Melbourne→London→Stockholm; pronouns: he/they; was andrewcb on birbsite. I also post about music at @acb
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Last Notes npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 They don’t lay on extra trams for major events? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1gfd…7gg6 The example with cat is less efficient (one extra process), but it is more composable (if you wanted to put something before the grep, you could) npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1ywy…cksd 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. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1pfe…e2dm 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. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb And here comes the elephant in the room. The anti-boo technology is not quite holding up. Geopolitics aside, the song seems to be fairly well crafted for the contest, and any other year, would be a favourite; if it wins, it may not necessarily indicate Mossad covert action. #Eurovision npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1utv…87lr it’s an AI Juicero npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1sfh…9gqj surely with the ruble being low, she could afford an entire dacha in Sochi for the price of a Scottish castle, and have money to spare npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 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. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1cel…pmxm needs a #artdeco hashtag npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1zdp…vqv8 The Habsburg Singularity is nigh npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb New headcanon just dropped: npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1vqm…ccpx There was also the Western journalist who had their WeChat account permanently deleted within 15 minutes of changing their password to “FuckCCP1989” npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1sk4…d83s A golem? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 You have prior art: Arse Elektronika, a conference on sex and technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arse_Elektronika npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1tmp…awwt Every era gets the KLF it deserves npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1pfe…e2dm Suelette Dreyfus wrote a book on the scene in Melbourne at the time, which included a young Julian “Mendax” Assange npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1yyx…qa5g probably to do with the semantic drift of“amateur” from “one who does something out of love/intrinsic motivation rather than for pay” to “incompetent/slipshod/🤡” npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb It looks like there is something beyond the Sun in @npub1g5t…xw4h’ #CosmicCollapse: npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb One of the people behind the #Tangara MP3 player project ( @npub13xr…9xu5) has posted the first of a series of technical updates about its design, focussing on the touchwheel. In short, after evaluating a few premade models, they designed their own as a circular capacitative trackpad: https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara/updates/a-deep-dive-into-the-design-of-our-touchwheel npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1xzm…eykm @npub1a24…lqnj Mariage Frères are great; I remember buying some of their Alexandra David-Néel flavoured tea on a visit to Paris, and still have some left. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1g5t…xw4h Will there be any way to get Steam keys from itch purchases? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1gfd…7gg6 Perhaps the next piece of Brexit culture-war nonsense will be the replacement of the woke Gregorian calendar with the British Regnal calendar for all official business npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1tel…4v4v Though they arguably could make another Pizza Underground album npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1psd…9sr7 Who will win: an omnipotent, omniscient God, or, some orbity bois? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 an actual ZX Spectrum or an ARM SoC running a Spectrum emulator on Linux? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub16nf…q6as @npub1psd…9sr7 “engineers writing code in their sleep hashtag grindset” isn’t even a plausible dystopian sci-fi scenario. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub13vv…0sze Some people still use Flickr. I, for one, do (and am working on an iOS app which I use for uploading to there from my phone), and I’ve noticed that it’s getting less and less dormant. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 Wouldn’t that involve narrowing the definition of “stupid” to veer away from ableism (i.e., cognitively challenged) and more towards some kind of Dunning-Kruger combination of stubbornness and entitlement? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1ztj…g23l @npub1psd…9sr7 The key is Campism: Ukraine and Israel are both linked to Washington, whence all evil flows, so anyone who stands against them is by definition on the side of liberation. Especially if they’re blood-soaked tyrants, as “human rights” is a bourgeois value. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb Happy #Caturday! npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb Apropos of nothing, in 1902, Australia held a referendum on giving the vote to women. As always, the conservatives had their arguments for rejecting change laid out: #VoteYes npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub16vj…cs4z Stockholm! npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1gfd…7gg6 npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb This is thoughtful design: Muji apparently released a flashlight that works with any combination of 2 AA and 2 AAA batteries, only more dimly with fewer batteries. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 Would you rule out Labour or a unionist coalition taking power in Holyrood in 2026? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 Though the magnitude of the win (two to one) looks like more than a simple swing. That looks like a hole below the waterline. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1wnf…rmyg @npub1psd…9sr7 That argument won’t work on gammon with a crabs-in-a-bucket mentality (i.e. 52% of the country), as on one hand, traffic will be hell, but on the other hand, all the smug elites who’d otherwise be cycling or taking trains will be stuck in hell with you. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1y9v…srds @npub1a46…a6zk @npub1dl8…4tsq Nonetheless, you’d have to be able to go at a moment’s notice from being a gammon sick of low-traffic neighbourhoods existing to being a gay sick of the transes existing, or vice versa. That’s a non-negligible skill set. