Major Denis Bloodnok

@davidgerard@circumstances.run We did an escape room last weekend with a hacking puzzle, with the hint "it's not as hard as it looks, just do what they do in the films". I grabbed the keyboard and akjnefklnjsfla leajnflkjsn lkcnjflas jnlkj najf nlsan as fast as possible, which delightfully was what it wanted. :-)

@RogerBW@discordian.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @zzt@mas.to I had a friend with one and, to be fair, it was better than walking. It just turned out that no-one wanted that much foldability at the cost of that much rideability...

@cstross@wandering.shop I wonder if we can persuade some state to bribe Trump with a 787? He can have a door seat. For legroom, ofc.

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social All else aside it seems remarkable that he can conclude that "Claudina" is intelligent and conscious and also think it's just fine to turn "her" off, killing "her".

@dryak@mstdn.science @musevg@23.social @cstross@wandering.shop @aral@mastodon.ar.al @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_key is vastly better than that load of slop.

@haverholm@radikal.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Both of us were far too busy laughing, I think.

@andrew@social.hodgson.io @davidgerard@circumstances.run They don't need recording capability to do that.

@perlman@indieweb.social I know Mozilla accounts _exist_, I just have no way to tell your Website I don't have one. For obvious reasons I wasn't asking how to give DDG my email address. It's just the same problem again.

@Steffi@toot.wales I've got a Carradice one. I'm glad I have it, but it's only really good when it's cold and wet (if it's warm and wet then keeping the wind off you means you get warm and sweaty under the cape), and it's a nuisance in the wind, and you get wet from the knees down... ... but when it is cold and wet, there's something about being cosy in your own little tent which is much more pleasant than ordinary waterproofs, I think something to do with it being away from your body more. Sorry this is not very coherent.

@lothcat "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy off misery"

@davidgerard So, the crypto bit is like Play To Earn only without even the excessively optimistic idea that you can become rich as a gold farmer in a game where everyone else playing also wants to be a gold farmer? Isn't there meant to be at least a superficially plausible account of where the money comes from?

@QCCEChris @smeg And here's a big baby! How wide's your car? How wide's a bike? And in view of those facts, why is it the bike's fault that your cage has difficulty finding room to pass?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Could be worse, he could be trying to give a human one.

@fedops @stefano BSD vs SYSV "killall" still a regular source of comedy? Plus ca change; I remember getting caught by that in the 90s.

@LRRRonEarth@beige.party @mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social IDK what this bit is about, but I do notice that their timeline is mostly cat pictures. With Alt text.

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk "We’re reducing our country footprint because operating in nearly 60 countries does not allow us to give every team member a great experience."

• we're firing you, but for your own good?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Although a slight gripe that he says this was held under the Chatham House Rule (complete with wikilink) and then proceeds as if it means "no direct quotes".

@girlonthenet Coo, and I thought it was a long way to the chemist.

@davidgerard Too much to hope that means the USA, which actually could cut Bitcoin off at the knees, does so. :-(

@wydamn @hopeless Indeed, their entire timeline is shilling for "AI".

@ravenonthill @cstross Not really a clarification, more a direct contradiction of what he wrote beforehand.

@jwcph@helvede.net @timnitGebru@dair-community.social Certainly if someone has themself called their perfectly useful ML application or something "AI", sure - reap what they sowed. I find this very odd. In the last bubble the people doing useful things with VR goggles didn't call it "metaverse" and in the previous one the people doing useful things with Merkle trees didn't call it "blockchain".

@kianryan@oldbytes.space @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Intelligent but malicious design? "Take a look at this, Gabriel, I call them 'genitals'. Aren't they funny-looking?"

@cassolotl Aha, that makes perfect sense. Thanks.

@elronxenu@mastodon.cloud @davidgerard@circumstances.run Seems to depend on the model (which we don't know) but also "Splash, water, and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and resistance might decrease as a result of normal wear", so I think they are saying it might survive but please don't try it...

