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Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk audio-video.gnu.org/video/gnu4 It's disheartening to hear the news. I sincerely hope for his speedy recovery and wish him all the best. He is a crucial figure in the current era of SaaS and cloud computing, especially with the abundance of unreliable AI generators controlled by big tech. It's a tough situation.

Mastodon is straight popping off the past few weeks! Loads of new sign-ups. Don't forget to do your introductions and tag them so they're easier to find!

#mastodon #mastotips #feditips #fediverse

After yesterday’s British-made Suzuki Swace, today we are going back to a far earlier connection between the British and Japanese motor industries with this 1935 Datsun Type 14. The design was said to have been inspired by the British Austin Seven, and this example was brought to the UK by a curious Herbert Austin. Later British car bosses were rather less attentive to the competitive challenge from Japan - to their cost. Pic #NationalMotorMuseum #Datsun #Nissan #WeirdCarMastodon #davidsdailycar

Also, this piece of trivia ... 😆

"In Stargate SG-1 and its spin-offs, Cheyenne Mountain houses "Stargate Command", a top-secret unit of the United States Air Force that uses the titular Stargate to explore other planets. In recognition of the series' close relationship with the real-life Air Force, there is now a broom closet in the real Cheyenne Mountain Complex called "Stargate Command"."

#Stargate #SciFi #USAF

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Unusual eBay item... this time a CRT

Sampo 9519 Tri-Screen 19” Color TV from 1981.

Odd thing here is that it has two additional 5" screens on the side

via ebay ebay.com/itm/285131222925

#crt

Always fun to search for a domain name and the registrar is like "yeah someone thought of that joke in 2014."

is like the modern-day Apple features that the competition has had for a long time, released to the fanfare of a thousand trumpets and the clinking of champagne glasses.

bbc.co.uk/news/technology-6694

NIO has a phone! This is interesting. Huawei has collaborated with SERES to sell the SERES SF5. Now, NIO has its own phone. EV car companies like NIO, XPeng, etc... are more tech companies like Apple than a stuffy car maker like VW, Toyota, or Ford.

I wonder if many people realise that longer term a company like NIO and the other large Chinese EV makers have Apple in their sights, not Ford or VW. I guess we could say the same about Tesla, but Tesla is rather non-functional in many areas. They can't do basic things like delivering some models in RHD form, or delivering the Cybertruck in time, or even producing a car that's not very low quality for the price. NIO or XPeng don't suffer from these issues. msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shoppi

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