Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek@v.st

Something US brands need to realise is that if they're going to use their ridiculous date format, they need to do everything else they can to make it look like a date.

If I see "2/15/2023" then it might take me a second to parse but at least I know it's a date right away. If I see "2/15" or the even more ludicrous "2.15" my first reading is that it's a number.

Maybe Americans see "6/10" at the end of a product announcement as a release date but I don't believe I'm alone in seeing it as a review score.

In 2018 I bullied my office to dig a 1m border around the edge of the scrap ground in our carpark. Because a) I'm very bossy and b) they're all awesome, they all took a day off emails and meetings and sowed wildflower seeds with me. Then we just left it be.
Every year it's become more and more impressive. The scrap patch jumped in biodiversity. Crickets and bees became regular visitors.
This week a Bee Orchid arrived in the scrub. I spotted several butterflies and damselflies.
#Rewilding Rocks.

Picard management tip: Good crew members love what they do. Get off their backs and let them enjoy their work.

I think a lot of people undervalue RISC-V being a vendor neutral processor ISA, so I want to share the time when Intel retroactively standardized undocumented CPU features and made millions of third-party CPUs unable to run newer versions of Linux: https://www.jookia.org/wiki/Nopl

#riscv

Well this is an absolutely terrific thing. (It's a review of the book AGAINST MANAGEMENT, which @unamccormack recommended to me
when I became a manager, by the author, twenty years after it was published, and it's enormously eye-opening and hopeful.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084211020922

Kan Schiphol niet een trap naar het perron aanleggen achter de douane? #eurostar

https://nos.nl/artikel/2477567-amsterdam-wil-eurostar-niet-maandenlang-kwijt-cruciaal-voor-de-stad

every sign has a history

Here’s your semi-regular reminder that your alt text should describe what’s in the image, based on the purpose of it.

If you are sharing a screenshot of a funny post, write out the text from the image, not “screenshot from tumblr”.

If you are sharing a histogram with the latest covid number, share the most important values or takeaways or a link to the data, not just “histogram with covid numbers”.

Otherwise blind and low vision screen reader users still don’t get the same info.

Keir Starmer says arguments about rejoining the EU are "in the past where they belong".

However new @omnisis polling finds that:

- Voters think Brexit has failed and want to rejoin EU
- Even Leave voters more likely to say Brexit is a failure

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brexit-has-failed-so-take-us-back

The camera tracking was great, but the ending *chefskiss*

#MotoGP #birds #bird

Für alle die ihre Mittagspause nicht draußen verbringen können...

#LebenImAußendienst #Fotogafie #photography #mohn #papaver

Thank you for contacting The Void your scream is very important to us

Scientists Successfully Transmit Space-Based Solar Power to Earth for the First Time: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-beam-space-based-solar-power-earth-first-tim-1850500731

(Very much an experimental proof-of-concept rather than a practical demo, but still ...)

still trying to wrap my head around Daenerys Targaryen becoming CEO in the Succession finale

@torproject Is looking for an Android Developer to join their team!

https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/android-developer/

#jobs #work #android

it’s always funny to see those metaverse platforms and how they have worse graphical fidelity than second life did in 2006

The Internet works just fine without your every move being tracked. It works just fine without ads. It works just fine without novelty TLDs. What I fear is younger folks actually believing that things HAVE to be this way. They don't. "But how will it scale?" It doesn't have to. "But how will you monetize it?" You can, but you don't HAVE to. Again: IT. WAS. NOT. LIKE. THiS. not too long ago. It was cool, and weird, and serendipitous, and raw, and ugly.

@quixoticgeek @jon The person who signed off #SNCF Connect clearly never has to organise their own travel.

So over by the USB port, we've got a CH375B.
This is an 8-bit IO chip for USB, specifically for storage.
(it's also an 8051-based core! there's always an 8051)