Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Well I thought it was getting warmer.

Happy Friday all. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Wasn't Event Horizon about this
https://futurism.com/the-byte/contact-lost-spacecraft-quantum-drive

Nitter finally got killed. Well done Elon. Twat.

Okay Techcrunch. Nobody cares.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media/

We get to find out next week exactly how much Broadcom are going to stiff us for fees. In other news, my boss - without prompting - has asked me to investigate open source alternatives.

Been enjoying these vlogs by a lad that drives for Amazon. The distribution centre with scores of Prime vans parked in it looks like something from a dystopian film.
https://youtu.be/9ik5063tuyk

The Fediverse doesn't have to worry about Meta or any other big tech company starting an activity pub project. It has to worry about Taylor Swift starting an activity pub project.

The contrast in timelines at the fedi and the elonverse is so striking; here it's people talking about tech trends and open source, perhaps the odd bit of furry art. Meanwhile on X: HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MEGAN FOX'S FACE

Flipped Bit Could Mark The End Of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/flipped-bit-could-mark-the-end-of-voyager-1s-interstellar-mission/

Wildly amused they went to the trouble of a livery #f1

I thought this efficiency breakdown of the CyberTruck genuinely very interesting.
https://youtu.be/TeqE1kOO3dE

Train enthusiasts tend to have very deep photo archives, which they then scan and produce images that have a present-day feel; this is from 52 years ago #photography https://flic.kr/p/2pxf8FA

"You tell me how many zeroes you want to spend and I'll put together a cloud proposal"

Sadly, the client has only a single zero in mind.