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Atari Video Music

generationamiga.com
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Leeds Town Hall Organ Renewal

leedstownhall.co.uk
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Tiny 1000bhp 13Kg YASA Motor Cuts 200kg from EVs [video]

youtube.com
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Private health records of half a million Britons for sale on Chinese website

theguardian.com
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Rory Sutherland's 2026 Predictions [video]

youtube.com
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Crick: A Mind in Motion review, the charismatic philanderer who changed science

theguardian.com
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He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement

arstechnica.com
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Data breach at Chinese firm reveals list of targets

techradar.com
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'Complicated' watch from 1907 sets world record at auction

bbc.co.uk
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The Fastest (68k) Macintosh Might Not Be an Amiga Anymore

hackaday.com
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Overclocked Casio fx-6300G graphics calculator 1.8 MHz vs. 0.8 MHz (2001) [video]

youtube.com
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Standardized Definition of AI Governance

github.com
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How to make your own versions of some popular bike workshop tools

road.cc
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UK government resumes row with Apple by demanding access to British users' data

theguardian.com
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Estimate the lifetime CO₂ emissions of most UK Cars and Vans

carfarts.uk
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Giant redwoods: largest trees 'thriving in UK' (2024)

bbc.co.uk
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Jaguar Land Rover extends production shutdown after cyber-attack

theguardian.com
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Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban

theregister.com
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Lio
·9 menit yang lalu·discuss
Of course but we're talking about vintage control room designs here, some of which predate that investigation, so it still seems relevant to point out.
Lio
·33 menit yang lalu·discuss
Vintage nuclear plants are also infamously used as the canonical examples of bad UI in teaching.

To paraphrase, the Three Mile Island Disaster happened because the operators couldn't discern the right red light in a sea of other lights and noise.

https://uxdesign.cc/three-mile-island-how-bad-ux-led-to-a-nu...
Lio
·37 menit yang lalu·discuss
An easy to learn UI is not without merit but neither is a complex UI with greater inherent flexibility.

I like old, analogue synthesisers. To pick two very famous examples:

I love the MiniMoog because it's very low friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimoog

It's a classic that's simple to learn and quick to get useful sounds. It's a funk bomb.

I prefer the Arp 2600 though (it's the voice of R2D2!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_2600

The 2600 makes it really easy to the block signal path so no sound gets out, which can be confusing. Once you learn it though it can do all kinds of tricks the MiniMoog can't.

An Arp 2600 can make two completely different sounds at the same time though and a MiniMoog can't. Bob Moog himself was a fan of the 2600.

Both are classics, still being copied to this day, but for different reasons.

Or to put it another way, a piano is harder to learn than a tambourine. That doesn't make either worse in the right circumstances.
Lio
·1 jam yang lalu·discuss
Very true. It reminds me of the aesthetic[1] of German musician Hainbach[2]'s studio.

He makes use of a lot of early test equipment. The look is very functional but not ugly. It's not colourful but everything is well made because it's made for professionals.

I see the same thing in mid-century BBC studios.

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1. Which I love.

2. https://www.hainbachmusik.com/
Lio
·1 jam yang lalu·discuss
OK for those that seem to dislike the suggestion that pickup trucks and SUVs kill more than cars do here's a study from the BMJ.

Specifically, with regard to the shape of the front of the vehicle:

> A large recent study in the USA found that, as compared with the low and sloping front end of a traditional passenger car, the odds of pedestrian fatality increased by 45% if the striking vehicle had a tall and sloped front end; increased by 44% if the striking vehicle had a tall and blunt front end; and increased by 26% if the striking vehicle had a medium-height and blunt front end.

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/32/1/16
Lio
·2 jam yang lalu·discuss
OpenAI is a company built on copyright violation.

That means it’s in the corporate DNA to treat laws as things for little people.

Apple have deep enough pockets that they can actually sue OpenAI but I bet OpenAI are surprised they got caught.

Now ask yourself, would the Codex agents on your machine ever over step legal boundaries? Would OpenAI ever make use of data you, voluntarily, send to their servers?

