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Melbourne→London→Stockholm; pronouns: he/they; was andrewcb on birbsite. I also post about music at https://linernotes.club/@acb

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Alon, (edited ) to random
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What's the worst thing to see on public transportation? StarCraft references edition.

acb,
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@Alon self-identified alpha males marking territory with Bluetooth speakers, cologne or just loud, boorish behaviour

sjvn, to random
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And you try to tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you!

acb,
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@sjvn If you knew where to look, you could find racy pictures of lasses showing a bit of ankle. Though they’d take ages to download and then print out on a teletype.

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day -01 27 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Malmö C - Stockholm, onto night ferry

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

acb,
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@jon I caught it in from Hamburg a month or so ago, and there were no passport checks. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

acb,
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@jon That’s just down the road from where I live; I’ve been curious about what the boats are actually like, as I’ve cycled past them numerous times.

jon, to random
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Right

The Birdy is ready for Le Grand Départ tomorrow

Everything cleaned and checked for 5 weeks of adventures ahead!

acb,
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@jon What’s the burrito technique?

Alon, to random
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I feel seen by @philipncohen's post on American girls' names coming from surnames over time: https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/giving-girls-surnames-as-first-names-has-peaked-for-now/

Among the 12 names in this chart, four are used for four of the characters in A Second Chance for Wings (the fifth character is C.J.), because we wanted gender-neutral names and went with very modern ones.

acb,
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@Alon @philipncohen And then there’s the phenomenon of names transitioning from masculine to feminine (i.e. Lesley having been a man’s name a few generations ago). It seems to be a one-way process, presumably due to patriarchy.

glyph, to random
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It’s friday, so it’s time for a Glyph update! This one, predicably, is mostly about PyCon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-104876830

acb,
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@glyph I remember Twisted. My first job in the UK was working on Twisted-based web apps, circa 2005-. The company moved to Pylons later, though. Good to see that Twisted is still around; I imagine async/await would be a good match for it.

acb,
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@glyph Cool; I’ll have to look into that more sometime. I’ve spent more time working with Swift’s equivalent, which seems semantically similar, though possibly considerably different in implementation.

Alon, to random
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Conspiracy theory: Ebrahim Raisi's tragically untimely death (36 years too late) was caused by rogue Mossad agents who are hoping Iran retaliates in kind and gets Israel better leadership.

acb,
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@Alon I heard that “Hurricane” was foreshadowing for this

Alon, to random
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Noun compounding works strangely: catgirls and cat ladies are not at all the same.

acb,
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@Alon also, butt dial and booty call

GrimmReality, to random
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HI YOUR EXTRA-NOISY MOTORBICYCLE MAKES YOU APPEAR VIRTUOUS AND AWESOME seems to be something some people expect people to say probably 100ish percent more than they do.

acb,
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@GrimmReality @timrichards I think they’re more expecting something like “your extra-noisy motorcycle reveals you to be an alpha male with supremely large genitals”

peter, to RaspberryPi
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Looks like #raspberryPI's own M.2 hat has been released this morning & it's £11.50 / $12

Looks compact and supports the active cooler.

The downside I can see is that it only supports 2230 & 2242 M.2 devices, so the more common 2280 M.2 ssd's won't fit.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/m-2-hat-on-sale-now-for-12/

acb,
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@peter Does it do anything that the 2280-compatible Pimoroni board doesn’t?

acb, to random
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So the Tory candidate for Mayor of London (a lacklustre Poundshop Theresa May knockoff, the latest in a line of bellowing ignorami CCHQ had sent for the role) may have won, not on any merit of her own, but because the progressive voters who made up Khan’s 20% margin stayed home due to Gaza/TERFism/Starmer’s rightward tilt? If this turns out to have been the case, one could call this the Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner Election.

timrichards, to random
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Off on this gorgeous outback train for an excursion today. They don't make them like this anymore.

