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• Post #3171365

  Devin Stone does a 50 minute #LegalEagle analysis of just the first part of the #BricksAndMinifigs #StarWars #LEGO affair in #Utah; says that there's a part 2 to come, covering what happened after the other YouTuber got involved; gives a dense information-packed point by point exposition and analysis of the legal positions, including rebuttals of the absurd ones; and points out how a lawyer would have saved some expensive mistakes from happening before even going to court. Then the comm...

• Post #3171364

  'IKEA' rhymes with 'idea' and 'Jysk' rhymes with 'whisk'. Stands to reason, dunnit? (-: #SwedishLanguage #DanishLanguage #IKEA #Jysk

• Post #2892397

  I really wish that people would tell all of these people currently panicking about #YouTube not recommending stuff that they subscribed to that *subscribing* to a channel gets its videos listed in one's *subscriptions* feed not necessarily in one's *recommendations*. Recommendations are an algorithmic guess as to what one might like, and if one never or rarely watches stuff from channels that one subscribed to, one might never be recommended anything from those channels. Subscr...

• Post #2892396

  In case you missed it, as I did, all of the people associated with Linux Journal are now *formerly* associated with Linux Journal, and all articles for well over a year now are #AIslop under a single byline of 'George Whittaker'. https://linuxjournal.com/content/masthead #LinuxJournal

• Post #2892395

  Oh, no. I've just commented on an #AndrewBossom video, about #Usenet in the 1990s. I can see this escalating. But I'm confident that there were no colour TUI newsreaders before tin, which came out in 1991. No, green on black does not count. (-: And I was definitely using colour Fidonet and QWK readers in the late 1980s. Why, yes, this is a point about a 3 second piece of illustrative B roll in a video that isn't about Usenet. But Bossom put the caption on top of i...

• Post #2892394

  It's a bit of a shame that this fella went to all of that trouble digging through Illumos. https://youtube.com/v/tUqHsv6JarY?lc=UgwAiVOVkz-sP_j-H7J4AaABAg #Illumos is one of the few platforms that does not have the <sys/ttydefaults.h> header from 4BSD. It was ironically quite the wrong place to look. The GNU and musl C libraries have the header, as do all of #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD. The problem is that although <sys/ttydefaults.h> has been around...

• Post #2072980

  I wonder whether anyone on the FediVerse knows what obscure #magic ritual can be performed with a box of #teeth, income tax forms from 2003, and a Sacha Distel album. Because the relative has all three. The income tax forms box was not labelled. I think that this was a safety precaution against any old random person rocking up and accidentally raising some ancient Mesopotamian god. The plan is to consign the income tax forms to the flames, and keep the world safe. The boxes of teeth are Hol...

• Post #1952859

  Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) is fairly standard #Ghostbusters fare, from the #McKennaGrace 'next generation' movie series rather than from the all-female re-make. There are all of the hallmarks there, from the siren on the hearse to Slimer. The baddie is suitably Ancient. New Yorkers are still New Yorkers. And the Ghostbusters have traps on drones. It's a little thin on the Venkman quips, but the original characters aren't supposed to be the main stars here. That I sp...

• Post #1915563

  I watched #TheInternship (2025). You don't have to. Really; you don't. Whilst it is good to see that #LizzyGreene is still in the business as an adult, this is a terrible movie. The cinematography is alright, as too the choreography, and locations. Almost of the actors acquit themselves reasonably. What lets it down are the story, which is utter confused nonsense that will have anyone who has ever watched any spy movie (even the children's ones) or action flick positively screa...

• Post #1486117

  #CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple. But the legis...

• Post #1432549

  I used Click-and-Collect at #Ryman yesterday. Throughout the process, when selecting things that I wanted to buy, looking at my on-line shopping cart, and through the checkout to my payment processor and back, Ryman assured me that I could 'Click-and-Collect TODAY'. I even reset the basket and re-picked the items carefully so that none of them had to be back-ordered, which changed the collection date of all items. The basket had 'TODAY' and 'In Stock' everywhere; and t...

• Post #1223055

  A bit of #ComputerHistory: It is approaching 25 years since Peruvian congressman Ser Edgar David Villanueva Núñez introduced Proposition 1609. https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/archive/cyber-archive/fud-Msoft/Interview-of-Peruvian-FUD-Rebutter.html This was a huge deal in the world of computing at the time, but is largely forgotten today, with largely no follow-up in the history books beyond 2002. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #history #Peru #PeruvianLaw

• Post #1223054

  Warning: there's a lot of U.S.A. politics in the rest of the thread, so have a care about clicking through. But this part was interesting. Someone wanted to prove that generative AI was alright by showing how it allowed xem to do something that xe could not do unaided. But it did not do the task specified. It changed the whole image in ways that weren't prompted at all. The basketball hoop gets blended into the gazebo, which alongside the side of the building becomes an Esch...

• Post #1223049

  Fair warning: I went into #EvanEdinger's latest video thinking that it was going to be about some obscure centuries old legal quirk that still affects a modern street or something. I was very wrong. Too much Tom Scott, Chris Spargo, et al., I suspect. It was actually about the politics of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, as have been going on since 2015, and which have made the pages of the Evening Standard, the Telegraph, Private Eye, and the Tower Hamlets Slice. In amongst the...

