Notices by Stewart Russell (scruss@xoxo.zone)

Perfect colours...

#pdp8 #RetroComputing

In 2004, I held a very small bunny.

#bunny

@timnitGebru this reads better if you imagine Sam doing a bong rip at every pause

@dalias @mhoye no charging side on that is a bit of a downer

@loren also: parachuting beavers in Idaho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop

@lmorchard @cwebber obligatory Bob the Angry Flower - Coffee With Sinistar — https://www.angryflower.com/220.html

Yasmin is playing a double neck electric guitar here in her unique finger-tapping style. It's really lovely.

“Nectar” - Yasmin Williams — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIwuDJ-rs8

squad goals

@mpjgregoire @mariellequinton @andrew @johnefrancis the 2015 platform said he supported electoral reform, and did not single out one particular type:

"We are committed to ensuring that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system.

We will convene an all-party Parliamentary committee to review a wide variety of reforms, such as ranked ballots, proportional representation, mandatory voting, and online voting. ..."

https://web.archive.org/web/20151006133851/https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/electoral-reform/

@jwz are they book club editions? That might explain the non-standard barcodes.

Nice QR code. There's an animated GIF version that does something clever: https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox/106525258714227563

How convenient that the security cable slot on the back of an Apple Mac Classic II is *exactly* the width of an SD slot extender cable. This allows me tou use an internal BlueSCSI did replacement board but have the SD card accessible outside for (offline) data transfer

#RetroComputing #Apple #ClassicMac #BlueSCSI

@bobjonkman @JMarkOckerbloom

Likewise. Occasional typo correction and resolving citations needed is about my limit. Last major edit I did I needed to call in the help of a very connected editor to stop climate change-denying editors deleting the content.

Yet some of my ancient and entirely non-notable articles persist. I guess they become notable if they are in Wikipedia for long enough.

And I'm a white guy writing about easy mode stuff. Editing intersectional content must be hell.

@tek this will end well, I'm sure

@bobjonkman @steve the GTALUG mailing list can be ... something. I noped out of it a couple of years ago when someone (a non-Linux user) basically took it over as their hardware tech help begging forum

@sgillies @cstross ah, the old Stainless Steel Rat comics in 2000AD ...

@annika a friend from Yorkshire looks all hurt if you let it mash for less than five

Then there was the engineering works near Glasgow (Scotland, not England) where I worked a couple of summers. They boiled the breakfast tea for a full 15 minutes. It was ... harsh, to say the least.

Okay, a weird thing I can't explain: my office chair - sitting in front of a tower fan - seems to want to spin forever, driven by the breeze from the fan.

It only keeps spinning, however, if a box that's fairly heavy is sitting on the chair. With no box, or an identical empty box, the chair stops spinning very quickly.

I have no idea why it does this. I have videos of the control experiments, and it's repeatable

10 MODE 7
20 FOR count%=1 TO 34
30 PRINT "Count "; count%; " - guilty"
40 NEXT count%
50 END
#bbcmicrobot

@feld looking at it now, it's a pretty horrible racist website

I had to check the date on this to see if it was either:

a) April 1; or
b) the heat-death of the universe.

but no, it's real: everyone's favourite punchline Linux distro now has binary packages!

Gentoo goes Binary! – #Gentoo #Linux — https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html

#funroll_loops