> The [Apple Computer] garage is a bit of a myth. We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there.
> The work was being done—soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables—at my cubicle at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino. That was an incredible time. It let me do a lot of side projects - Steve Wozniak
The Apple I computer was "slacking off at work" in action. Just imagine doing this today, good luck on not getting your copyright claimed by the company. #retrocomputing #apple
I drream a native #gnome framework made with a browser copied form the #smalltalk browser
For browsing files hierarches
But also email folders
toots (the articulation of categories in ths case could be invented)
forums
trees of todo tasks
git trees
databases
whatever
things could be represented logically with vocabularies and triples and managed by a system wide service
And then the same browser could allow you to browse anything
Political polling would be much more insightful - and potentially more useful - if it asked people how they would vote on specific issues in a hypothetical referendum, and abandoned the narrow focus on the hypothetical electoral fortunes of political parties.
7 years after the release of the #Fairphone 2, the company is still providing security updates and improvements to the phone. Kudos to them!
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp2-fairphone-os-and-fairphone-open-21-10-0-rel-2/78115
out of all the stuff i’ve done during 2 years of lockdown to lift my mood, installing a bird feeder was the most surprisingly impactful and i would extremely recommend it to everyone who’s able to do that
(i didn’t even do a good job, it’s made of plastic and stuck to the side of the building with heavy duty outdoor velcro 😅)
@digital_carver There are plenty of reasons to hate science nerds, and yes this is one of them :)
Here I sit, broken hearted,
Tried to shit, but only farted.
Could be worse, you must admit,
than if you try to fart and instead you shit.
@fitheach @kensanata So....no. All devices should not have the same current and voltage.
Imagine a larger device, something that has a much higher current draw. Then imagine having to use the LARGE powerpack for that device for charging your Switch, or powering an external USB hub.
That's why they are not standard, because the upper ranges would end up defining the standard, leading to needlessly large supplies.
And that's why the connectors are not standard either, to prevent overdraw.
website made by someone who describes themself as "a dipshit who doesn't know how to use computers" and hosted on a raspberry pi or some random VPS: loads instantly, well designed, easy to navigate
website made by fortune 500 company, with teams of designers, programmers, and servers in 8 countries: takes a full minute to load, layout shifting around the whole time, breaks if you have 1 browser add-on, the page you want can only be accessed via a third party search engine, gets worse every year
@acdw That's what bookmarks are for ...
for saving cool websites so you never look at them and end up with massive list of bookmarks.
I want to gather data off my existing PCs onto the hard drive of the laptop I just got. I could buy an external hard drive to copy it all onto, then copy to the new laptop. But surely there's some way to do this over the net, ideally on the local network? To avoid the extra purchase and double copying. I've had success doing this with SyncThing in the past, but the last time I tried it didn't seem to be working. I'll try again, but any other suggestions?
Accusing critics of "free trade agreements" of xenophobia is tired and lazy, as is the claim that they are necessary to bring skilled labour into Aotearoa, when it's well established that progressive immigration policy can be crafted to achieve the same thing. Outsourcing service jobs to overseas companies risks starving out our local capacity to perform or afford them. Just look at what "free trade' has done to local manufacturing and food prices.
"This is an HTML email, please update your email client to view."
No! Please update your email generation system to send plain text email. Putting aside the risks of opening HTML in email apps, where browser security isn't protecting users from the most common HTML-based attacks, HTML email is the digital equivalent of packaging products in 3 layers of plastic when 1 layer of cardboard would do. It's a waste of bandwidth and energy.
FEDIBLOCK NOW
I'm not really much of a musician in any sense but I just want to point out that people dont realize how even to reach a basic level in most instruments is a monumental task, particularly string instruments. It can take days or weeks just to make a single half decent note out of the thing. The number of man hours it takes of investment to actually play enjoyable music on any level is astounding. Musicians deserve a lot of respect no matter where they are in their journey, just saying.
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
anti-witchhunts
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
I write software (C++) for a living.