• Post #1223048

  Food for thought: #TomScott — London–based #MattGray — London–based #MattParker — Surrey–based #ChrisSpargo — London–based #JagoHazzard — London–based #BenSaunders — London–based I'm pretty sure that #RuthAisling is based somewhere in Scotland, but apart from that there's a dearth of larger YouTubers that I've encountered based in the likes of Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff, and so on. There's #KariLawler in Wolverhampton and that bloke that...

• Post #1157906

  Low tide at both sides of the country. https://mastodonapp.uk/@newquayweather/116407670835690908 #Newquay #WeatherStation

• Post #1034980

  @jay@blan.cc On the contrary, there was definitely a plan for a sequel back in 1975 when it was 'Episode One: The Star Wars', to become 'Saga 1' in 1976, of 'The Adventures of Luke Starkiller'. In 1978, TIME reported: > Lucas has set up four corporations: Star Wars Corp. will make Star Wars II and the ten, count ’em, ten other planned sequels; There are a few versions of the tale told by Lucas, ranging from 6 movies to 12 movies, but they have never involved a pla...

• Post #1029954

  @jay@blan.cc Even though Lucas changed his tune several times as to how many movies he had envisaged, having in magazine interviews et al. even by the 1980s told stories of originally intending 6, 9, or even 12 movies; I think that we can be confident that he *had* always intended more than one movie. He just didn't expect to get backing for a sequel at the time that he finally got to do the first one. @scalzi@mastodon.social #StarWars

• Post #1026708

  Here are some things that one can add to the analysis of the MacOS TCP timeout clock freeze bug. The code for calculate_tcp_clock() in XNU was changed in May 2025. Older versions of this function (e.g. in xnu-11417) worked quite differently and wouldn't have stopped ticking the clock at 32-bit unsigned integer wraparound. None of #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, nor #OpenBSD share this exact way of doing TCP timeout processing with #XNU. FreeBSD does not have a tcp_now and works off the global 32-bit...

• Post #1026040

  @rebeccabanner@mastodonapp.uk It's one of these, isn't it? https://renewablesfirst.co.uk/project-blog/baulker-farm-wind-turbine-generator/ #WindTurbines

• Post #1000305

  The new way of selling 'AI' seems to be to push it as a bugfinder. The latest example being waved around as of yesterday includes, as one of its non-embargoed examples, what is patched by this #OpenBSD patch. https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/025_sack.patch.sig The problematic thing is that this sort of bugfixing hasn't changed the commentary in the code, which stated that p points to the last linked list entry at the point of the added null check and can neve...

• Post #898784

  I wonder whether the poll results would have been different if I'd noted that the tune for Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary is very close to the tune for Polly Wolly Doodle, at least as far as the point when one comes to the end of the alphabet. I only learned about Polly Wolly Doodle after I had posted the poll. @ketmorco@fosstodon.org, were you thinking of Polly Wolly Doodle? It would be interesting if two sides of the Atlantic had this, each slightly adjusted for its own variant of the tune....

• Post #876831

  Despite what the critics of #RegencyFiction may say, 'alright' is as alright as 'all right' is. It was only after decades that Fowler et al. took against it, and *both* are unattested during most of the Regency period. http://jdebp.info/FGA/all-right-variants.html #EnglishLanguage

• Post #876830

  This is an escalation of ability. I thought that the tuba players having their own dance spins was going to be the high point. Then the glock player was playing in mid-air when xyr routine involved jumps. Then the entire trombone section switched ranks around one another, whilst playing. The #TachibanaSHSBand still had it back in 2025. (I'm not caught up with 2026 yet.) https://youtube.com/v/xGwWD_04fcQ?list=PL3jM7WoAnNzSJY7xcW2PhmKR9HpmDNKC5&index=134 #trombonists #glocke...

• Post #876829

  The U.K. mowing, cleaning, and pressure washing channels on #YouTube tend to highlight helping infirm or disabled people with access and quality of life, or places like schools. The similar U.S.A. channels often pick empty properties and go on about 'kerb appeal' and the neighbours's house prices. However, there are remarkable exceptions to the latter, and Kevin Hansen from #TheBoringChannel has just produced another one. Warning: It's nigh on 3 hours long, and...

• Post #876828

  Gosh! This was 2024. To show that history rhymes: The place where these beehives stood became the site of a new modern (waterproof!) shed, replacing three cleared and demolished ones. In late 2024 and 2025, it filled with some inherited stuff from another relative. So in 2026, I'm back to clearing exactly the same volume of space (indeed, a somewhat larger enclosing volume) of a whole new set of stuff. Very little of it is mouldy and rotten this time around, though. Although the h...

• Post #876827

  If you know enough about #ElectricVehicles to know that (as I did with a #FordKuga last year) you can just plug them into the household mains and charge them at your own home overnight, with a glorified high-Amp 1-gang simple extension cable, then you probably know everything that @TechConnectify's latest second-channel 1 hour video on EV charging has to tell you. Most of it is explaining that, explaining things that don't apply here in the U.K. (e.g. 120V mains and the special...

• Post #836078

  @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk One U.S.A. state has passed the law, and there are about 8 months to go before the law comes into effect, with the chance of fixing its problems being slim to none given the way that legislatures work and the time left. But there are at least 4 others (Louisiana, Colorado, New York, Illinois) where it's still pending in the legislature and people have a chance of fixing the problems before things become law there. Some people are trying. They have a hard task ahea...