What happened to Scotland Yard?

They can have the town of Solvang, in California, if they do not have it already

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Wow, neat test fixture. An operator friend of mine built a similar thing, but with momentary pushbuttons instead of toggle switches, from a parted out Williams machine with a destroyed playfield that still had a perfectly good boardset.

I have that happen too

Impressive but I would be worried about it getting stuck inside there if pushed in too far

Agreed. It is a loophole for spammers that should be closed. At a minimum, require a successful individual conversation before permitting group conversation (or voice or video chat).

Nice! I would suck it to get it moist, then bend over and pop it right in.

Picture of me

Need some more pictures here, as everybody else is posting plenty of pictures. So, I will start with what I thought was a pretty good recent picture of me.

Yep! When I worked at Google, one of my favorite parts of the day was looking out the front window of their double decker buses. Made you feel like the king of the road.

I met my husband just a few days after Y2K and we are still together

Saw your post about Kaiser. I was briefly a Kaiser customer years ago and a friendly gay doctor, at the big Santa Clara center, let me be under his PCP. One of the first to be openly gay at Kaiser. I would recommend him but it was so long ago I forgot his name!

I am pleasantly amazed that BlueSky allows porn, and anybody can sign up and see it all. No age verification or payment required or other gatekeeping. I wonder how they get away with it? Are they just flying under the radar and hoping the bad guys don't notice? I hope they avoid being shut down.

Wow you have a cute face

You guys are hot

This must be an astronomy thread, because I am seeing some fine looking black holes

Wow, handsome face

Wow, nice. I had the opposite problem: I was always the fat kid. When I started college and moved out of my hometown, I no longer wanted to be known as the fat kid. I started working out regularly and got down to my target weight! Now I'm older and got fat again, so I'm back on diet again.

Mine too

That's a really interesting chart. You can clearly see him adjusting to the new time zone when he moved to Texas at the end of 2020. On the right side of the chart, you can see his sleeping hours are about 3 AM to 11 AM. I've been out of work and also naturally tending towards that schedule!

Sweet adorable cat

Watch out, you could hurt somebody with that thing

Watching Google shutter things that actually worked, like Google Play Music, and now Google Podcasts, to turn them into YouTube Music is like someone coming into your kitchen who takes away your blender and kettle then lets you know you'll now only be able to boil water or blend things in your car.

By this I mean that it works on the back end like P2Pool, building up a chain of shares, directly paying from coinbase, but it works on the front end like a traditional centralized mining pool, needing only an IP address to be pointed at and it's hands-off from there. P2Pool was much more difficult.

@bitcoinocean.bsky.social This new Bitcoin mining pool looks interesting. Reading about how it directly pays from the coinbase transaction, and how it handles shares, remind me very much of P2Pool which I used to use, back when I had miners that were worth anything. The innovation is its simplicity.

Slick looking Twitter clone. One big usability failure so far: on the Blue Sky login screen, if you switch to another app, both your username and your password are erased. So, if you use a password manager to help you remember passwords, cutting and pasting back and forth, you are stuck if on phone.

Hello, is this thing on? Nice to be here. I am curious how this differs from Threads and Mastodon. I am mastodon.social/@krellan on Mastodon.