What can Dandelion BASIC do?

It is a Tiny BASIC based on the revised and expanded version of the People's Computer Company--otherwise known as Tiny BASIC Extended, TBX for short.

Dandelion BASIC adds FOR/NEXT loops, and 2D arrays on top of the original Tiny BASIC.

It does this by expanding the interpretive language virtual machine that the PCC Tiny BASIC was designed around.

One thing that keeps me up at night is the progressive certainty that we as a society are slowly but surely losing our ability to be bad at things. We are ceding that skill to AI.

"You don't understand, without AI, I couldn't have drawn this/written this/designed this." says a person, certain that surely this, this argument right here is the nail in the coffin of the anti-AI argument. Utility: "Without this thing, I would have been bad at this task."

Yes. Correct. You would have been bad at it. And that's ok. Not only because it's just... Ok to be bad at things in general. But also because being bad at a thing is the first necessary step to learning how to do a thing.

Every musician you love has spent thousands of hours first being bad at being a musician. Every artist that brings you to tears has spent thousands of hours being bad at art. Every single designer with a master's degree in design has spent thousands upon thousands of hours designing things that are utter crap.

We learn how to do a thing by first being bad at it. And then noticing what skills we need to acquire to be better at it. And then honing those skills on a million failed attempts. And THEN we are finally good at doing it.

And being bad at things isn't just about learning how to do it yourself. It also teaches you how to listen more effectively to music. How to see art with the eyes of an artist. How to study a design for design flaws before it's even built. It teaches you good taste. How to perceive the humanity in the things all around you - things built by humans, for other humans.

No, the biggest problem with AI isn't that it makes bad art - although it most assuredly does also do that. It's that it robs human beings of the legitimacy of creating bad art ourselves.

How can anyone ever be expected to learn to do a thing if we can't ever be bad at it first?

@arstechnica Maybe you should mention which country's Army. This is an international platform - easy to forget.

Breaking, exclusive and spicy, from me:

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#databreach #privacy #id #breach #fbi

Streit um Protestbus - Verkehrsrecht gegen Grundrechte?

2025 störte der Protestbus des "Zentrums für Politische Schönheit" das ARD-Sommerinterview mit AfD-Chefin Weidel - und bekam bundesweit Aufmerksamkeit. Auch die Polizei beschäftigt sich seitdem laut MDR intensiv mit dem Fahrzeug.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/mdr/polizei-zps-protestbus-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Polizei #Protest

@shuro or certainly helps that the Geran does not have any self defence mechanisms while in transit.

Yet.

@jpm @azonenberg OSP at JLC is a nice update, especially for the PTFE RF laminate given the high loss from the magnetic ENIG. Seems they aren't offering it yet for the flex that I'd like to use in a suspended substrate filter.

Elke Israëlische militair die in de Gazastrook heeft gediend, moet worden beschouwd als verdachte van oorlogsmisdaden en genocide, zegt VN-commissaris Chris Sidoti. https://rightsforum.org/elke-israeli-die-diende-in-de-gazastrook-is-verdachte-van-oorlogsmisdaden/

@hananc @NadavPV
למה ככה? הוא בא ממשפחה מגוונת

"Oud-bestuurders en diplomaten roepen op tot strengere maatregelen tegen Israël" via NOS
https://nos.nl/l/2629335
#nieuws #nos

HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen

https://github.com/danialkhilji/HomeOS

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535594

#HackerNews #HomeOS #Family #Dashboard #Kitchen #Touchscreen #SelfHosted #TechInnovation

Voor iedereen die zegt: “Ah joh, digitale soevereiniteit is onnodig, Amerika trekt echt de stekker er niet uit.” Dat doen ze dus wel, als je niet naar hun pijpen danst. Zelfs als A/I een echte terrorist zou faciliteren: collateral damage is voor MAGA-Amerikanen geen issue.

(Cadeaulink)

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/09/01/vs-zetten-italiaanse-internetprovider-op-terrorismelijst-burgerrechtenorganisaties-bezorgd-a4935569?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=clipboard&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal&gift_token=4935569~1788929283~PHWgLp0IEeKfgABQVoV_mg~UixWw0aRBPsAu3ZtNmP0yu0qe_d2ss_BsahoyWieKsE

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

Ferns live a double life, alternating between two completely separate plants each generation. The one you'd recognize as a fern - the leafy thing with fronds - is called the 'sporophyte'. Its cells are 'diploid', meaning they carry two copies of every chromosome, one from each parent, just like your own cells do.

On the undersides of its fronds, the sporophyte produces spores, and it makes them through a special kind of cell division that halves the chromosome count. So while the sporophyte itself is diploid, its spores are 'haploid': they carry just a single copy of each chromosome.

Here's where ferns diverge from the animals we're used to: those haploid spores don't grow into new leafy ferns! Instead, each spore grows into a tiny, separate plant - often a green heart-shaped flap just a few millimeters across - called a 'gametophyte'.

Being haploid, this has only one copy of each chromosome, and it's this modest little plant, not the showy frond, that produces the eggs and sperm. When a sperm swimming through a film of water reaches an egg and fertilizes it, the two haploid cells combine their single chromosome sets into one cell with a double set: a diploid cell again! That grows into a new leafy sporophyte, and the cycle begins again.

So a fern is really two alternating plants: a big diploid sporophyte that makes spores, and a small haploid gametophyte that makes eggs and sperm.

Ferns can spread quickly because they produce vast numbers of spores, which can be blown by the wind for enormous distances. Then, when a lone spore grows into a little gametophyte, this can fertilize itself!

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@Looping 👍
(Tu saurais me dire où tu voyais encore de la publicité ? dans des applications ? dans des pages web ?)

We hebben 14 hoge risico’s en één laag risico vastgesteld in de Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) op Qualtrics DesignXM, een platform voor marktonderzoek en experience design.

Door de onopgeloste hoge risico’s en het ontbreken van een plan van maatregelen door Qualtrics, geven we op dit moment een negatief advies aan onze leden voor het gebruik van Qualtrics DesignXM

Lees meer hierover: https://www.surf.nl/nieuws/surf-dpia-signaleert-14-hoge-risicos-bij-qualtrics-designxm?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-09-social&utm_kwd=surf-dpia-signaleert-14-hoge-risicos-bij-qualtrics-designxm&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=surf

#onderwijs #onderzoek

@macross knockoff from Ali express, but a really good kit

@Wilto One of those "tell me a neat browser trick from back when you were only 40" things.

Cycled 5km to the shops. Survived two assassination attempts. Wtf has everyone forgotten how to drive over the summer ?

I don’t wanna cheer too soon but it seems blocking some IP’s drastically reduced the amount of AI signups so far