jonty
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Comment · 1 month ago
These were definitely schoolkids - I translated some of the posts and the majority were gossiping about boys.
Comment · 1 month ago
Back in ~2001 I ran a fairly popular blog commenting system - back then most blogs didn't have built-in comments, so I offered javascript embeds to add them to posts.
One day performance started to go down rapidly, and within a few days my host got in touch about unusual CPU usage.
I tracked it down to a series of random blogger.com blog posts with colossal comment threads measuring in the thousands. Each post only got comments for a single day, and all of the comments were in Japanese. The blog owners seemed very confused.
Turns out Japanese schoolkids figured this trick out 25 years ago.
Comment · 2 months ago
If you want to play around with slit scanning, I made this little toy a number of years ago and frequently find myself using it on trains:
Press and hold your phone screen to switch between the front/back cameras, or hit "c" on a computer. Tapping the screen saves the image, as does "s".
Comment · 2 months ago
This is mine! Built it quickly in 2024 for the US eclipse [1] and finished minutes before totality started.
I completely forgot about it until a friend asked this morning. Coordinating a DDOS on cameras across Iceland and Spain was not on my to-do list for today.
Fingers crossed it doesn't break for you all - I will be watching it with my own eyes this time.
Comment · 8 months ago
See my comment elsewhere in this thread...
Comment · 8 months ago
We actually ran something similar in the UK a couple of years ago but had to shut it down due high costs.
However we recently figured out how to do it in a way that won't bankrupt us, so keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks...
Comment · 8 months ago
Courtsdesk are rather misrepresenting this situation.
Quoting from an urgent question in the House of Lords a few days ago:
> HMCTS was working to expand and improve the service by creating a new data licence agreement with Courtsdesk and others to expand access to justice. It was in the course of making that arrangement with Courtsdesk that data protection issues came to light. What has arisen is that this private company has been sharing private, personal and legally sensitive information with a third-party AI company, including potentially the addresses and dates of birth of defendants and victims. That is a direct breach of our agreement with Courtsdesk, which the Conservatives negotiated.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-02-10/debates/037...
Comment · 2 years ago
Iain Sharp has built two physical Lunar Lander games, one of which is on permanent exhibition at the Under The Pier Show in Southwold, UK: https://www.underthepier.com
* 2009: https://lushprojects.com/lunarlander/
* 2022: https://lushprojects.com/lunarlandermk2/
He just built an absolutely beautiful mechanical version of Flappy Bird: https://lushprojects.com/appybird/
Unfortunately I can't find any video of it running, but there's a picture here: https://oldbytes.space/@rc2014/112557511719828847
Comment · 2 years ago
I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some point. Still works brilliantly though!
Comment · 3 years ago
This is the second time one of my posts has caused issues for the chaos.social admins. I am so, so sorry.
The hacker news DDOS is real.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691489
Comment · 3 years ago
This is my toot, but the credit (and possibly the link) should be to @gigabecquerel: https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/109818433760462038
There are other stations on the U-Bahn with uranium tiles too, you can find them with the crowdsourced Safecast radiation map: https://map.safecast.org/?y=52.5002&x=13.4852&z=13&l=0&m=9
Comment · 3 years ago
> Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi’s cofounder and chief marketing officer, told BuzzFeed she believes that much of the issue stems not from the hiring of the former police officer who admitted to using Raspberry Pis for covert surveillance, but instead from a picture the account posted to Mastodon a day earlier showing pigs in blankets. “We didn’t put a content warning on it, because we don’t put a content warning on meat,” Upton said. “There were quite a few people who tried to start dogpiling on that.”
Comment · 4 years ago
Acquisition was 2007, radio shut down in 2014. CBS was hands-off for a long time but you know how this story goes.
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