Notices by progo in NYC (progo@boop.city)

@Vo if I remember correctly, some systems in current Boeing aircraft are still updated by loading a program or config file from a floppy disk -- or perhaps at this point by a solid state device acting as an off the shelf floppy drive connected to the floppy controller inside the computer locker.

> San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/212-million-contract-will-finally-get-san-francisco-trains-off-floppy-disks/

San Francisco is spending $212M to modernize a system and hopefully solve dozens of ongoing problems. Also floppy disks are out.

Fixed that for you.

@lina I actually went there now honestly trying to find out does it have decentralized local moderation or central moderation. I guess your comment answers that. I'm not interested.

Today I was reminded that Bluesky by Jack Dorsey exists.

It's a thing. What kind of thing is it? Actually it's so awesome you don't even have to be told what kind of thing it is. Why aren't you clicking "Sign up" right now?!

@siina @Polychrome Dorsey and his Twitter lawyer went on Joe Rogan years ago and told Tim Pool with a straight face that Twitter's policy enforcement was nothing but fair and objective while Pool shared evidence to the contrary. Dorsey is useless at best.

@siina @Polychrome Pool, for his part, spent about five years refusing to believe the Fediverse existed and was vibrantly functional. :^)

> Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/funimation-dvds-included-forever-available-digital-copies-forever-ends-april-2/

Again?!

Your periodic reminder: don't "purchase" "forever" watch licenses for MAFIAA shit unless you can save it locally in in unlocked state that you control. If you can't, "steal" it.

Perifractic has AI-upscaled and posted the infamous Star Wars Christmas special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJBN0p4Dlqs
1h20m

The 5k video is available on YouTube in … 4k? And it looks like VHS, sharpened and ringing. Meh. At least the interlaced half-frames look seems to be cleanly removed.

Anyway, I guess you can share this on YouTube now without getting immediately memory holed by Lucas.

@dictatordave @feld @mattskala @Moon it's true; Thunderf00t said he "lost weight eating mostly McDonald's on an American road trip". "Oh and also I was hiking a LOT."

@dictatordave @feld @mattskala @Moon also food quality is important. Find foods that aren't trash food that you can and will prepare for yourself and eat. Keep eating trash food and you'll rot.

@mattskala I haven't always eaten the best food, and I haven't been physically active enough. I'm fat. I tried intermittent fasting (8 hour eating window each day), eating better, and exercising. I started to lose weight and I felt physically better and that affected everything else. I got sick a couple of times and just fell out of the good habits, and the weight and problems came back. I'm back on the good habits in the last month and hoping to stick to it this time.

@mattskala What has stigma got to do with all this? Most fat people are physically capable of losing weight and improving their health. If you don't acknowledge the problem and the solutions, you're going to keep dragging excess weight around and constantly feel like shit. On the other hand, you can do something about it and start to feel better in a month.

I'm pretty sure if I took Ozempic I'd feel a lot worse.

@CSB great. Now he's going to have tennis elbow.

@CSB or is he gesturing near his body like last year's demo of Apple's AR headset?

@CSB you miss my point.

1) Good AR hand gesture UI: Apple headset demo had users making gestures with their hand just over their thigh, while resting on a seat.

2) Bad AR hand gesture UI: almost any Hollywood production in the last 20 years. Everything from Minority Report to Picard. Poking hard at empty space at chalkboard height, that doesn't push back.

Also, everywhere including your screenshot: image should be opaque, or at least more opaque than that.

@CSB so is this Doctor Who scene like #1 or #2?

@CSB realism fail, then. :^b

@CSB Apple's hand gesture idea is right for IRL and for fiction. Change my mind. :^)

Short Fat Otaku says:

> I've said it a few times on this channel and I'll say it again: If your favorite YouTuber or streamer decides the next big step in their career is to fly out to L.A. [Los Angeles] and start making connections in the influencer space --- pack it up; it's time to find a new favorite, because they're done son. [continues…]