"checking for minix/config.h... no "

real. fuck your ai overview

Because I set my Mastodon posts to automatically delete, I channeled my anger into this blog post telling Tech Bros to fuck off. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/a-thermodynamic-failure-of-the-soul/

#AI #NoAI #LLM

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Linuzstd Torvalds

I'm much less upset about the destruction of rare (old, out of print, niche) books by megacorps than I am about the fact that those books can't be digitized by libraries for public access or benefit because the former is legal and the latter is not.

@benjamin
To anyone who still ponders wether he/she should migrate out of Microsoft (GitHub or Azure), *PLEASE* read this series of articles from a former Microsoft engineer: https://sebsauvage.net/links/?qnz_0A

Azure (where GitHub is hosted) *IS* a dumpster fire.
Azure is always on the brink of collapse. It's still online because there are people constantly putting out fires.

Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027.

Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently estimated to run out of stock in three months time. Just pre-warning everyone in case people start asking when things are going to be in stock again.

Meanwhile, devices like the PineTime, PineVoice and Pinecil will continue production as usual!

As for the PineTime Pro, currently the demo firmware has basic drivers for the display, touch, motion, GPS, buttons, heat rate sensor (chip id only), battery charger, motor, microphone and the speaker. Though some issues do need to be ironed out first before a pilot batch begins production.

That's it for this post, all in all it's a bit bleak for the Linux devices, but in the meantime PineStore still have a great lineup of MCU powered devices which will continue to expand with more exciting devices.

Alrightttttt, have a great Monday! (or Tuesday, if you're up that early)

#pine64 #pinetime #pinenote #pinetab2 #pinetab #pinetimePro

Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced.

My summary of the options in the #Debian LLM General Resolution vote:

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20998.html

@werdahias @nina_kali_nina Was it "Magnetic Recording, Volume I: Technology" and "Magnetic Recording, Volume II: Computer Data Storage"? By C. Denis Mee and Eric D. Daniel. ISBN 0-07-041271-5 and 0-07-041272-3.

It's a quite detailed book about read/write heads for magnetic recording, how hard drives work, how floppy disks work, how magnetic tape works. And I got it from the library because of the recommendation by someone on here (might've been gloriouscow @ oldbytes.space ?). Looks like chapter 3 of volume 1 has a lot of information about the magnetic media specifically, including what it's made of and how to coat it.

@microblogc @werdahias @nina_kali_nina

https://oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow/116947647056109553

RT: https://oldbytes.space/users/gloriouscow/statuses/116947647056109553

#solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #jardin #garten #garden

A town in Germany transformed all their public green spaces into edible gardens.

Can we get this everywhere?

https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/environment/edible-town-andernach-sustainability

Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"

I had some cards printed up.

These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar.

Here's a PDF if you'd like some of your own.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-o