Amelia Meyer @agmlego@cybre.space

Maybe most of our problems metaphorically boil down to "The wrong Amazon is on fire".

You know those really annoying websites that ask you to fill out a form but they won’t let you paste? So you have to (for example) carefully type a long bank account number by hand instead of just pasting it?

Turns out there are browser extensions that can prevent specified sites from turning off paste.

In Chrome: “Don't F*** With Paste,” by Jacob Swanner. (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-f-with-paste/nkgllhigpcljnhoakjkgaieabnkmgdkb)

In Firefox: “Don't Fuck With Paste,” by Aaron R, based on the Chrome extension. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/)

Bad game idea of the day: Platformer levels full of spikes, but instead of being able to jump five times your own height, you have to build scaffolding, using the spikes as anchor points. You work for a company who is removing the spikes to recycle the metal for construction projects, and the goal of each level is to retrieve as many of the spikes as you can, without having your scaffolding collapse.

my height is average. my body? nothing special. this has given me a beautifully blank canvas to paint with style and personality. "i like what you've done with the place," they say admiringly, tracing my tattoos

It was a technological civilization, but not spacefaring. As near as we could tell, they didn’t even have satellites around their planet.

When we got within visual range we realized why: the world was so massive that no reaction—chemical or nuclear—could get a rocket out of that gravity well.

We settle into synchronous orbit, transmit a hello, append our files on materials engineering, and set about printing a space elevator.

It’s going to be a long first contact.

#MicroFiction

The Alan Turing Institute gets it.
BTW, if you don't know who Alan Turing is, do yourself a favor & look him up right now!

Can anyone recommend a good bodycam? Criteria are:

• inconspicuous (should pass as a phone or MP3 player upon a passing glance, preferably no light during recording)
• easy to carry (on the belt or something)
• good low-light capability
• microphone shouldn't clip too easily

The intended use is to carry it when I go out late (after dark, lone area, bad quarter, that sorta thing) and be able to record if I feel threatened by someone so that if I mace an attacker or something, I can prove it was in self-defence. Needn't store more than a few minutes of footage, should at best survive being shoved etc.

I imagine I'm not the only person making contingency plans for that sort of situation, so hopefully someone can recommend something.

This is your periodic reminder to go pull the batteries out of any electronics you have in storage.