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Gonçalo Ribeiro

@goncalor@infosec.exchange

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Defend. Pwn. Infosec. Free software. Vim nerd. #rustlang #electronics

website	https://goncalor.com
GitHub	https://github.com/goncalor

Gonçalo Ribeiro 5h ago

You’re all VERY welcome

[Edit: Good grief, users of Mastodon. This is clearly a shitpost. It is clearly not a real card. It is clearly not a chicken. If you are getting riled up by this and/or feel the need to inform me of its inaccuracies in a condescending tone, then I’m going to have to kindly ask you to log off, embrace some nature, and maybe look up at the stars for a bit, ye?]

Gonçalo Ribeiro 10h ago

Quixoticgeek 13h ago

The Netherlands is enacting it's national heat plan this week. With temps forecast to be as high as 35˚C in the middle of the week. We need to talk about shade. Specifically, about the way our infrastucture is not designed for the new normal of these high temperatures in the summer.

In the heat of a summers day, by far the best thing a person can do is seek shade. Alas the way we have designed our built infrastructure makes this difficult. Take for example this bus stop in Amsterdam.

1/n

Gonçalo Ribeiro 10h ago

Quixoticgeek 13h ago

On my travels in Southern Europe last summer, I thought I'd check out what the locals do there. They have a lot more sun and hot weather than up in the frozen north. They have got to have solved this problem right?

This bus shelter is in Genoa, Italy. The photo sums up the design failure nicely. People having to stand behind the bus shelter because the bus shelter itself offers no actual shade in the shelter itself.

It's quite an impressive design failure.

4/n

Gonçalo Ribeiro 10h ago

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

Why cook at 350° for 55 minutes when the math says you can just cook it at 19250° for one minute?

Gonçalo Ribeiro 14h ago

#VibeCoding your MFA

Gonçalo Ribeiro 17h ago

abadidea 18h ago

just found out that the Windows BSOD is changing to black and I am vehemently against this for no particularly defendable reason. Crashes are BLUE dammit

Gonçalo Ribeiro 1d ago

I've finished #WaniKani level 23 yesterday. Onto level 24.

I like to follow song lyrics in Japanese as I listen. I'm not able to read everything, but it's still enjoyable and I get an idea of some unknown kanji and their meaning.

When I'm not looking at lyrics, I find it good listening practice (my weakest point for sure).

Just now I was listening to 君に触れるだけで , from るろうに剣心 .

I'm still utterly lagging behind grammar. But hopefully I can change that a bit in the next few days.

Gonçalo Ribeiro 1d ago

Lauren Weinstein 2d ago

Remember, the main reason so many firms push you to use their apps when you can do the same stuff via their websites is that apps typically give them far more insight into your activities on your phone, even often unrelated to that app. So when you can use the websites, it's often best to say NO to the apps.

Gonçalo Ribeiro 1d ago

Gavin Shoebridge 1d ago

Here's the absolute weirdest electric vehicle you've ever seen.
It was called the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway in the UK, and it's an elevated tram which ran on submerged (at high tide) tracks.
It started running in 1896 but was knocked out of action a week later by a storm. It was rebuilt and ran for 5 years, carrying thousands alongside the beach for no immediately obvious reason. 😄
It's long since gone but the fact it actually existed is surreal.

Gonçalo Ribeiro 1d ago

"Sempre tivemos ondas de calor..."

#criseclimática

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Gavin Shoebridge 1d ago

Here's the absolute weirdest electric vehicle you've ever seen.
It was called the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway in the UK, and it's an elevated tram which ran on submerged (at high tide) tracks.
It started running in 1896 but was knocked out of action a week later by a storm. It was rebuilt and ran for 5 years, carrying thousands alongside the beach for no immediately obvious reason. 😄
It's long since gone but the fact it actually existed is surreal.

JamesAshburner 1d ago

@KiwiEV Ah, look, thanks all the same—but I’ll give that one a miss, if you don’t mind. Being a Melbourne schoolboy shivering in a draughty 1920s half-open tram was misery enough. Nothing personal, though!

Salem's Lot 1d ago

@JamesAshburnerCBR @KiwiEV You are 110+ years old? No disrespect intended.

JamesAshburner 1d ago

@SalemsLot @KiwiEV Tram classes designed and built in the 1920s and 1930s. They had extremely long service lives—often with various updates, modifications, or rebuild-to-another class transformations.

Ross Macfarlane 1d ago

@KiwiEV As told by Jago Hazzard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzV1jt0aRQ&ab_channel=JagoHazzard

It's A Boat! It's A Tram! No, It's The Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway!

