„Harbour Entrance II“ (2012)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Lausanne-Ouchy, Switzerland

#silentsunday #silence #tranquility #photography #minimalism #longexposure #minimalist #photo #lake #harbour #port #piles #water #stillness #stilllife #landscape #landscapephotography #Lausanne #Switzerland #phaseone #stillersonntag #Stille #Ruhe #Fotografie #Langzeitbelichtung #Minimalismus #minimalistisch #Foto #See #Hafen #Pfeiler #Wasser #Stille #Stillleben #Landschaft #Landschaftsfotografie #Schweiz

I'm hosting @Mastodon's first ever Discovery Week in just a few days. It's a chance for the public to weigh in on the future of online communities.

We'll be discussing topics like user-controlled algorithms, trust & safety, creator tools, and more. Your input will help steer Mastodon towards a more inclusive and impactful roadmap. Non-technical folks strongly encouraged to attend, and there's an async option if you can't make the live sessions!

https://app.hi.events/event/7599/mastodon-discovery-week-2026

#mastodon

Names of the containers that coins go into, their materials and sounds

Cash box is how we called them in the UK

Pinball machines have coin mechs at hip height and there's legs and air between them and the ground, they have a wide squat box that Americans call a cash pan. They were steel until the 90's and each manufacturer had a slightly different size that was infuriatingly juuust different enough from each other to be awkward. They don't hold much money compared to vids or fruities but you're gonna be in there to fix it all the time anyway so you might as well empty it out.

Every non-cocktail vid I've seen in the USA and all the Japanese imports have roughly similar size standardized box that's taller than it is wide, they call it a cash bucket or coin bucket and there's something very lovely about the idea of an actual Bucket Of Money that you can plunge your hands into and make that slishy sound. About the size of a shoebox turned on-end, can be steel or plastic. When it's full of quarters it contains A Fucking Grand. The difference between one thousand dollars and A Fucking Grand is that when it's in quarters in a cash bucket you can grunt it onto a creaking table and say "See that? That's a fucking grand" to the observing American who doesn't think that coins count as money.

UK generic chip shop JAMMA cabs of the late 80's to early 90's (my entry point to the guy-who-takes-the-money side of the arcade world) didn't have so much in the way of standardization around cash boxes and every one was different, although they were usually wood. Wood sounds the best of all. A pound coin dropping into a wooden box full of money is a wonderful sound. My favourite ever machine had a thick chipboard box and coins would bounce off the inner top edge of the front panel with a lovely "dok" kinda resonance. We also have more than one functional coin, our mechs take 10p 20p 50p £1 and £2 coins, so there could be Real Fucking Money in there. The biggest I ever saw was in a Videomaster cab and it was as tall as a US standard coin bucket but it was two thirds the depth of the machine and the entire inner width. Two keys to open the chamber of riches, two hands to pull out the wooden vault within. Never seen more than one-coin layer of riches on the bottom; filling it up would be new-car, down-payment-on-a-house money.

In conclusion: schlicknokTAKlokDOKtishclickaclick

hey! do you know things? do you wanna learn things? (i hope the answer to both those things is yes)

the other day, I offered on here that i would be happy to teach folks some basic web and terminal stuff. other people picked up the idea, also saying they'd be happy to teach!

so, because i have too much free time and not enough enrichment in my enclosure, it's a simple website now.

introducing the fedi skillshare classifieds: https://inherentlee.codeberg.page/fedi-skillshares/

want to be involved? send me some real basic info (fedi handle, what you want to share, a category for it) and i'll put it on the site! and of course, share the site, either via this post or your own. I'm using the #fediSkillshares hashtag :)

🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source”

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories.

Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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#government #nhs #OpenSource #politics

Thinking about FOSS, legal advice, and pro bono legal support.

What if there was a fund - be that from a funding body, or donations, or whatever - which paid (at reasonable rates, not Big Law Firm Prices) some lawyers to support FOSS projects.

So that it was free at point of use for those projects, but did not rely on lawyers working for free.

All outputs (subject to sorting issues to do with privilege) would be licensed under suitably open terms, with a goal of maximising re-use.

#FOSS #lawfedi

i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with [email protected] or similar.

The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.

And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' :-D

#infosec

On this day in 1937 Franco's airforce – aided by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy – bombed the Basque town of Guernica, killing hundreds of civilians.

When antifascist journalist George Steer uncovered Germany’s role, it prepared the world for terror.

https://jacobin.com/2022/04/spanish-civil-war-guernica-franco-nazis-steer