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historyofpunkrock, 5 days ago to random

44 years ago today
In memory of Ian Curtis, who suffered from both epilepsy and depression, took his life on May 18, 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, and just before the release of their second album

#postpunk #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis

ratkins, 5 days ago to random

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the genitals of whatever pindick European bureaucrat who decided we weren’t allowed to unscrew the caps totally off bottles anymore.

ratkins, 5 days ago to random

I continue to be stunned by the bullshit that is Apple Music. I’m on a plane, I want to listen to some music. The only track I can actually play is one I played to a friend an hour before I got on the flight, because nothing else is “authorised”. I will add, this is “my” music that I bought off iTunes.

(I know technically I don’t own it, I license it, Apple sucks, blah blah, please fuck off with your Mastodon neckbeardism that’s not the point.)

ratkins, 6 days ago to random

After wandering around the cute little alleys behind the fancy shopping district in Barcelona for a while, it’s striking how fucking obnoxious the traffic noise is when you get back to the through-streets.

gernot, 7 days ago to random German

In theory, an M4 iPad with 16GB ram and the Magic Keyboard can completely replace my mac, and it is more versatile because it’s an iPad. It needs to run Xcode with at least all the SwiftUI related components, Instruments, and a terminal for git, and have some means of real filesystem based apps so that something like „Tower for iPad“ is possible. It shouldn’t be overwhelmend with outlandish tasks like „using some program to create graphical assets for use in an Xcode project“.

whitequark, 8 days ago to random

both telegram and matrix have untrustworthy cryptography, but telegram has gaslit me significantly fewer times and generally not on an ongoing basis, which is really the main thing i care about in a messenger

"it's vulnerable to IND-CCA3" anybody who can pull off that attack on me deserves whatever they get out of it. i just want a messenger that isn't built by americans who have a Single Phone Number and also doesn't gaslight me. is that too much to ask for?

timd, 8 days ago to random

Feature request for the next generation of Deutsche Bahn trains:

Quiet coaches fitted with ambient noise level detection for leaky headphones connected to a small, powerful but highly-directional EMP generator

alpha, 8 days ago to random

Oh hey, that’s me!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rightardia/112441364366600074

ratkins, 9 days ago to random

@Halle Re our conversation about how the Vision Pro could get lighter, Gruber points out that the M4’s display driver was required to run the fancy doubled-up OLED display of the new iPad Pro. What other product needs a doubled-up display driver? 🤔 Seems pretty likely they’ll jump straight to M4 for the next Vision iteration. Maybe it’ll run cool enough?

ratkins, 9 days ago to random

Airbus 😅

ratkins, 9 days ago to random

In addition, once again, if you’re trying to wave pedestrians across a) we have to be able to see you (not guaranteed through windscreen reflections) and b) we have to trust you (… not necessarily smart on our part.)
https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd/112437328685755448

alper, 9 days ago to berlin

When cussing out cars I have to remember that in current temperatures people have their windows open and can hear me. Today a car was blocking the cycling path; the passenger window opened, a woman cursed at me in Turkish and then she sprayed windshield fluid aimed at me.

#Berlin

simonbs, 9 days ago to random

Sorry for all the espresso posts lately! To those here for the coding, Swift, and Apple posts — I pinky-promise more are coming soon 😄

hungry_joe, 9 days ago to random

what the smoking hell are 24 karat gold sexual wellness ear seeds, i'm tired bro

ratkins, 10 days ago to random

When a product guy ran the place, we got great products. When a design guy ran the place, we got design (… whether we wanted it or not.) When an operations guy ran the place, we got incredible operational efficiency and “services revenue”.

Can they put a software person in charge of Apple next?

hungry_joe, 10 days ago to random

professional mirror-cleaner is a job i can really see myself doing

ratkins, 11 days ago to random

There’s a link in here to an archive version of the interview, which is even readable in Reader mode on iOS.

Unrelated: why do I get the feeling most of this culture war shit is people performatively talking past each other?
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112419005395981527

ratkins, 12 days ago to random

Went to pump up my tyres and noticed I’d broken a spoke 😐. No worries, I’ll just have to take the cargo bike. Oh wait, that’s the cargo bike whose rim is rubbing on the brake pads I noticed yesterday ☹️.

alpha, 12 days ago to random

I did this for the buttons on my standing desk, but the adhesive wasn’t that good and they fell off after not too long. In the end, I wound up leaving the desk in standing mode most of the time so I haven’t needed to figure out a more permanent solution anyway.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/112418095002975740

alper, 12 days ago to random

Booked a plane from Amsterdam to Berlin and after realising what an 1hr+ ordeal it is to get into the city from BER immediately regret not taking the train.

AstroDave, 14 days ago to random

Just. Wow. Massive sunspot group Active Region 3664 has grown in recent days to over ~200,000 km in size, large enough to span over half the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The spot is crackling with potential to unleash more X-class flares, and is thankfully rotating away from us. I can easily see the spot with eclipse glasses today from here in central Germany… no magnification required. SDO’s view is equally amazing:

NASA SDO view