Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I used to work on microcontrollers and an alarming number of questions of the form "why is our codebase like this" have an answer that begins "okay so in 1981 IBM released the first personal computer..."

I hope people get that Mitch McConnell made Trump's win possible in 2016 by refusing a bipartisan condemnation of Russia's attacks for Trump and he made 2024 possible by opposing Trump's conviction. He's the greatest villain of our time. Only Rupert Murdoch comes close.

It's Christmas eve, eve better get those gifts wrapped! 🎁

If your family sucks, feel free to @ me for a lil gender confirming message this weekend. It's not much but if a message from a fairy using your correct pronouns and name helps lmk 🥺

Part of the reason I hate this time of year, queer people might leave their little circle of queer safety

Home security reminder...
Many people are going away for Christmas which makes their homes easy pickings for burglars.
For security reasons, I strongly recommend leaving one of your children behind to construct a series of elaborate booby traps and defend your interests.

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Interesting thought:
With google groups dropping usenet support in February, September will finally end.

We are the Verifiers. Oldsters unable to work on the farms, set the task of winnowing fact from digital chaff after the AI Infopocalypse.

We leaf through our yellowing printouts of Wikipedia, made in haste months before it shut down.

Chess, says Ruby. We grunt, yes, that’s real, we’ve seen sets in the archaeological digs.

An AI is the world’s best player, she reads.

Sounds like something an AI would say, murmurs Ada. Nods. Ruby picks up a red pen and strikes out the paragraph.

#Microfiction

#TIL the last decade's explosion of software-defined radio (#SDR) was thanks to a #Finnish engineering student/#Linux developer reverse engineering low-cost digital TV tuner chips. Thanks, Linus, for paving the way, and Antti, for continuing to carry the banner. Source from IEEE, 2013: https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-40-softwaredefined-radio

Thirty-four years after it was first released, the same year a movie was made about it's origin story, a thirteen-year-old Twitch streamer named Blue Scuti has become the first human to beat Tetris.

https://www.metafilter.com/201870/You-werent-supposed-to-get-this-far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(film)

Skip to 1:07 in the twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2010347186