Flight in ... 3 hours. AND we're off! 6 of us. Loud car. Rhodes, hope you're ready for us!

@alexhall @robin_kipp only as awesome as the development options. BT Speak is great if you're interested in retro or a coder. Look at the canute and how hard they've had to push to sell them. Linux is struggling on mainstream hardware, never mind specialist.

@alexchapman @mckensie @Aryan @masonasons I don't have access to a Mac outside of work, although I'd love to learn one day.

@alexchapman @mckensie @Aryan @masonasons it's already compilable for Mac, so whoever did eSpeak could probably do it with enough incentive.
I don't know if apps that provide services like that are subject to the iOS developer fee, but would suspect they are.

can't believe people still argue that we don't live in a simulation now that we know about quantum tunneling. "sometimes an object with a small hitbox can clip through a thin wall but i swear it's not a collision detection bug it's because everything is waves" come on man you're clutching at straws

@gocu54 I'm not a HAM but, people have been saying it for decades.

@Woody aha thanks. I was just curious to know if someone started a job and wanted one how that would look, financially speaking.

@Woody Did you buy your monarch yourself? Or was it funded by your employer or a state programme of some sort?

@brian_hartgen what app does it use for that, Brian?
One of the focus or brailliant had a sync thing with outlook for notes, but it never took off. Nobody at New College ever used the notes feature in Outlook and adding an email account for notetaking was a weird concept to a lot of people.

@HeatherInNZ Love this.
Even the POP3 email protocol assumed you were just there to collect your mail. The idea of an always-on connection wasn't even an idea at that point, certainly not in the mainstream.
I remember dialing in to a variety of different bulletin board systems to check in on friends, too.
Today, my daughter becomes concerned if she can't immediately speak with someone on Snapchat.

Flight in 22 hours, 45 minutes.
I still have bits of work to do.
How many USB cables do I need?
What ends do they have to have?
is a single 10,000 MAh battery enough for day trips?
Where did I put the EU travel adapters?
Am I even taking anything with a British plug?
How many AAA batteries do I need for my digital recorder?
When did I last buy AAA batteries and what on earth did I do with them?

Those are just the electronics thoughts.

24 hours on and she's traveled with her new phone for work today in a brave mood.
The earphones in her handbag have mysteriously been replaced with a USB-C variant. The battery on her new device only dropped 11% in the 6 hours she was away from AC power, and she's had no trouble pressing the home button or accessing her app switcher.
"I can't imagine using the old one now," she said earlier. "It's so responsive when writing Braille!"
She goes on to declaim at length about the responsiveness and to wonder, repetitively, how she could have failed to noticed the lag on the old one!

She's moved from a 2nd edition iPhone SE to the iPhone 16e.

AI is good at answering software developer interview questions but not at writing real-world code.

Which confirms all my prior beliefs about software developer interview questions.

I visited the New Zealand Air Force Museum in Christchurch. I knew New Zealand had scaled back their air force, but I had no idea...

*Sound Up*
Close your eyes and enjoy the sound of a 286, with 2x Floppy Drives and MFM harddrive booting, AHH, bliss 😊

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 433
Silvius tuniculam manicatam caeruleam gerit, et pastinacam tenet (Silvius is wearing a blue jacket and holding a carrot). Petrus Cuniculus est, bestiola improba qui olera ex horto furatur. He's Peter Rabbit, a naughty little animal who steals vegetables from a garden)!

I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

@simon @jscholes that's gotta be the name of a blind person's autobiography one day.

@BlindGordon dismiss the lock screen entirely, maybe? 11 home? pro?

My favorite thing about Microsoft teams is that my students ALSO hate it.