Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

From the outside, all kinds of AA batteries look about the same. But inside, they couldn’t be more different. From zinc & manganese dioxide, to nickel-metal hydride, to lithium-ion chemistry, a CT scanner lets us see the evolution of the AA.

The Electrical Handbook for Women combines empowerment with some fabulous Art Deco design: https://electrifyingwomen.org/the-electrical-handbook-for-women-a-transformative-20th-century-text/

In one hand: my root beer.

In the other hand: bottle of mayo.

We only get one shot at this, brain. Only one of these goes on my sandwich. I know you'll make the right choice.

if you don't love and treasure Renamon what the fuck are you even doing?

💻 Mozilla Thunderbird - The Failure of a Once Great Client 💻: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/05/14/mozilla-thunderbird-the-failure-of.html

Thunderbird, wtf are you doing where you need 83% CPU plus ~50GB (virt) and 20G (res) of RAM allocated? You’re an email client. You handle IMAP. This has become absurd, the slow death of a once great product.

when the install instructions are just a docker container and you ask for actual install instructions

As part of a time-limited trial, yesterday we removed the www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com robots.txt "block" on *one* GenAI crawler.

Here's a graph of total daily requests from that 1 GenAI crawler by content-type. You'll note, they've retrieved ~460k web pages in ~16 hours, so a mean of ~28,750 web pages per hour. They'll likely pull ~690k pages today, ~32GB egress.

Whilst this is a drop in the ocean versus our other traffic, I can easily see how this could sink a smaller website.

#GenAI #WebDev

The Petalinux third party EULA from Xilinx is 287MB of raw ASCII text.

To compare, a King James Bible is about 4.3MB.

Average speeding speed reportedly peaks around 350 wpm.

Approximately 780,000 words in the bible (average word length is thus about 6).

So the average person could in theory read a bible through in about 37 hrs, or reading for 8 hours a day, about 5 days.

To read through this very important license agreement, at the same rate, would take just shy of 300 days (with no days off).

I'm told online that company legal reps start at about $100 an hour. So we're looking at an estimated low end cost to review the EULA by legal of $238,000.

Yeah. I'm sure every company using Petalinx does that.

So...I ended up having to start over because the game was in an unwinnable state. Basically locked into a quest for a character whose era was still locked.

But, that meant I got to try out the Yakra skip! (And now I know what NOT to do after getting Go mode)

#randomizer #chronotrigger

Specifically the petition to ban conversion therapy practices is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy practices by voting at:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home