Notices by Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)

Friday Night #BoardGames

@herzleid "Slår" det första som jag kommer att tänka på. Men etter 25 år i Norge också "rulla".

@bagder i hope you enjoy them :)
and thank you for reminding me (and i think many others) that some times you need to stop and just not care to prevent yourself from buring out 🤗

@oldrup After HP and Samsung, I switched to a Brother HL-L8230CDW last year, and am very happy with it. It just works, from Linux/MacOS/Windows and Android (I think the kids' iOS devices also work).

Haven't replaced toner yet, so no info on that.

It runs fine on wifi (I have it stowed away in a closet so wife doesn't have to look at it).

@meluzzy Unix used, and POSIX defines, timezones as XXXnnYYY... where nn is the number of hours to *add* to get to UTC (making USian zones positive). ISO 8601 defines zones as number of hours *added* to UTC (making European zones positive).

BTW, the TZ database uses the zones Etc/GMT-6 (with GMT-6 as an alias), whereas "UTC-06" probably falls under the POSIX rules.

Read more: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html

#timezones #posix #tzdb

Watching #stargate 2x14

A case of "Nobody will see this on low resolution TV anyway":

A guard is typing a code into a door lock, including audible beeping.

Except the lock is actually a card reader, not a pin pad

Because I'm worth it.

#Commmodore128 #Commmodore

https://refurbished-commodore.com/c128-s-no-354628

remember kids, the literal embodiment of love and charity knows there's a time when you should get out the whip and a good pair of kickin' boots, and it's specifically for people trying to make money off religion.

@hkz Maybe contribute some board photos to https://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/fr128.html ?

@hkz One of the wires is connected to a designated jumper, so I'm not sure it is a "bodge" as such. The C128 was designed to be localizable.

@hkz https://www.commodore.ca/manuals/funet/cbm/firmware/computers/c128/ lists 325167-01 as French, and that "the same character set has also been used in Belgian and Italian versions", which would correspond to the I/F/B marking.

@hkz Looks like a fairly standard #Commmodore128 charset, with the wiring to remap Caps Lock.

Mine looks similar: https://www.softwolves.pp.se/cbm/minaburkar/c128

Google now support account recovery with AI and your face. What could possibly go wrong? Google having my face is not just bad enough but chances are high that selfie video may not work in edge cases or network down etc.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

#privacy #security #DoNotwant

@jerk @TheDeckie Recall - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/446493/recall - similar to Revive, a lot, almost too much, going on at the same time.

Only the second time I played it, but it is a game I would be happy to play again.

Friday Night #BoardGames

@Euan As long as she ditches her companion, I think we will be fine?

@anderszapac.bsky.social Låter som något ur en dålig scifi-novell från sextiotalet

@root42 Be careful with what you draw with that, so you don't conjure up something out of a @cstross novel.

I was as old when the #NineEleven attacks were carried out, as those born just after are now.

I am starting to feel #old.

@cstross @anthracite Yeah. So now I have one of those on preorder. Not that I really need two. (And it's not as if I do not have enough Commodores already).

There are new releases coming out, look at itch.io for instance. Here on Mastodon, @mos_8502 has several interesting projects brewing