Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Transdev will operate the bus services on the isles in the south of Zuid-Holland. The 20 hydrogen buses will remain in services, and there will be 67 new electric buses as well. These buses will have three features new in the Netherlands:
* Special system so deaf people can connect their hearing aid to the announcement system.
* Special spot for assistance dogs.
* Bibo: passengers who pay their trip with a digital OV pas, can have their pas automatic recognised by the vehicle, so they don’t have to use the validators in the vehicle.

Hit me with examples of *manual computing*! Let's define it as *computing without electricity*. The abacus is one example. Using dice as RNGs or counters is another. But there are more subtle ways, like in @tendigits' post*, where there is some state and some knowledge required for a human to interpret that state. Board games are yet another example, where there is a set of rules, some changing state, represented by various game pieces, the players mutually observe that the rules are being followed, and the result is a winner. I keep wondering what other ends some board-game-like setup could be used for.

* https://merveilles.town/@tendigits/113822340665968899

Het grote voordeel van de meubelboulevard is dat je tussendoor even kan gaan liggen.

Verder geen voordelen.

#postCovidHetBordspel

You spent HOW MUCH on monkeys and typewriters, when all you needed to do was pay a human writer a living wage?

‘Mocht u nu denken: ach joh, een niet-kloppend boekenlijstje bij een modeblad, is dat werkelijk erg? Het antwoord: ja, dit hele voorval is uiterst kwalijk.’ https://www.de-lage-landen.com/article/kunstmatige-intelligentie/
Hallucinant wakker worden met deze column van Thomas Heerma van Voss (*@thomashvv), die zich verheugt om zijn roman in een top vijf van een internationaal hoogwaardig (mode)tijdschrift te zien prijken, tot ‘ie merkt dat iets niet klopt.

*edit: was vergeten dat Thomas hier wél zit, account toegevoegd.

So to answer the question can you CNAME¹ the apex of a zone is yes²

¹actually cname, not aliasing, or fake cnames that services like cloudflare provide

²if you don't care about RFCs, write your own dns server and your clients are ok with weird things happening, cache poisoning and some resolvers exploding.

All of the drama around Wordpress is poster child #1 for why Open Source is not adequate to assure good governance -- forking is expensive and hard, and allows a lot of sins to be swept under the carpet.

“A capitalist ethos of independence & productivity, & the pervasive colonial perception of nature as commodity, would have us see abandonment as natural, even inevitable. An ethics of abandonment is, what leads massive amounts of money & energy to be poured into fantasies of escape like Elon Musk’s rocket ship or billionaire bunker estates, or the politically mercurial fantasy of the rugged ablebodied survivalist living off the land post–climate apocalypse.”

Sunaura Taylor - Disabled Ecologies

After transitioning was the first time in my life where the puzzle that was myself, my life, my future, actually fit together. Before transition I couldn't image my future. Not because I though I wouldn't live to see it, but because I couldn't image it. I could not image myself being a middle aged man one day. But now I can imagine a future for myself. One that fits, that feels right.