*If* I ever give it a shot I'm designing a modular system where you can work on elements of the pack in units where high voltage (>60V) is *never* present.

EV pack design is potentially interesting but also something I'm leaving as an idle topic of thought because it'd be very easy to screw it up and kill yourself

Mamdani's mere existence compels assholes to tell on themselves. 👍

many of my tech friends be like: I just got gigabit fiber to the home yay

me be like: I'm trying to get 1.2kbps dial-up working over mobile phone VoIP/VoLTE

blessed be the henry

“They have a heart of stone” - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Women farm workers in South Africa are exposed to toxic pesticides from Germany

Solidarity with rural movements remains essential. To learn more about farm workers’ struggles and resistance, read the full interview 👉

someone do a Sablin, please

Bnuuy chewing the spicy hay

Golly, I can't believe I got to visit Bluesky headquarters and sample the local cuisine

can we do 1200bps dial-up over VoLTE by misusing minimodem and a VoIP app? only one way to find out!

missing the time an old-school hacker/phreaker let me crash on their couch for ages because I think they'd have been really down for the weird BBS nonsense I'm pulling

Intel Celeron 266 introduced April 15, 1998 Complete lack of level 2 cache hobbled performance unacceptably

28 years ago today, Intel released the first Celeron, the budget CPU with the funny name. Not only was the name weird, it performed really badly. AMD forced Intel into a rushed CPU that was only good for one thing. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/intel-celero...

People of Bath, it would only take £93.50 to get us to £6,000 as donations are doubled by Aviva. All this rain reminds me how much more work we need to do to block land drains and plant wetland trees to catch rainwater before it rushes into the River Avon. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...

Prior to his time at Marvel, Wes was also responsible for developing the design of the NCR Veteran Ranger armor. Unbelievably talented.

Honestly it's hard to believe Marvel disbanded this group. I've only worked with a few of their artists in the past, but they're all incredible.

There's a big 'Denmark ran on 100% renewables for the whole month!' meme running wild across all social media platforms that is just blatantly false

As with COVID, not always obvious how much the issues with funding are causing problems until you hit a crisis point, then all of a sudden it's dramatic and catastrophic. But it is fundamentally bad management to cut and cut and cut and cut because "it hasn't collapsed yet."

somewhere, Daoud Khan and Najibullah are commiserating over tea.

but *where* on the Severn

It's not like it's mostly based on need either. It's not "this person can barely walk and needs a car" it's "they're rich enough to buy a private parking garage, or their house predates the newbuild parking permit ban, or both" - which.... really annoys me to be honest.

Somewhere like Pontevedra I can enjoy more because there's whole swathes of the city that are car-free. Credit to Leicester also because the city center there is *also* almost entirely car-free.

Amsterdam? The center is *packed* with cars.

I think the reason that Amsterdam's traffic situation increasingly annoys me is that it's the worst of both worlds. It's got a lot of surface-level anti-car policy but the city is nowhere near car-free.

it goes like this
- the economy is strong
- no, there's a lot of money in the economy it's just going to 11 people
- yeah, that means the economy is going strong
- but 80% of us are struggling
- but on average the economy is strong
- gas prices are ten bucks and I can't afford rent
- (transphobia)

some clues for my next design

(if any of you recognize where this is we can be friends)

if there's any Big Big Train fans following me you may understand what the milepost is all about

can't buy a house. life is exhausting. time for a new tattoo.

about 50% done at the moment. but here's the raw linework. still need to figure out how to fix the bikes and treble clef and work them into the design.

magura rim crushers wheeee

oh I'm not pro rim brake and I'm not anti disc brake I just absolutely hate working on hydraulics.

the former doesn't help the latter but yes the latter is the issue

they're horrible. all of them. in some way or another.

they *work* well but when they *break* it's an absolute fuck

my personal hatred: hydraulic bicycle brakes.

the way out of it is to befriend members of the board