Notices by Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)

@foone did you know that QR codes have a 5.5 bit alphanumeric option? A-Z (uppercase), 0-9, and a few punctuation marks.

This is wrong in several ways.

The original artist describes their Fortran code that rendered the Nostromo's vector landing display in "Alien": https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-06/page/n51/mode/2up?ui=embed&view=theater

@valhalla the problem with unicode is that the SHIP section is very short and does not have have a way to easily send "ARRIVED HERE AT —, ENCOUNTERED A SEVERE GALE AND HEAVY SEAS, WHICH CARRIED AWAY BOATS AND WHEEL, STANCHIONS AND BULWARKS, BROKE MAST AND JIB-BOOM, ALL SAILS GONE"

@valhalla "UNICODE"

Did you know that "opleiden" in Dutch means "supposed to be a Fenian outrage"?

Since it comes up all the time in normal conversations, Dutch also has a single word that means "If ordered from port of call to the Continent, 6d. extra per quarter grain or seed, and 3/6 extra per ton tallow for stowage goods".

I'm beginning to think this might not be the best study dictionary for my Dutch lessons. https://archive.org/details/abcuniversalcom00compgoog/page/n8/mode/2up?q=passg&view=theater

Spock is using a slide rule since the Enterprise's computer is based on a LLM and can't be trusted to do math.

@quixoticgeek I ran a poll about this one and most responses were certain it was phishing, but somehow it was real and BoA is really that clueless.

@256 the MDT-9100 has a more general purpose "LUNCH" button.

Gotta go. My ride is here.

Ready to tackle big math problems.

Big math in the train.

The big slide rule is now hanging in my office in case I need to solve any big math problems.

why are the two heart reactions able to be decrypted in our cryptographically secure random chat? I don't know, matrix is full of mysteries.

@whitequark oh no

iamb looks like a really neat text-mode matrix client, although so far it really delivers the matrix experience. https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb

Zaal 1 is ready for our #38c3 remote watch party.

Wayfinding signs are in place for our #38c3 watch party