Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK @vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
Old roaming Tom Cat (zwerfkater) but still young at heart. Toots EN, (NL,FR,DE). welcome to the secret goose shed! http://www.vfrmedia.co.uk
*glances at computer*
“These things are amazing!
*hour later*
“THIS STUPID GLITCH ASDFHJKL!
COMPUTERS ARE TRASH!!”
#grassrootwavelengths is build on the #RootIO #radio platform, a free/open hardware and software stack that allows the creation of a station based on an inexpensive smart phone. Community members listen on #FM radio, and interact with the station through the Web and their phones''
'The internet has helped to bring people together from all over the world, but it has not helped neighborhoods or communities nearly as well. The #GrassrootWavelengths project is piloting solutions for community information platforms and media pluralism...'
''...brings together engineers, social scientists, artists, designers, and communities to redesign community #radio technology from scratch.''
#Romania: first licences for community radios
For the first time in Romania, two community radio station licenses have being ssued in the framework of the European project #GrassrootWavelengths '
''The project will create two community prototype stations each in Portugal, Ireland, and Romania, with the aim of building regional decentralized networks, connected to European and international journalism and information.''
http://www.amarc.org/?q=node/2754
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#radio
Hospital security: unsupervised & unlocked computers sitting in an open hallway. Screens showed names + medical data of patients... yuck 😷 https://t.co/zjsNYwSJmE
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(Walks over to the turtle aquariums: WEIRD CATS)
(Goes to the pet store, checks the coast is clear, and covertly sticks an official-looking label on the cats display: NORMAL CATS)
@enkiv2 Now a real challenge for retro-computing enthusiasts would be to find a working French Minitel and find a way to put it to work via telnet over the internet.
Settle down and watch hours of classic BBC computer shows! https://hackaday.com/2018/06/30/the-bbc-computer-literacy-project-from-the-1980s-is-yours-to-browse/
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1013014381385445376
Im Zeitalter von Smartphones, Tablets, Playstation und XBox ist eine solche Hausaufgabe nicht nur zeitgemäß, sondern auch wirklich sehr sinnvoll.
Die Klassenlehrerin meiner Tochter hat der 1. Schulklasse für die Sommerferien folgende Hausaufgaben mitgegeben:
1. Auf einen Baum klettern.
2. Auf einer Wiese liegen und in den Himmel gucken.
3. Nachts heimlich länger aufbleiben.
Wie toll ist das bitte?
— Lars Reineke (@larsreineke) June 27, 2018
The south side of my city finally has bike lanes going from uptown to midtown. It's about a mile, terminating at the trendy queer neighborhood/restaurant district. It also goes past the big park in the center of the city. The north side had a long bike lane for years.
For two years there was an uptown bike lane that only ran for THREE BLOCKS. Nobody used it because it couldn't get you anywhere. Since it's been extended, I've seen other people in the bike lanes every time I use them
@envgen months ago when i was looking for a decent pvm-ish display i found some company in surrey or somewhere that does crt video wall installations. and i was like damn, nobody has those anymore, i bet theyve got lots of them they're selling for cheap. so i emailed them and they said something like "actually we're doing a lot of business recently, theyre really popular again now, we're actually trying to buy more"
In 2017 liep er een nieuwe club mee met de Rotterdamse Pride Walk die zich de Dutch GayServatives noemt. Hun logo? Een Nederlandse vlag met een roze driehoek en een betonschaar (verwijzing naar de mishandeling van het homoseksuele koppel Ronnie en Jasper in Arnhem). Hun slogans? “Wel homo, geen mietje“ en “Liever pepperspray dan een genderneutrale wc“. Lees verder: https://www.doorbraak.eu/rotterdam-pride-neem-stelling-tegen-haat/
Op initiatief van Doorbraak vindt op 2 september een brainstormbijeenkomst plaats ter voorbereiding van actie tegen de publieke omroep NTR en het Sinterklaasjournaal, een van de producties van die omroep. De afgelopen jaren zijn al meerdere acties tegen de NTR ondernomen. Doorbraak heeft gemerkt dat veel anti-racisme activisten, waaronder wijzelf, denken dat het belangrijk is om die acties verder op te pakken en door te zetten. https://www.doorbraak.eu/2-september-amsterdam-brainstormbijeenkomst-voor-actie-tegen-ntr-en-sinterklaasjournaal/
From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:
Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.
This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."
rt @PaulMMCooper Dutch engineers drained Amsterdam's River while building a metro, and they've put every object they found at the bottom online.
it was heavy and dirty work (maybe I am just getting older 👴🏽 ) and I got some pain in my shoulder from holding up the bike (even minus accu) to spin the cranks and test it (I don't yet have a workstand that can handle 20,5 kilos), and it was quite late when I finished and I had other things to do (like walking to the shops), so will give it a proper test ride tomorrow.
At least I did it just in time before the cassette and chainring were knackered, its even less fun replacing those!