If they did could your company afford to sue OpenAI and would it still be too late to save the business?
Lio
·kemarin·discuss
> a car hit him; he did, in his words, “a little flip” over the vehicle, landed in the road

He was lucky he was hit by a car.

A slab fronted SUV or pickup would have dragged him underneath and so it goes.
Lio
·kemarin·discuss
I know I do.

I think the main purpose of the EU is to prevent wars between European states by providing a forum for compromise and cooperation.

I’d say it’s succeeded in that nicely since its founding. Not one war between member states despite ongoing disputes.

Seems like a very good idea.

I hate this law though, it’s undemocratic.
Lio
·kemarin·discuss
> That's why you have a constitution with rights that are not up for vote

Are you talking about the US constitution?

That has amendments, aren’t they voted on changes?
Lio
·kemarin dulu·discuss
I think that's just grandstanding for the tabloids.

He does have a sensible policy about moving the men's hand dryer in the Uxbridge Crown & Treaty. You have to give him that.

And capping the price of 99s at 99p? Chef's kiss.
Lio
·kemarin dulu·discuss
> What's your appeal to the people of Clacton?

> Well I'm NOT Nigel Farage.

> ...

> <...stunned silence...>

I died listening to this first time around this morning.

Binface is breath of fresh air and he's going lower my taxes and raise everybody else’s, which I approve of.
Lio
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
> And you don't see the problem with allowing processes like this

Oh, I 100% see the problem with it. I think pushing draconian laws, that have already been defeated, in secret backroom deals is dodgy as.

I think you have some very valid points.

I think the centre and left just see opportunities to act without compromise, never considering that it will piss of their electorates. The electorate will reply by voting just to piss off the politicians regardless of the consequences. Just like with Brexit.

That still doesn't mean that the EU is currently worse than actual dictatorships.
Lio
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Now go enlighten us on how the EU is super democratic and way better than the worst dictatorship that ever existed, so we may be happy we are not the worst.

Well they're not rounding people because of their religion or sexuality and putting them in "retraining" camps yet. Or using "criminals" as enforced organ donors. I suppose there's that.

The EU is being a bit short-sighted and shit with regard to Chat Control but let's not loose perspective here.
Lio
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
I think an LLM would give a "conversational" experience to search.

That's handy for situations where you might not really understand what you need to search for. Any search system that can ask you clarifying questions is going to be a big improvement.

Or where you need to combine several steps together but you don't yet know what those steps are.

There's probably other technologies that could do that, requiring lower resources but they'll come with different trade-offs around configuration.

Just having a Raspberry PI, a offline copy wikipedia and a RAG enabled small LLM would be quite useful or at least entertaining if you have to go off grid.
Lio
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
You can't remember it because it's so common it doesn't raise any media interest:

ICE vehicles: ~174,000–200,000 fires/year (1,500–1,530 per 100,000 sold).

EVs: ~25 fires per 100,000 sold (hundreds per year total).
Lio
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
No one throws Duracell during riots for a reason. Where as a small bottle, half filled with petrol, and a lit rag makes a pretty good anti-tank weapon.

A car with a tank full of gas is basically a big bomb.

I'd rather sleep over the electric car.
Lio
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
Yeah and Peter Hummelgaard is about to touch you on the penis.

> "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services,"

What an arsehole.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/danish-justice...
Lio
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
It's not EU cookie banners that have ruined the internet, it's malicious compliance and dark pattens on behalf of those that want to track you.
Lio
·7 hari yang lalu·discuss
Timeless iconic Italian design.

I'm surprised that the article didn't mention the role Vespa (and Lambretta) played in the British Mod scene.

You can see it's influence in the RAF roundel stickers on bikes in the article.

For anyone interested Quadrophenia is still a fun introduction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia_(film)
Lio
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
Filing or cutting debris from a lathe or mill.

Something important to remember if you come across it, never pick it up with a bare hand because it can be razor sharp and never wear gloves when using a machine tool like a lathe unless you want to loose a hand... or worse.