Nerds! My friend James needs your help to rescue #Teletext data from lots of old #VHS tapes.
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I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know what to do with them
A story about data and a very foolish hobbyJames O'Malley (Odds and Ends of History)
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From Ambrose Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary” of 1911:
Respirator, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
Plus ça change…
If you know French, I think it can help disambiguate some prepositions in Portuguese:
Por is par and para is pour.
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The railway south of Cambridge splits just south of the city, with one line heading to Liverpool Street and one, the faster shorter route, to Kings Cross or St Pancras. Ever since I learned the point where they split is called “Shepreth Branch Junction” I’ve taken delight in saying “we’re taking the Shepreth branch” as if this is some forgotten branch line bywater of the network rather than the main route to London. Conjuring the romantic from the mundane just from a bit of railway geekery. Adlestrop, or the slow train.
Shepreth itself is a bit of a bywater. Express trains, like this one, skip it and its neighbours Foxton and Meldreth, so if you want to partake of their delights — a safari park! A path through a field! Tech startups that couldn’t afford Cambridge! — you’ll need to take the actual slow train.
Oh, Google.
You wanted:
Commission Regulation (EU) No 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
You got:
0.16417910447
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Yeah, that's definitely what you said, so I'm now a little confused about how I came to be confused.
Or at least surprised; I knew my working memory was totally borked, but I hadn't realised it was that bad.
Though I suppose, given the nature of the problem, maybe I HAD realised, but then forgot about it?
And here's news of a huge treat for the 40th anniversary of Elite!
Ian Bell, co-author of the original Elite, has just released a bunch of never-seen-before original source discs for Elite on the Apple II, Commodore 64, NES, SNES (unfinished), Atari ST... and, amazingly, a prototype of Elite 2, which has never been released before.
Get stuck in on Ian's site: elitehomepage.org/fourty/index…
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #BBCMicro #C64 #NES #SNES #AtariST #Elite
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@geolaw No, it is not open source. Ian Bell has released the source on his website, but there is no licence attached at all. It is still copyright code… but it is out there in the public domain, so who knows what that means!
It’s complicated, in other words.
This is how I interpret it: github.com/markmoxon/elite-sou…
GitHub - markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64: Fully buildable source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
Fully buildable source code for Elite on the Commodore 64 - markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64GitHub
So there's the answer: the radios and batteries were discontinued in 2014, Hezbollah tried to keep using them, the batteries gradually died, so they began buying cheap third-party batteries made by someone unspecified … which gave the Israeli sigint people the perfect way to put bombs in them.
It's not just your electronics supply chain you need to secure; it's all the consumables.
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Japanese firm Icom said Thursday that it was investigating after media reported that two-way radio devices bearing its logo exploded in Lebanon. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/… #worldnews #middleeast #israel #lebanon #hezbollahWalkie-talkies in Lebanon blasts were discontinued a decade ago
Thousands of electronic devices, including pagers and walkie-talkies, exploded over the last two days, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 3,000.The Japan Times
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Slightly embarrassing moment at work yesterday. There's been a bit of a bug going round various people in the office, so when a coworker walked in saying "ooh, I'm feeling a bit grotty today" I moved to jokingly make the sign of the cross to ward off the plague before stopping myself because I remembered he's Muslim.
I'm atheist, but societal Christian defaultism can always rear its head!
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![Many ligatures combine ⟨f⟩ with the following letter. A particularly prominent example is ⟨fi⟩ (or ⟨fi⟩, rendered with two normal letters). The tittle of the ⟨i⟩ in many typefaces collides with the hood of the ⟨f⟩ when placed beside each other in a word, and are combined into a single glyph with the tittle absorbed into the ⟨f⟩. Other ligatures with the letter f include ⟨fj⟩,[a] ⟨fl⟩ (fl), ⟨ff⟩ (ff), ⟨ffi⟩ (ffi), and ⟨ffl⟩ (ffl). Ligatures for ⟨fa⟩, ⟨fe⟩, ⟨fo⟩, ⟨fr⟩, ⟨fs⟩, ⟨ft⟩, ⟨fb⟩, ⟨fh⟩, ⟨fu⟩, ⟨fy⟩, and for ⟨f⟩ followed by a full stop, comma, or hyphen are also used, as well as the equivalent set for the doubled ⟨ff⟩.](https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/preview/640/5382934 "Many ligatures combine ⟨f⟩ with the following letter. A particularly prominent example is ⟨fi⟩ (or ⟨fi⟩, rendered with two normal letters). The tittle of the ⟨i⟩ in many typefaces collides with the hood of the ⟨f⟩ when placed beside each other in a word, and are combined into a single glyph with the tittle absorbed into the ⟨f⟩. Other ligatures with the letter f include ⟨fj⟩,[a] ⟨fl⟩ (fl), ⟨ff⟩ (ff), ⟨ffi⟩ (ffi), and ⟨ffl⟩ (ffl). Ligatures for ⟨fa⟩, ⟨fe⟩, ⟨fo⟩, ⟨fr⟩, ⟨fs⟩, ⟨ft⟩, ⟨fb⟩, ⟨fh⟩, ⟨fu⟩, ⟨fy⟩, and for ⟨f⟩ followed by a full stop, comma, or hyphen are also used, as well as the equivalent set for the doubled ⟨ff⟩.")
So I'm at LibDem Conference
There's been a tiny group of TERFs here, being horrid.
In response several hundred pro-trans rights LibDems made this happen:
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Oh what a beautifully written rant
"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."
defector.com/neither-elon-musk…
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well.defector.com
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I'm having mixed feelings about this article.
On one hand it has very good points, about radiation and all the other issues with Mars.
But on the other hand, I cannot stop thinking about that one article stating that humans will never fly, published a year before the Wright brothers proved otherwise.
And on the third hand, I'm thinking of how Kim Stanley Robinson described the terraforming of Mars in his books.
When Scots come to England, they stuff the cats and the dogs and the other pets with spicy oats and roast them. That's what they do! They call it Karmala Haggis.
I'm going to England today, but I'm Irish, so I chop pets up and boil them with spuds.
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I'd missed this astonishing Tory leadership rule.
The ability to extract huge sums from party benefactors tells us nothing about the candidates' ability to be prime minister or leader of the opposition.
But it ensures they'll begin their leadership in thrall to wealthy donors.
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Gosh, TIL.
FTR here's the reference.
Robert Jenrick emerges as surprise frontrunner in Tory leadership race
Jenrick raises £250,000 in funds and leads in polls ahead of Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom TugendhatRowena Mason (The Guardian)
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets, 1943
After 20 years, I am back in Washington, DC to work on science policy in the U.S. Senate. In the very same building, on the very same floor where my journey began.
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Vic Fontaine Was the Escape Deep Space Nine Needed
James Darren, the actor behind Star Trek's crooning hologram, passed away this week—but the warmth and light he brought to Deep Space Nine at its darkest hour will never be forgotten.James Whitbrook (Gizmodo)
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Angel at Edmonton
Another version of this photo taken at Edmonton Green. The bus station has canopy covers that resemble angel wings. So here's Andreya posing as an angel with a big bus roundel halo above her.
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Not sure about *angel* wings, those look more like wings of a bat.
But a cool photo nevertheless! 😀
ME: "The documentation is not obviously loquacious on the subject"
If you know the original source of this, please let me know so I can give credit!
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •At RailMapOnline.com/UKIEMap.php?… one can see why it's named after Shepreth: that's where the branches from the two directions met.
(far too much detail here: web.archive.org/web/2023060613…)
Rail Map online - historic railways, railroads and canals
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