Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
@fesshole
Pro tip: lay two sheets of toilet tissue on the rim before opening your pipe 😉
@cstross
‘1745 chickens, 450 ducks and 1697 eggs have been disposed of’
That’s a verry low number. Intensively reared chickens could have more than 10x that number in a single shed.
Don Thompson
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On what would have been the late Sir Terry Pratchett's 76th birthday, a favourite quote of his:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys & there is empirical evidence that they exist. – Terry Pratchett (b. 1948)
@fesshole
Not sure ‘bending down’ is the right move, bending the knees to get down & reach the floor is a much more important flex (I’ve recently passed third 21st birthday).
As for 20mins, hold my beer!
Don Thompson
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Our Advisory Board has published a Draft Note for W3C's Vision
"Technology is not neutral; new technologies enable new actions and new possibilities, and we must take responsibility to address the actual impact of our work...
W3C’s Vision for the World Wide Web
The Web is for all humanity.
The Web is designed for the good of its users.
The Web must be safe for its users.
There is one interoperable world-wide Web."
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/
@mattb @julianlawson @neil
Similar here, arranging a short term let on an apartment & was asked for a business contact telephone number. I rhymed off my company’s number 7-5-5-double 8-1. Puzzled look in response. Tried again, 7-5-5-8-8-1. Repeat.
Was asked, what’s ‘8’?
Now I was puzzled but retorted ‘the digit between 7 and 9’.
Same language, different accents & pronunciation.
Don Thompson
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This apparently touched a nerve; I had no idea. Check the comment thread.
My own major gripe with passcodes is that I could never find a simple straightforward explanation of what they were and how they were to be used. I have a decent understanding of asymmetric crypto and PKI and key exchange and JWT and so on, so if you can’t explain it to me, you have a big problem.
Don Thompson
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@mart_brooks @revk @bloor installing jitsi for me and using it with Firefox was one of the smoothest experiences I ever had. No background apps with security holes running on my computer neither.
@mookie
In fairness to Boeing, if this alludes to the Alaska Airlines incident, that event did not involve a regular emergency exit popping. Rather it was a ‘plug’ that should’ve been securely fixed in place (but wasn’t).
A design feature that would permit an aircraft’s future operator to configure a denser seating configuration after reconfiguration with a serviceable emergency exit door.
Don Thompson
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🔥 🔥 🔥
«This is the result of taking #technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not a user, you’re a parasite, and it’s these parasites that have dominated and are draining the #tech industry of its value.»
The Man Who Killed #Google Search
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Don Thompson
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The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/long_live_16_bit_z80/
Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential
<- by me on @theregister
@Wifiwits
I can’t recall the exact flow temp, high 30s/low 40s. Easy to adjust with the return mix valve.
Mine was ground floor, for me it was simpler/faster to suspend the floor as it was solid beech. Didn’t need to wait weeks for a finished slab to dry out. Laser levelled the ‘joists’ floating on saddles so the contct between insulation blocks/spreader plates was sound.
@Wifiwits
In a previous house, laid underfloor in an extenstion I built. It had a high vaulted ceiling so u/floor was practical option.
The room had its own stat & the boiler (oil) was fired thru an ‘OR’ circuit sharing supply to water tank & rads in rest of house. Underfloor circuit was tee’d off’with circulation valves plus had a temp mix valve in the circuit. Set back temp at 16°. Helped by James at Commercial Connections nr Crossgar.
At that time I wasn’t overly concerned with fuel prices so wasn’t tracking cost change.
@Wifiwits Yes! Used insulating block panels specifically manuf’d for the purpose & fixed between joists.
@DeltaWye @tilton@raccoon.zone Cray Superserver business merged into Sun Microsystems with the E10000 (alongside Sun’s wholly unreliable ‘Enterprise’ server line).
Cray Research into SGI.
@tilton@raccoon.zone I had dial-up access to SGI as I was, in early 90’s, involved in delivering support. I remember a guy named Dave Olsen, he was everwhere, knew so much that was going on & I was struck that part of his role seemed to be connecting people in the company doing similar things.
Don Thompson
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ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods
I want to try it now! 😅
#activitypub #solid
https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/
Don Thompson
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"#ActivityPods is a combination of two #W3C standards: #ActivityPub, and the #Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web."
https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/
Don Thompson
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PEOPLE, I BEG YOU
post links directly to the source, don't use Apple News or Bitly or other links hijackers. if they decide to change the service or go out of business, we have lost link to the original source.
keep the web as open as possible. say no to link shorteners and traffic hijackers 👍🏾
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
