This must be one of the very first video games I ever played. /1
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens
My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then
Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺
Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...
https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer
Especially "Like A Woman Can", "Darkness Always Wins" and "Rain Your Blood On Me".
Definitely listening to that on repeat in the coming days.
Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.
If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.
And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.
The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2
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