Good morning everyone 🌞 I'm just up from a long lie as Grant got up for the parrots this morning. I'm sitting with them now and he is still snoozing on the couch quite happily, although he's going to get a real shock when Toby inevitably starts screeching at me 😂 Lots of coffee and just being lazy for an hour or so on the cards, because I have to gear up for a Three Parrot Vet Event in a couple of hours 😱 To be fair it's the usual two Hahns Macaws who give me the most grief trying to get them into their travel cages. Toby is easy enough to pick up and put in his special travel crate that he came over on the plane from South Africa in. Strap the crate into the front seat and we're good to go, with me and the girls in their cages in the back. It's quite an event though, so that's what I'll be doing today 😊

Have a lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

#Parrots #PetsOfMastodon #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #GoodMorning

Sasa
「ＳＡＳＡ」
(ASCII Corporation/Mass Tael, 1983)

🕹 Play online:
https://www.msxgamesworld.com/software.php?id=1146

In this shooting game, control a character through stages to find energy packs. Eat them for more points, but shooting and enemy collisions deplete energy. Shoot in opposite direction to move. Preserve energy and destroy obstacles to win.

#msx #MSXGames #retrogaming #retrogames
(Video: screenscraper.fr)

Windows (helpfully 🙄) upgraded my computer firmware overnight, which has broken my graphics card that requires an older Dell firmware to work.

Downgrading the firmware uses a Dell-supplied tool which runs under Windows, but this morning has decided to not run.

FFS.

Time for some direct action.

I know it won’t work, but I’ve got try.

Stand by for further updates.

Okay, that didn’t work out quite as planned.

Let’s try again.

I see. It’s going to be one of *those* days.

🤨

I just discovered the really great website of https://www.oldsilicon.com. Lots of interesting information out there. 😃

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Okay, another voicemail system.

I don’t hold out any hope.

Here’s the background to those cryptic posts I’m doing.

A week after my husband's death I was admitted to hospital because I wasn’t able to urinate properly. I was fitted with what’s known as an in-dwelling catheter, and then sent home.

I was booked to have a cystoscopy and urethral dilatation late in March. However…

The pre-op assessment turned up something with my ECG. I was referred to a cardiology specialist (still waiting on that) and the procedure postponed.

It’s been nine weeks now, and all I want is the catheter taken out so I can rebuild my life properly, and while the NHS gets itself organised for whatever other treatment I might need.

The only contact numbers I have are for the pre-op assessment nurse, and the secretary of the urology team. I’ve spoken to the latter once, two weeks ago. It doesn’t seem to have done any good. I keep leaving messages, increasingly tearful and anguished, to no avail.

I’m stuck in some kind of limbo, with no obvious way out.

I am fed up, and out of ideas.

OH: "everyone can get wet"

Here are your questions for tonight, Thursday 17th April, at 8pm UK time.

Please remember to follow and tag us in your responses, and also use the #MakersHour tag.
Thank you.
@makershour@a.gup.pe

Q1: Hello! Tell us about your current project (or whatever is in your working space) and how it makes you feel.

Q2: What’s going on in the background whilst you are making? Silence? Music?
Is there something that helps you focus and concentrate more, or something that throws you completely?

Q3: We all have tools or equipment that is part of our craft. Do they wear out regularly so you keep spares in stock, or seemingly last forever? Tell us about the extreme culprits.

Q4: Do you ‘experiment’ with your making? Trying things that no one sensible would suggest, just to see what happens? Tell us about them, or why you don’t or can’t.

Q5: Do you have any Maker dirty secrets? Projects so bodged together that fill you with shame? Dirty hacks that you don’t speak about? Share your secrets!

Also, I'm just saying: don't bake.

@phranck These are from the UK, though... 🙂

But I don't think the company's definition of "open" is the same as mine.

Open Letter to @organicmaps Shareholders:

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

#openstreetmap #organicmaps #foss

Today my #rust compiler told me "expected future, found a different future".

