tech-no-logical

I highly recommend watching "Its Quieter in the Twilight" (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9rrxr) a cool documentary about the engineers still running voyager (a lot of them have been on it for decades)

for years I had this in my .muttrc. it's been commented out since it stopped working...

#set signature="cat ~/.signature && telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | tail -n3|"

getting the message

    No WebGPU available. Please use Chrome.

on chrome (Version 129.0.6668.29 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)) , under windows

firefox / linux. I only get fully transparent output : https://i.imgur.com/kcu2LSR.png

nothing interesting on the console.

wow, I even found the skin I used way back when... very cool

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/d77a144cdb775a0937617389b6e0e4...

animated vinyl covers whole page and I can't do anything : https://imgur.com/a/wM3Ejig

(firefox / ubuntu). so I'm sorry to say 'no' ;)

zmodem... that brings be back to my BBS days when I had a fido node 2:281/909.4. why do I still know that by heart ? playing glorious BBS door-games over 2400 baud :)

seems it craps out on the monospaced bits of text ?

related : https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...

> I'm sure a lot of the actions come from a place of wanting to do good

although wholeheartedly I agree with your sentiment, that's where our opinions diverge... none of the parties mentioned in the original issue are 'wanting to do good' in my opinion, even thoug it _is_, as you say, understandable that they do what they do.

the negative publicity regarding Evil Corp A is certainly a good thing, agreed. and like I said in another reply, I tend to try to support the smaller businesses _outside_ of the stores, knowing they would benefit that much more.

now _this_ is something I can agree with. which is why I try to support Small Corp D and E outside of any store, by directly buying from them (if at all possible)

personally, knowing the cuts that either app/play store take, I would _never_ subscribe to a service through either of them, that's luckily still an option. netflix raising prices _because_ of a store tax, even for users subscribing outside of them, would be worrying, but your link has no evidence of that, right ?

I get your point. still, in this case B and C are, in my opinion, equally evil in exploiting their workers. so having them raise their optimal price to something the consumer would not buy their service would be, in essence, a good thing.

true. in general I would agree any party taking a 30% cut (whether app store or play store or whatever) would be the supreme evil. but since all three parties involved in this instance are of the same caliber, I don't care, and I choose to use none of them.

agreed. but neither Lyft nor Uber are not small businesses. they also just exploit their workers.

that's implied by every Evil Corp, but yes, you are correct. still, to the consumer it does not really matter which of the Evil Corp gets the money since they will pay it anyway. I don't, for a minute, think that the 30% would not be paid by the end-user if Evil Corp A was not in play. B and C would just raise prices.

maybe I'm a cynic, but why should I care that Evil Corp A tries to rip off Evil Corp B and Evil Corp C ?

I have no idea what causes it for you, but I see this : https://i.imgur.com/KEWYqIW.png

(ff 91.0)

firefox itself doesn't 'handle' youtube ads, but ublock origin does.

in my opinion : yes. we've been coming up with things for 30-40 years now, and emissions are still rising. we've had some kind of climate accord since 1992, and essentially nothing has changed with respect to fossil fuel use.

on my side of the pond we've committed to a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030 as compared to 1990... that's just 9 years, and we are _still_ at 1990 levels or thereabouts, meaning we have done essentially _nothing_ in 30 years.

I'd damn well say we're against the wall.

non-paywalled : https://archive.is/fSsDD

doesn't work in firefox-beta / linux for me (dev version errors about GL functions). sort of works on chrome, but stutters... (amd ryzen pro 4750u / ubuntu 20.10)

from what I _can_ see it looks cool. I used to love demos in the old days on my 386 with gravis ultrasound :)

so 7.42 meters of sea level rise in the long run [1]. no problem.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...

according to both the police and the museum, the security was as per usual. yes, the museum is closed now, but the burglary was at night.

directly from the source :

https://www.singerlaren.nl/en/nieuws/460/burglary_at_singer_...

from the mother of all demos (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&feature=youtu.be...

I suppose you mean this video ?

if the requirements say 7 meters (the sea level rise if greenland is ice free) building higher dikes will not work. and although that is a long-term scenario, it is not unlikely. hence the 'not if, but when' in the article.

the weak points (like the haringvlietdam and maeslantkering) can't (easily) be raised. and yes, the rivers will be a problem when we need to close the maeslantkering for extended periods of time when the sea level rises. it doesn't matter where the water comes from : the sea or the rivers, it will cause severe floods at some point.

I guess we differ on the 'economically viable' part. but in the really long run (say greenland being free of ice) my guess is no amount of money is going to save the netherlands.

you do know the deltawerken were only built with a maximum of 40 cm sea level rise in mind, right ? and we're now thinking of about 100 cm by 2100. true, that does not mean the netherlands will disappear right away, but we will see more flooding than before 1953, especially with extreme weather getting more extreme.

so the question is more whether it will be economically viable to keep the land dry. personally, with the more pessimistic IPCC scenarios in mind, we will come to the point where that decision needs to be made. not in my lifetime, most likely not in yours, but still.

as to your last sentence : we have never seen a scenario like the ones now looming over us.