Adam Savage did a show-and-tell about a steampunk GPS device that isn't just an amazing object, but also an actual, working GPS. Made by Hardly Human FX;

Hardly Human FX

HardlyHumanFX is a consortium of engineers, artists, illusionists, puppeteers, and lunatics. We believe that the world deserves a little magic and ...

It's expensive, almost a thousand dollars with the leather case, but damn, the craft that went into it is kind of mind-blowing 😄

Huh, this is a pretty neat idea; "One Belgium-based company is breathing new life into old smartphone parts though, by ripping the mainboard out of an old phone and adding the ports and other features necessary to use it like a single-board computer. Citronics is kicking things off by offering a development kit made by combining a Fairphone 2 motherboard with a purpose-build carrier board that turns it into a tiny desktop computer.”

Liliputing

This pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard - Liliputing

This pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard

“Microsoft's April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates are strangely creating an empty ‘inetpub’ folder in the root of the C:\ drive, even on systems that do not have Internet Information Services (IIS) installed.” Who needs QA when you have ‘AI’? 🤪

BleepingComputer

Windows 11 April update unexpectedly creates new 'inetpub' folder

Microsoft's April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates are strangely creating an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C:\ drive, even on systems th...

Lukewarm take: Smartphone bans are aimed at assuaging panicking adults, not helping the actual teens. We are panicking about smartphones because we do not want to address the root causes, such as toxic masculinity, sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. We are panicking about smartphones because we do not want to address addictive algorithms and dark patterns, and continue allowing the likes of Google, Meta, and TikTok to poison minds for profit. We are panicking about smartphones rather than addressing food, poverty, inequality, racism, and so forth. Smartphone bans are denial, so we can continue doing business as usual.

“Six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand were arrested after more than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house on Thursday. The raid was condemned by the Quakers as ‘an aggressive violation’.” "However, Youth Demand said the publicity surrounding the raid had had the effect of increasing awareness of their activities and as many as 200 people had since expressed interest in joining protests starting this Tuesday to highlight Israel’s actions in Gaza.” Fuck yeah ✊🏻

the Guardian

Youth Demand says more protesters have signed up since Quaker house raid

Group claims as many as 200 people have expressed interest in joining its action as arrests drive awareness

#OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian

Question: is anyone aware of a camera doorbell system available in Europe that is not only secure, but also privacy minded, only activating when a human actually gets close and/or rings the doorbell? Like, no continuous recording, nothing stored, camera stays off until human gets within sensor range? 🤔 Boosts welcome 🙏🏻

Since we're apparently getting a second winter later in the week, I went out to a nearby patch of spring flowers, and got a few shots in good light 🙂 #BloomScrolling

Reminder for my fellow Europeans; It’s as bad here as in the United States, and, in some cases, worse. The world's deadliest migrant border is ours. We actually built that wall. We have the large migrant camps. We deport migrants to authoritarian regimes outside of our own borders, and pay those regimes to keep them there. Women's rights are under assault everywhere, including in so-called 'liberal’ countries like the Netherlands. Same for LGBTQI+ rights. TERFs are basically a European invention. Most elections are won and lost on migration, 'anti-woke’ hate, etc. We are just as racist, sexist, *phobic, etc. Wake TF up 🚮

Trans women are women, period 🏳️‍⚧️ #InternationalWomensDay

This is your reminder that "parents' rights" is a property claim, from the same lineage as the claims made by enslavers. It is not a coincidence that it first rose to prominence in regressive circles in the US.