Notices by Florian 'floe' Echtler (floe@hci.social)

@cwebber I vaguely remember playing it for 5 minutes on a demo unit (Megadrive, probably?) in a department store. Apparently didn't leave a big impression (Earthworm Jim was way cooler IIRC) 🤷

@cwebber But what happened, slop remake?

@obrhoff wait, I hate to be a nitpicker, but Matt Damon never appeared in Interstellar, that was Matthew McConaughey.

@nblr @thomasfuchs DATENFERNÜBERTRAGUNG!!1!elf

@thomasfuchs Oh, I thought the term came from Niklaus Wirth (who was Swiss)? I assume you're not talking about him?

@thomasfuchs I gotta say, this is an interesting signal to send, both to the hardcore MAGA crowd and to the professional ass-kissers. 🤔🍿

@dalias that, and also the opposite question: how does the hotend keep its temperature at these flow speeds? Pretty insane 👌

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!

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#HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhosted #selfhosting

@jeridansky ah damn it, I fell for that one too 🙄

@inthehands I've been saying for a while now that LLMs just let a bunch of vapid people cosplay as CEOs 🤷

@libreleah There was a hilarious case recently where a little city needed to renew some regulations related to the fire department, and the local "conservatives" passed a motion in the city council to not use any inclusive/multi-gendered wording. The mayor then decided to just use female forms throughout the whole document, and now the conservatives are very pissed 😜

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/hessen/hr-nur-weibliche-formen-in-satzung-gender-zoff-bei-der-feuerwehr-in-friedrichsdorf-100.html

Found a truckload (20+) of Lenovo OneLink Pro laptop docks 🤔 These are obviously not the newest stuff and have been superseded by USB-C years ago, but maybe some school or hackspace is running a bunch of older ThinkPads and could use them? Any suggestions? Would give the whole lot away for shipping costs.

#thinkpad #recycling #fediGive

@whitequark oooh, does the Kobo series actually have stylus support?

@whitequark that sounds very promising, I still have a 2nd gen Kindle which Amazon is doing their best to kill. Did you look at anything that would also let you annotate PDFs?

@cwebber Ooh, wait until you're in the part of France where they call it "chocolatine" and get immediately chased by a bunch of angry bakers 😅

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#microfiction #scifi #alien

This is one of the simplest and at the same time smartest things I've ever printed: a tweezer for multimeter probes so you can use them one-handed. Kudos 👌

https://www.printables.com/model/1208377-multimeter-dmm-probe-tweezer

#3dprinting #electronics

@inthehands 5 bucks into the bad pun jar, stat!

@MrLaCave @bitboxer For an overview, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#1910s%E2%80%931950s

Also some more details: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation

@dalias If you rip out the LTE modem and cut off the logos, they might still make for useable cars?