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1y9v…srds @npub1a46…a6zk @npub1dl8…4tsq @npub1psd…9sr7 It’s probably organised very similarly to a Russian troll farm, only rather than instructing them to be a Black radical, Christian homeschool mom or football-loving squaddie, the files on their workstation screen tell them that they’re the Taxpayers’ Alliance, European Research Group or LGB Alliance. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1gfd…7gg6 I suspect Apple’s gambit will be to move to Swift after adding Rust-style ownership semantics npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 What I’d like to see is Stories which are visible only to mutual follows/people the poster has chosen. That would be more important for the use case of stories, as they’re a medium for ephemeral sharing with people one knows, as opposed to publishing to anyone who finds it interesting. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1pfe…e2dm Blame the Protestant work ethic? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub19lt…qfjk @npub1uyx…dmcm A true solarpunk would use a concave mirror to cook, cutting out the electric phase altogether. (I think @npub1qu5…4evr has one on their boat) npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1yyx…qa5g There’s probably also an overlap between cottagecore and tradwife npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1y98…fhhs Meanwhile, in the UK, petrogammons are vandalising low-traffic neighbourhood schemes, and have so far caused £850k in damage. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1e0a…eww0 @npub1uyx…dmcm One day we’ll look back on the use of the term “artificial intelligence” for statistical machine learning with the same cringing bemusement we have for calling locomotives “iron horses” npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb RIP Bram Moolenaar, the developer/maintainer of the vim text editor, probably one of the UNIX applications (not counting shells) I’ve used the most. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb Seen elsewhere; I won’t be taking questions npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub12ty…vnqc Isn’t that the Russian company that bought Livejournal? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1ept…jcl3 Try and stop me npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub15zu…s7lx @npub1uyx…dmcm What took them so long? Cats found a use for us millennia ago npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1h4y…4srl @npub1psd…9sr7 “Go viral on Syphilis, an X Corp product” npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1u3t…c6ug @npub1psd…9sr7 The side who believe in principles pull their punches, while the side who believe in power and domination stuff their gloves with horseshoes npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1crn…wx0t @npub1psd…9sr7 Is anything involving ancient archetypes such as the Green Man automatically horror, or do we only see it as horror because we have become estranged from the myths of the land? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1r47…wytr @npub1uyx…dmcm Which again is not very fine-grained, and assumes that everyone can convince all their friends to keep/check an account at their instance. Does the protocol rule out the possibility of having friends-only posts across different instances? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1r47…wytr @npub1uyx…dmcm Which is one place the fediverse falls down: you can’t make posts available only to people you approve/follow (other than by locking down your account completely), only to people who follow you, which can be any rando. So far, the fediverse has been obscure enough and mostly full of nice people, though this won’t scale well. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1r47…wytr @npub1uyx…dmcm OTOH, the only site normal people have posted photos/visual art to in the past decade is Instagram, which works the same way (only you also need an app that shovels autoplaying video ads into your eyeballs). Normies put up with it because they can’t imagine another world, and/or when shown it, it looks too weird for them. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1wjw…ue5t Reddit? Really? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub120z…33r2 Any chance of having posts which are only visible to mutual follows? (Or even better, LiveJournal/Google Circles-style lists) npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1vse…v7q2 I once heard this theory recounted by a taxi driver in Belfast (who also claimed to be a former member of a sectarian militia) npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub12ty…vnqc How will this app be implemented? Native iOS/Android? Flutter? React Native? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 Awesome! npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1psd…9sr7 In Britain, the moped-riding phone snatchers will have a rich feast at the expense of the handful of people who go out wearing their Vision Pros. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb The killer feature of #WWDC23: recognition of individual cats in Apple Photos. #wwdc npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub19lt…qfjk Wouldn’t there be a prohibitive legal liability to running a USENET feed these days, between piracy and FOSTA/SESTA-style laws? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub15qw…3p2z A libertarian is someone who knows the price of everything, the value of nothing, and the age of consent in every jurisdiction. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb @npub1pqk…z65u I think you’re overestimating Android’s market share. Either that or classifying any UNIX as Linux. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb #[0] whoever it is, they’d be in one of the dwindling number of jurisdictions without FOSTA/SESTA-analogue laws. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb #[0] If only they had some sort of registry of internet names, possibly with government agencies having their own secure, easily recognisable space in it, and some way of connecting social media feeds to this npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb #[0] can you put them somewhere open that doesn’t involve installing an app that bombards you with video ads? If not, I’ll pass. npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb #[0] Any chance of Flickr-style themed photo groups; (example use cases: ones for sunsets/cats/reflections/specific places)? npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb #[0] that sounds a bit too much like “If Microsoft is really working on a web browser” npub18rfgvkc7jfkn58jk3mfhqxzgnuteq7u8zuxl4jcps6hwujvvv7xqrxv2f9 acb RT @luismbat@birbsite
