Elite.... launched 42 years ago this week. :-) 🛸 🚀 🪐 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(... #tech #gaming #games #elite #42 #retro #BBC #acorn
Elite (video game) - Wikipedia
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Andi Chandler
@andibing.bsky.social
Technologist.. normally lurking in Clouds or behind enemy lines fixing stuff! ;-) A few of my favourite things : ☁️🐈🐧💻📡🛰️🚙🚄✈️🚀🏡🏔️
Handy FluffyStack weather forecast. See if your cloud is under the weather. fluffystack.dev/weather/ #tech #cloud #status
Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
Great to see the Government putting £7.8bn behind a new UK Space Strategy. - Launch facilities - Surveillance - Mars rover - Connectivity ..etc... #science #tech #space www.gov.uk/government/n...
New space strategy will bolster UK defences against threats from space
New UK space strategy to bring government's investment and activity under one plan to drive growth, strengthen security and back everyday technologies
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On the surface perhaps this seems like “VHS vs Betamax” but really it’s a story of avoiding planned obsolescence. CERN plans to move from RHEL to Debian to avoid rendering many thousands of devices unusable. #tech #linux #cern #science #debian #redhat www.theregister.com/os-platforms...
CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian
Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem
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Interesting new CPU from IBM. Dual-ISA (instruction set) that natively executes ARM and z/Architecture in the same cores. Running at 5.7GHz and built on 2nm #tech #CPUs #infrastructure #mainframe #hardware #compute #IBM #ARM www.servethehome.com/ibm-z-and-li...
IBM Z and LinuxONE Dual-ISA Processor and AI Acceleration at Hot Chips 2026
At Hot Chips 2026, IBM showed a crazy new IBM Z CPU that will support IBM Z and Arm instruction sets natively.
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Space ASMR! LandSpace Zhuque-3 rocket, launch and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZLK... #space #rocketlaunch #rocket #spaceexploration #landspace
🚀 You asked for the full ride. Here it is.| Osmo Action 6
YouTube video by DJI
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35 Years of Linux today! Unfortunately I've only been using it daily for 34 years. So still learning. ;-) hashtag#Linux hashtag#OpenSource hashtag#tech hashtag#anniversary hashtag#os
The next installment from Dr.Semiconductor... this time LEDs. :-) A handy guide to producing them if you fancy making some in your shed too. #shed #tech #science #semiconductors #LED www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHyo...
Making LEDs at Home
YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor
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Amazing what you find on the ocean floor. "ITLU 733016" Found during a dive 1500m deep in the Gulf of Mexico. #ocean #exporation #science #shippingcontainers #deepsea #wreck www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXV...
A Washing Machine in the Deep Ocean
YouTube video by NOAA Ocean Exploration
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Floating Data Centres… coming to a sea or lake near you soon… It begs the question as to which other industries could ‘off land’? Which other factories and other industrial facilities can we move? #tech #datacentres #datacenters #offshore #maritime #engineering samsungshi.com/En/Notice_ne...
Interesting project redirecting aircraft to reduce the climate impact of contrails. Involves new forecast models and AI to make slight adjustments to the flight path. www.nats.aero/news/operati... #tech #science #aviation #climate #contrails #ai #airspace
Operation Blue Skies Takes Off: Landmark Oceanic Airspace Trial to Test AI-Driven Contrail Avoidance - NATS
NATS provides safe and efficient air traffic services and innovative solutions to UK and international airports, airlines and governments.
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“Drone in a Box” deployment at Waterloo station from SkyBound and Network Rail to speed up track investigations. www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news... #tech #robots #robotics #drones #networkrail #skybound #railways
Not the last word in Astrophotography, but the pinhole camera worked well and the kids had a great time learning about planetary motion, photography etc. #science #stem #astrophotography #eclipse
I’m pretty sure I already designed a vehicle just like this sometime in the early ‘80s… …whilst watching Knight Rider and The A-Team. ;-) #tech #automotive #aviation #xpeng youtu.be/le4F5Qxje_Q?...
Chinese company XPeng debuts its flying car in Germany
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Consultation on whether Data Centre developments should pay a refundable deposit for a grid connection. Should prevent some of the speculative developments that have no hope of coming to fruition. #tech #datacentres #datacenters #power #energy www.ofgem.gov.uk/press-releas...
Ofgem acts to free up grid capacity by tackling speculative data centre projects
Our consultation on plans to tackle speculative data centre projects in Britain's electricity connections queue.
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This seems remarkably familiar… the realisation that the only documentation is in your head and nowhere else! #tech #knowledge #support www.theregister.com/software/202...
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered
The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
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Cutting back on science and research is never a good thing. Especially considering its a tiny amount of money in the scheme of things. :-( #science #JodrellBank #LovellTelescope #astronomy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Fluffystack.dev now shows the weather forecast! :-) Dashboards here... including one designed for digital signage. fluffystack.dev/weather/ fluffystack.dev/weather/dash... #cloud #tech #fluffystack #dashboards #weather
Utopia. No bureaucracy. :-) #companies #jobs #denmark #tech www.euronews.com/business/202...
What happens when a company has no bosses? A Danish firm found out
At a Danish company that runs the country's biggest network of electric-car chargers, the CEO made himself obsolete, and more than 500 employees now share responsibility for running the business.
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Latest update to Fluffystack.dev. - Dashboard of Cloud service providers - Map of Sovereign Cloud Coverage - Jurisdictional scorecard showing legal frameworks. fluffystack.dev #cloud #tech #fluffystack #sovereigncloud #data #datacentre #datacenter #GDPR #USCLOUD
More underwater servers. A good place to keep them cool. #cloud #tech #datacentre #datacenter #energy #shanghai #china #wind www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
China deploys wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast — $226 million project could top 24 megawatts, harnessing the cooling power of the sea
Shanghai’s Lin-gang project dunks server pods beneath the waves.
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I've made an update to fluffystack.dev, introducing more Cloud Service Providers for comparison. In addition to the existing API, a text-only mode has been added, allowing export of cloud service data to Markdown and other formats. #tech #cloud #tools #fluffystack
Amazing list of things named after David Attenborough… #science #davidattenborough #happybirthday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of things named after David Attenborough and his works - Wikipedia
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