is it trained on a particular person?

@arstechnica Is this one of those companies that sells its product to multiple resellers, to be distributed under different brand names?

@arstechnica Is Musk letting Russia use X for free?

@arstechnica Geez, read the room, guys. We don't need more IC.

@arstechnica One implication of this is that a supermassive black hole could have formed from the irregular density of the primordial universe, rather than by accretion. This black hole is from a very young portion of the universe...would ones that size have evaporated in our portion of the universe?

@arstechnica '50s SF coming true?

@arstechnica 26 brands of eyedrops made in the same facility...this is a problem of monopolism. Fake branding, no difference except the label on the package. Any problem affects the whole product sector.

@wonderofscience That is a genius idea. Did they manipulate the size of the bubbles to give them neutral bouyancy?

@wonderofscience @Physicsj Wonder if Venus has life. It seems like it should.