⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt.

Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?

#note #trans #trams #transport #publicTransport #picture #gender #identity

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/01/trams-rights/

Only 4 days left! Our new BBS music video drops this Friday at 10am. #indierock #cambridgeband #commodore64

Falcons reduce pre-harvest food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.70209
Pre-harvest food safety and wildlife conservation are often thought to be in conflict, and produce growers have few tools to effectively manage birds. However, our findings suggest that the promotion of birds of prey using nest boxes may be one way for growers to conserve a declining species, reduce crop damage and reduce in-field faecal contamination that could cause foodborne illness.

The United Nations opts for @CryptPad, an open source alternative to #GoogleForms.

https://news.itsfoss.com/un-ditches-google-form/

#OpenSource #CryptPad #UN #UnitedNations #foss

@mcc I've seen something similar with the setting the addresses on old mainframe/mini drives in the 70s. There's a plug with the ID printed on the front, an encoded physically in plastic tabs on the back. If you swap those two "0" and "1" plugs, you will swap the addresses of the two drives.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.

1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.

1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.

1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.

1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
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I'm also happy to announce we've got a new sponsor for the LVFS: #Framework

Although there are about a half a dozen OEMs that have promised to sponsor LVFS, Framework is the first to have actually signed the paperwork. You can see the new logo on https://fwupd.org/ and also the new "sponsorship pill" on various vendor pages like https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/#framework

Alright, I’m gonna put out a call, since searches have come up blank: if anyone has a complete driver package for the MSI Mega 651 (or similar models), please, PLEASE archive it. Or send it to me and I’ll do it. If someone knows where one is, please let me know.

As of now I’m trying to get the FM radio talking to Win98 but I’m missing a couple drivers and I’m assuming that one of those is needed for it to work. MSI’s site has some drivers but they’re not complete.

#MSI #Windows98

I've been using this kind of AA and AAA battery for something like five years now. They will more than pay for themselves in the first year: I didn’t expect USB-C AA batteries to be this good, but here we are https://www.makeuseof.com/didnt-expect-usb-c-aa-batteries-to-be-this-good-but-here-we-are/

We're not shitting you 💩

ORG is giving away a copy of 'Enshittification' signed by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic!

Enter the competition by 5 January 2026 and be in with your chance to win.

Go on, try your luck ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/win-copy-enshittification-signed-cory-doctorow

#competition #enshittification #corydoctorow

We've now added links to PDF scans of Apple's Develop magazine issues as archived on https://vintageapple.org/develop/:

http://newtonscript.org/#docs

https://github.com/NewtonScript/newtonscript.github.com/issues/48

The news comes from the Office for Budget Responsibility’s economic and fiscal outlook, which was mistakenly published ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget on Wednesday.

During her speech, Rachel Reeves did mention digital ID – claiming it “will break the link between illegal migration and illegal working" - but failed to mention the cost.

UK's £1.8 billion digital ID plan is 'unfunded', budget watchdog says | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25655355.uks-1-8-billion-digital-id-plan-unfunded-budget-watchdog-says/

Ah yes, a 10th of a tennis court. Very clear. I always picture all areas in 10th of tennis courts. People try to tell me areas in square metres or square feet and I say no, stop, 10ths of a tennis court please, none of your woke, EU-mandated measures.

Sw33t!!

@Richard_Littler Read better sci-fi. Try Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - very accessible,

Colossal blunder on my part this afternoon.
Pulled the drives from an areca raid array and
forgot what order they have to go back in
so now the array isn't recognized and RESCUE doesn't see it.
Has anyone documented the magic parameter sectors that describe this anywhere?