Posts by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
(DIR) Post #AngTy4vV3xb19LUU6K by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2024-11-04T01:49:23Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Well, I’m retired; but when I was a developer I took perverse pleasure in the vagaries of time zones and have many anecdotes about TZ relative disasters; especially to do with calendars and schedules.
(DIR) Post #AnyQf1f4YxyotgFGvg by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2024-11-12T17:37:04Z
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@ErikUden Last time I tried that ChatGPT decided I was founder and CEO of a company in an industry I never worked in and attributed to me several quotes that were by people I had never met. I think it might be worse if you are less well known because it bullshits more.
(DIR) Post #ApYIQunrrhS3hxid72 by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2024-12-29T22:46:25Z
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@stux Carter was one of the last decent men in US politics. He was too nice to be an effective president but he was the best ex president his country is likely to ever see.
(DIR) Post #As781GF3MeRFvv3hBI by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-03-16T13:49:00Z
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@john My laptop runs Windows 10 and I use stand alone Office for email and calendar. I use a hosting company for my domain and share documents through it. I use GitHub but am switching to codeberg.org for my repositories. I don’t put photos online. When I did Linux development it was on my various employers’ Linux boxes but most of my post retirement projects have been Python via VS Code.
(DIR) Post #AsWACybyQZbonapZey by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-03-28T15:41:17Z
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@futurebird @dotsie @ainmosni I am a musician and I have friends with degrees in music who are composers. To us, “AI” covers a lot more than just the current crop of generative ML things. I would say that ML has not produced very good models yet; and that the current approach is unlikely to. On the other hand I don’t think even people who are involved in recording don’t know the extent of AI in music production or how long it’s been used. /1
(DIR) Post #At46C6CXCnU02Vy7Ky by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-04-13T22:46:30Z
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@foolishowl varies a lot from industry to industry. Automobile assembly is highly automated partially because it is the industry with one of the longest histories of being automated. Final assembly of consumer electronics devices is the opposite mostly because the robots necessary are far more expensive than human labor.
(DIR) Post #AtFaQS1YaGFLfmbVbM by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-04-19T13:37:02Z
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@futurebird Can I ask for a class in Mathematical Philosophy? As a philosopher of science it fascinates me but I have never studied it in an organized way. Also, my undergraduate history of mathematics class might as well have been taught out of “Men of Mathematics” since it was entirely dead white men. It would be nice to cover the rest of the history.
(DIR) Post #AtvfAZnt4PRxnPy7TE by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-05-09T20:15:51Z
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Sorry soundcloud. Not interested in having my work used to train AI. Goodbye.#AI
(DIR) Post #AuOwFEzL5x208fm67c by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-05-23T13:25:01Z
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@phocks That there was a time when most people thought that the world was flat.
(DIR) Post #Auiu6LJkbthKVDzlmS by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-06-02T14:56:15Z
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@stux There are nuclear power plants that run their control software on DEC PDP11 machines running RS/X.
(DIR) Post #AulfAfXYRuOmXfw7wu by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-06-03T13:25:11Z
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@MorpheusB @monotonehell @dgar @staringatclouds “works for me” is not as helpful to people it doesn’t work for as you might think. Every OS works well for those using it as expected. No OS works well for those who have edge case problems.
(DIR) Post #AupzZnhO1o3gnhdV4q by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-06-06T01:00:37Z
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@twylo In the context of what OSes from IBM or CDC or others were doing to data storage Unix simplification was a necessary step. The crime is the failure of those who came later to invent file systems with the necessary structure but without the Baroque architecture of OS 360.
(DIR) Post #AvAjUibXPzWuQQL0Pw by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-06-16T01:09:14Z
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@stux The main reason is the US myth of the “rugged individual” coupled with a strong belief that the only way to resolve conflict is by force. The 2nd Amendment just provides cover for the myth.
(DIR) Post #AvEqHQKvVGCsJb10ls by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-06-18T00:44:09Z
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@strypey Marx not only did not coin the term, he didn’t (or rarely) use it and the sense that you use is usually attributed to Louis Blanc in 1850. That aside your main point, that people use the term in conflicting ways causing confusion is spot on.
(DIR) Post #AvfDsWNpyFYKDFoeZc by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-06-30T18:11:05Z
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@bortzmeyer @catsalad because NetBSD is better
(DIR) Post #AwwbbBqMmnL3fzXl9k by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-08-08T01:19:05Z
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@futurebird I didn’t know what a boarding school was. Didn’t learn about them until I was in college.
(DIR) Post #Ax59gRpXj6HAPcW52m by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-08-12T01:08:10Z
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@quixoticgeek I don’t think that Torvalds would agree given that the first use of git was to provide him with a workflow for maintaining a centralized repository while allowing other people to efficiently build variations and submit changes to him to evaluate for inclusion in that repository. It’s that workflow; that works very well for the Linux kernel; that leads to a hierarchy of repositories with a central “official” version.
(DIR) Post #AyJ06I8mHjfKap0PQW by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-09-17T18:29:26Z
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@zeldman I think “briefly” rather than “once”. It’s one of only two high spots in Ben Bradlee’s career as editor and the story was published only after his resistance was overcome.
(DIR) Post #B0AiIdVqeRdJoAFARc by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-11-12T14:16:26Z
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@futurebird FWIW The industry distinguishes between a monitor and a TV by defining a TV as a monitor with a channel tuner built in.
(DIR) Post #B0Gy4ftfXVXb38oAV6 by MartyFouts@mastodon.online
2025-11-15T14:41:27Z
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@futurebird Hi. I am one of those older Americans you want dead. Do fuck off with your NYC centric ageist misunderstanding of the problem with housing in the US. Thanks.