Human folly for 02026-06-12

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• Sonny piers elaborates on his ban from the GNOME (old.reddit.com):

  #GNOME Foundation bans Sonny Piers, apparently for criticizing them

• (web.archive.org):

  fact sheet for Turbo #Pascal 3. #retrocomputing

• Tp301 (pascal.hansotten.com):

  Turbo #Pascal 3.01 for CP/M. #CPM #retrocomputing

• Turbo Pascal on CPM MSX DOS and MS DOS (pascal.hansotten.com):

  #history of Turbo #Pascal on CP/M and #MS-DOS. #CPM #retrocomputing

• Sustainability initiative (admin.ch):

  #Switzerland has a ballot initiative to cap the country’s population at 10 million.

• (dmitry.gr):

  Dmitry Grinberg designed an SBC with an #STM32 (STM32G030) that can run Linux at an interactively usable speed with just three 8-pin chips: the μC, an SPI PSRAM, and a USB-to-serial chip. Also some resistors and caps. #hardware #electronics #microcontrollers

• Abounding with (framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu):

  "FrameNet" is a Berkeley research project on “semantic frames” that give words meaning. #linguistics

• Call to action stop the FCC KYC regime (blog.lopp.net):

  #FCC wants to adopt #KYC for #PSTN service

• Peter Thiel tribunal journalists trial (hollywoodreporter.com):

  #Thiel is funding a startup called "Objection" to set up a #social-credit scheme for #journalism

• Gas turbine prices soar 195 as market faces supply demand crisis (woodmac.com):

  #news (press release) from Wood Mackenzie: “Gas turbine prices soar 195% as market faces supply-demand crisis”, “Prices anticipated to be US$600/kW by end-2027—a 195% increase since 2019”.

• Torness (antipope.org):

  Charlie #Stross’s account of his guided tour of the Torness Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) #nuclear reactor complex. #energy