https://unix50.org lets you spin up and destroy many hysterical #UNIX systems. Would you like to write some tutorials? #unix50 #vm #retro
@rysiek@mastodon.social In England a local authority used them to enact surveillance on residents to check they were recycling their rubbish.
I was questioned outside an airport under the prevention of terrorism act because I was sitting down smoking a cigarette opposite the bus stop.
Authorities will do whatever the law allows them to do; legal pretext is merely a formality.
I also just learned that store-and-forward packet switching was also referred to as "hot potato routing", which, why is it not still called that??
@maiyannah Is this gungan
mental health
@dreadpirateyarr I hope you can get some quality rest.
@SeventhMagpie I can understand that. I've had some vision difficulties in the last year and it really highlights the different qualities of media. Paper and print still gives very favourable contrast.
mental health
@dreadpirateyarr The black dog's a fucker. Keep your chin up, talk if you wish.
Here is an photo wot I tooked last week.
Taken on the Palmiet trail at the Kogelberg Nature Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa.
Nikon D7000, Tamron 18-400mm, processed in Adobe Lightroom.
@welshpixie That's gorgeous. The Cape's a fascinating place. That could be somewhere in the British Isles.
Here's The MS flight sim trailer (h/t @tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org
https://youtu.be/ReDDgFfWlS4
@fribbledom Curiously until you linked the instance I could not see that, and I don't think I have that instance blocked. I wonder why that's happened.
@SeventhMagpie That's a nice size for reading
Enjoying a few beers this everning before realising I'm actually getting quite pissed #old
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.