Notices by Dave Griffiths (nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

Some progress weaving this three thousand year old tablet weaving pattern.

The original was preserved in a salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. It's much more complicated than more modern Viking patterns I'm a bit more used to.

It feels strange to be walking in the 'footsteps' of a weaver from so long ago.

Follow @alpaca project for more patterny goodness.

#Weaving #Patterns #DigitalPatterns

TIL those flickering LED tealights are often made with music chips from old greeting cards as the source of "randomness" https://www.instructables.com/Listen-to-a-led-tea-light/

One of the things on my mind is how everything/everyone assumes 'the cloud' is permanent and forever - businesses and technologies built on this assumption, while the research shows it is incredibly fragile - infrastructure which will break down in days in any disruptive event.

2022 vs 2024 - The catholic church is an excellent tech bubble detector

"There is now unstoppable momentum for organisations to deploy a new kind of technology – artificial intelligence – which is completely opaque and inexplicable. So it will be much, much harder to remedy the injustices that will inevitably follow its deployment"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/13/horrified-by-horizon-then-get-ready-to-be-totally-appalled-by-ai