Notices by Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)

Idiots: "The arts have no purpose"

Me:

While walking down the street a dead drone dropped out of the sky and almost hit me.

Finally, it feels like living in the future.

Discovered our industrial receipt printer can produce output of unlimited length, really fast.

So here's a two story high version of timecube.

I always forget about my complete archive of UK government source code until I receive panicked emails asking me to delete things from it.

This time it was password hashes. A *lot* of password hashes.

The fastest way to make me pay for your newsletter is to start an article with this sentence

Good morning from this row of excited boxes

Wondered if any what3words addresses consisting of a repeated word actually hit something related to the word.

It only took three attempts to find that nature.nature.nature is slap bang in the middle of Whitaker Ponds Nature Park

They arrived.

oh no. OH NO.

Tonight I got the director of Hackers (1994) to sign my copy of the novelisation and discovered it was the first time he'd ever signed one.

It was also the first time he'd ever seen one, and in fact the first time he found out it existed.

This is real and I need to have a lie down

I am not linking to it, do not even ask. Oh my god.

Fine, I bought them. Horrifying results in a few weeks.

FISH HEIST FISH HEIST

I love it when the title of a paper also serves as a TL;DR

TIL "Gardens of the World" in Berlin has detailed replicas of foreign horticultural parks.

Los Angeles is represented by six palm trees behind a chain-link fence in the car park

My #why2025 FOMO got substantially worse after discovering the badge has built-in pyrotechnics

@thomasfuchs It is also a *lot* more expensive and a requirement I didn't state (but will now edit in) is that i expect this thing to take a beating and I don't want to be too precious about it!

I'm off backpacking and need a new small/light laptop since the death of my beloved 11" Macbook Air.

Requirements:
* Decent keyboard
* An OS I can write code on (Not Windows)
* 512gb+ storage

Current frontrunner is the Chuwi Minibook X N150. Any other suggestions?

Newspapers printing public keys for whistleblowers in every physical issue is cyberpunk AF

https://bsky.app/profile/lambda.bsky.social/post/3lv3wgvvbac2t

Companies wonder why they struggle to get good candidates and then have interview processes that rival banned interrogation techniques