@Colman @Life_is @tante I'll always remember him having a right go at some woman working at a coffee stand at the most recent London Worldcon. I intervened because I wanted coffee and I wasn't sure if he was there for the five minute argument or the full half hour, and he flounced off.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @Jason_Dodd@mastodon.social Although the weight is compensated for by all the money you don't now have weighing down your trousers after buying it. :-)

@FuVenusRs "It was the least I could do, a quantity I specialise in" - Major Bloodnok

@jtonline@mastodon.me.uk @cstross@wandering.shop At least Johnson could tell the same lie two days running.

@vonExplaino@mstdn.social I quite like "botlicker" and "promptfondler"...

@mauricerenck@mastodon.online @petrillic@hachyderm.io "Ten years Linux experience" back when there was exactly one person with that, and I wasn't him. :-)

@jannem @TechConnectify Even if it doesn't discharge over time, I'm not sure I want 360kJ of battery just sitting around on my kitchen counter to make fires so much more exciting.

@perlman@indieweb.social Asks about Firefox if I "signed up with an email alias", which marginally improves score. I never signed up at all or gave any email address to Mozilla, but I can't tell the site that. Same for DuckDuckGo. I'm not even sure _how_ one signs up to it.

@mair Huh! I found a while back the Brompton will fit in my Carry Freedom trailer so I do this the other way around.

@matuzo@front-end.social Idol. "It's a nice day for a BLACK PUDDING."

@dentangle I confess, skimming over this, it was only at The Colour of Money that I went, hang on - I think because it's a well-known expression.

@sborrill@justfollow.me.uk Interesting, although the top graph on page 6 and the graph on page 7 seem to show a return to 2010s levels (which were relatively steady) after the shock of 2020. Not so much cause for concern there. (The rest is fair enough.)

@JHB17@mastodon.online @BinChicken@rants.au @pndc@social.treehouse.systems @cstross@wandering.shop Any MSTie can tell you Plan 9 is a cinematic masterpiece next to _Manos_ or _Red Zone Cuba_.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st TBF I mostly ride fixed these days - obvs, completely silent - and in an urban environment I can see there's something to be said for a bike that makes a bit of noise, if not a full on BRRRRR. The Brompton used to have brakes that went SQUEAL which was excellent, saying at once "I am here", "I am a bicycle", and "I am slowing down".

@bouriquet@mastodon.social @collectifission@greennuclear.online That can't be all of it if, as we're told upthread, the Swiss RhB can cope with deep snow.

@cassolotl Oddly my notifications say The Good Place 47%, Bluey 53%, but TGP seems to have gone through. I think I'm backing Discworld for the overall win.

@adapalmer@wandering.shop Dirty high-vibration environments are not really a good choice. At least the bogs don't discharge onto the tracks anymore... mostly.

@Steffi@toot.wales TBH in warm rain I think you're going to get warm and wet whatever you do. :-/

@txt_file @TechConnectify It doesn't double the power but quadruples it, as explained 10 minutes into the video. The resistance is unchanged, twice the voltage means twice the current for a given resistance, power is voltage times current.

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk I wonder how they have three layers to remove. When I joined a certain very large database vendor as a lowly peon 25 years ago, there were three layers of management between me and the CEO. I think they were rather larger than gitlab!

@patterfloof@meow.social @JamesAshburnerCBR@aus.social @ellie@social.lol You steer the bicycle in the direction it's falling over, no mystery there. Bicycles with sufficiently odd geometry will go a surprisingly long way with no rider, but again no mystery there. Gyroscopic effects aren't significant (shown with counter-rotating masses).

@aris@infosec.exchange @Black_Flag@beige.party @rozeboosje@masto.ai Not saying it's always mastodon.social, but... :-)

@cmconseils@mastodon.social "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy off misery..."

@davidallengreen@mastodon.green All else aside if the Yanks wanted to be ruled by an insane king they could just have stuck with George III and saved everyone a lot of bother. When I invent a time machine I'm going to show Admiral Lafayette how the whole thing worked out in the hope he'll give up and go home.