RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116074719907120414

The community needs chaos gremlins.

@gozes We're not making the big ones again.

When people have annoyed me doing this when travelling with my bike, I've sometimes pushed my wheel forward slightly to trip the sensor to block the gate from working in the hope the other traveller will bugger off. This issue could be resolved by installing a second wide gate per line, and making them unidirectional. But that would in theory reduce gateline capacity. Which is already pretty awful.

Why so? Well you see that round circle on the top? That's a nfc, and qr reader. And it sucks
4/n

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@adafruit/116071513892549636

How to tell a formerly respectable brand has jumped the shark (after selling out to Qualcomm, who are their own special species of shitbaggery):

In light of all the discourse, I found this a remarkably clear statement.

> Our efforts are prioritised on our target markets which currently does not include being a Discord replacement
>
> https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/5993#issuecomment-3884340391

Constraint Propagation for Fun

https://eli.li/constraint-propagation-for-fun

#HackerNews

It is staggering how many decisions ants manage given their size.

Part of the ant strategy is to have enough ants, all making decisions that if some of them make bad decisions it won't matter much, someone will get it right. They are also very quick to follow other colony members who are having success. This is the famous "emergent" colony intelligence.

If you watch leaf cutter ants there will always be one ant carrying the leaf in the wrong direction. But, eventually she gets turned around.

@Gargron meh got here too late. Hopefully they will be more in stock again for the UK soon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116063785665412449

There are now 58 big plushies left (US only), and 22 small ones (US, UK, EU).

@oxyhyxo yup also i think it’s from JT producer-writ-large at BSDnow. There are a few other things that look nice here too https://github.com/webzfs

Vietnam has granted a license to Elon Musk's Starlink to operate its satellite internet services in the country, government officials said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/15/tech/vietnam-license-musk-starlink/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #vietnam #elonmusk #satellites #internet #starlink #southeastasia #spacex

@waystation He likes to loom.

@migy No, there will be new colors this year.

You'll notice that one of the gates is wider than the other. For every platform (but not every gateline), one gate is wider than the others. This is so wheelchair users, larger passengers, people with bikes or lots of luggage can get through. This one wide gate is set up bidirectionally. What often happens is someone who could use any gate, tries to come through the wide gate, when a user who can only use the wide gate is trying to get through the other way. This causes tension among users.
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The surprising sunny weather has triggered a Spring Cleaning Compulsion. There are items actually drying on the line outside, both the kitchen and the loo have had a thorough scrub, and smallest is out front washing windows.

Madness.

@pierogiburo I resonate with your post and thank you for sharing it. I'm working on the not feeling ashamed part.

Also, not relevant to this post... but oh my gosh... I love your website design and the way you are generating it. So cool!

@pradyunsg ah nice, i'll update the post

And a note for fellow non-native English speakers from European language backgrounds: I hear you, and we're on the same side of this, but the gap isn't the same for everyone. Korean and English have a linguistic distance of 89.2 out of 100—essentially no detectable relationship at all. No shared roots, no cognates to lean on, completely different writing system. The distance between, say, French or German and English is a different universe. So when I say LLMs are an equalizer for writing English, I mean it quite literally—without one, even expressing a simple idea in natural-sounding English can take me disproportionately longer than the idea itself deserves.

@frank fixed.