Fantastic work @happybeing.
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Servo (Browser engine) + Tauri, both written in Rust are coming together:
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Just discovered FISH (BASH alternative) … seems pretty nifty.
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I tried it a while back. Interesting but IMHO not quite worth the bother. But then I never really got on with zsh and oh-my-zsh either.
For the serious dev with an aversion to VScode etc I can see it being of interest, otherwise file under “solution in search of a problem”
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I have used it for a few years. It’s pretty good, but has limitations running bash scripts, none of them showstoppers, but they do exist.
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A spring 2023 Nielsen survey, the most recent one available, showed that AM radio reaches about 78 million Americans every month. That is down from nearly 107 million in the spring of 2016, one of the earliest periods for which Nielsen has data… Automakers say the rise of electric vehicles is driving the shift away from AM, because onboard electronics create interference with AM radio signals — a phenomenon that “makes the already fuzzy analog AM radio frequency basically unlistenable,” according to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a car-industry trade group. Shielding cables and components to reduce interference would cost carmakers $3.8 billion over seven years, the group estimates.
I don’t really care about preserving AM radio. However:
“Interference” is another word for RF field, which implies a transmitter and (hopefully) non-ionizing radiation being produced in the car.
Electric motors tend to put out a strong magnetic field as well, which is known to be quite harmful to health/life, carcinogenic, etc. And EVs have very large, very powerful electric motors.
I’ve seen some vids on youtube a few years back where people used RF and EF meters in a Tesla (I don’t remember the model) and the levels appeared to be quite safe. I don’t recall that they tested magnetic fields with the car operating at speed though.
I think that Tesla may also be using a lot more shielding than other manufacturers out of “an abundance of caution” given that it was the first electric vehicle maker out of the gate.
Anyway, for me the takeaway is that before I ever purchased an EV I would perform a thorough EMF scan/investigation. And I would:
- make sure an AM radio works fine inside of it at cruising speed.
- make sure that “phone home” “spy on me” transmitter and “auto updates” can be disabled.
This might be another hidden public health disaster in the making.
Consider: when you drive under a high voltage power line it likewise interferes with AM radio. Would you want to live under a high voltage power line?
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Privacy. Security. Freedom
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I am pretty excited about where this goes.
Fingers amazing as they are are a bit of a hindrance when communicating with a machine.
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This is a sad one for me. I was a huge OS/2 fan in high school and college, wrote my first programs in OS/2, got my first industry job because of it, etc. Hobbes was a big part of that.
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How much of my brain storage space could I set aside for the SafeNet. 
I do wonder if I had a brain port would I get as tired problem solving and coding with a direct link to a machine. I can usually put together a solution in my head but my 10 finger interface is really slow.
Over time, just like learning to walk and talk, I expect I would learn to quickly communicate with the machine. Includen AI services in the mix it will get interesting fast.
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Its Prof Bill and sone guy in a squeaky jacket.
Contrary to popular rumour Prof Bill is occaisionly seen in daylight. With a shadow as well.
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Guessing more than a few spooks will be in attendance - be careful @dirvine they might try to take you out! 
Interesting, I like it, HumanNet.
Just kidding you would think from my recently exposed (I argue incorrect reading score) that I like humans.
I like a few, preferably at a distance with the ability to turn them off with a click 
if they were linked to my brain I’d need to off myself.
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funny… 
not funny
https://mastodon.social/@the_etrain@beige.party/111844957004671988
https://mastodon.social/@Jgmeadows@mstdn.ca/111845112598121254
Wright goes on trial Feb 5, laying faketoshi to rest.
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Falsely backdated Word files: Multiple Word documents Wright provided as evidence were altered to appear as if they existed before the Bitcoin whitepaper was published.
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Sham handwritten documents: Multiple handwritten documents Wright pointed to as evidence of his purported creation of Bitcoin are written on pre-printed notepads that weren’t available until years after the whitepaper itself was shared by the real Satoshi in 2008.
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Fraudulently modified PDF copies of the white paper: Multiple PDF versions of the Bitcoin white paper provided by Wright for this litigation were deliberately altered to look like early drafts. But these contain metadata and fonts that weren’t available until 2017.
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Faked email evidence: Numerous emails provided by Wright have falsified dates and altered sender and recipient information. Additionally, the domain used in these emails was not registered by Wright until years after the dates shown in these messages.
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Bogus hard drive: Last October, as the evidence in the COPA case began stacking up so dramatically against his false claims, Wright said he had just “discovered” a 2007 hard drive which had evidence of his preparatory work leading up to the white paper, 15 years after it was published. Last week, Wright’s own expert declared this hard drive to be a forgery and that some content appears to have been generated using ChatGPT.
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RIP Carl Weathers