Notices by Eli the Bearded (elithebearded@fed.qaz.red)

So you know that guy who slept through the container ship running aground next to his house? You'll never guess who else slept through it. Unless you guessed the one guy on the bridge to steer the vessel.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/police-arrest-second-officer-reporting-he-was-asleep-when-ship-grounded

Source unknown.

@watchpocket

Is that a parody site?

@Taweret

James "Titanic" Cameron designed the space ship with tits for this film.

Move over Captain, new what a week contender.

Does anyone recognize this device and can tell me what it is? I noticed it because of the blue light. My next door neighbor has mounted it on a fence about 20cm away from the property line (in his back yard). It is about the size of a can of Pam cooking oil spray and is wired with just an Ethernet cable. One close up shot and one how it looks standing by some stairs in my yard. My concern is that it is or has some sort of microphone.

@jessienab @rgb

I remember when JPEG was a new thing and people decompressing their GIF files to recompress as JPEG despite the two having very different lossiness patterns.

People are weird about image compression. Codinghorror has several posts about improving image compression but HTML and javascript size optimization is largely ignored. "What if Discourse didn't send two copies of every post on forum page loads? Nah, too complicated."

https://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/

@rysiek

I don't have a handy link to try, but will this fix medium.com links don't work with javascript disabled now?

@rysiek

Coming back to this, year end bookmark review time, it 100% does help for Lynx.

@flyingsaceur @prahou @sigrid

"Sales Pitch"

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Still no value found in HTML email.

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Really, I see this far too often. (Once a month would be too often.)

@sjvn

My interpretation has always been they want both the workers and the easy deportation because that threat makes the workers more vulnerable and easier to abuse.

@zwol

Quirky one I would have never thought of had I not encountered it: can the electricity stay on while you are out of the room? So you can charge things, eg.

Place I stayed at this year had the key card act as a switch for the power. You came in, put the key card in the slot, and you could turn things (including lights) on. Remove the card, it all shuts down.

Perhaps needless to say, there was no in-room fridge.

@patrickcmiller

I have a 2600 magazine shirt that has the back filled with reproduced press clippings about "advanced persistent teenagers" from well before that phrase was coined.

Nothing new here but opportunities.

@rgb
It's like Twitter was a giant spearphishing campaign and then it totally hooked the one guy with the pocket change to buy the company and mainline that bait.

@thomasfuchs
My system had this card in the 80s. It was definitely one of the lesser used accessories. Three floppy drives? Used all the time. Two printers? Yup, dot matrix one used for draft and the Brother daisy wheel with rs232 controlled used for higher quality output. Speech synthesizer used for games and gimmicks. Extra RAM used as extra RAM always is.

Tape drive used rarely. P-Code card used hardly ever.

Or maybe 483 wide x 1040 tall x 1920 frames?

It occurred to me recently that a video is a three dimensional array of pixels that we view in slices along one axis.

And what if we viewed it along a different axis?

Like a well-known 1920 wide x 1040 tall x 483 frames film opener as 1920 wide x 483 tall x 1040 frames?