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What I meant was: join me for some headless goat polo in Kyrgyzstan in September!

 

The World Nomad Games 2018 finally have a date (Sep 2-8), and I'm pretty sure I'm going: https://www.facebook.com/events/1142720975884440

 
 

Elon's underground tunnel transport system "will always give priority to pods for pedestrians & cyclists for less than the cost of a bus ticket". And the first tunnel under L.A. is almost done: https://www.instagram.com/p/BinoVT6Acpd/

 

I think it would be kind of useful if everyone just used the term machine learning instead of AI, when they mean machine learning and not actual artificial intelligence. I guess it's too late and we have to come up with a new name for the latter anyway.

 

Great, only 3 days until Velothon Berlin and I notice that my bottom bracket is clicking now. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

 
 

Looks like the journalists, who wrote the articles I was getting my information from, didn't do their job properly, and Lundgren actually *did* make a business out of selling counterfeit Windows copies, and then blatantly lie to everyone: https://social.i2p.rocks/notice/1316651

 
 
 

And no, the "he shouldn't have done it like this" excuse is invalid. The discs were never distributed or used in the first place. And it was 100% Microsoft's choice to hit this good-willed person with the might of their legal team, instead of asking them to do it differently.

 

If you use Microsoft software, or even work for them, you support a corporation which just had a man sent to prison for extending computers' lives using *valid Windows licenses*. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyright-20180426-story.html

 

Giro d'Italia fun fact: they used to have a black jersey for the slowest rider, and riders actually competed for it "by hiding in bars, barns, and behind hedges, or even by puncturing their own wheels": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglia_nera

 

"The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/spy-agency-nsa-collected-500-million-u-s-c...

 

It's already pretty amazing that you can daisy-chain two external displays via DisplayPort and it just works out of the box with Linux/X.Org/GNOME3. But they went the extra mile and you can even select audio output per display: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/180504-1548-Screenshot%20from%202018-05-04%2015-52-20....

 

The grand tour cycling season is upon us, and this time we get to see a ton of sensor data for the first time ever. Velon.cc offers live data on their site, and here's the summary for today's first Giro d'Italia stage: http://velon.cc/en/news/2018/05/defending-champion-tom-dumoulin-storms-to-giro-d-italia-stage-1-win

 
 

Oh my, what a GIMP release this is: https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html

 

Considering doing the 100km round at Velothon Berlin. Anyone here did it before? http://www.velothon.com/events/velothon-berlin.aspx

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