snap2grid

snap2grid, 1 day ago to Astronomy

Mills Observatory was where I saw Halley's Comet in 1986 and saw a moon rock on loan.

I just submitted a, rather impassioned, response to the survey https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/consultations-and-surveys/mills-observatory-consultation for saving #MillsObservatory in #Dundee

Built in 1935 as a gift to the city, it was intended for education and outreach. It was unique as being the only public observatory in Britain. I know there's loads of astronomers on Mastodon. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#Astronomy

snap2grid, 1 month ago to emacs

Looking at Boxy Headings in #Emacs #OrgMode and, damn, if that isn't just a smidge away from being a graphical synopsis mode for authors.

I dream of the day I can write a paragraph of synopsis in a properties block and have a “synopsis view” but my lisp skills are almost nonexistent.

snap2grid, 1 month ago to random

Linux is open source so anyone can contribute.

This means, as just happened with xz, that malicious software can be added to the system.

It also means that anyone can also look in depth, catch it, fix it, and tell us about it.

snap2grid, 2 months ago to random

Irony’s going to go off the scale if current AI becomes intelligent and malevolent, just in time for the Sun to reach maximum solar activity in 2025 and wipe it all out with a massive solar flare.

snap2grid, 2 months ago to random

Waking up this morning to news of a Moon lander's successful touchdown, and a massive solar flare. It's all go in space!

simon_brooke, 2 months ago to random

Listening to several political podcasts from assorted British commentators this week, there seems to be a consensus that the #SNP's #GazaCeasefire motion was primarily a cynical ploy to embarrass #Labour.

This seems to me to be

a. Lazy;
b. Cynical;
c. Woefully ill-informed about Scotland;
d. Wrong.

Even ignoring the fact that the leader of the SNP's wife is #Palestinian, sympathy for the Palestinian cause on the left in Scotland is very widespread.

snap2grid, 3 months ago to random

Last night, about 7:24pm I was stargazing and there’s a bright star above and to the left of Orion. Just as I’m wondering if it was a planet, it starts to fade out to nothing in the space of a few seconds.

So it turns out there’s loads of starlink satellites moving through that space, and I’m thinking maybe one of them flared.

Felt quite freaky at the time…

snap2grid, 3 months ago to random

For all the Lemmings fans, here's the documentary Can You Dig It, in which I took part.

https://youtu.be/RbAVNKdk9gA

snap2grid, 3 months ago to random

I worked on #Lemmings and am therefore old.

“It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! - The Scottish Games Network”

https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

snap2grid, 3 months ago to random

I don't want an Alexa.

I want an Alexi.

“Hey Alexi, what's the weather forecast?”

Then Alexi Sayle tells me if it's going to rain, and that the Tories are complete bastards.

sundogplanets, 3 months ago to random

Good recommendation for very basic, linux-friendly video editing software? (Prefer open-source/free, but willing to pay if it's actually what I need)

snap2grid, 4 months ago to Scotland

Finally saw the nacreous clouds which have been haunting #Scotland the last few days. Lasted a few hours, but constantly changing. Only the second time in my life I've seen them and this was way more spectacular. #Photography #NacreousClouds

View down the hill, multicoloured clouds, electricity pylon and lines receding into distance.
Multicoloured clouds with tree silhouetted at left and powerlines in foreground.
Multicoloured clouds, reddish tint of Sun about to rise, silhouetted electricity pylon and powerlines. A cluster of clouds at the left

snap2grid, 5 months ago to random

Inherited a Ring doorbell... and after much faffing and searching... it's basically a video camera that you can't view your own recordings without a subscription.

Capitalism, y'all.

snap2grid, 6 months ago to random

I think I’ll probably give up on Jekyll and move my blog to something else. Every system update, something else breaks. The installation is just so fragile. Time to go all-in on org-mode with org-publish.

Or just accept that blogging is dead and/or it’s not for me.

realhackhistory, 6 months ago to mastodon

Thus begins a first for me on two levels, one I will be simultaneously live tweeting, tooting and skeeting along with a movie and two that movie will be Swordfish from 2001, which I have never seen before.

On #Mastodon I will be adding the hashtag #Swordfish in case people want to mute me.
#hackers #hacking #movie

snap2grid, 7 months ago to orgmode

I'm absurdly pleased that open source Android text editing app Markor has now got basic #OrgMode markup support!

realhackhistory, 7 months ago to Youtube

New video over on #YouTube, I discuss 1995 #hacker #movie The Net starring Sandra Bullock, how the plot was researched & written & real life parallels with #hacking featured in the film. Spoiler, I have a real soft spot for this mid 90's techno-thriller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug3-h7nYV0Q&ab_channel=realhackhistory

snap2grid, 7 months ago to random

Was going to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Amiga Hired Guns this month (the Wikipedia article says April… it is wrong: that was the demo disk) even if I can’t recall the exact date. But I’m in the middle of preparing to move house, everything is boxed up at the moment, and I can’t really concentrate on much else.

Timing, huh?

snap2grid, 7 months ago to ai

I get the impression that the definition of #AI isn't exactly fixed...