And I'm like: me too buddy, me too

"I was just following orders" will not hold up at the Hague.

#ICE #NYPD #SeeYouAtTheHague #US #USA #America #History #Remember

can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote

WARNING: this file is clipping the entire time and it might be Loud, please watch your volume!
anyways, footwork/juke wip ^w^ if this upload works anyways

Why I have a blog

So, here is my own corner of the internet where I share my opinions and knowledge about things. Why? There are 3 advantages to this situation relative to posting my humble brags on LinkedIn.

1. I own this corner. So I can say what I want. If LinkedIn turns X, I do not need to move anywhere. (see also this post, which is in Dutch and German, but you likely speak either of these languages anyway)
2. I don’t bother anyone. Do you like people who write quasi inspirational semi-long-reads on LinkedIn? You’re probably alone in that fetish. Most people hate it. I hate it. Here, everyone is free not see my smart reflections on anything. Thereby, I feel totally Peter R.
3. I’m not a slave. Someone with such great ideas as you can read on this blog would never be so stupid to let some American tech firm own his words. No, these words are mine. They may be worthless to you, or ugly, or pretentious. But they’re mine.

So, welcome to read, or not. I like writing it!

@keefmarshall@mastodon.online Yesss, I want a summer full of bonkwave, not heatwave!
(You bonkersnotbonkers are a factory of ideas)

Hello. I’m a woman in her forties, recently unmoored by divorce and rather reacquainting myself with solitude. I’ve always had a soft spot for the music of the 1980s—something about the melancholy beneath the synth—and I find great comfort in books, particularly those on science and history. There’s something reassuring about facts when life feels so uncertain.

I live alone by the sea, somewhere quietly charming in England, and I work—dutifully, if somewhat wearily—for the civil service. My views lean gently to the left, though I find the current state of discourse rather exhausting.

I’m here simply in search of meaningful conversation. I’ve no interest in unsolicited vulgarity. So yes, just a woman trying to navigate her newfound freedom, perhaps, a flicker of hope for friendship?

#introduction #introductions #introductionpost #new #newbie

It's pathetic seeing cis "allies" only now wanting to disown and consider not supporting the bigoted wizard franchise and the rights-stripping billionaire. This was the absolute minimum half a decade ago. The ship has sailed, and you were a happy passenger because of your nostalgic interests.

A cactus in my yard exploded with flowers

#cactus #bloomscrolling

Gillar faktiskt #Mistral / #LeChat.
- Bara €6 med student-epostaddress, annars €15 vilket väl fortfarande är billigast i sin klass.
- Snabb som satan.
- Tror inte någon annan har "Library" funktionen, där man kan ladda upp en samling textdokument att inkludera som extra info i sina chatter.

Den är lite dummare än ChatGPT och Claude, men hastighet och pris kompenserar lite för det. Har Claude också, men använder mest Mistral just nu.

#BuyEuropean #GenAI #LLM

Bautzen, Meißen, Wurzen. Das sind schon seit Jahren städte, in denen die freie Grundrechtsausübung mit der Gefahr einhergeht, Opfer rechter Gewalt zu werden. Der Förderstopp für die wenigen Anlaufpunkte der Zivilgesellschaft ist katastrophal für jede nicht-rechte Person dort.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbbicv6wduj55bwls3buwwew/post/3lmximddexk2o

Sooooo to sum it up:

- A hacker got access to the server of 4chan
- They took full control
- Doxxed all moderators/admins
- Leaked the source code

- The server was taken down
- The source code is so full of vulnerabilities, they can't just put it up again
- Its rumored that the server wasn't maintained for years
- Its unclear if there are people around to even fix it
- some suspect the site is dead for good

Edit: 10 years outdated PHP version, 15 year deprecated functions LOL

this fuckass clown is so mean to me

the exodus has begun

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