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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 5h

Real life example of the truth in this from Tuesday: I was sat at my desk, confused by some data on my screen, when someone came over with a piece of cake for me. She commented about the change in my expression, which immediately went from "WTF is going on, this makes no sense 🫤" to "Oooh, cake! 😃"

J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 10h

Too bad they're the wrong five words.

Everyone knows the right five words to make someone happy are, "I saved you some cake."

James Head @jamesrhead.bsky.social · 15h

Hannah Fry knows five words to make you happy.

A bit more economical than the Technomage's 14 words?

@straczynski.bsky.social
@fryrsquared.bsky.social

www.facebook.com/share/r/1JZP...

#babylon5 #b5

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

You can use the search with a term like 'horror' - but that's a crap way to browse, because you have to punch through to each title for the details.

And probably doesn't give you all the results - Netflix, like everyone else, has a terrible search.

VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

TBF, that is ALL action movies, I suppose. Or arguably all movies.

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Mark Fraser @mfraz74.bsky.social · 1d

@vincemh.bsky.social From the April 1998 issue of Acorn User.

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

Nice find.

If I ever finish off my spreadsheet of these events and do something with it, little things like that will have to be included.

VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

I'm off to post the same thing on Twitter now because I can @ them. Not that it'll change anything, but WTH. 🤷‍♂️

VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

(Bah fucking humbug. Grr.)

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

What I really want is to be able to select a proper category (eg horror), possibly a second (eg comedy), then have all the films listed with sorting options - default to alphabetical (but correctly handle 'the'), with duration, year, whatever, as alternatives.

Not carefully curated arse cakes.

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 1d

Just looked at Netflix for the first time in a while. The categories they show have always been annoying, it's never shown all possible categories, etc., but now it's even shittier.

"Action movies with a hint of this"

"Thriller movies with a hint of that"

Just fuck off with that bollocks.

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 5d

Didn't say anything about living in it*. (Though come the apocalypse, it might be an option).

* For a start, by the time my belongings are in it there'd be no room for me.

VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 6d

Ooooh.

Last time one appeared on my radar, it was (IIRC) in the Cotswolds. This one is walking distance from home.

www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...

But nope. I will not be tempted by a silly, frivolous thing.

Berwick Lane, Hallen, Bristol BS10, Property for sale, £20,000 - Zoopla

Property for sale in Berwick Lane, Hallen, Bristol BS10, selling for £20,000 from David Plaister Ltd. See property details on Zoopla or browse all our range of properties in Berwick Lane, Hallen, Bris...

www.zoopla.co.uk

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Paolo Fabio Zaino @paolofabiozaino.bsky.social · 8d

'the hell? it's 4:36am... lol anyway, new UltimaVM PUSH/POP register range fast memory copy is done and there is also a little "twist" POP supports both strick LIFO (like the JVM) and natural order (like the ARM). Had to finish so late, because I had a hell of a busy day at work... Need some sleep!

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 8d

So that's how it worked! Very clever.

Generating the landscape - Lander on the Acorn Archimedes

A deep dive into generating the 3D landscape in Lander on the Acorn Archimedes

lander.bbcelite.com

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 8d

My parents' dog helping at work by making the most of the small amoung of sunlight she found.

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RISC OS London @rougol.bsky.social · 9d

The RISC OS London Show is now just under four weeks away! Preview from RISCOSitory - www.riscository.com/2025/london-...

London Show 2025 - just four weeks to go

Today is Saturday, 27th September, 2025, and I've scheduled this post to appear at 11:00am - which means at the time this article appears it will be precisely f

www.riscository.com

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RISC OS London @rougol.bsky.social · 9d

For those who missed it, Gavin's excellent talk can now be watched here youtu.be/NmZSXjij7x4

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 9d

"Hello home, hello own bed, haven't seen much of you this month."

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Gavin Crawford @givvygavvygoo.bsky.social · 10d

I've been working on Ovation Pro to add extra scaling options to the picture proxy setting. For those who attended my @rougol.bsky.social talk, I explained the use of proxy images. Base/16, Base/32 & Base/64 now offer even smaller proxies, making for smaller document sizes.
#OvationPro #RISC_OS #DTP

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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 13d

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip | Discussion

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip

In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.

arstechnica.com

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. When I last checked, the two monitors I sent back in March (the day I set off to the Lake District, immediately before the RISC OS North show) are still at the drop off point.

I chased them for a refund in April, which they gave me the same day.

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 14d

Holy moly - someone's only gone and made David Braben's Zarch/Virus for the BBC Micro!

Angus Hughes has effectively achieved the impossible - it has all of the speed of the Archimedes original.

Stunning!

#retrogaming #bbcmicro #8bit

bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=...

Orion Patrol

Self-published in 2025

bbcmicro.co.uk

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Colin Hoad @colinhoad.com · 14d

The London RISC OS Show will return on 25th October! @rougol.bsky.social
youtu.be/dAFZTS3xxTc?...

RISC OS London Show 2025

YouTube video by AMCOG

youtu.be

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 13d

Haven't thought about it before, but I think I'd prefer some kind of ejector seat to an airbag.

Not for practical reasons - because it simply wouldn't be. 😂

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VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 14d

Grr. Now do the 400 with this keyboard... the current one is the thing I like least about it.

Pi500+ launched...

www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-ult...

The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200 - Raspberry Pi

A complete desktop PC built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for high performance under heavy load.

www.raspberrypi.com

VinceMH @vincemh.bsky.social · 14d

There is at least one other industry I can think of that has a fixed charge AND unit charges, although it's only B2B (and small fry - like me - can usually get fixed charges only, thank Cthulhu!)

Business banking - a fixed monthly fee, AND per-transaction charges.

See also merchant card services.

Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 14d

The logic that as energy has fixed costs that MUST all be paid by a Standing charge is flawed.

Pubs have fixed costs. Yet you don't pay a monthly pub-access-subscription then a unit rate for each pint on top.

A pint's cost incorporates the fixed cost, as many industries' do.

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