Paywalled…

I don’t get it? That description fits on the amoebas currently acting as “politicians” demanding Zelenskyy to say “thank you”.

50+ European here. Could you please explain in simple terms what “woke” is? I’ve seen it for years now and still don’t have any idea.

In my mind it’s a lumberjack shirted 30yo with a trimmed full beard and tattoos working as a barista. That’s how little I know of it… Sorry!

I was the lucky owner of a rare FingerWorks Touchstream keyboard for many years. If you don’t know it, it’s the precursor to the keyboards used in Star Trek Enterprise.

It’s a keyless keyboard. Two large flat mousepads with a keyboard layout printed on top, and you type by pure touch. There’s no mouse; the surface just cleverly detects when you are doing mouse gestures. Or a lot of other gestures.

Trekkie joke aside, it’s actually the magic tech that made the iPhone possible. Of course Apple didn’t invent anything, they bought existing future tech.

I miss that keyboard. They still sell on ebay, for 1400$!

184 billion transistors

My mind broke, reading this. From way back when you could count the transistors by pointing at them with your finger, to hundreds of billions on a postage stamp. How??

Wow, that does seem really useful! So clever to use Home Assistant, and nfc tags. Plus, it’s plain csv when you need the data.

Some EU countries (and the City of Munich) habe tried to shift from MS to Linux. It didn’t pan out, but maybe this is the decade where it could be done?

Imagine getting EU funding to run basically the EU IT department - best Linux, best management, supporting open Office suites, and establishing an EU cloud operation. One can dream, right?

I guess it didn’t work well last time partly because of re-training needs, interoperability issues, etc.