direct, non-AMP link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

“oh neat, the scorpion is paying me to carry it through the river!”

the creator delayed the launch because he had to write the legalese for the service, and on top of that I think he’s waiting for the app stores to approve the app (the service isn’t available through a browser).

he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time, so that should make the storage situation a little bit more manageable.

At what price point would this device be useful?

given that it’s horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.

I remember reading about Samsung TVs looking for unprotected WiFi networks, so even if you don’t give it your network details, it’ll connect to your neighbour’s if it’s not password-protected.

Windows games on Linux software and Apple hardware. what a time to be alive!

Discourse has got an ActivityPub plugin, but the forum owner needs to explicitly add it to their forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_map#History

The mapping of transit systems was at first generally geographically accurate, but abstract route-maps of individual lines (usually displayed inside the carriages) can be traced back as early as 1908 (London’s District line), and certainly there are examples from European and American railroad cartography as early as the 1890s where geographical features have been removed and the routes of lines have been artificially straightened out. But it was George Dow of the London and North Eastern Railway who was the first to launch a diagrammatic representation of an entire rail transport network (in 1929); his work is seen by historians of the subject as being part of the inspiration for Harry Beck when he launched his iconic London Underground map in 1933.

After this pioneering work, many transit authorities worldwide imitated the diagrammatic look for their own networks, some while continuing to also publish hybrid versions that were geographically accurate.

the fate worse than quenching.

and now I’m imagining Siri speaking in a very high-pitched voice.

it must’ve been… 20 years? since I’ve played it, and I still remember it. I also remember that the solution was in the guide that came with the game, and it actually acknowledged that it was one of the most convoluted puzzles in the game.

sometimes really, really, REALLY stupid puzzles

oh god, the wrench in the subway rail

I’m working on a script that runs yay every hour, gets the list of upgradable packages, and creates a post about each one of them

so, no summary at all, or one that does shit job pointing out important bits or gets them wrong and therefore isn’t a proper summary? choices, choices.

It’s not terrible

it sucks at summarising information, though https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

Becky Chambers’ “Monk and Robot” series is very cozy solarpunk fiction.

they didn’t say using Steam Deck per se is cheating, but that it’s a cheating vector, i.e. it’s (according to them) easier to use cheats on it than on Windows PCs.

our distro follows the PISS ideology. it’s a recursive acronym for PISS It Simple, Stupid

coming up next: anuriaOS, for when your kidneys stop working

no, but they used to use wine to play it, before that stopped working.