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rainingmonkey··on Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel
And https://www.seacheetah.com/ and https://seawingsproject.eu/

I wonder how many of these will survive the bursting tech bubble?

rainingmonkey··on Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI
Have you ever experienced stable-by-default?

If so, I'd love to hear a writeup!

rainingmonkey··on Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage
Is it illegal to sit on the board of a foreign company?

I can see why it should be, but neither Schröder nor Russia are unique in this kind of conflict of interest.

rainingmonkey··on America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD
This is largely due to deliberate underfunding by a succession of governments taking ~~bribes~~ lobbying from private healthcare firms.

https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/...

rainingmonkey··on Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
The FxTec Pro 1 is the closest I've found these days; it has a slied-out keyboard and an unlocked bootloader so you can run LineageOS or Ubuntu Touch (PMOS support seems spotty).

The keyboard isn't as nice as those on phones from ~2010; it's a bit too big for the thumbs to really fly and sliding it in & out is not as effortless as it should be, but nless you count Unihertz's blackberry-likes, there's really nothing else around that comes close!

rainingmonkey··on European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low
Do you have any evidence that Russian espionage backed the far left before 2006?
rainingmonkey··on What is a Demand Coop
Consumer cooperatives go back to at least 1844

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

rainingmonkey··on A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity
This is the conclusion of the article (and presumably the researchers) but I don't think it necessarily follows.

It seems to me equally plausible that one group were more interested in the craft of an accurate depiction, while the other was more interested in the arrangement of a pleasing aesthetic - both could be considered "solutions" to the given task.

rainingmonkey··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Will you produce a keyboard with full size up/down arrows?
rainingmonkey··on Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)
>It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians

Mine owners hired planes to bomb striking miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921

rainingmonkey··on Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)
>with the intention of killing and without being any kind of strategic strategic objective

Wikipedia says "The airstrike was carried out in the mistaken belief that Italian mechanized troops were stationed in the village. Once over the target, the pilots mistook the market's awnings for military tents." (Carlos Saiz Cidoncha, 2006)

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

rainingmonkey··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
> very bad user experience

"To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

rainingmonkey··on Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects
The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?
rainingmonkey··on America Has Lost the Arab World
[Citations needed]
rainingmonkey··on Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)
Imgur is blocked in the UK, and last I checked blocked connections from VPNs too.

Which scene are you referring to?

rainingmonkey··on Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP
Does anyone have any examples of using this in the wild?

I have fond memories of IRC channels full of all sorts of bots; the Matrix and XMPP rooms I've seen don't seem to have nearly as many fun automations.

rainingmonkey··on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
You may be interested in https://geminiprotocol.net/
rainingmonkey··on The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code
What is the scrollwheel thing on the left side of some windows?
rainingmonkey··on Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
"Surveillance Valley" is another excellent book about the tech industry's military roots.
rainingmonkey··on Samsung Upcycle Promise
FxTec Pro1 comes with an unlocked bootloader, and a slide-out keyboard for the true 2010 experience!
rainingmonkey··on Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
Also loosely related: Redbean is a webserver in a single-file that runs natively on six OSes for both AMD64 and ARM64

https://redbean.dev/

rainingmonkey··on Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
Does this run on bare metal? Are there any plans to include graphics primitives?

As another comment suggested, Lua seems to lend itself to certain kinds of projects. This looks like it could mesh well with my forever project to rewrite userland in Love2d!

rainingmonkey··on LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
You might be interested in the Gemini protocol: https://geminiprotocol.net/
rainingmonkey··on Poor Johnny still won't encrypt
DeltaChat are moving away from "classic email" in favour of the ChatMail protocol.

I wish someone would fork DeltaChat so I can keep using it as a client for "classic email".

rainingmonkey··on The terminal of the future
> It could be interesting to see if it would be enough to add shell history as a completion source.

Fish shell does this too

rainingmonkey··on Whole Earth Index
Inequality necessarily reduces living standards for those at the bottom of the heap.

When the person at the top has more than they can spend on necessities and luxuries, they put their money to work. That means buying assets and driving up their prices.

Some assets are fairly divorced from the "real" economy, but enough filter through to extract wealth from the masses who have to work for a living as eg. spiralling rents, inflated credentialism etc.

rainingmonkey··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
Quakers don't demand a belief in the supernatural
rainingmonkey··on Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID
The Tony Blair Institute still wields a lot of power in UK politics, and they're still pushing for ID cards.

https://institute.global/insights/tech-and-digitalisation/to...

rainingmonkey··on Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)
Offtopic: Anyone else noticed an explosion in this kind of comment over the last few days? Not just here but all over the web.

I sure hope it's just bots...

rainingmonkey··on I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
The FxTec Pro1 is the only sliding keyboard phone of the last decade. I have one, it's not perfect but it is quite good, and better than all the other recent keyboard phones!
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