Posts by fisher@toots.nu
(DIR) Post #B251z2yPrgaHF8v8uu by fisher@toots.nu
2026-01-08T13:47:49Z
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@stefano Cool story bro, but it's too fictional, I'd say.First off, as a Ukrainian, I know that powerlines can survive "the spikes" by just cutting the power at the very input. No damage to equipment behind the input electric circuit breaker, nope. You just get damaged input.Next, I used to work in a bank. And here we had a clear requirement for data storage center: more than one power input -- is a must.
(DIR) Post #B251z3y6ALvMKRmP3o by fisher@toots.nu
2026-01-08T13:50:41Z
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@stefano Third, given it's a data center, power consumption is probably tens of KW. The "gang" could probably be killed in action playing with it.Fourth, if there is a power spike and cut off, it won't go unnoticed by those who control power lines. They will be the first on site to see what happened.
(DIR) Post #B251zBPeUJ7jPvj0To by fisher@toots.nu
2026-01-08T13:52:30Z
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@stefano but otherwise it's a cool horror story, yeah =)
(DIR) Post #B3QM2qy40WAtQIcOXo by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-17T20:58:47Z
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@tomjennings I was forced to use Emacs back in 2009 since back then there were no support for Erlang programming language in any other editor. So it was a hard transition for me from vim.But since then, I stuck to Emacs and don't want anything else. And of course, I have my own config for it, $ wc -l ./*el3755 total
(DIR) Post #B3QMrNtnqNLA2LijNA by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-17T21:07:56Z
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@tomjennings as you may probably know, e-mail was designed to send text. I'm sure you know that your attachment is mime-encoded, so it's not a good idea to send really huge images. No offence implied.What do "normal" folk do? I don't know since I'm certainly not normal, but usually my contacts have some kind of instant messengers (telegram is most popular I guess), so I usually send files via this thing. At least it works instantly and it is aware of binaries, not just text.
(DIR) Post #B3TRG4R2KW9eCWAhyS by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-19T08:41:20Z
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@tomjennings @dec23k Humans aren't a homogeneous group; they're diverse. For some, the ideal world is a reservation with friendly nature, birds, and flowers. These are degenerates. They're incapable of survival and are doomed to extinct.Come on, we're already in the era of AI. It could happen that people themselves won't even notice how they find themselves in some kind of a reservation.I'm actually defending the needs of humanity, I want us to survive in a hostile world.
(DIR) Post #B3TRaokfppytdpFY7k by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-19T08:45:06Z
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@tomjennings @dec23k Human desires can be reduced to stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain. Satisfying such human desires is incredibly dangerous. Let's instead stimulate higher nervous activity, shall we? Thinking, for example...
(DIR) Post #B3UbwGvBURLzmwzkBc by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-19T22:15:45Z
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@tomjennings @dec23k It looks like you're blaming technology and 'tech guys' as if it's their evil will to annoy you, while in fact, the problem is much broader than that. Why don't you invest your time and create your own proto to exchange files directly between end users? Which is, in fact, impossible to do w/o an intermediary server - due to slow adoption of IPv6. Do it and face the final boss - the same who killed other attempts like bittorrent. The same who makes e-mail just spam bucket.
(DIR) Post #B3Uc9NvekNnlHqT6IK by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-19T22:18:07Z
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@tomjennings @dec23k "a basic thing, sharing photos and conversation with a friend electronically" -- as I said in the very first post here, there is at least one solution that I know - the name is 'telegram'. I'm sure there are others.