ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

You know the rules. Every time someone says "Hyperloop" I bring up the Shanghai Maglev.

https://youtu.be/R_d4D5_4ovA

EU folk aren't impressed by the Shanghai Maglev but for US folk I assure you that this footage is not sped up, and that is not a low flying aircraft. Trains really do run that fast outside of the US and have for some time.

We could be SF to LA in comfort in an hour and a half, but we're playing. Philly to NYC in 30 minutes, but we prefer traffic.

🇫🇮 Finland.
Winter.
The forest river did not freeze.
There is a cozy warm house on the bank of the river.
Beautiful nature.
Sourse: @javi_salas23 (inst)
#finland #finlandia #winter #forest #winter #naturephotopraphy

Here's my first #infographic of 2023, a table of the French system of sauces! One version is dark, the other is in light neutrals.
#informationvisualization #classification #infographic

Ice Eggs beach. Thousands of balls of ice cover a beach in Finland due to a phenomenon that occurs when ice is rolled over by water and wind. 💙

Graliście w Monopoly?

#shitpost

It’s done! 365 days of recording the local temperature and weather in a knitted scarf.

Anyone who started in tech in the 90s or 00s just find this 🤡​

512MB SSD were $25 at Microcenter and found a Refurb HP Desktop i5 that supports up to 64GB for under $200 so built a new dual boot workstation.

Code is centralised. #GitHub (Microsoft) owns a monopoly, is not even open source and alternative (such as https://gitea.io https://sr.ht https://pagure.io https://gitlab.com https://codeberg.org…) are far from gaining enough traction due to the network effect of GitHub.

We need a federated protocol like https://forgefed.org/ (based #ActivityPub

#git #opensource #federation #ForgeFed

Hey, where is #mathtodon ?

#math #mosstodon

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to start your own server on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Non-technical people can use a "Managed Hosting" service, where the hosting company does all the technical stuff for you, including setting up, upgrades and fixing things.

I run a website all about creating your own servers through managed hosting at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

This section is all about making your own Fediverse servers:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Dragons are real. And they live in the ocean.

Blue Glaucus or “the blue dragon” is a brightly colored nudibranch that incorporates toxic chemicals & stinging cells from prey into its skin as a defense against predation.

And in my humble opinion, it’s more spectacular than anything ever imagined in Westeros. Image: Sylke Rohrlach #science #nature #SharedPlanet

2023-01-06 #image:

As Russian "#ceasefire" begins, there is an air raid alert all over #Ukraine.

#Ukraine #WarCrimes #RussiaIsATerroristState

"Who wants to be Speaker?"

Beaker says, "Meeeeeeee...."

Northern Minnesota is beautiful this time of year, and as an extra bonus, we get to see the sun once every 7 years. Thankfully my class mates didn't lock me in a closet this time!

With Twitter being in the news so much, there are examples from Twitter, e.g., https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1606354058280779779. The direction this guy was going was silly enough that a number of folks, unsolicited, messaged me in the early days saying that, based on the public tweets, this guy had no chance (h/t https://sigmoid.social/@swyx for images).

That example is only notable because the person actually tried and failed. There are plenty of more absurd claims from people who didn't try, like https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109374630690202023.

In case anybody's wondering How It's Going: