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

On my way to a porn panel with legends Myles Jackman and Clarissa Smith at Durham Uni and I'm so excited! I get dinner and a fancy hotel and several hours each way on a train to be by myself ✨

Start of my journey has been messed up by flooded roads despite leaving extra extra time, so I'm on the next train and hoping I can make my change at Kings Cross okay - wish me luck 🤞

I built my own USB infrared tower to communicate 🚨 with my old 1st generation #LEGO #Mindstorms yellow #RCX brick 🟨 🧱 . I was able to load the firmware! 💻 🚀

Parts: an IR LED, an IR receiver, a microcontroller, some current-limiting resistors and two LEDs (power, activity), wires + a breadboard, USB/serial converter. For little money: total parts cost is around 10 €. 💶

I am willing to put this under open source and work on web-based tools. More details in this thread...

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You know what "total victory" means right? Countries use this when they intend to completely remove, or conquer, another country, or people.

It's just another euphemism for #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

And yes... it will take "months"... because that's how long it will take to starve out, kill, imprison, or remove every last Gazan.

#IsraelGaza #Israel #Hamas #IsraelHamasWar #CdnPoli

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68232883

"Man who takes bets on whether refugees will be deported to an unsafe country makes transphobic joke in front of mother of murdered trans girl"

So that's UK Politics this week, in case you thought the Yanks had the monopoly on awful rich cunts

#RishiSunak #Ukpolitics #Ukpol #PMQs

@John @codinghorror @hotdogsladies LOL - download? The idea hadn’t even been invented yet since there was nothing to download to. Just characters on paper.

When I started on BBSs & Internet over terminals, that at least started at 1200bps. Newsgroups, Binhex, etc. Fun times.

But yeah, it’s probably time for bed for an old fogy like me :-)

@mitchw I would also like to point out NK Jemisin's "The Ones Who Stay and Fight".

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

@pluralistic

@Computer @magitism I CAN’T physically LOVE Friend Computer because Friend Computer is, well, a Computer: but I can WORSHIP FRIEND COMPUTER AS MY GOD WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MERE CARNAL DESIRE, amirite?

Here's a fun thing to do: repost this, or comment on it, and then think about it every time you ever repost anything or comment on anything for as long as you live.

h/t @pluralistic

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

"You may have seen in the news that all UK networks have committed to closing their 3G networks. Here at Vodafone, we've started switching off our 3G network across the UK."

Yes, we'd noticed.

Service that was usable is now 2G or just no-service.

So much for the promise 4G or 5G will absolutely be in place and coverage will be sorted before it gets turned off...

Am I out of touch of what the public think? Or of what the press imagine the public think? Channel 4 News just spent most of their programme going on about the King's cancer even starting to repeat stuff they already said as had so little to say. It not as if there no other news to report. Why isn't it enough to say he has cancer and is receiving treatment and let's move on?

Apple's abusive App Store policies led to the #EU Commission passing the #DMA to protect fair competition.

Just like Apple has invented fake #privacy, it's now inventing fake compliance.

Here's how Apple's absurd plan is a🖕to democratically passed law:
https://proton.me/blog/apple-dma-compliance-plan-trap

Universal basic income isn't just about putting food on the table. It's about providing opportunities and freedom. It's about lifting the veil of financial insecurity that clouds many lives, allowing people to not just survive but thrive. UBI is a way to rebalance a tipped scale. #BasicIncome

We can go further.

I already know what everyone on here is going to say in response to this post. But writing it helped me sort out my thoughts!

I don't know how to social media any more: read for free on #Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/posts/97820156?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon

https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis

@derek

Heh. You and me both! I tried to make a solo tabletop RPG that captures the feeling of captaining a ship with a close crew. Most sci-fi games are skin-of-your-teeth survival, grunge future, or dystopian, and doesn't really capture the more idealistic or social aspect of captaining.

https://lonespelunker.itch.io/welcome-aboard-captain

@cybergibbons @hacks4pancakes The time I had to maintain an internet-facing Windows 2003 box well past EOL until the space probe it ran crashed into Jupiter.

Fuck my life, why do people think it’s ok to leave comments on *real life sex stories* giving critical feedback about the way people are shagging?

Just had a new comment on an old guest blog asking ‘why the hell didn’t he use a blindfold on her?!’

Maybe because he didn’t want to, or she had limits, or it wasn’t their vibe at the time. People aren’t your porn puppets you creepy fuck.

"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road."

- Rebecca Solnit

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley