Post AWvTFlyWQTN72b5Cm8 by dalias@hachyderm.io
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 (DIR) Post #AWtzn1waspa4LCACOm by robpike@hachyderm.io
       2023-06-21T02:07:01Z
       
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       Does anyone have any technology that works? I am becoming despondent over the state of things. So much technological progress and yet everything seems to be broken (or must be updated, which amounts to the same thing in user experience) all the time.Sorry.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWtzqaNpIO5I1Mb3OC by tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com
       2023-06-21T02:31:17.756228Z
       
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       @robpike @yuvipanda All of those years of bit rot and dead code are catching up to us.  It's the software version of the accumulation of space junk orbiting Earth.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWucswOQKcmD4ezR9E by Zergling_man@birds.garden
       2023-06-21T09:49:32.678670Z
       
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       @robpike Sounds like javascript problems to me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWv1jL2ILtTXSg9oZc by scathach@stereophonic.space
       2023-06-21T14:27:50.184872Z
       
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       @robpike I have a Winchester model 24 shotgun that's about 70 years old and still works perfectlyTechnological progress isn't all bad though, my S&W M&P Shield pistol was manufactured just last year and is an absolutely brilliant piece of engineering that combines ergonomics, reliability, capacity, and size in a way that would have been considered impossible 100 years ago
       
 (DIR) Post #AWv3U5f3QuSRLG8y0m by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2023-06-21T14:47:32.481939Z
       
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       @robpike Yes.My https://libreboot.at/ KGPE-D16 with 2 6282 SE's, running GNU/GNU Linux-libre and only 100% free software is working.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWv3q2yG7FVBMwb1Oq by Tiskaany@pl.nulled.red
       2023-06-21T14:51:34.161107Z
       
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       @robpike paper and pencil.simpul as.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWv5oIAipNmRqLiUYS by sallyNULL@gleasonator.com
       2023-06-21T15:09:13.408346Z
       
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       @Suiseiseki> KGPE-D16Doesn't that board have an IPMI? Is that replaced with Libreboot as well?
       
 (DIR) Post #AWv5oIxzsBCCJAlqMK by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2023-06-21T15:13:34.869930Z
       
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       @sallyNULL The board has slot for a BMC.On certain Chinese boards the BMC is soldered on, but I've desoldered the BMC from 2 boards so far without any issues.There is free BMC software available and you can flash the BMC with a patched version of flashrom (in case you're wondering, flashing all 0 to the BMC causes and hang and makes the mobo unable to boot until the BMC is removed).
       
 (DIR) Post #AWvTFlyWQTN72b5Cm8 by dalias@hachyderm.io
       2023-06-21T02:40:35Z
       
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       @robpike The normalization of updates is the worst - especially treating it as proper security hygiene.If there is an actual security need, the components that applies to need to be 100% factored out from anything UI/behavioral so that there is never a need for involuntary changes to how something works or how you interact with it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWvyOCSYvkTorJZxdg by progo@noagendasocial.com
       2023-06-22T01:25:12Z
       
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       @robpike my guitar has a mic, preamp, and digital tuning device built into the body. It doesn't have WiFi, and works very well.No more examples off the top of my head :^)
       
 (DIR) Post #AX0NtkbJJrwfD1eTjs by dpnash@mastodon.online
       2023-06-23T21:02:25Z
       
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       @robpike I have three telescopes, built in 1985, 2001, and 2018. All work fine, though there's a rubber bearing in the focuser of the 1985 scope that needs to be cleaned a bit. It helps that precisely shaped glass doesn't rot, crash, require updates, throw up random paywalls, or eat all your CPU cycles if you look at it funny.(If we're talking specifically about computer/network tech, my almost 3 y.o. M1 Mac Mini pretty much just works as intended, albeit with the usual Apple quirky bits.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AX0NtlQMG4mJlLXFJ2 by robpike@hachyderm.io
       2023-06-23T21:44:41Z
       
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       @dpnash But glass flows, and I've often wondered why large old lenses like the 40" in Yerkes can hold their figure. One of nature's mysteries.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX0Ntm8JcdwLxg6Lp2 by dpnash@mastodon.online
       2023-06-23T21:51:22Z
       
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       @robpike The simple answer is that at room temperature, glass doesn't flow. If it did, all telescope mirrors, which need to have a surface figure accurate to about 1/10 of a wavelength of visible light (so, about +/- 50 *nanometers* across the entire surface of the glass) would be ruined within years, if not days. See, e.g. https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/how-does-glass-change-over-time/.
       
 (DIR) Post #AX0sp7OWF7LX28wKZ6 by stevenroose@x0f.org
       2023-06-24T10:16:22Z
       
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       @robpike @pluralistic I feel you. At some point, #macOS was the OS that "just worked" but that also doesn't seem the case anymore the last 5 years.
       
 (DIR) Post #AczyGFfnN1RW92Zlei by jack@berlin.social
       2023-06-21T06:40:37Z
       
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       @robpike Modern camping equipment is an amazing improvement over what we had in the 70s — light, comfortable, &c. The material scientists have not failed us.