Notices by Otte Homan - remember Geordie (otte_homan@theblower.au)

@MelissaBearTrix the quartz crystal is a very precise (as in: stable) electronic oscillator with the best stability vs power use vs size vs volume vs weight ratio for a watch (or a wall clock)given the time scale we're interested in (say minutes to months). On the time scale of a minute it is nearly the most precise oscillator one can have, and on the time scale of a month it only loses a few minutes or so, which is fine. There are other clock mechanisms (like mechanical pendulum clocks or atomic clocks or hydrogen masers or ...) that are way more precise over shorter (milliseconds) or longer time frames (years) but they are huge, take heaps of power, etc, and are not suitable as a watch that you need to wear on your wrist.
@davidtheeviloverlord @chu

@neil they had a solution but there was no problem?

@foone ... does it use fqdns and DNS so that a pi.hole can block the shit out of it, or does it use hardcoded IPs so that a pfsense can redirect all GET and POST requests to a /dev/null -> http://503 ?

@Remittancegirl coffee, and the addiction to it, is - apart from some of the good stuff it does to the few sustainable organic growers deep in the south american jungle - a hugely negative thing for the (global) environment. The enormous amounts of water it needs overall before it ends up in your stomach, the enormous amount of energy (roasting, packaging, transport, brewing, dishwashing, etc.), we really should probaly seriously try stopping that. Tea is similar.

@foone it has not improved much. Today's Sony PS5 can take a second 8TB SSD unit and then a download of a new game takes up ~750GB or so. 10 games and even that second dish won't help you much. Same issue, just 10'000x bigger.

@bagder (whispers "rust ...")

@peter_sc Eingabentastenumschaltungfunktionszweifel? @spiralganglion

@GossiTheDog @elonjet @ZuckJet Zuck has TWO ?

@foone hey on the positive side we can now order bowls of AI slop online, with 20min delivery times

@mekkaokereke apparently some company are still building one in The Netherlands ... ?
https://www.hyperloopcenter.eu/
@14mission @Alon

@k9ox It does, but it's complicated. Victorinox AG is an independent family company and 90% of shares are held by the Victorinox Foundation. The company’s continued existence is therefore optimally assured as 90% of generated profits are available to the company as reserves. The remaining 10% of shares are held by a not-for-profit foundation that supports charitable projects.

Source: https://victorinox.com.au/house-of-victorinox/
@woodpunk

@tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews I ❤ it how 'muricans don't want to pay tax but don't mind dumping billions of $$$ into PACs.

@GossiTheDog ... wasn't it trained on crud from like 3-5 years ago?

@dansup @pixelfed please please please read up on ATO/myGov auth shit before offering one too many auth path ... ;-)