Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org), page 9

@sigflup
Oh no! I didn't know he'd died!

Well that sucks. But wow he did a lot of neat stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth

I'm still fascinated with early algol. Computable args on the stack!

2023: the year when people stopped using "return to normal".

The rebuild of the motor for my 1960 Rambler complete, time to install.

This was the fastest and easiest install I've ever done. Hardly complete, but the engine minus head, accessories, wiring etc in on about 90 calm minutes. It's a notoriously tight fit, at the factory the unibody was laid over the driveline.

Sans head it's an easier fit, using a trolley they allows tilting, like foot into shoe.

No heroic lifting, just a dozen iterative operations. The tricky part is inserting the pin of the transmission torque converter into it's close-fit hole in the crankshaft, inaccessible, the engine, 500 lbs of cast iron dangling on the hoist. Worked up some tl;dr tricks that made it easy, no-force event.

Tomorrow I'll pop the head on and get it ready for initial startup probably Friday.

Not a joke. I think? Who knows.

THEY LIVE! wrapping paper makes the excess acceptable, right?

Modern telephony.

@evan @brewsterkahle @cyberlyra

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understand the attraction of shifting down another level, connecting clients peer-to-peer, but it is a seriously hairy technical challenge without visible benefit to users.
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See other reply, but I was talking only about the tool, not a corporately deployed syste, to somehow complete in social media space.

I don't see it as technically hairy at all (though I know little about phone radio APIs). Ham radio's done half of this for decades.

And no tool needs solve all problems; limitations are inherent in everything.

@cyberlyra

Palm Pilots had a crude IR one, but it was interesting. I took part in an open public game with mine.

Though laughable tiny things now, they had some promising if-only features I wish we had. Like they direct handheld to handheld ability.

@brewsterkahle @evan

@brewsterkahle

Wow cool!

I doubt FidoNet will return, and it shouldn't. We could do so much more with so much less now. All of FidoNet would fit on an Arduino. FidoNet was a layer on top of dialup POTS, it had no other connection layer. It was connection based, not packet based.

I am shocked and honestly dismayed how scarce direct phone to phone communication tools are.

BT and/or wifi for neighbor discovery, clustered chaotic routing, store and forward of encrypted bundles, totally doable. THAT would work without poles or towers.

And it would be a great medium for social games and events.

Not my world though.

Unfortunately for us, dogs do not recognize daylight losings.

@shi

"Limitless growth" also defies physics. This is an oldie but a goodie.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/

@pettter

I'm fairly certain one would not fit.

We are not in a good place.

The Onion parodied more or less the cruelest thing you could say, then CBS actually said it.

The innernet, it's not a big truck.

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/Series_of_Tubes_-_Senator_Ted_Stevens.mp3

(:06 seconds)

Heroes are a really stupid idea.

The fact that setting up a shared-file arrangement between phone and laptop (etc) is so fkn complicated, in a world with ubiquitous networking, is stupid and criminal. I'm discounting proprietary stuff like Google Docs as too rapacious (which doesn't allow login on Firefox in GrapheneOS, it appears).

I'm reduced to a USB stick for file in/out on the phone, or email attach like it's 1995. Android File Transfer doesn't work with Graphene OS.

This is nuts.

Electric cars could not exist without without petroleum.

Harder to discern is the amount of petroleum consumed vs built in, in building and operating gas cars vs EVs.

EVs are great and all but not a solution to any problem we have. We need systemic solutions and we get new products to buy. Great.

@scotth

Indeed. There's nothing that does not use petroleum.

That's a great (terrifying) chart.

The implications of this are kinda literally unspeakable (though need to be said). Not gonna start a rhetorical war here!

Its hard to see any way out in any thinkable span of time. Or, well there are, but transforming a system that relies on industrial churn for every aspect of living seems umm problematic.

@tb that works.

I've been partial to Xitter, with the X pronounced as is is in eg Xiaomi, "zsh". Shitter.

@saphirethefolf

I use "mammal" when speaking super-broadly, eg. salesmammal.