In 1998 we had a VCR that this post reminds me of; it would show the current timestamp of the movie, but it was in metric minutes and seconds, that is, 100 seconds in a minute, and 100 minutes in an hour. No one know when the movie would be over. merveilles.town/@neauoire/1164…
We've had this long furling tape from Japan for the longest time, for years!! thinking it was in inches. Causing us lots of mistakes and fuck ups, the whole time we thought it was our own miscalculations, that we must have messed up in converting it to metric or something.
1) The unit on the tape is in tenth of a foot. 2) That's almost exactly 3cm, BUT NOT QUITE. 3) The ruler says FEET, but then breaks it down in 3cm segments each divided in tenth of a tenth of foot.
Took the forestay down, disassembled the furler into a thousand little pieces, had a new forestay swaged, fed it through, hooked up, oiled, lifted the new jib sail, all without dropping a 👏 single 👏 tool 👏 in 👏 the 👏 water.
I’ve been tired of Substack platforming white supremacists, Nazis, neo-confederates, and so many of the worst people on the internet for a long time now.
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The canvas aboard Pino is very old, thin and discolored, we've started replacing some of it.
A few days ago we replaced the flap that goes over the companionway doors. You can see the color difference between it and the fabric on the far-left side.
10 years ago, someone wrote a unit test for @servo that included a cookie expiry date of April 18, 2026. At that time Servo was only 3 years old and I'm sure 10 years in the future sounded like a long time!
Well, we're still here, and now our CI is broken until I can get another maintainer to merge github.com/servo/servo/pull/44… .
These dates were chosen 10 years ago, which I'm sure felt like a reasonably far-future date for a very young web engine. Surprise! We're still here, so we can be more bold this time.
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“Penn was quick to tell me he does not know much about many things. But he is an expert in misleading people.
‘I am bringing this to you w the utmost humility. I am carny trash. I am uneducated. [My] position of expertise is that I have lied to ppl onstage & gotten them to believe it. I think I could do what that police officer did.’”
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We've had this long furling tape from Japan for the longest time, for years!! thinking it was in inches. Causing us lots of mistakes and fuck ups, the whole time we thought it was our own miscalculations, that we must have messed up in converting it to metric or something.
1) The unit on the tape is in tenth of a foot. 2) That's almost exactly 3cm, BUT NOT QUITE. 3) The ruler says FEET, but then breaks it down in 3cm segments each divided in tenth of a tenth of foot.
shaku-sun-bu approximator based on international feet, I guess? unless zhat's slightly off and actually 0.9942x ze measurement on your tri-blade ruler, which'd mean it's literally just shaku-sun-bu
oh I mean your tri-blade being *actual feet* and zhis weird ruler being off by a tiny amount you can't see wizhout calipers, here. shaku are defined as 30.3cm to a foot's 30.48, after all
Apparently it is not a rare thing in oilfield work? I recently watched this youtu.be/sdWEGzWFcCc?t=276 which has lots of other fascinating horrible units, but that's the bit that talks about "decimal feet".
In forestry management we use imperial tape measures divided into 10 instead of 12. Specifically when measuring the diameter of a tree trunk. It means the result is a straight decimal, ie. 3.4' or 3.9' instead of 3'-4 4/5" or 3'-10 13/16".
I mean, yeah, metric would be easier all around, but at least this method does make tabulating and synthesising results in spreadsheets easier for Americans when it's in tenths of a foot vs twelfths.
And you should see the back side of that same measuring tape - it measures "inches", but each "inch" is in actually 3.14159 (pi π) inches long, so that you don't have to do math in the field to convert circumference to diameter!
Super handy for those who know. Flabbergasting to those who don't.
It's engineering units. I have an old folding rule, inches on one side and tenths on the other. It can be confusing. Anyhow, if you were working off plans with measurements in tenths, it is easier to use this kind of tape than converting numbers on site.
@niels Ever since learning about the short ton (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_to…, 907kg, in the US apparently often called just the ton) I wish we defined a “long yard”, equal to 1m, and call it just “yard” in Europe for convenience.
This weekend we had a collective work session for 'Another Infrastructure (AI)', an art project about the environmental and social impact of data centres in south Dublin.
Seven artists will build a community-run server and host artist led workshops and events over the next few months, opening conversations about topics including heat, disinformation, tokens, game systems, counter-maps and thneeds.
Thanks again for organizing the meet up and inviting us all to be part of the project, I had a blast and so happy to have finally made it over to ireland 😍🥬
👋 hi! I'll be presenting the start of a new project called Luddite Academy tomorrow in Cork ucc.ie/en/dah/news/3rd-symposi… It also involves artist-led infrastructure (a server that I admin) and the pushback against datacenters. Slides and other materials will be ready very soon!