#Longreach #train #Trains #outback

acb,
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@timrichards that’s not the solar-powered one near Byron Bay (I think), is it?

film_girl, to random
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This is fantastic. If you’ve got the Rabbit apk launcher plz share with me christina at christina dot is. This is hilarious. https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/

acb,
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@film_girl it’s an AI Juicero

Alon, (edited ) to random
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What's worse?

acb,
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@Alon Noam (Chomsky)

acb,
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@Alon also, Kristi Neom would make either a great and/or a terrible drag name

cstross, to random
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I remember when I first saw a CPC464 in a shop I was working in, in 1984.

It was a very neat answer to what the market needed in 1982. But by 1984, cassette storage and Z80s were clearly long in the tooth—it came out the same year as the Macintosh, and 12 months late Atari STs and Amigas were showing up.
https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/112351091848131466

acb,
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@cstross IIRC, 16-bit machines were a premium item until the end of the 80s (the high price of RAM was undoubtedly a part of that—the changing economics of RAM explain a lot of changes—though I imagine a 68000 would have gone for a lot more than a Z80 or 6502), so 8-bit machines persisted as a budget option. When the west moved on, the iron curtain fell and western 8-bit machines enjoyed a brief renaissance in the former communist bloc before PC clones conquered everything.

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"On trial alongside T, will be Melanie Ritter, 57, a doctor specialising in the method of predicting the future through eggs and a Covid vaccine sceptic who had expected to become health minister following the coup."

Wow, the Reichsburger coup plotters going on trial sure sound sane and stable to me!

"The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch: Germany to try far-right coup gang"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/the-prince-the-plotters-and-the-would-be-putsch-germany-to-try-far-right-coup-gang

acb,
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@cstross given that the original NSDAP included a wide range of crackpots (including believers in Hyperborea, Tibetan-influenced mysticism and the idea that we live inside a hollow earth, as well as the usual racial pseudoscience), that’s hardly unexpected

rysiek, to random
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A few days ago @ward tooted about how it's somehow "AI art", but if it's human-made, inexplicably it's just "content":
https://easymode.im/notes/9s9fhdg8jh3gi3h7

His toot has been living rent-free in my head ever since.

I had ranted a few times before how "content" is a corporate-y way to devalue art. How "user-generated content" is a term designed to make it easier to deny the significance (not just monetary) of the amazing stuff people create online.

Contrasting this with "AI art" is jarring, and spot-on. 👀

acb,
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@rysiek It’s essentially the core premise of neoliberalism: that all value that is real is convertible into, and canonically expressed in, hard currencies.

mcc, to random
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Continuing to poke around with "bluesky". It keeps feeling like openness/federation was something they wanted on paper but never actually had as any kind of core value.

Example: In the protocol, all the resources in the bluesky network have their own URL schema. Several third party tools work with these. For example, at://did:plc:ei24m7la7nsl656y3hmnideo/app.bsky.feed.post/3kr3gjotz2k27 is a post.

You can't get these URLs from official software. bsky.app only gives you URLs within bsky.app.

acb,
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@mcc It’s the Potemkin Fediverse

cstross, to random
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THIS IS BREXIT!! SUNLIT UPLANDS!! BRITAIN FOR THE BRITISH!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(Rebellious Scots not included)
https://wandering.shop/@feorag/112332304928729661

acb,
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@cstross @feorag “Green” tea? Sounds woke to me…

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Funny how the Americans denouncing Gaza Solidarity demonstrations at American universities are all cops and christo-fascist politicians, while the Jewish academics and students are fine with them …
https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/112331038212149373

acb,
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@cstross also, German antifascists. A cursory survey of Antifa stickers in Köln and Hamburg this weekend suggests that they’re so stridently pro-Israel as to make Reaganite Evangelicals look like The Squad by comparison.

mcc, to random
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Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.

Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"

acb,
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@mcc or a very smol vampire

mathowie, to random
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new post: Feeling duped by Amazon's "magical AI" bullshit https://a.wholelottanothing.org/feeling-duped-by-amazon/

acb,
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@mathowie Was the guy inside the Mechanical Turk Turkish? I thought that that just referred to the automaton’s orientalised appearance.

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