On a more serious note, Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin has a lot of fascinating stuff like this about evolution.

Large corporate, some AI tools are available, some are optionally tacked onto PR reviews (Copilot on GitHub). No quotas or enforcement yet. Most vocal proponents of AI happen to be the most obnoxious developers or designers.

Bowerbirds build elaborate color-coordinated displays to attract mates. How the female bird chooses the bower (and mate) is still unclear - it is not simple number or color or shape. So, in our human understanding, bowerbirds have a concept of “art”.

When a Thinkad is disassembled, there are like 20—40 fragile pins on the connector

AFAIK high-resolution screens (laptops, tablets) often use LVDS interface and connector, thin wires in twisted pairs. Like this one

TBH I don’t know that much. If it is a wider ribbon (40-50 pins), it is parallel RGB (5 or 6 bits per color, clock, power, etc). But for 10 pin cable, it probably uses some protocol to communicate.

Since it’s from a vape, it has to be widely available. I would find the model number (even look for similar LCDs on ali or ebay), then find the specs/datasheet/documentation - it should specify which pin is which and what voltages and signals they expect.

Just to add:

Various cheap LCD panels can be repurposed using a $10-20 driver from Ali or eBay.

Red LED 8-segment displays from old alarm clocks - fun to use for any other purpose using a microcontroller.

I think it was an old toaster I got a nice slide variable resistor from.

Precise (but weak) stepper assembly from old CD/DVD drives.

Standard cords from any appliance. Nice high-current switches.

Some old keyboards (especially programmable ones) have a DIP chip, if you are into building keyboards.

Free People’s Village by Sim Kern is on my shelf, haven’t read it yet. The premise is that history went differently in 1990s and US is now a solarpunk utopia… For the rich.

I have been following https://linmob.net/ for news and developments. They do a good job aggregating from conferences, boards, HN, and reddit.

Wow. This is literally the argument used by the megacorporation in book The Every (sequel to The Circle). It’s supposed to be social commentary and satire of greenwashing - the megacorporation claims only it is capable of saving the world by being “green” (which includes recycling people’s prized posessions like heirlooms and photographs into bricks for prisons)

That is fair, and I appreciate the explanation.

Edit: Author says GenAI was not used for code, see below.

Original comment, observing signs of GenAI project:

What’s up with these brand-new “Discord alternatives” being cranked out en masse? Would be easier to contribute to XMPP or Matrix IMO.

Initial commit 14,203 files changed +2872320

AI? Or “i worked on this for 10 years and uploaded just now”? /s

Overabundance of emojis in description. Probably AI.

Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

Were you able to run it yourself? What.

Allegedly, VoLTE works on Ubuntu Touch for OnePlus Nord N100, N10, Volla Phone 22, and Fairphone 4.

Windows Phone was around in mid-2010s, at least 7 years after iPhone release. But it was not hyped enough: companies did not care to develop apps for it, customers didn’t want a smartphone without X Y Z apps (same argument i see now about mobile linux or even custom ROMs). The phones had nice and fast UI though, and some had very good cameras.

Is your iPad on iOS 9.3.5? It is infamously slow.

It is possible to downgrade it to 8.4.1 (faster, partially more broken) or even 6.1.3 (fast and old school, many apps don’t work, but there are apps in Cydia to fix stuff).

Biggest issue I encountered is sites requiring TLSv1.3 for HTTPS encryption, and browsers simply do not support that.

No, never! Tech corps (both devs and app stores) brainwashed people into thinking “no updates = bad”.

Recently, I have seen people complain about lack of updates for: OS for a handheld emulation device (not the emulator, the OS, which does not have any glaring issues), and Gemini protocol browser (gemini protocol is simple and has not changed since 2019 or so).

Maybe these people don’t use the calculator app because arithmetic was not updated in a few thousand years.

I think most larger (or older) immigrant communities have their own dialect. Runglish is Russian spoken with lots of words borrowed-adapted from US English.

In parts of Eastern Ukraine and Western Russia, there is also surzhyk, which is a difficult-to-describe blend of both languages, often difficult to comprehend to those who do not speak both or dis not grew up in the area.

I knew of some of these issues with the protocol, but this article definitely gives an impression that Matrix was built as a “cool protocol” first, with messaging applied on top as an afterthought.

It’s possible to run the services without Kubernetes, but official ESS Community uses Kubernetes.

ESS Community works ‘out-of-the-box’ on a single machine or existing Kubernetes cluster using the provided Helm charts.

TLDR: bare Synapse was fine on 1CPU 1GB RAM VPS, but uses lots of disk space (from large rooms). Current/future ESS requires Kubernetes and several services to be functional.

More info in my blog post

Thank you for the queries. The rhetorical question is why isn’t the server handling this.