penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

why has it taken us so long to ban Russian gold imports?

Weird; removed 0.2 cabbage (round damnit...)

It's almost cute, even for being dead 30k years; toot toot!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61936818

I worry about Biologists; The Piezo1 gene (which is a force/itch sensor) has as it's Aganoist chemicals Yoda1 and Jedi2; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIEZO1
#science

Huh 'photochopper' - not come across these before; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71bWCL6HHEM
( on the CuriousMarc channel )
#retrocomputing

I just don't get why people are blaming the US court for this abortion mess; what the US needs is a proper law on abortion, something that the politicians had failed to deliver in 50 years since Roe v Wade. Relying on case law from courts interpreting a 250 year old constitution never stood a chance of holding.

Here, have a #bunny munching a flower. This was tame as anything, just a tiny little thing.
#wildlife

Some progress in my toy rust project; my first weechat remote 'event' decoded; a line of text to be displayed in a buffer - now if I can just route the event and figure out the buffer to say which buffer it's displayed in, we're getting somewhere.
(Still very hacky as I'm learning Rust; https://gitlab.com/penguin42/reechat )

Trying to calculate how much ganache I need to cover a cake-to-be; and I come across:
https://www.density.co.uk/documents/Density-of-Chocolate.pdf
#chocolate #science

Yeh, found a missing \n that was confusing the heck out of stuff; a lucky spot that could have taken ages to find.

A friend told me about the classification system for fairy tales; it's pretty neat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80%93Uther_Index

Went in to #Manchester city centre today for the first time in about a year, wondering around outside and was great by this nice tall crane with a really odd squat cab.
(I'm still not going into any shop or anything, so strictly outside)

Apparently this isn't an Orchid; it's a sweetpea! Still lovely.

I'm surprised there's not been more discussion of the MMIO microarchitectural bug in Intel CPUs; IMHO this is a lot more fun than the timing cases, this seems to be at least one actual bug:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/technical-documentation/processor-mmio-stale-data-vulnerabilities.html

I've come to the end of my previous bag of cocoa; what a difference! The really dark one I've just finished is Van Houten 'Intense Deep Black' - which IMHO tastes burnt, the new lighter one is deZaan 'True gold'.
(The Van Houten is about 11% fat, the deZaan is 20%ish). Not tasted the new one yet, it claims to be 'light and fruity' - it certainly smells less odd. (Both are marked 'for professional use'!)