Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org), page 3

Oh my this looks useful.

https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

If you would/could ask free animals what their favorite human inventions were, food waste and fabric would top the (short) list.

Everyone loves woven fabrics.

I am opposed to emoji and emoticons not made from characters. Unicode is great. I hate them. Use words.

It was one of the things I liked [early] 4chan for; clever text tricks, and non-character stuff was b&.

My boyfriend just drove by a Delorean, and commented on the contrast with the current stainless steel piece of shit.

It made me nostalgic (six) for the time when corporate office indulgences were personal and straightforward (all the cocaine).

Just kidding.

@Whirl_up_sea @BobLefridge

If it hallucinates a gun in your house or child porn on the table it won't be so easily dismissible. Ok in the fedi, it's all a larf. But US police will gladly go with anything that gets them what they want.

@mcc
Program halts on error. On cpu from panel (...) press EXAMINE register. Write down octal number. Look up on the little handbook. Toggle restart address, pres run. Return to command line.

(Data General Nova computer, RDOS system, 1972; it was a bit dated even then.)

Sounds like not much has changed since then.

I just registered, on impulse, domain bleeve.me. I don't know why. At least it was cheap.

@patamystic

We can make them point at each other.

Or an old fashioned webring with other pointless domains.

@patamystic

I also have SEPTRALUM.com, a made up word with zero search engine presence, last I looked... sounds like a drug name.

Hey, I'm gonna sell my Pocket Reform. I bought the Hyper Purple one, with the great pouch, printed manual and poster. And it's purple.

It's in perfect condition. 1TB storage. I've barely used it, maybe a dozen hours. I love my (big) Reform, but the Pocket isn't fitting into my scheme of things.

They're $1469/31Jan2025 delivery; $1200 plus actual shipping and it's yours. I'm in Los Angeles.

DM me I'll reply phone number.

@Edent

That's a warped measure; one of the corporate mindset of numbers and exposure. The old world.

@killyourfm

I bought a generic-ish laptop from kfocus.org. they specialize in making Kubuntu seamless. IT IS. Even CUPS worked as is. A boot up config process as easy as a new macintosh.

Drivers and apps, just wonderfully done.

So it can be done and today. It's a lot of fractal details.

When the first sentence describing a (non technical application) software program or system mentions the language that it is written in, one can be sure that software will suck.

I can't imagine anything less pointful to describing what a system does for people.

Let's make the Internet text-only, "again". Now that we have Unicode. All the money would drop out and it might be usable again.

This, for me, was world changing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C

This was GREAT software. I wrote a basic unix like filesystem for it, using CP/M-80 FCBs and minimal buffering. I'm sure it was awful.

Poor Leor, I once called him on the phone -- his home phone was in the manual! -- and woke him up. He talked to me anyway.

It came with some example programs and games, including a GO program that cheated, like, right in front of you. No idea if that was intentional. It was still fun.

We had it running on a BASF 3-platter, 24 megabyte hard disk, with a voice coil positioner, an SMD multi-board interface card, complete with huge braided SMD cables, terminators, and all that rot. Once a day the drive would go WOOOOOOP - KLUNK and stop. But when it ran it was FAST!

Leor's still around, and you can download all his old code here.

https://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html

Oh bummer, Ed Hardys tattoo shop in San Fran is closing. Never got a Hardy tattoo but we got tattoos from artists there, and the other then-new shops. I got multiple tattoos from Greg Kulz at Ernos in lower Haight, and multiple holes pierced at Body M (lol) downstairs.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/ed-hardy-sf-tattoo-shop-closure-19811662.php

Here's my white-ass skinny-ass upper arm Bill Salmon tattoo. Circa 1990? plus or minus.

Choosing bluesky over the fediverse (not that I think that for most people it's that simple) is a political choice: what is hopefully the tail-end of tech corporate dominance of things social, vs. a still-flawed but nascent system, unencumbered with the pernicious control of for-profit corporations.

Fuck rapid growth, fuck popularity, fuck follow counts. Those are all corporate thoughts. Phony competition helps no one.

Build the place you want to live in.

@left_adjoint

Agreed. ~ 15 yrs ago I started worrying somehow I wasn't with the program, just writing html and no code of scripts...

Came to my senses and realized I write documents. Doubled down on the text and manage a couple sites, Ks of pages of html5 and css, not even a line of JavaScript. You could print it out. 22 years worth.

Got some perl scripts to walk through it and change and fix.

Instantly portable, instantly compatible, text and images and pdf and some bits video.

When WordPress came out I looked at it, thought 'huh, it's just s proprietary script', of you gotta learn an annoying script, might as well be html and css.

Css can be annoying! Lol

Hahahahaha fuck you.

Instagram just "updated their terms" -- I don't have an Instagram account --

"... This includes things like clarifying that people or businesses may still be subject to our Terms when they are logged out or if they access our products without an account."

So even non instagrammers must comply with changeable rules.

Uhuh fuck you.

A nice option for video play in Mastodon would be to start muted, require a click to hear sound.