@Svoboda Yeah, it seems they sold to a new owner, who based the new decor on *LA* delis (call me suspicious), but the food I tasted was entirely acceptable to my NYC-raised palate. 

 Basically, the PM/DM mechanism is a "missing stair" of usability design. It's possible for experts - experienced users - to avoid being tripped up by it, because they've already made their mistakes or have been warned. But that doesn't help newer, less sophisticated, or less experienced users.

It's almost like hazing.

Just make it work the way people expect, please. 

 Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 50mm lens on a lightweight tripod.

I normally prefer lower contrast, but here I think the high contrast, coupled with the tight composition, contributes to the abstract, decontextualized look of the image. 

 @7ba1e648 That's beautiful 

 @a97ab033 @f84ccd99 Yes! A nerdy and beautiful book. 

 @8356c71c It has the new GCT East Side Connection tracks, so,  yes, you do. 

 @9046f8ea A federated payment system like Apple News would make a lot of sense, but Apple News, which doesn't include quite enough publishers and only works in Apple's ecosystem, isn't there yet. 

 @fca3b224 every time I look at it, TBH. 

 @9046f8ea I think one of the problems is that the online news pricing model is often "subscribe or nothing". That makes sense for local or national news sources. I personally subscribe to the online editions of four newspapers plus several magazines. I am happy to pay for journalism. But it makes no sense for me to subscribe to, say, the Chicago Whatsit or the Omaha Whatever just to read the rare story someone posts a link to. There's no clear way for me to pay them for the value I'd get. 

 @bbdbf694 Interesting - I didn't see that (in DC, T-mobile). 

 @30b6b534 have fun with it! 

 @7ede54aa it’s helpful, but mostly this was a matter of trudging around until I found the right perspective. 

 @4d15a7ad no. I’m not adding labels to suit every possible preference. 

 @e7f76f0d Some corners of this place are very, very strange. But so's the world we live in. 

 @d762e03c It's also (implicitly) asking me to make an artistic decision about how my work conforms to a label. I don't generally categorize my photos that way, and I sometimes use color in small and subtle ways. I would find this kind of labeling burdensome and limiting, as well as of incredibly limited value. 

 @bea16500 And it's free! 

 @1da41359 I wish. I so wish. 

 This is the third time I've gotten complaints about this, as far as I can tell, all from actual non-otherwise-troll people. Apparently there's a small but vocal minority here that find black & white photos inherently "depressing", and insist on content warnings and labels for them.

I don't want to cause anyone needless depression or grief, but I'm afraid I find this expectation unreasonable and unworkable. No one can possibly anticipate every idiosyncratic thing that someone might react to. 

 @0618eada this is literally the first time I’ve taught my election tech class without it being overtaken by events in the first two weeks of the semester. We’ll see how much longer it holds. 

 @cdec8fbc I am quite aware of how cellular networks work. The emergency alerts aren’t delivered over the VoIP subsystem. They’re delivered at the link layer. 

 @54ea3b55 @67fa73ee It’s treated differently from an SMS - It’s a broadcast from each base station to any handset rather than addressed to each subscriber. So if you’re in range of a base station during the period where it’s broadcast, you get it (once, and then your phone ignores duplicates of the same message). It was broadcast for 20 minutes during today’s test. so if your phone was off from about 2:20-2:40 eastern, you wouldn’t ever see it. 

 @a6e37bc3 It is. But the emergency alert is a particularly unusual risk, since the audible alert generally bypasses "silence" settings. 

 @67fa73ee Depends on your phone. If the cellular radio is off (or you don't have one in the first place), no WEA alerts for you. 

 @5555af2c Being told not to do it again by the judge he has a case before apparently was sufficient to get his attention and motivate him to delete the offending post almost instantly.

I know it's popular to cynically claim Trump is getting away with everything, but objectively, things have actually been catching up with him recently. He's currently facing felony charges in four different jurisdictions, and has been losing civil lawsuits left and right. 

 @ad39b1fd Unfortunately, there's no standard way to push emergency alerts over VoIP, display them on devices, or even disseminate the messages to the providers in the first place. Cellular providers, devices, and protocols, on the other hand, are much more heterogeneous (and more centrally regulated). 

 @ad39b1fd Unfortunately, there's no standard way to push emergency alerts over VoIP, display them on devices, or even disseminate the messages to the providers in the first place. Cellular providers, devices, and protocols, on the other hand, are much more homogeneous (and more centrally regulated). 

 @85858adc If you also had the cellular radio on, you'd get it. 

 @7cdb6e9f With the old EBS system, every radio station got a list of daily authenticator words in a sealed envelope once a month. You weren't supposed to open it unless an alert came in, since the authenticators were the same for everyone (since the alerts were broadcast). They had you to return the previous month's envelope unopened, and presumably you'd have some explaining to do if it wasn't sealed. 

 @47dc2cb1 I'll bet! 

 And speaking of national alerts, one day in 1971 NORAD mistakenly activated the Emergency Broadcast System (predecessor to the EAS tested today), with a warning that suggested the US was under nuclear attack, with "details to follow".

And spare a thought for the late Bob Sievers, the WOWO-AM DJ who nervously stayed at his microphone for a very long five minutes as he wondered if and how the world was about to end. It was captured in this legendary aircheck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I 

 Ironically, NOAA Weather Radio, a VHF radio network that exists primarily to disseminate local/regional emergency alerts, does not appear to have participated in today’s test. They have their own alerting broadcast protocol, which is different from the EAS and WEA systems tested today. 

 @00e2d930 once the test is over, about half an hour after it starts, the cellular networks stop broadcasting the alert. So by 3pm ET it should be safe to turn hidden phones back on. 

 Yay I passed the test!

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 @e1c5ee20 No, because he's not Speaker, just speaker pro tempore. So he doesn't get to make a list. 

 @4c7b2f69 A lot of WTFs here. 

 Also, even if the parliamentarian goes with the restrictive interpretation of McHenry's powers (where he can only preside over speaker elections), the House still has an option it didn't have in January: they can elect a temporary speaker, who becomes an "elected speaker pro tempore", a position which has specific (broader) authorities. Then they can take their time electing a permanent speaker and conduct whatever other business they want first. 

 Also, you may wonder why you didn't know that McHenry was the designated Speaker Pro Tempore. It's because the list is kept secret by the clerk until a replacement is needed.

So when they voted to get rid of McCarthy, no one (except McCarthy) knew who the temporary successor would be. 

 There's a vocal minority of folks here who get really pissed off when you mention this (or any other bug or misfeature on this platform). They think users who get tripped up by violations of the "rule of least surprise" like this are the problem, and that privacy and security shouldn't be made safe by design. Screw those people. 

 @ca5dfe33 If the cellular radio was on and in range of any service provider, you would expect to get the alert. 

 Today, we can get "better" (sharper, higher resolution, more reliable, smaller, lighter) cameras and lenses than Ansel had access to. So we have even less excuse. 

 @b59c91f9  Neat! 

 And yes, everything about this is batshit crazy. 

 @790e5941 @d762e03c Thanks for the advice, but I don't think it's productive or dignified to accommodate demands from self-entitled strangers that I attach random labels to completely innocuous photos.

Don't like my photos or my attitude? Block button is free. 

 @7f415b80 I think at this point we just have to allow for the possibility that these people simply aren't very bright. 

 @a2d8cd62 Paul Simon sometimes changed the lyrics he sings for "Kodachrome" from "everything looks worse in black and white" to "everything looks best in black and white". 

 @47dc2cb1 Definitely a mistake I wouldn't want to be responsible for! 

 @1da41359 I believe the reason for warnings like that have to do with off-label use.