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Okay, this is hella cool

youtube.com/watch?v=Q6wSN-Uajs

It's a fully mechanical wristwatch that you can connect to an atomic clock to wind, regulate, and set it

All British passports after Brexit will be manufactured by a Franco-Dutch company because the bid from a UK firm wasn't good enough

Satire is dead

Twitter link, #mastodon meta 

@rey yep, that just about sums us up

@squirrel hey, you've been very good at not being on fire so far, I see no reason that won't continue

@squirrel basically I just want squirrel to be safe and not on fire and I'm throwing suggestions around

I'm sure you actually have it handled

@squirrel ah, that would be another problem with the suggestion wouldn't it

er... just put it somewhere with very little flammable stuff arounf

@squirrel ...fair point, forgot that

The metal box thing will still help if it does decide to go up though

@squirrel glad to hear

still, put it in a metal box with holes in the top, leave it outside

those fuckers can be nasty

a very very uninformed tech take 

@turbodragon if you've just got the compiled end result then it's hard as hell

It's when you've got the source code that you can reasonably go in and change things

a very very uninformed tech take 

@turbodragon cracking something just makes it usable, having it open source means you can actually modify and improve it

Wirth's Law: Software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

I think everyone's agreed on calling it the "Diet Pepsi" in deference to its bigger brother the Rolex GMT Master with the Pepsi bezel

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@djsundog @wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net "smalltalk allows for arbitrary code execution"

@squirrel @noelle could vpn from your home to a server somewhere that shunts all the stuff you want in your direction I suppose

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