@james@strangeobject.space I will be:
* Getting a release out to some devices for testing.
* Running to the shops to buy food so I don’t starve.
* Fixing the device we use for hardware CI.
* Fixing the inevitable broken tests.
* Playing a bit of Valheim with the boy
* Making dinner
* More work on push notifications at EMF
* Collapsing into bed and reading a bit
@tef I have hopes that Little Kitty Big City is going to do a better job of this. We shall see.
@hugh it would certainly be quicker than waiting in the pizza van queue.
I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/
If your flashing a balenaCloud image using balenaEtcher then it really should detect that and skip over the ad once you're done suggesting that you use balenaCloud.
@Ryanteck @solderandchaos what I've seen of LTT strikes me as too shallow to have much correlation with computing. It all seems to come down to "I spent a shit load of money on some parts, and whoda thunk it, if you put those parts together it makes a decent computer".
VSauce: No idea
Mark Rober: Glitterbomb revenge
DanTDM: Please make it stop
Tom Scott: Interesting places
Alia: No idea
LTT: Obnoxious techbro
(I may be being less than generous to DanTDM there, in my defence there’s only so much of him you can be exposed to, and over the last three or four years I’ve been pushed way over that limit by the boy)
@CatherineFlick @gsuberland get the kids involved, the boy and I have picked it back up again lately. We’ve barely got to having bronze but it’s great fun.
@misty someone misheard and thought they were meant to be implementing talltips.
While helping a taxi driver use the new version of his card payment app he perfectly summarised Big Tech: “They show me lots of ads, but not what I want to do”
@pikesley what hideous crime did you commit to be sentenced to 3.5 years of cryptic crosswords?
I have a minor dilemma, in that I work a 4 day week, and think everybody else probably should as well. It’s lovely having a quiet day tacked onto the weekend when I can just get some stuff done.
The dilemma is that reasonably I should say school kids should also get a 4 day week, but then that day would no longer be quiet. To be clear I love my son dearly, I just also like being able to go out for a long walk without having to hear about Minecraft the whole way.
@james@strangeobject.space a picture is worth a thousand characters.
I am once again reminded that no matter how foul my mood a two hour walk will probably fix it. If anyone knows a way for me to remember that less than a week into being in a foul mood that would be ideal.
Introducing Tildagon: the badge for EMF 2024 and beyond
https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/03/18/tildagon/
I attached what appear to be LEDs (photodiodes?) to a pair of headphones and now I can hear lights that blink in the hearing range of frequencies 🤔 No power source needed
I’m not claiming that it’s ear-safe, and the sound is headache-inducing albeit quiet, but it’s pretty interesting.
For example, dimmable LED lighting flickers at around 1000 Hz. All my lamps make a different sound. Moving the “light microphone” through sunlight makes a wind-like sound.
Overheard between two ten year olds trying to get a game of Minecraft going earlier today: “What’s your number?”
I eventually worked out they meant version number.
@avdi strong agree. I’d go so far as to say I’ll take a trashy burger from McD’s or Burger King over most “good” burgers. If I want great food I’ll get that. If I want a burger I’m just here for something to fill a hole.
@james@strangeobject.space I’d rather not if it’s all the same to you
Your thought for the day: buying a box of wine conjures a very different image to buying a crate of wine, and yet both are just ways to buy wine in bulk transported in a cuboid container.
"Achieving carbon neutrality is like solving one face of a Rubik’s cube – necessary but not sufficient."
Another zinger from @timparrique, in response to another load of anti-degrowth drivel from Jacobin.
https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/ #degrowth #climate
Secret Panel HERE ☕ https://tapas.io/episode/2640963
