An amazing read on an amazing woman: the first woman marine engineer in the UK, and the first woman member of the Institute of Marine Engineers. 

On 25 Aug 1940 Victoria Drummond was the engineer on watch on the ship Bonita in N Atlantic when the Luftwaffe attacked. Remaining alone & injured at post she managed to get up to 12.5 knots, avoiding being hit whenever bombed in an attack lasting 30+ minutes.

After being repeatedly failed in examination for Chief Engineer (gallantly, the examiners also failed the men who scored lower than her, ie virtually everybody), Drummond finally passed when she realised Panama accepted examination by post, an error greatly reducing the chance of anybody noticing her gender ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Drummond

⚡️ Firms scramble for battery power in Spain and Portugal

｢ Advantages go beyond being able to respond to sudden shocks in the energy network. For example installing batteries also means the company can profit from selling energy into the general network ｣

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrg10j721jo

#powergrid #outage #spain #portugal

Facebook just told me "You get $1 million but you have to listen to one song for 24 hours. What song would you choose?"

My dude. I have done this for free. I do it regularly for free. You mean I could have gotten paid for this? Where is my money??

(Yes it was clickbait, no I didn't click)

#music #neurodivergent

@GeePawHill I’m with you there - we spent years acquiring math intuition in 2d, and they pay us back with new, inconsistent conventions.

There’s a James Blinn quote I can’t quite recall. But it’s along the lines of - the way to do it is carefully keep track of how many sign flips you need, then look at the results and add the extra multiplication by -1:)

My son fucked up big time when he was 22. Life still ahead of him, I took the rap and got 10 years. Two years later he got cancer and died 6 months later. Still no regrets. He died comfortably at home and not chained to a bed.

Nerves is a high-level framework for smart devices. It makes IoT easy for humans. Apparently agents like it too?

https://underjord.io/nerves-iot-framework-apparently-popular-with-agents.html
#elixir #nerves

when you double click an xml file and it opens up visual studio

Atari y Activision reeditan todos estos cartuchos para la 2600, 2600+, 7800 y 7800+ y ya se pueden reservar en https://atari.com/pages/activision?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=games_EM_atari-x-activision-2600_preorder_manual_20260825&utm_id=01M0XX7HA0TMSES5DHV7RWBVYD&_kx=kKcR3fqzl3p9tNxhoUxghtvR_kDUX9dxoQoeQA_F6QUM1nrYB3utgKB2FOEVEDur.Vvtdy7 🕹️ #atari #atari2600 #retrogaming

Norway DDoS attack exposes national resilience risks

There have been a significant DDoS attack targeting Norway’s public services: Norway ‘s shared digital government infrastructure has been hit by another distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted services used by citizens, businesses and public agencies....

https://itnerd.blog/2026/08/26/norway-ddos-attack-exposes-national-resilience-risks/

@hipsterelectron opinions: nowhere, everywhere, you can’t. next question

@octothorpe I think I know what happened - last time I got a thick cut from legal sea foods. This time I got it from the grocery store and the steak was a lot thinner. Oh well :-)

@akiva הקול שלו חורק לי באוזן.

Banana Split: dividere una seed phrase (o una password) in più pezzi senza affidarla a una sola copia

Banana Split è un’app open source che usa lo schema di Shamir’s Secret Sharing per dividere seed phrase e password in più QR code, senza un singolo punto di rottura.

Addio a Vittorio Frescobaldi, anche grazie a lui il vino toscano ha conquistato il mondo
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/08/26/news/morte_vittorio_frescobaldi_patriarca_vini_toscana-425548070/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica

Estic d'acord que Catalunya hauria de tenir competència plena en immigració però no només Catalunya, totes les autonomies saben millor que el govern espanyol els recursos disponibles i si poden acollir més i en quines condicions.

Release Candidate 2 of NVDA 2026.2 is now available for download and testing from https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-2rc2/

Changes introduced in RC 2:

- Updates to translations
- Fix bug preventing launch for Hungarian users

Please continue to test this release candidate and let us know of any issues you encounter!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewRelease #NewVersion #Update #News

I thought we were in a business detente with Crystal Palace after their shitshow of Marc Guehi's signing, which ultimately ended up benefiting MCFC.

#LFC

@liaizon Sorry, I was just migrating my account to a new server and was being a bit slow. Defo not a bot.