Notices by Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻 (veronica@mastodon.online)

As mentioned, I've also gotten around to getting myself an electric car. One concern that was raised by a family member is the allegedly high fire risk in EVs.

I was suspicious of this claim, and looked it up. 1 out of 4 cars on Norwegian roads are EVs, and we have solid data on car fires dating back almost a decade. The data is pretty consistent. The chance of a car fire is 4-5 times higher in fossil fuel cars.

So this is basically anti-EV misinformation.

#Cars #EV #Safety #Fire

Well, look who showed up in MacGyver Season 5 Episode 13. 😁

It's Christopher Judge, AKA Teal'c!

#MacGyver #Stargate #TV #80s

@konstantin Hope you feel better soon!

@konstantin Season 6 is great! I'm on season 9.

@mkj @hellomiakoda @jt_rebelo @syndical @bipartisan @libreoffice

Microsoft are some of the worst out there when it comes to UX. They're certainly not a standard to strive for.

True, Open Source is hit and miss due to resources, but I've used Libre Office for over a decade, and it has been pretty damn solid.

If it's true that DeepSeek used OpenAI's model when training its own, it is hilarious irony that OpenAI is pissed about it.

They themselves stole intellectual property for their own profit, and it is a huge mistake that they're getting away with it in the first place.

I guess the saying that there's no honour among thieves is appropriate here.

#AI #OpenAI #DeepSeek

@aaribaud Great! Thanks 😊

@woolie @rhelune @liztai It would be last on any list of any length. It is a truly awful tool. So is everything else Atlassian makes.

Oh, and the radio is from 1951, and was given to me by my grandad when I was a kid. I've had it since I was about 6 or 7. I spotted it in my grandad's boat house.

Last time I had it running was some time in the 90s. I've since removed the power cord. I wonder if the tubes still work? Don't really care to try. 😁

I've lived in this apartment for two and a half years now, and yesterday I finally got around to doing something about this white wall space above the end of my kitchen counter. It's an awkward position for just about anything since the counter ends just by the air humidifier at the bottom there.

I was quite happy with the result. I need to move a few more things to these shelves. Maybe some of my cook books.

#Home #Decoration

As far as I can figure out, these were made form 1959 though. But the sticker does say 1951. Maybe the 1959 models I found online are later versions. I can't say.

Ok, I had to open it. The radio license sticker says 9 April 1951, but it isn't readable on the photo.

The radio has four tubes, and I'm pretty sure the four devices on a row on the left are the rectifier diodes. (Edit: nope, they're adjustable capacitors.)

It also seems to have 110V mode. 😊

#Radio #Vintage #VintageRadio #VintageElectronics

Windows C++ devs:

My main project is a Python + Qt GUI application. Distributing that as-is on Linux is easy. On Windows, a little trickier.

What I do now is distribute it with Python embeddable and pure Python code. That's fine, but it makes the launching a little tricky.

I'm currently trying to create a trivial C++ exec that just launches the correct files via CreateProcess().

Does this sound like a good idea? Code linked below.

https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/tree/windows_launcher/launcher/windows

#Programming #Windows #cpp #Python

@cirrina @pluralistic This has to stretch the definition! It's meat with a hint of lettuce and bread. 😁

@futurebird I mean, I know about this problem with Google. My dad does not. He is 73 and a very reluctant user of the internet and "modern" technology.

Like me, he lovers to learn stuff though, and is curious by nature. He has owned *so* many editions of paper encyclopaedias. These days he mostly uses the default Google search feature on his tablet. I really need to have a conversation with him about what AI is doing to the reliability of the parts of the internet we used to (somewhat) trust.

@amanda @futurebird He's wheelchair-bound and doesn't get out much, so when I visit he always has a lot to talk about. We almost always end up talking about some topic that's been on his mind. Often it involves historical facts, and he sometimes pulls up a search to check some year or other factoid. I tend to double-check on my phone. I'm waiting for a good teaching moment, but there hasn't been enough instances of this yet since AI "took over". It's really hard to change topic with him though.

The Ancients are my favourite Stargate aliens. My least favourite is probably the replicators - to the extent they can be called 'aliens" that is ...

I've reached the "candle light is fire" part of my Stargate rewatch. 🕯

Love this part of the story line 😊

#Stargate #SciFi #TV

Speaking of the Ancients. They do like to mess with time, and I love the episode where they activate one such device and get stuck in a time loop. Perfect chance to do things you wouldn't be allowed to do. Like play golf in the gate room!

Brad Wright, one of the creators of the series, wanted to find an excuse to play golf at the stargate, and this is the episode where they made it happen. 😁

#Stargate #SciFi #TV

This evening I'm hosting the annual meeting for the apartment building I live in. For this, I bought Oreos to go with the coffee.

I have now eaten all the Oreos. 😅

#HomeOffice #CookieMonster #Oops