Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

Ice Cubes is now available as a proper macOS application! If you had the iOS app installed on your mac, you can remove it and install this one instead.

This is the first version. A lot of macOS-specific features will be added in the future!

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884?l=en-GB

There is a new Apple //e emulator MII Apple //e Emulator for linux! All new and shiny, MIT licence from Michel Pollet. https://github.com/buserror/mii_emu #retrocomputing #appleII #linux #opensource #emulator

that new "co-created with AI!" Coke flavor ("Y3000") tastes vaguely like chicken, which is kind of a profound statement about the current state of AI.

I understand that sending texts in meticulously capitalized and punctuated complete sentences makes me An Old and the thing is I am 100% fine with that.

Mental Break

13/

Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.

That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.

Perfection. https://www.comicsands.com/biden-jordan-ache-speaker-vote-2666023615.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

I daily see how Brexit happened.

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

and BUR continues to defend its title as hands down the best airport I've ever flown in/out of. From the time we landed, to get off the plane, through the airport, to the parking structure, in my car, paid, out and *on the freeway* was maybe 10 minutes. Zero traffic on the way home too because no 405.

I'm never flying through LAX again if I can avoid it, the non-stop isn't even worth the hassle. Not remotely. BUR for life.

I really believe that if your infrastructure can’t survive a user clicking a link, you are doomed. I’m the director of cybersecurity at NSA and you can definitely craft an email link I will click…

r.mtdv.me/TrustThis

@ghostdancer @pervognsen Perfect! Reminds me of that small sports car.

In the US they called it the Miata, because that sounds exotic and European.

In Europe they called it the MX5 because that sounds exotic and Japanese.

In Japan they called it the Roadster because that sounds exotic and American.

@emmadavidson
A coworker once asked what I was reading and I said LOTR. He expressed surprise, thought I'd have read it, and I said re-reading it every 5 years or so is a tradition of my people. He asked, "Your people?" And I said, "The huge nerds."
And a grad student who was rotating in the lab not only nodded with recognition but subsequently joined the lab, where she produced a superstar PhD.

Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
L: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841013
posted on 2023.10.11 at 00:54:07 (c=1, p=5)

Relaxing poolside sim Placid Plastic Duck Simulator gets new DLC, the game is rated Overwhelmingly Positive (9,070) on Steam. You're not gonna believe this, but they added more ducks.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/relaxing-poolside-sim-placid-plastic-duck-simulator-gets-new-dlc/

#IndieGame #SteamDeck #Linux #Ducks

Google search is so good now

No, #Google. #AI #enshittification

1) finally
2) did not expect to see this in LA County
3) educating people is *hard* and they have a tendency toward irrational fears that ignore the data

https://laist.com/brief/news/criminal-justice/cash-bail-ends-for-most-low-level-arrests-in-la-county-today

In 2000, the Beatles created THEBEATLES.COM in relation to a new Beatles compilation album set, "1". For whatever reason, the legendary demoscene group MELON was hired to make flash animations for their songs. The results are now emulated at Internet Archive.

Warning: Flashing lights galore.

https://archive.org/details/melon-cometogether
https://archive.org/details/melon-ifeelfine

Wow: Ophthalmologists giving eye exams can often tell if people are intravenous drug users because the filling in crushed-up pills accumulate in their retinal blood vessels

https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/DDo2HRblcf