YouTube

Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ 1d ago

@rmtheriskmanagr @KiwiEV Amazing stuff. I've watched the video but still have so many questions. Were the motors submerged? I don’t see any transmission gear from above. How did they seal the motors?

Salem's Lot 1d ago

@baoigheallain @rmtheriskmanagr @KiwiEV If I had to build it a driveshaft going down inside the legs it would be. To get it all away from the salt water. But even then, synchronization is an issue that has to be solved.

@KiwiEV lets be honest... the british doing this should not surprise anyone.

@alex02 @KiwiEV There was something similar, but cable-hauled, in St. Malo, Brittany. Acted as a ferry across the harbour where it was not possible to build a bridge. https://feorag.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/le-pont-roulant-de-saint-malo-a-saint-servan/

Le Pont Roulant de Saint-Malo à Saint-Servan

(This article was originally published on my Livejournal on 20th November 2015) I’m being a NaNoWriMo rebel this year and using it to get together the first draft of a work that expands on my …

Forsyth's Compendium of Curious Contraptions

Mark Asser 1d ago

@KiwiEV And there's another splendid place name. Rottingdean.

@KiwiEV @MarkAsser Posh girls’ school there

Raven667 1d ago

@KiwiEV did they have cocaine in 1890 because this seems like it was designed by drugs, there's no question _why_ it existed *to be awesome*

SuperMoosie 1d ago

William Wade 1d ago

@KiwiEV Known locally as Daddy Long Legs

✨🇪🇺 Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️‍⚧️✨1d ago

@KiwiEV what I nice idea

Aprettyture!1d ago

@KiwiEV it kinda looks like a skeeter from sm64 in this shot

-aurora

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency 1d ago

@KiwiEV Thanks for that - got me searching & I found this very informative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzV1jt0aRQ

It's A Boat! It's A Tram! No, It's The Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway!

YouTube

Duncan Bourne 1d ago

@KiwiEV the stone "sleepers" for the daddy long legs railway are still there, and can be seen at low tide. Just to the west is the volks electric railway, the oldest surviving electric railway in the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volk's_Electric_Railway

Volk's Electric Railway - Wikipedia

Unholy Ordnance 1d ago

@KiwiEV
You can still se bits of the rail if the tide is low

@KiwiEV @losttourist

No one would have believed, in the early years of the 21st century, that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and ...

Immediately thought "Tripod" when I saw the pic

@KiwiEV
When I was a kid ('70s) you could still see concrete sleepers and odd remains of the track out on the far shore at very low tides.

And of course the parallel electric railway, also built by Magnus Volk, and which runs just behind the beach, is still working and one of Brighton's major tourist attractions.

https://volksrailway.org.uk/

Volk's Electric Railway

Volk's Electric Railway

@KiwiEV “ for no immediately obvious reason”

thefathippy 1d ago

Well that was a strange rabbithole.

Thanks for opening the door!

@KiwiEV reminds me of the delightfully strange Burgh Island Sea Tractor.

We happened upon it on holiday and rode it the short distance across to the island. We stopped for a drink, then paddled back to the mainland, with seawater up to our thighs.

https://www.burghisland.com/about-us/sea-tractor/

The Sea Tractor | Burgh Island Hotel

The iconic sea tractor of Burgh Island, transports guests to their magical stay daily. Whether across the waves or by car during low tide. Find out more.

Burgh Island

lippyduck 1d ago

@KiwiEV Almost as much of a folly as #Brighton's i360. At least Daddy Long Legs actually went somewhere and isn't now lumbering us with two million quid a year's worth of bad debt. https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24754936.brighton-i360-much-will-51-million-debt-cost-taxpayer/

Brighton i360: How much will £51 million debt cost the taxpayer?

The Brighton i360’s £50 million debt will cost the taxpayer hundreds of pounds each – and the council will be paying its loan back until 2041.

The Argus

@KiwiEV This photo is from a universe where boats have not been invented. Kind of like in the Star Wars there are no wheeled vehicles.

Daniel M Karlsson 1d ago

@KiwiEV That’s wild.

Muro deGrizeco 1d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Rottingdean_Seashore_Electric_Railway

Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway - Wikipedia

Elektropunk 1d ago

@KiwiEV
Great Tread, Thank you!
This is what the Internet is really for.

dasgrueneblatt 1d ago

@KiwiEV I can see the immediately obvious reason. It's very cool!

@KiwiEV I think I've seen an elevated railway vehicle with similar struts but I can't remember the details.

@KiwiEV thanks for sharing this. I live in Brighton and the Volks and its history is something that visitors are always interested in. Funny, I was in Weston-super-mare the other week and I saw their old pier and asked if it had one of these unusual elevated trams and my friends looked at me like I was mad - I assumed they were commonplace.