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Just an old geek. Learned about computers on a CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation). Then the math teacher at HS got an old Navy surplus computer with drum memory. It had a high speed optical paper tape reader. From there it was BASIC, Cobol, FORTRAN, CMS-2Y, Jovial, Ada. Did some Java and C but never got that good. In retirement learning Rust.

Note: the main picture is from the B-24 my father was co-pilot on in the South Pacific

Dissent"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
(Equal Rites)

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot

I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

It‘s curious that everyone knows the name of a poor son of a carpenter after 2000 years, but no one remembers who the richest sucker was at the time.

Strange, isn‘t it?💁🏻‍♂️

(And even if he was pure fiction, you still do not recall the real, richest persons.)

Canada lynx giving the side eye in Denali National Park, Alaska.

#alaska #wildlife #hiking #denali

Anger towards big tech companies exists because these companies harvest and exploit peoples’ data. We should pass laws to stop that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dont-weaken-speech-protections-just-punish-meta
Weakening Speech Protections Will Punish All of Us—Not Just Meta

Recently, a California Superior Court jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a user through some of the features they offered. And a New Mexico jury concluded that Meta deceived young users into thinking its platforms were safe from predation. It’s clear that many people are frustrated by big tech...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is a very accurate graph of anything in my lifetime in the US.
It has taken me six years of experiments but I've managed to make a Marmite glaze that looks like milk chocolate. Now I am perfectly placed to make Marmite Maltesers and leave them on the table for unsuspecting guests.
Magic 8 Ball is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Magic 8 Ball for important advice. Use Magic 8 Ball at your own risk.
It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? The US government is doing something hateful and stupid, science is awesome, the UK government is doing something hateful and stupid, trans people are hot, people are making crafts, the catgirls are meowing at each other, Ben is storing Creme Eggs in a medically inadvisable way and you should use Linux. Post hourly. You're welcome.