Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Making V6 Engine Using Magnets https://personaljournal.ca/paigntonlibrarystemgroup/making-v6-engine-using-magnets

Robot car ideas https://personaljournal.ca/paigntonlibrarystemgroup/robot-car-ideas

I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.

Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.

Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).

Yeah Y2K was a once every 1000 year issue.

Isn't 2038 going to be fun.

.@Ofwat accused of cover-up over dinners with water companies - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/ofwat-regulator-cover-up-water-companies "Calls for inquiry after regulator failed to declare hospitality with those it holds to account over sewage spills" ofwat is overseeing the destruction of our rivers, and dining out with the perpetrators...

⚠️🇺🇦Invading Russians push forward along entire frontline, 83 combat clashes take place on front line over past day (more)
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03/1/7444455/ #Ukraine #Press #News #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#BanRussianAgricultureFromEU
#BanRussianGrainFromEU
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious

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#ICO finds the Home Office’s pilot of #GPS electronic monitoring of migrants breached UK data protection law - https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/03/ico-finds-the-home-office-s-pilot-of-gps-electronic-monitoring-of-migrants-breached-uk-data-protection-law/ "Information Commissioner says it’s crucial the UK has ‘appropriate checks and balances in place to ensure people’s information rights are respected’" #surveillance

Palestinians are not getting killed. They are getting murdered. By Israel. In a genocide. With the complicity of the US, UK, Germany and others.

Use the right words.

Blame the right people.

Stop the genocide.

#ceasefireNOW

⚠️🇷🇺Putin uses same old nuclear rhetoric to draw Western attention to himself and for propaganda during his “elections” (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03/1/7444450/ #Ukraine #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#BanRussianAgricultureFromEU
#BanRussianGrainFromEU
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious

LibreOffice 24.2.1 is out, with more than 100 fixes for improved stability and robustness. Download from https://libreoffice.org/download. Announcement: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/02/29/libreoffice-24-2-1/ @libreoffice @tdforg

3/4 Here is just one of the people rhe IDF killed during Thursday’s attack on people looking for food. Bilal Sameer Jamal Al-Esi, 29. #Gaza

Is the recent #Fediverse #spam wave over? We hope so. Thanks to all #instanceAdmins for cleaning this up.

What can we learn from this? Some thoughts regarding #ForgeFederation: https://blog.codeberg.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-fediverse-spam-for-codeberg.html

#ForgeFed #Forgejo