⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

@simon_brooke @frameworkcomputer We just bought a Framework 13 Ryzen for my wife to use as a Linux Mint daily driver.

It's a great system, and I'm very tempted to abandon my usual plan of refurbished ThinkPads when it's time to replace my W540.

The other problem that bsky has is more subtle. They took a bet on creating their own protocol. And I think that was a mistake. I don't think it will gain adoption, and I don't think they're going to succeed at becoming a truly distributed system.

Kemi Badenoch: Thanks so Brexit, exports of honey to Saudi have skyrocketed!

British Bee Famers Association: Eh?

Brexit is making it up as you go along.

#Brexit #KemiBadenoch

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/04/brexit-trade-perks-firms-business-department-leaving-eu-companies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I don’t know /why/ cleaning robots have microphones, but it can’t be good. What I /do/ know is that a microphone implies an input and an input implies a buffer. And buffers can be overflowed.

As I dance through the streets playing my pipe, augmented with inaudible-to-humans harmonic overtones added by my homemade amplifier, the robots hear, listen, overflow, obey, follow. The trail of robots stretches out of sight, now.

I don’t yet know for sure what I’m going to do with my army of two thousand score Roombas, but it can’t be good.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

I eventually had to write some debug code for my debug code

Don't laugh.

(1985)

#C64 #commodore #80s #AI #artificialintelligence #commodore64

I have other threads on the 386, such as this one, if you want to know more.
https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1732448271056924795 16/17

Early chips had every transistor drawn by hand. Federico Faggin, designer of the popular Z80 processor (1976), spent three weeks drawing transistors but the last few transistors wouldn't fit so he had to erase everything and start over. The result was dense and chaotic. 3/17

Today I crossed Whitchurch Bridge, which is near Pangbourne in Berkshire. Which is to say, I paid the toll, and drove my car across.

It's mad that in 2024, there's a private toll bridge. But also it's weird and cool. It was operated via an Act of Parliament.

There's a toll booth only on one side, so I actually crossed *then* paid. They do accept card/contactless to pay the 60p crossing fee.

But, £1 is charged to your card, then they give you 40p cash as change! Delightfully British and mad.

#Space #LaunchCost comparison by ourworldindata.org : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-earth-orbit?time=1982..latest

Today's entry to the #TShirtOfTheDay competition.

#RedDwarf

I worked in IT for over 30 years, and people tend to forget the technical details of how you solved problems or implemented clever code hacks. However, they do remember how you made them feel. I am referring to both colleagues and customers. Even a small gesture of writing a compliment or thank you note can be impactful enough to make them remember it. Human emotions are powerful tools. Use them wisely.

In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling.

I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on.

I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.

🆕 blog! “A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP”

I've written an ActivityPub server which only allows you to post messages to your followers. That's all it does. It won't record favourites or reposts. There's no support for following other accounts or receiving replies. It cannot delete o…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/
⸻
#ActivityPub #fediverse #mastodon #php #Symfony

This week in KDE: converging on a release https://pointieststick.com/2024/02/02/this-week-in-kde-converging-on-a-release/
#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource @kde

Oh, uh, oops...

Formula One's invitation to Andretti Cadillac for an in-person meeting about its application to join the motorsports series was sent via email and landed in a spam folder, which is why Michael Andretti and General Motors representatives never answered the request.

The junk email revelation came Friday as Andretti Global sought to clarify two points in the sharply critical document F1 released earlier this week in rejecting the Andretti Cadillac application.

F1 said it had contacted the Andretti camp on Dec. 12 “extending an invitation to an in-person meeting at our offices in order for the applicant to present its application, but the applicant did not take us up on this offer.”

https://www.wpxi.com/sports/formula-ones/AG5G23OJRHTMWOJXB3EPFJFDIQ/

Oh. So, Tesla is a regulatory pyramid scheme.

I guess we should have expected.

https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid/

On Facebook's 20th birthday, lets take a moment to remember how Mark Zuckerberg chose to describe his first couple of thousand users, in an IM conversation...

https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

Very impressive images of the International Space Station taken from the ground with a 0.8 metre telescope and a fast off-the-shelf CMOS camera.

Credit: Damien Peach & E. Enzmann

https://www.damianpeach.com/iss/iss_2024_01_29rgbeedp.jpg

H/T https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161917230360934&set=a.483374755933

[New article] For All Mankind (Season 4): The creation of the Ranger

Now that the season is over, I invite you to discover how the Ranger -the "asteroid catcher"- was conceived, from script to screen, from concept art to sets, in the company of art director Kit Stølen 🖖

This article will be accessible to everyone for a few days before being added to the content reserved for my Patreon subscribers.

==> https://www.patreon.com/posts/97348927