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I'm listening through my archives of #BBC #EssentialMix in chronological order - sometimes whomever recorded it off the radio leaves in the news break at 2am - the 1994-08-14 episode w/ Trannies With Attitude has a news bite about the arrest of Carlos The Jackal (yes, he was real).
Feeling kinda old right…

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

Soon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…

HyperCard was magnificent. Still is.
The HyperTalk language was cool — but even cooler IMO was the way the dev environment mixed code with direct manipulation of the UI. There are lots of problems with that approach for generalized Ui development, yes, but the experience of it was magical.
Unity and the like have a similar editor structure — edit UI objects, attach code to them — but the feeling is totally different somehow.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114643259120579546

Um, yes, I *do* block people who persist in failing to understand that an obvious shitpost is a shitpost.
We cannot safely converse, sadly.
But ed(1) IS the standard editor, while nano is wormy lukewarm excrement

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

https://…

No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

My morning so far:
- Essential system is not working, opened support ticket.
- Two hours later still no change.
- Called service desk: "Yes we assigned the ticket to the 2nd level"
- Checked ticket queue: "Priority 4: Low"
- Called service desk "Tell the 2nd level guys if they don't make this work before lunch we're coming over and confiscate every Switch 2 we find!"

Roles of Non-switchable Domains and Internal Bias in Electrocaloric and Pyroelectric effects
Jun Usami, Yuki Okamoto, Hisashi Inoue, Takeshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07573

Roles of Non-switchable Domains and Internal Bias in Electrocaloric and Pyroelectric effects
Solid-state cooling and energy harvesting via pyroelectric effect (PEE) and electrocaloric effect (ECE) in ferroelectric thin films could be enhanced beyond their intrinsic ferroelectric response by exploiting the recently observed direction-dependent enhancement of the PEE; however, its microscopic origin remains unknown. Herein, we report direct hysteresis measurements of pyrocurrent ($I_{\rm p}$) and ECE-induced temperature change versus bias voltage in 1-$μ$m-thick Pb(Zr$_{0.65}$Ti$_{0.35}…

If any fysh.org users are following, yes, it's currently down.
1. We had another slew of memory errors caught in the last hour.
2. I initiated an emergency reboot to see if that cleared them.
3. It failed on boot on first attempt, kernel panic.
4. After a reset it came up, including running the user-visible VMs (river etc), but is still logging a slew of memory errors.
5. So I've now shutdown the VMs again.
We'll be poking the service provider to s…

Our coffee machine died this morning. That makes 4 Kuerig machines in 9 years, and our last one ever. We ordered an 8-cup drip maker with carafe this morning. No more feeling guilty about using pods (I'm sorry, Mother Earth), cost per cup will be cheaper, I can control my flavor and strength, and the coffee grounds are great in our compost. Yes, it took me a decade to figure out I was a slave to convenience and waste. No judging, please.