The future ain't what it used to be.
-- Yogi Berra

#Wisdom #Quotes #YogiBerra #TheFuture #Humor

#Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

I used a Stihl electric chainsaw for a few hours yesterday and an hour on a petrol one. I reckon make the battery last 50% longer and 30% lighter and it’s game over for petrol ones. Super exciting, they’re so damn stinky.

I do wish Catl or someone would make a standard 36v battery unit that could be used in many devices - a chainsaw battery for instance would be great on a bike or scooter :)

Just woken up to the fact the UK's copper phone network is being completely decommissioned within 2 years. If you want a home phone after then it will need to be digital and going through your broadband router. UK service providers now seem to routinely charge a premium for a home phone number.

Imagine me trying to explain this to my elderly mother who is very set in her ways.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
-- Samuel Butler

#Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelButler #Anxiety #TheFuture

#Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

If you and I dream creatively and properly, then the future will be secured.
-- Ray Bradbury

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#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

We are at the "create a secret word or phrase with your family to verify their identity" point of our dystopia.

https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2024/PSA241203

via https://stefanbohacek.online/@briankrebs@infosec.exchange/113592146696849871

Beware any pundit or dem politician trying to cast blame to either the establishment, progressives of moderates. No1 hands here are clean. Anyone doing such is doing so in bad faith. All factions of the dem party played a role in this. And all factions need to reconstitute in face of it. #uspol #democracy #Election2024 #thefuture

I know most reading this saw it already, but this is literally the most amazing thing I have ever beheld in my life, the catching of the Super Heavy SpaceX Starship booster by the launch tower's "chopsticks," with surgical precision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Vy4lC0h-s

It's happening-meme!!!

Enshittification is inescapable. I had to order some pricey water filters from GE for my new-ish refrigerator. Wondering where they were, I looked online with my order number and zip, learning then that the zip code didn't match. I’d paid with a credit card that needs the exact address to enable payment, so it was correct when the order was made, but somehow “became enshittified" after I authorized payment. I’m now on interminable hold for the parts department so I don’t need to PAY ANOTHER $178.00 FOR THIS STUPID FUCK UP!!!!!!

I hope your day and money isn’t being wasted by enshittification. The future is so FUCKING stupid. #enshittification #AI #shitshow #TheFuture

Wouldn't it be cool if I could switch git branches on a project and not have to close-and-reopen it in #Xcode because it'd actually notice I did that and *wouldn't* lose all the source packages I'd checked out? Boy that sure would be something.

Forget flying cars, let's build elevated bike paths!

A fun thought for Friday.

A friend of mine told me about a visit to a lab where some scientists had been experimenting with cloning and whatnot, and they went into this area with a bunch of headless frogs lying on their backs attached to probes and wires. When asked what they were doing, the answer was one word - "practicing".

High-quality photo of making decent coffee with travel coffee machine traveling on a train under the sea, from one country to another, transmitting that high-quality photo via high bandwidth data telecommunications to an open source software social networking system, self-hosted on a computer in someone's house.

We are truly living in the future.