Notices by Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social), page 2

Portuguese-speaking #retroComputing peeps: tomorrow, the documentary "Timex: Uma Revolução Por Contar” will be broadcasted on RTP 2. This documentary tells the story of Timex Portugal, where a lot of cool tech was developed, from #ZXSpectrum clones to Tenet, the ZX Spectrum network, targeting classrooms, with impressive features at the time! Produced in cooperation with Load ZX, the only Spectrum museum in the world, in Cantanhede, Portugal. https://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p46876

@Gargron I just posted about that. Unbelievable. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/113865320566741547

@goatsarah I don't understand how those smoking areas even exist…

Huh, sqlite3 on the command line, of course… 🤦♂️

What's the best tool to browse a SQLite DB on macOS? Hopefully open source, command line is fine, GUI is better.

@goatsarah Wait, that's news to me… the max luggage dimensions are different here and in the US? I assume that was standardized.

@goatsarah Crap. Rest a lot, don't do any effort, and get better soon! 💪

@goatsarah Hope everything goes well. It's a huge weight off your the shoulders, to have the magic legal status that wont ever expire or go away.

I assume by now you feel perfectly at home, but let me know if you need anything. I've finally made up my mind and I'm back (and fucking hell, that was stressful AF… somehow I managed to pull it off).

@mudaste Já se usam drones deste género (geralmente lançadas por catapultas) há uns bons anos em alguns países (penso que de África, talvez da Ásia também). Acho que tem sido um sucesso tremendo e tem salvo muitas vidas. Sabes qual é a inovação apresentada pela FEUP em relação ao que já existe?

Swift, like any other complex tech, has in it good decisions, decisions that could be better and can be fixed over time, decisions restricted by legacy and backward compatibility with an eco-system, and like anything, can be constructively criticized.

I have a hard time, however, accepting arguments like “if you write code without bugs, old unsafe language Swift replaces also does not crash”. This is like saying you don't need seat belts if you never crash your car.

@goatsarah I'll probably skip it. I want to pass the 2K to my parents and get a 4K for myself, but I would need to swap the remotes otherwise my father is going to throw that thing out the window, and I don't blame him.

@goatsarah Huumm… still with the old style remote?

@goatsarah Are you going to get rid of the old 4K? I may be interested, depending on the model.

@ajlanes 34km?! Respect! My limit is around 13-14km, it starts hurting near that.

@goatsarah Thanks for this. I keep telling people Portugal is much less corrupt that it seems. It’s just what we call corruption is perfectly legal and common practice in many other places.

@goatsarah It really blows my mind when a country explicit forbids fascist organizations in their constitution and then the constitutional court keeps approving the existence of multiple fascist parties, one of them very successful.

@inthehands @cocoaphony Macs don’t have GPS. They use nearby SSIDs but they need an internet connection to query those SSIDs to a central server. However I think they also use the external network IP to obtain a location. And, if they are tethered with the iPhone sharing network, I think the iPhone runs some sort of location server that the devices with no GPS can use to obtain location. Which of these is still true and in what conditions I’m not sure. 😅

@cocoaphony Are they on wifi with a working internet connection? I’m not exactly sure how they get the location (I think there are multiple sources) but from my experience, before having an internet connection they remain stuck at the last location.

@marioguzman Probably Portugal. The golden visa is gone, but I think it’s still pretty easy. They’re bringing back the low tax for people who were not previously residents so you may end up paying a flat 20% income tax rate for 5 or 10 years (details yet to come). Many people speak English (foreign movies are subtitled so we are used to hear it since kids) and understand Spanish. Extremely safe and peaceful country. Great food and people. Hot weather, though.

I rarely drive but drove more than a 100km today on narrow 1 lane each way roads with plenty of huge semi trucks going by. You know why I feel safe next to those trucks and know any problems I might have while driving on those roads likely won’t come from them?

Because their drivers can SEE me. Know why? Because the EU mandates flat fronts instead of a huge engine compartment blocking the view like in the state with rule of law.

And I don’t see truck manufacturers bitching about it.