Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Oh yeah… I’d forgotten about that. sigh — I can only imagine Amazon was hoping to promote their store and Microsoft was trying to avoid sending more money to Google, and neither of them realized they’d be mutual albatrosses for it.
Apparently people have been able to run F-droid on it, though!
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/any-interest-in-exploring-running-f-droid-on-windows-11/13983/29
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I don’t doubt the physics of getting people there. Or at least objects with comparable mass to people.
I doubt he has anything resembling a workable plan for keeping large numbers of people alive for long periods of time on Mars.
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Relevant: https://www.acityonmars.com/ looks into a lot of the engineering, biological, economic, social, political and legal issues involved in actually trying to build a settlement with actual people on another planet. And the recurring theme, over and over as they talked to experts in each field, was that the research is either too early or too sparse to be usable yet (or in some cases, just not being done).
(My review of the book: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/city-on-mars/ )
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Kid is writing “NaN” on his math homework to indicate undefined values. 👍️
I think we might have had an Itanium box at Unitech, but then we had something like 15-20 various HP, Sun and other commercial Unix systems running different OS versions for building and QA. Though the IBM PowerPC was the last major box we added. Generally we all developed on Windows and would telnet into whatever arch/OS combo we needed. I do remember we had “the Vista box” and a couple other Windows workstations that were shared on an as-needed basis, and if we did have an Itanium, it would have been one of those.
Virtualization makes things so much easier!
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Huh, apparently they’re still using the Xeon brand for server chips. But what really surprised me is that Intel only stopped shipping Itanium chips in 2021!?!?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/end_of_itanium_shipments/
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I will not confirm or deny that I have an old ~2016 Chromebook on which I’ve installed a mainstream Linux OS and last fired up a month ago sitting next to the work laptop I’m typing on right now.
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Webmaestro?
CC: @Meyerweb@mastodon.social @heydon@front-end.social @ellyloel@micro.blog
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Car shop found more extensive damage when they dismantled the front bumper assembly. Need to wait for parts.
Insurance already approved the original estimate. Here’s hoping they approve the update, because it’s a lot more.
I already returned the SUV we rented to haul stuff over the weekend. Sticking to walking and biking distance, and I can rent something smaller (maybe even electric?) for just the days someone needs to go farther.
I wonder if short term car rentals like Zip are still a thing….
My transition plan for Windows 10’s expiration may be a bit more expensive the first year, but it’s to get a new graphics card that plays more nicely with Linux, Proton and Wayland, and move the rest of my Steam games to the Linux partition.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139132/microsoft-announces-prices-for-the-windows-10-extended-security-update-program/
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And they often used keyboards and touchscreens for more complex commands and responses, with the voice commands used for the kind of thing you’d rather not have to walk across the room for.
groan
“POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’” — @verge@mastodon.social on the White House’s Threads account turning on federation.
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
via
this post by @verge
Found myself using the phrase “Parsing the void” while debugging today.
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Nice! The preliminary filter support in @gotosocial 0.15.0-rc1 can be managed in Semaphore, and works in Semaphone and Tusky timelines.
Unfortunately: Tusky can’t manage the filters, and both clients treat them as hide completely (without the option to use a warning instead), but I suspect that’s because GTS has only implemented version 1 of the api so far.
Also: Elk doesn’t seem to support filters on GTS accounts at all, though it can handle filters on Mastodon accounts. I wonder if it’s also the api level, or if there’s another issue going on with it.
P(roblem) != N(o) P(roblem)
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sigh #Takahe and #Snac2 are both able to message #RSSParrot and get a response with the relevant feed, but neither seems to be able to follow the generated feeds.
Note to future self: Try again when I’m more awake and can look at some logs, then file bug reports where applicable.
(I should note that the authors of all three pieces of software have been very helpful in debugging and fixing compatibility issues with other platforms.)
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Oh, that’s interesting: Takahe is able to *follow* my WordPress blog with ActivityPub, but posts show up as from “(unknown user)@takahe.social” instead of @kelson@hyperborea.org
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Millions Of Cats
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/30/game-jam-winner-spotlight-millions-of-cats/
Apparently the issue of Apple Music automatically launching because macOS noticed a bluetooth audio device is available is common enough that someone wrote a mac app to stop it.
Kid found a “5D Chess” game where you can move pieces backward through time and branch off new timelines, and also move them across timelines. But still following their usual rules for moves (ex. Move the knight forward 2 and over 1 timeline)
“Your preferred solution won’t help as much as you think it will, or won’t be effective in all circumstances” is not the same as “The problem doesn’t exist” or “we can’t solve it perfectly so we shouldn’t do anything.”
Treating these as equivalent just fucks up so many problem solving discussions.
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