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angledon New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

Same for electronic music in Australia - well off context here but fora such as spraci, ITM, and then its sibling FL were great for discovering and connecting with new music and people.

angledon New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

Reminds me of the Tokyo Gig Guide, which I always hit up when I’m in town.

https://www.tokyogigguide.com/en/

angledon The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

Not sure if you ever make it over to HKG but there are quite a few cargo 747s that still seem to be making the rounds. CX and others have them on the GA / cargo side, and when on Lantau you often see (and hear!) them on final or takeoff.

I think CX would hate to retire them because from what I understand their load capacity is unparalleled. And you can load horses in them! There'll always be money from that for HAECO to keep them aloft.

It's even better when you're at the bus terminal at HKIA and watching them fly overhead...

angledon AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

How many MS-01s did you have clustered?

And could you not use something like an N5 + iSCSI for storage?

angledon Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

Your story also reminded me of the early LUG scene, distributed all over the world. We believed and all we had access to were the dirtiest ratshit computers but hey they could boot Slackware or Debian and maybe if you said the right incantation you could get that 10Mb card you got for free but was still the most valuable part to work with cat5 Ethernet so you could download stuff from a local sunsite mirror so you could join in the future.

angledon Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

Did you ever bounce around the crackmonkey list? nick and friends seemed to know people with similar backgrounds.

angledon Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

Absolutely, I just linked to this in another comment, I couldn't easily find another story: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...

angledon Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

Aren't people here old enough to recall paying for WhatsApp's original subscription fee?

Circa 2016: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...

angledon Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

Why use fuel, though? Is there something about its specific density and weight distribution that rules out using other types of ballast?

angledon Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

Thanks, I will try that!

angledon Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

I was a little disappointed with the results I was seeing in F#. I thought the .NET + GPT-5.* pull through would be sufficient but it never seemed to work out. Maybe I just wasn’t approaching it correctly.

angledon The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

My pipeline for this is vscode + prompts + markdown templates + GitHub copilot -> markdown docs -> pandoc to produce.docx -> copilot in word for “nice” formatting -> copilot in ppt for nice decks. LLMs all the way down.

I find it’s easier to version control and diff the .md artefacts, those remain my authoritative source.

angledon The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

Copilot Cowork in the M365 ecosystem. It inherits all the permissions from my account, has access to exchange to send me emails, and OneDrive to save each day’s summary for posterity and future refinement.

angledon The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

In business: using coworking tools to review and propose filing of emails; manage my files and folders; on a daily basis scour the intranet for interesting and relevant content.

Personal: my wife tutors in her native language to non-native primary and high school kids. They are all using these tools now generate fresh content for practice based on school lesson plans. The kids are improving much more quickly now than they were just a few months ago.

angledon Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely

Cue the development of a limpet drone that would be enough to take down one of these birds in a non-destructive way… although perhaps these ones in particular would be uniquely positioned to deal with such adversaries.

angledon Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

But surely, a Casio would be the fitting watch to wear while wielding this work: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.MRG-B2000JS-...

angledon Appearing productive in the workplace

I am somewhat relieved to be working in a regulated industry where deterministic outputs are still needed. Maybe when someone has a validated AI model there will be trouble ...

angledon Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

Let's add that to the words of wisdom.

angledon Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

When all we needed was /. , freshmeat, and themes.org …

angledon Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

both my kids are using my old Filco TKL keyboards with blues. Absolutely no complaints from either of them. Only issues are that the footpads are getting a little worn down, one is missing, and I think I spilled beer on one many years ago before I gave them up.

I also have the Filco keycap puller. Keyboard cleaned and saved!

I now use a Keychron K2 with browns. My fingers are getting too old to use blues on a regular basis.

angledon Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

This was the era of !hurl, after all …

angledon Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

I still remember how cool I thought raster was with his vaio and everything. This was the future! Transparent eterms and tasteful backgrounds everywhere.

angledon The secrets of the Shinkansen

Ah! But is your bicycle registered and do you have insurance.

(I agree with the trains. I love the trains.)

angledon OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Anarchist_Cook...

We work in the dark

we do what we can

we give what we have.

Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.

The rest is the madness of art.

angledon Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

Bush and his son in one gulf, Bobby and his in another. Crisis after crisis.

angledon Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive

We had a lot more TUIs and transparent terms / libs with transparency. Things like Xchat, etc.

angledon Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

I read the books as a young teenager in highschool before watching the TV show. I loved the books!

Actually, I realised I lie, I did occasionally watch a few of them in primary school. I remembered being absolutely terrified of Polymorph.

angledon Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

But what of the culture? For years now the art and music has felt like poor cousins to what is in the west, similar to what we see generated by AI now, and consumed be people doomscrolling on WeChat moments while they wait for their didi to deliver their food from the shop down the street.

Every time I visit SZ now it feels like the scooters are misrouted neurons firing in any which direction, with no respect for pedestrians, parking, or the rest of the city.

angledon xAI joins SpaceX

But … but what if we had solar-powered AI SREs to fix the solar-powered AI satellites… /in space/?