Peter Jeschke

@peter@jeschke.dev

@peter@jeschke.dev

I think Microsoft Teams must have my favorite permission prompt. It just prompts "Yeah, I need more permissions, okay?"

No information why it needs more permissions

No information which permissions it's requesting

@peter@jeschke.dev · Reply to Nanoraptor

@NanoRaptor I didn't change my legal name, but I never use it (unless I have to) because it's longer than my "preferred" name and has a non-ASCII letter which annoys some systems. But even my parents have never called me by my full legal name.

Thought about changing it legally, but don't want to bother with it.

And then I thought about choosing a completely different name, just for fun. But I doubt that's a good reason for all the trouble

@peter@jeschke.dev
@mjd@mathstodon.xyz

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space

In the 1960s, the B-52 bomber could navigate by the stars. Celestial navigation requires spherical trigonometry, so an analog Angle Computer solved these equations electromechanically. Let's look inside...

The Angle Computer is a complicated electromechanical system with gears, motors, and bundles of wires. It has a grey metal shell that includes a half sphere. Inside this sphere, arms move a star pointer to indicate the position of a star. Other gears and mechanisms read out the position.
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The Angle Computer is a complicated electromechanical system with gears, motors, and bundles of wires. It has a grey metal shell that includes a half sphere. Inside this sphere, arms move a star pointer to indicate the position of a star. Other gears and mechanisms read out the position.