Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

Open source physics-based tabletop sim 'Tabletop Club' gets an official release https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/open-source-physics-based-tabletop-sim-tabletop-club-gets-an-official-release/ #FreeGame #FOSS #OpenSource

Gentle but timely reminder, courtesy of IBM in 1979.

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

And this link seems more robust:

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/wga-on-strike

"Banning drag queens won't work. The only thing that will stop a bad guy in a dress, is a good guy in a dress."

I realized what makes Mastodon, and Bluesky, and Post, and Notes seem so odd. It’s the complete absence of the “if you won’t pretend this shit sandwich is sirloin it shows how biased you are/how much Trump broke you/what an echo chamber you’re in.”

Stolen from @andreasdotorg :

https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/6aa320c96a37613663e8de4c275bd6c490466b01

End of an era.

This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands
#AltText4Me

But this is just the latest in a long list of times I, like an old man yelling at a cloud, shake my fist at people refusing to accept that words mean things.

For instance, I will be in my cold, cold grave before I accept that literally means figuratively just because a lot of lazy careless fucks use it that way.

TIL: lace cards

It’s a computer punch card with every possible spot punched out, so what remains is a flimsy filamentous net of paper that instantly tears and jams up the card reader.

Old-school denial of service attack.

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

The line “Disney regrets that it has come to this” may be the single most terrifying line ever committed to a press release.

@ftrain

Retro Electro here we come😎

1948 Chrysler New Yorker barn find, complete with suicide doors, in (nearly) immaculate shape.

We’re gutting the straight-8, swapping in a dual-motor electric drivetrain and lithium battery bank, upgrading the steering and suspension, and restoring all the details.

Losing Tucker Carlson is a huge loss for the nation. And by "the nation," I mean Putin's Russia.

"You don't practise untill you get it right. You practise till you can't get it wrong."