Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A little reminder about the photos on this account. While they are default Creative Commons, Public Domain or other free licenses (except when otherwise mentioned, but that is very rare), it is still common courtesy to mention the author if you reuse or repost them anywhere without keeping the post link intact. Also applies to the fennec, arctic the leggies daily accounts.

You are free to use most of them as you see fit, but the license technically requires attribution. So please do the original authors this little favor. They will be happy to see their work travel around the world and be mentioned as the original author.

If you’re implementing a timezone selector after handling all continents, oceans, and pseudo-macro regions… don’t forget Büsingen am Hochrhein 😄 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein

A tiny German town of fewer than 1,500 people, completely surrounded by Switzerland.

Fun historical timezone trivia:
Büsingen is associated with Europe/Zurich instead of Europe/Berlin.

Why? In 1980, West Germany introduced DST, but Switzerland initially did not. For a few months:

Germany was UTC+2
Switzerland stayed UTC+1
and Büsingen followed Swiss time to avoid daily chaos with the surrounding area.

That historical difference is still reflected in the tz database today.

#coding 👨‍💻 #timezone 🌐 #freebsd #unix #time 🕜 #sysadmin 🖥️ #germany 🇩🇪 #Berlin #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #Zurich

Here are the photos of my new 4-bit computer, Sharp PC-1246. In this thread, I will compare it with my Sharp PC-1248, including their insides.

I also made Hamurabi work on PC-1246 - https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/hamurabi-sharp-pc-1246 - so if you happened to have a PC-1246, 1248, or maybe even 1211, 1245, or TRS-80 Pocket Computer, you might be able to try it out. It was quite a challenge to cram the game in 1278 bytes of RAM available on this computer.

🧵 thread, go

Intersex people deserve their own 88×31-pixel buttons with retro PC fonts. Left: CGA, centre: EGA, right: VGA. Web-safe palette. May be used freely.

Download the buttons separately and more here: https://qalle.neocities.org/88x31/#pronoun

#intersex #pronouns #88x31 #cga #ega #vga

Uh-oh, something's up with LE:

https://letsencrypt.status.io/

This is a good thing, that they're suspending issuance to ensure fraudulent certs aren't issued if they may have had a breach.

But we wouldn't have to deal with any of this backwards certificate authority bs if browsers would just honor DANE. 🤬

cue everyone who saw this coming 100,000 miles away

https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/

me: "I just think maybe it would feel good to have all the molecules in my body momentarily disassembled and have all the atoms carefully sorted and cleaned before putting everything back together the way it was before, but, like, only if you can figure out a way for that to not be painful or lethal"

the evil genie i accidentally freed from eternal torment and has been trying to trick me into wishing for normal things for like a month now: "i, ... what is wrong with you"

A follow-up, there was a curiosity about the drives eject mechanism. And it turns out that it is a spring loaded eject!

AI slop is killing online communities

Most of the communities I'm in are doing just fine, with healthy discussions, much cheer and joy (and an occassional spiral into doom and gloom, as is the nature of modern humanity). There's no AI slop in there, and it ain't killing them in any shape or form.

The trick? These communities banned AI. Not just AI slop, everything LLMs and what is today known as "AI". They took a hard stance, and it paid off.

Now, the author of this article sees their communities struggle - because like the author, those communities did not take a hard stand. On the contrary! They embraced "AI"! And with that embrace comes the slop.

Want to keep AI slop out of your communities? Enact a hard anti-LLM policy for code and for everything else too, and enforce it. It's that simple.

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

This is the ideal pickup truck. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I want HRT that gives me a floofy tail ​​​​