Everybody loves the fuchocs man

it dusked on me

UN voted to adopt the "Equal Earth Map" which shows land mass properly

The only country to vote against it was USA (oh look it looks smaller)

#NZpol

Just tinkering with a 1GB RAM/4 Core Pine64 that Ian gave me at #BSDPizza for my @EuroBSDCon talk...

Nothing out of the ordinary to see here folks. Move along. See you at #EuroBSDcon!

I am, For Reasons, suddenly very interested in the IBM MWave DSP instruction set and whether anyone has access to any of the apparently lost documentation for that (or whether anyone conveniently already has Ghidra support for it)

Saki Hayashi set a FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup record with nine 3-pointers to lead Japan, which made 20 3-pointers to set a tournament record, to a win over Mali to open the tournament in Berlin. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/09/05/basketball/japan-fiba-three-point-record-win/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #basketball #akatsukijapan #sakihayashi #maiyamamoto #fibawomen039sbasketballworldcup

You can now pre-register for "The Last Coder" conference: https://thelastcoder.net/

#TheLastCoder

Lantern 😊 #anglerfish #deepsea #MastoArt

Appeals Court Maintains Block on Federal Voter Identification Tool
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/us/elections/appeals-court-voter-data.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. @u-s-newyorktimes

46 Years Ago Today: Martial Arts Legend Made U.S. Film Debut Amid Search for Bruce Lee’s Successor
https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/46-years-ago-today-martial-arts-legend-made-u-s-film-debut-amid-search-for-bruce-lees-successor?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Latest From Men's Journal @the-latest-from-men-s-journal-mensjournal

New daily podcast: 5 September 2013: Saint Helena Airport strike
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/5-september-2013-saint-helena-airport-strike--74800095?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

The Mercator map projection keeps generating controversy, because it is completely fucked up. Greenland looks like it's the size of South America (it's about the size of Algeria). Antarctica looks like it dwarfs all of Eurasia (it's a bit smaller than Russia). Africa looks like it's a lot smaller than it actually is, and the centre of the world (at least longitudinally) is conspicuously Greenwich in England.

It has one redeeming feature (and all the aforementioned was *not* considered politically incendiary back in the 1500s!), and that is that a straight line on a Mercator map corresponds to a straight bearing on the actual globe. So it's incredibly useful for navigation - especially when this involved compasses and sextants and paper, rather than GPS trackers and satellites and computers.

But *because* it so greatly distorts the sizes of landmasses, it's probably not the best choice for eg. a school classroom world map, where it mostly creates misconceptions and its main quality has little use.

Here is my favourite alternative, the Dymaxion projection, which balances right on the knife edge between "utterly brilliant" and "batshit insane".

@GuillaumeRossolini Up here in Northern Germany, the grid electricity prices are near 0 exactly when AC is needed, so a small home PV system plus a dynamic price meter could be more optimal than more batteries.

How is the price curve in France on very sunny and hot days? I'm wondering about the de- and re-engage speed of your nuclear plants and their price impact. In German news, they only generally report "hot rivers = no nuclear". Sounds like weeks-long pauses?!?

OH: I can draw excellent, because I’m big!