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sounds great! I won't make the conference unfortunately, but one of our team might be there. I'm also part of a group of 20-odd artists that meets monthly online to chat about these things, if you'd have any interest (founded with @colm a couple of years back)
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No. My father got Tuxedo OS installed on his laptop. I have the feeling that he can cope better with it. This is also based on Ubuntu, so yes the so-called noob versions, which are not so complicated. The CachyOS, which I have on my PC, is not that complicated to use. At least if you don't do anything complicated.
I was getting that error a lot, only directly after a software reboot.
Turns out my pc doesn't fully pwoer-cycle everything when I do a software reboot (obviously 🤦) and one of my USB drives is permanently mounted, when it looks for the drive at boot it's already initialized and refuses to mount it (or even recognize that it exists). Turning off fast boot solved the problem.
While loading and stowing personal gear aboard Wrack again, I had to cross from the deck of our marina neighbour's Catalina 34 sailboat to Wrack, over a gap of maybe a metre, in dead calm conditions.
I ended up in the sea. I blacked out for a second. Then, disoriented, I reached for rigging that wasn't there and fell between the hulls, my ribs and wrist hitting Wrack's gunwhale.
The water was bloody cold. I managed to swim, fully clothed, to a barnacle-encrusted ladder from which I was pulled onto the dock. I tried to stand up, with the help of three 'marineros' (marina workers), but couldn't so I lay on the dock for 15 minutes to regain my stability — and, it has to be said, my sodden dignity.
woah! that's my nightmare, we know lots of folks who've lost someone they knew like that, falling between the boat and the dock and getting stuck under or freezing to death in the dark unable to find the ladder.
@wim_v12e I was going to point out that swap was also known as the abba operator, but I figured that might be hard to communicate clearly, and I forgot to remove the picture X)
Also, question, do jump labels map to a prime? If so there is interesting room from something like derefing a symbols count into the bag. Something like x^25 x^27 &x producing [3^2 5^3]. If 3 is associated with an address you suddenly have an indirect jump.
Well, more a fun idea extension given how slow exploding a number would be. Combining numbers is destory information is very cheep, but undoing that is very expesnive.
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If Zarah Sultana MP had not entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026, today it would be illegal to print this in any UK media.
"EU staff banned from using AI-generated content in official communications" Can confirm - we don't use AI generated images on our socials for instance. politico.eu/article/brussels-e…
It’s a stark contrast to the approach taken in Washington, where U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently used AI-generated content to get his point across.
Hi @nextcloud is there an easy way to get the internal private share link (one of the form `https://example.com/index.php/f/NNNNNN`) directly from the path of file (something like `/my/path/to/file`)?
For any file I am trying to produce a text with the path and the link, so that one can clic on the link or browse directly to a path (when synchronised to a local filesystem for instance).
Well, one of the outraged people in the screenshots went to Brave. I guess it's a fitting choice for a person whose world collapses when someone is "they".
Which from a Finnish person's point of view is somewhat amusing, us having gender neutral language and all...
Mastodon, I need your help! As more European countries and orgs look to ditch US technology and move to sovereign or open source alternatives, I'm trying to track these efforts.
So far, I've found more than half a dozen government agencies, cities, orgs, that are embracing digital sovereignty but want to hear about other examples that I've missed. Who else should I be adding to this?
Here's a list of what I have so far:
*Edit: This list is now on Proton Sheets, as I should have seen that coming*
With the Nextcloud Awards we want to highlight people, organizations, and projects that are actively working towards a future where users control their data.
The warning comes from Open Rights Group, whose latest report, "Tech Giants and Giant Slayers," argues that the UK has let a small group of American megacorps entrench themselves across critical infrastructure, shaping not just systems but policy itself. The result is a mix of economic drag, security exposure, and a growing inability to act independently when it matters.
The risk shows up when politics is involved. The report points to US sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, and claims Microsoft shut down email and banking-related services for affected individuals. The report says this shows how "tech powers of sanction" can cut off access entirely, and what that might look like if UK-US relations soured.
The Competition and Markets Authority says at least £500 million a year is being overspent on cloud services, and that's before you add in projects that overrun, suppliers that never quite leave, and systems everyone avoids touching.
thanks for sharing. I was toying with the idea because I use my desktop for gaming almost exclusively. The prices are not acceptable for me at the moment, though. I stick to my trusty potatoe for a bit longer...
I'd go for the Steam Machine personally (I just love Valve) but I like the fact that Steam Machines are designed to allow competition, just as the Steam Deck was. Valve understands basic economics and the fact that healthy competition drives down prices and improves the experience for consumers.
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Fortunately, Dipshit doesn't need to scrape the bottom of the barrel for replacements. He pushes the bottom lower every day.
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