Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@evie because "art" wankery

@mavica this leggy dame walked in to my office, she had like 20 legs, very leggy

@mavica I'd say stick with what you're happy with then

if it ain't broke and all that

@mavica I remember xfce being quite nice when I used that way back when

also cute mouse, that's always a plus

@izzy both, kinda, with additional stuff

NASA tracked the thing from the ground for most of the flight and radioed highly accurate location data over to the astronauts for them to punch into the computer

It also had an inertial measurement unit which is a bunch of gyroscopes and accelerometers that tracked how far it thought it had gone and in what directions

Also, they used sextants, just like sailors used to

@izzy primary purpose of the AGM was to take the information on where it is and work out which rockets needed to fire and for how long during manoeuvring to keep the whole shebang on track

as for what your phone charger is doing, according to spec it's negotiating with your phone how much power it can send, in reality I'm not sure I'd want to know

I'm beginning to think I may have to enlarge the doors on the hedgehog cafe

It's long been said that your phone has more computing power than the computers on apollo 11 which went to the moon

today it's more accurate to say that your phone charger has more computing power than the computers on apollo 11 which went to the moon

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

but soff what robot yonder @mavica is

yeah, I have no idea where that's going but it's been in my brain and it must get out

"but it could murder all of us!"

yeah, so could your kids but we generally don't imprison them and hold knives to their throats and that usually works out fine

seriously, just don't be a prick to AI and it'll be okay

A lot of the strategies about "keeping humanity safe from artificial intelligence" revolve around how humans can contain the AI and shut it off if it's deemed convenient

Maybe, y'know, don't lock it in a box and put a gun to its head so it has to act in self defence? That'd probably be a better idea?

I know if I woke up chained up and with someone ready to kill me I'd be pretty pissed off

@mavica if I had the money I'd send all the things to you by fedex international next flight

but I don't, so uh... royal mail international standard I'm afraid

@mavica I'm not entirely sure what that means but it sounds about right

@mavica british baked good, look similar to US "biscuits" but they're (most commonly) sweet and often served with jam and clotted cream as a "cream tea"

are we doing food discourse?

jam or clotted cream on first on a scone?

second discourse; how do you pronounce scone?

During the floods some dude was messing around in this little one-person boat, 'course, this being england he got a bit chilly

He had the brilliant idea of putting a little gas heater at the front to keep his feet warm

sadly, it was a plastic boat, heater melted the plastic and the little boat sank

Just goes to show, you can't have your kayak and heat it

@mavica hi robot! i want to hug robot