Looking to speak to anyone who's migrated their organisation from Microsoft to #Linux, especially end user devices, please.

#opensource

@darkling @futurebird

I find the Lensman series tedious, but I do reread Skylark every five to ten years. Nothing about them is objectively good, but I have a soft spot for early space opera. From the ‘huh, I guess Einstein was wrong’ early in the first book as they go faster than light to the entire model of physics built around the concept of the luminiferous aether (not explicitly stated), there’s no way you could accuse it of being science fiction. Fictional science maybe. The portrayal of women is not great by modern standards but is much better than a lot of contemporary writing in similar genres. The plots are driven by enormous jumps in technology that happen for narrative reasons. There’s inconsistency in the timeline.

But they’re fun. I wouldn’t say they get on my nerves, they’re great when I just want to turn off my brain for a few hours.

Happy Stanislav Petrov day!

I seem to be trying to figure out 1930s Perth photographers yet again.

https://hmwilson.archives.org.au/items/459.html

#genealogy #Perth

The Kennedy Aisle in Ballantrae, built c.1602-04 and once attached to tbe old Parish Church. It's 1819 replacement stands behind it. It was built for Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Bargany, killed by his rival John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Carssillis, in 1601.
#Scotland #Ayrshire #History

we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of the flaws that it enumerated in our product

@thomasfuchs I settle for one thats operational

@evacide
Wouldnt have thought to witness such an ongoing shitshow in my livetime.

@zeppe 19 viste.
La mancanza di "Firefly" di fatto invalida tutta la lista.
I'm sorry.

@level98 that’s the point! Wasted time 😂

Huge turnout of visitors at the Researchers Night in #Bologna #NdR. Could literally not leave my desk with #Electronagnetism experiments for seven hours, it was a continuous flow of children and people wanting to touch and try everything!
#physics #science

@MaddieM4 @djsundog well said, documentation is not a murder mystery and should not be structured like one

Those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act.
-- Moxie Marlinspike

#anarchism #quote #bot

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pruef_hh/117330816245426941

Bring mindestens drei Menschen am 10.10.26 zur nächsten Demo in der Stadt in deiner Nähe mit.

Wir sind um 14:00 Uhr wieder am Oberen Schlossgarten bei den Landestheatern in Stuttgart

https://pruef-demos.de/

https://innn.it/pruef-bw

#SaveTheDate #PRÜF #Demokratie #Freiheit #RechtsExtremismus #PRUEF #PRUEF1010 #BundesVerfassungsGericht #GemeinsamStattEinsam #Stuttgart #Dresden #Potsdam #Hamburg #Schwerin #Bremen #Magdeburg #München #Saarbrücken #Düsseldorf #Köln #Mainz #Berlin #Kiel #Hannover

the first two MNT Reform Nexts were picked up by UPS today btw, on the way to Crowd Supply. i'm curious who will end up getting them 😁 (one hyper purple and one hyper black)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@histoftech/117334396698185569

Good news for USians. I've been getting my shot every year since the pandemic, in fact got one scheduled for next week.

My favourite paintings. no.55

Peter Doig, Pelican (Stag) (2003)

Peter Doig's large scale paintings are often quite mysterious (or perhaps enigmatic), and this one is no exception. Its almost as if we have caught fleeting sight of the subject as we have turned from a path through a tropical rain forrest. What I like about this is exactly this feeling of transience & serendipity; what's going on, not sure. I also love the interplay of abstract(ish) colours & figuration.

#art #TodaysPainting

@gabrielesvelto we need different words

Best I can come up with :

Unicycling across the Alps is risky

SUVs are dangerous

We tend not to differentiate linguistically whether the danger is to the person taking the risk (unicycle) or imposed on a third party (SUV).