Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 2

He made this stone table out of scrap tiles from his bathrooms and floors.

Mario, a long-time family friend, restores (and sometimes makes) all sorts of antiquities.

For example:

おかず (okazu) = small sides usually accompanying rice

https://jisho.org/word/%E5%BE%A1%E6%95%B0
#japanese

Useful #Japanese words related to food and food culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrmTmnmzRws

It's been an incredibly mild winter, and forecasts predict 16-17°C for next week 😲

Here in Montespertoli, near Florence, it's already hanami time! 🌸

@tagomago 😁

@tagomago How long does it take to manufacture 1 hour of time? It's no longer a good deal if you slow down too much 😜

"NOTE: The tracker can get quite CPU-intensive: a 1.5 GHz processor may be the bare minimum when replaying complex modules (16 tracks with all effects/polyphony on)."

Now you need a 1.5 GHz PPC to play 16-track mods?? 😨

@Amigatronics #amiga #amigaos4 #mod #retrocomputing

@fsf Thank you for this useful post, I love #Jitsi and I think it deserves to be more popular.

PS: The link is not being recognized on Tusky, please prepend https://

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch

Still unescorted, we enter The Hemicycle, the de-facto seat of the European Parliament.

There are chambers also in Strasbourg and Luxembourg, but I read that Brussels is where the MEPs actually meet most of the time.

https://visiting.europarl.europa.eu/en/visitor-offer/brussels/hemicycle

Our "self-guided tour" starts.with an elevator ride to floor 4.

Nobody is escorting us... what if we pushed 2 or 5? And why isn't there a 3rd floor?

Also, why are all controls duplicated except for the "close door" button? 🤷

#ChatGPT believes it's just a coincidence that the #Amiga Boing Ball appears on Croatia's national flag, not an official endorsement of the best computer EVER :amiga:

There are EU Parliament chambers also in Strasbourg and Luxembourg, but I read that Brussels is where the MEPs actually meet most of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament

You're overthinking it! All we need is a team of GPTs that will get to coding without demanding a "feasibility study" and other excuses 😉

@Kowfm @whalecoiner #ChatGPT

ChatGPT: "The visual representations of the FerrOS interface have been created."

@Kowfm @whalecoiner #Rust #Servo

Me: Imagine an OS entirely written in Rust that uses Servo as the rendering engine for apps. Give it a cool name.

#ChatGPT: The operating system you're envisioning could be named "FerrOS". "Ferrum" is the Latin word for iron, which alludes to Rust's emphasis on safety and performance, much like the strength and utility of iron. [...] The use of Servo as the rendering engine underscores the modern and high-performance capabilities this system aims to deliver.

@Kowfm @whalecoiner #Rust #Servo

@Kowfm @whalecoiner ServOS 🦀

@weberc2 Quiche is 2-clause BSD, and #Firefox already embeds plenty of libs developed by for-profits... so I really don't understand why they'd want to spend engineering resources maintaining their own implementation of HTTP/3. It's a complex stack which is still evolving fast.

Next, my travel mate @giomba and another Italian by the handle @giuliof gave a really interesting talk on their joint effort to reverse engineer the Sanco 8003, an obscure 8-bit platform.
#retrocomputing #fosdem

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2008-a-journey-documenting-the-sanco-8003-computer/