@dangillmor being serious though, the z fold 8 looks exactly like the leaks of the new Apple phone. And they’re supplying the panels so they know the dimensions of Apple’s . Samsung may have rushed theirs out first but it’s not much of a stretch to think they released this as a direct response to Apple.

It's on! It wasn't dead dead, just standby dead.

It's still running AOSP though, and I don't have the dongle to flash things.

But Sundog has one at the office, so I'll borrow it tomorrow.

I was thrilled to see that the doors are back on the free food pantry. I was waiting for the rain to pass before I restocked the shelves. I am so happy to be able to leave food without worrying about the weather.
There is a shop across the street that sells local frozen beef. l was able to use a gift certificate given to me for my birthday to buy eight one pound packages of ground beef. I sat at the picnic table and along came a family with five kids. They were excited to see food on the shelves but even more excited to take home the ground beef.
The kids were most in awe that there was spicy ramen.
Our little town is a good place to be.

There is a correct solution to the trolley problem.

It is this: you design the system with positive train control. You make it so the trolley cannot enter a section where there are people, and you make it so the trolley can be stopped quickly if something goes wrong.

I've been told that this is cheating, a cop-out, or avoiding the "interesting" aspects of the question. I don't think it is. Framing the world as a series of individual can't-win situations and lose-lose decisions _is_ the problem.

Don't do that.

Since I can’t play guitar anymore (because fibro), does anyone in Wellington have a smol keyboard or a flute or something I could borrow/have so I can learn that instead?

@fuzzyleapfrog ich hab nichts gegen die Bücher. Die Schülys können Vorschläge einbringen. Das wollte ich einmal challengen, finden "wir" etwas "besseres"? Die Klasse ist schon hochpolitisiert, sehr progressiv und 100% anti-AfD. Die brauchen keine Faachismusparabeln oder Antikriegs- oder Nazizeitaufbereitungsromane. Die sind fit, die Lehrerin ist neu und weiß es noch nicht. Mit der passenden Idee ließe sich viel interessanterer Diskurs aufmachen. Oder es wird halt eines der genannten und gut.

@wohali @robrix Yeah, that's right.

@hipsterelectron it worked for Quake2 let them cook??
/s

@hailey Yeah, good point! I really should be looking at that anyway instead of defaulting to buying new.

Iran said it hit U.S. military bases in the Middle East this week to avenge a wedding attack it blamed on Washington even as U.S. Vice President JD Vance said the strike was being investigated. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/04/world/politics/iran-us-wedding-strike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #us #middleeast #donaldtrump #jdvance #ayatollahalikhamenei #straitofhormuz #benjaminnetanyahu

Already made a small update to my anti-spam bot to hopefully defeat these.

Now he says he's going to "ask my colleagues what they think about my [presumably abhorent] behavior". He wonders how I got tenure (me too!).

From Hookswitch to Grave

https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559901

#HackerNews #Hookswitch #Grave #Technology #Storytelling #ComputerHistory

@WizardOfDocs
Okay, so, this is the kind of no-perfect-answer question I just adore, so even though I’m not watching the JLtG videos Imma answer.

Opposite of lobster as a food item: I woudl go with a jalapeno pepper. Instead of subtle umami softness inside a crunchy shell, it’s hot & spicy & soft outside around crunchy seeds.

For lobster the animal: I like Newfie too, but I think a chinchilla is even more opposite, being maximally fluffy and soft but also so very harmless.

2026/09/04:

Hexagram 2 - Yin

flowing with

Hexagram 15 - Modesty

but more importantlly i have no way to check their fucking .asc signature because I CAN'T FUCKING FIND THEIR PUBLIC KEY ANYWHERE ON THEIR ENTIRE FUCKING WEBSITE

gpg: assuming signed data in 'firefox-157.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz'
gpg: Signature made Thu 03 Sep 2026 07:53:43 PM EDT
gpg: using RSA key 827E658608679618CD349F93678E455D76767AA3
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

please follow this forum thread for more discursive discussion coming up on Dandelion BASIC

https://basiclang.solarpunk.au/d/9-tiny-basic-in-2k/8

included information that will be discussed:

- how the execution routine is supposed to work
- how to set up avr-gcc and GNU assembler
- how to use emacs with AVR assembly
- the overall structure of the program
- what parts of TBX we are modifying in order to make the porting of the original code work
- much more

please think about making an account on the forum.

sorry to yuck some people's yum but I could really do without the ruckus of the army toys, #Meanjin / #Magandjin / #Brisbane.