@rayckeith Lol. Ok, fair enough!

@rayckeith Generally, I don't care for the Predator movies - too intense for me. Are you saying this one is worth watching (I don't mind some intense action if it is broken up with comedy, etc)?

Interesting one spotted by Daniel B in the NHS - ClickFix (fake browser adverts to encourage people to run commands which provide remote access) have a new technique - they use browser fullscreen support (yes, some popular browsers allow any website to go fullscreen) to simulate a blue screen of death/reboot loop. Check this out:

I was just digging thru an old junk drawer and came across something I thought was long gone.

It is a vintage aviation chart dated 1947 for the Lewiston, Maine area. Super cool that it shows the radio range courses. That is some old school navigation right there.

#avgeeks #aviation #airplanes #pilotlife #flying #vintage #aircraft

A view of the Auroras tonight from Colorado. Not bad considering all the light pollution.

#Aurora #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #Colorado #WX #Weather

@vampiress That is a rude recursive problem. How does one fix a coffee machine without coffee?

@apzpins Wow, that just looks like so much work! 😅

Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.

While the gas discharge displays were very common in pinball, there were many other peculiar examples of displays.

Many 80s kids will definitely remember the cyan (and often partly red) VFD, or vacuum fluorescent displays. Gottlieb was big on them since their first solid state pinball platform, demonstrating anything from absolutely huge 8-segmented ones (yes, 8!) to 14-segmented alpha numeric ones.

Naturally the LED 7-segments also had to show up, but for some reason they were more common in European made pins. Curiously some American pins made in Europe under a license got LED displays instead of original gas discharge ones. One example is the Williams Space shuttle, where the Spanish made version had exactly this to happen.

Speaking of weird, NBAFB has the biggest single 7-segment I've ever seen in my life! It's 1.8" tall!

Naturally we can't forget what was before electronic displays. Those rotating drums ruled pinball display technology for decades!

#pinball #retrotech #arcadehistory #oldtech

Build Your Own Force-Feedback Joystick

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/30/build-your-own-force-feedback-joystick/

#electronics #maker

americans doing tutorials always tell you what you're gonna wanna go ahead and do. what you're gonna wanna go ahead and do is you're gonna wanna go ahead and click 'go ahead' which will go ahead and do, then what you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna go ahead and do the next step which is to go ahead and click 'do' which will go ahead and do the next step. now if you wanna go ahead and do the step after that, what you're gonna wanna go ahead and do is go ahead to the next video

Folks, I have a new video today where I'm very excited to announce a new dishwasher powder on the market.

Why am I so excited? Because it's vindicated every single one of my detergent opinions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8

Imagine if airplane copilots worked like #Microsoft #Copilot.

"I saw you set the flaps for landing, Bob, great job. Would you like to try another flap position instead?"

"What? No, it's a standard setting... "

"It looks like you're activating the landing gear. Have you thought about using Landing Gear Plus?"

"Jesus, Mike, what's wrong with you? Just put down the goddamn gear."

"I've deactivated the flaps and landing gear so you don't get too stressed. Here are some pictures of scones."

Fuck no I don't want "AI" weather models.

In aviation operations we make bets on forecasts with ..a lot... of real money. I want to know we are not relying on automated JMSU....

Yes current models are also imperfect. Their quirks are learnable and one can generally rely on how / why.

Doing generative weather breaks that. Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't.

#aviationOperations #weatherForecasting #operationalForecasting

You can pry the Oxford Comma from my cold, dead, and third adjective hands.

Final count was 126 younglings. Weren't sure since it is a new house/location. We ran out of candy and had to dip into our own stash, and we were finished in about two hours. Not bad. Had a great time.

#Halloween

The FCC has explicitly stated that they plan to approve everything https://www.satellitetoday.com/government-military/2025/10/28/fcc-kicks-off-proceeding-to-overhaul-satellite-licensing/. There is no way to stop stupid fucking mirrors from being launched into orbit by US companies.

So, my fellow Canadians (and other non-USians), I need you to get really, really angry about this. Write to MPs, space agencies, senators, to anyone who will listen about this company wanting to shine light on us.

The sky is amazing! We have so much to learn! And it's just right there if we can keep it dark.

And yeah, oh my goodness, there are SO MANY THINGS to fight against right now. Pick one and talk to your government reps about it! If you love the sky, pick this fight. If you love something else that's being destroyed, focus on that. If you have no spoons left, be yourself and fight by existing and thriving!

I'm happy to lead this fight. I hope it works. Thanks for reading and appreciating how incredibly fucking stupid space mirrors are.