Posts by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
(DIR) Post #Ahp3ac3vsgn9XHBzyi by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-05-05T14:05:09Z
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Literally just happened in the car when we were trying to figure out if it was a Christian holiday day.Q: “Hey Siri which religious holiday is it today?”A: “Today is Cinco de Mayo.”
(DIR) Post #AhweFtUevzK9vVOfT6 by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-05-05T23:35:03Z
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Christoph S2024-05-05 20:29:14 ♲ @psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com:Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on Bluesky’s board - The Verge theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543…
(DIR) Post #Ahwvs6x52jJZtMV2kC by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-05-05T23:45:14Z
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For networks that don’t pick up edits it should read “high on their own god complex”
(DIR) Post #Ahx5aogSi1Qvqy7Pou by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-05-15T20:46:31Z
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We never even saw a fraction of this level of freakout when gay people referred to non-gay people as "straight people" or the term "heteronormativity". I wonder why the pearl clutching orders of magnitude greater over this very bland term.
(DIR) Post #Aj8JNHiLjBIXHd4df6 by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-06-20T22:30:36Z
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If we could get it below Trump's strike price by the time he's allowed to sell it in September that'd be great...
(DIR) Post #AjW3xKhx8028YFOQ2i by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-06-24T14:57:00Z
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My first fediverse experience and my first code contribution to the fediverse was the Diaspora project. While I am Friendica based nowadays it is great to see that D* 0.9 is released. D* finally having an API for clients is a big deal. Congrats to the team! #diaspora #fediverse https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/77-diaspora-version-0-9-0-0-released
(DIR) Post #AjrNmrLfVdCc0APYwK by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-07-12T16:22:58Z
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Supabase is my go to back end because it is an alternative to the big tech options, is Postgres based and is self hostable. I don’t self host but the fact I have the option is important to me. Looking forward to listening @changelog #programminghttps://changelog.fm/599
(DIR) Post #AkRN8ktW5136imvPBw by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-07-29T23:18:29Z
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𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️⚧️🦋2024-07-29 23:10:53 I want to tell a story. This is the story why I started using #Linux. And why I had no Microsoft products in my house since.That year was 1997. Computers on the manufacturing floor at work were mostly open hardware Z80 controlled GE/Fanuc PLC's... or PC's running a several kilobyte assembly language program connected to parallel port I/O boards. And that older stuff worked like a top 24/7/365 unless the power went out or someone accidentally blasted the steam seals near the desktop computer. They were controlling large production lines long as football fields.Then some engineer who I will never forgive decided to rewrite all the production machine systems in Visual Basic for Windows 95. Windows and other proprietary systems were crashing like crazy. Remember, this is when Windows didn't use memory page protection and was filled with kernel bugs. It was unreal. If a machine had to be restarted, the production had to be restarted and that made a lot of scrap. There were about 30 active production lines running at one time, limited to the 1.6 megawatt agreement with the utilities. If all the Windows machines crashed, it took about 80,000 pounds of raw materials to restart the production lines. Forklifts would be filling up the dumpster on the back dock.Every night at midnight, proprietary software known as BackupExec would start at midnight. After about half an hour, the load average would increase on the Oracle database and crash it. Every production machine would routinely push the production report and would crash the entire production line if it wasn't there to sync. The whole plant would shut down shortly after midnight, every night. After a week, this got old, fast.One night, I had a life changing event with a Windows machine. An operator called on the radio that a plastic extruder was on fire. It was a 330,000 kilowatt PVC extruder and the Microsoft Visual Basic computer was showing zero degrees on every heat zone. Obviously with the fire from the barrel heaters, it was at least several hundred degrees. A few moments later was a loud explosion and the plant floor went dark with chlorine gas. I could see light to the right of me and that's where I ran. When smoke cleared, I could see the extruder barrel had shot the thousand pound head across the plant floor like a canon. Fortunately I was only several feet away from being in front of it, so I lived. Visual Basic had an interesting feature where malfunctions like that happened a lot.That week, a copy of Redhat Linux 4.1 arrived in the mail. I installed it on my new laptop. It was crazy fast. It did everything I wanted. I compiled the kernel. I compiled everything. It could play mp3 music. And it was reliable. It was all fun and games until some years after the IPO. Google did the same thing. I would soon learn we had a term for this. #enshitificationSo this is why I love free open source software and despise walled gardens of software companies. I remember #RMS on #UseNet was a bit crazy then, but he made the #GNU software license that made this possible.That's my Linux story. And how #Microsoft almost killed me. Other people have #Microsoft horror stories, but this one was mine.
(DIR) Post #An6opuhPDDLPoQihdY by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-10-17T17:52:33Z
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DistroTube YouTube channel just posted an RMS apologia piece. See all his shit isn't that crazy and is NBD because he helped birth FOSS, FSF, and GPL. I was uncomfortable reading the report excerpts in public it was such sick shit RMS wrote. So not going to indulge that shit by giving DistroTube any more clicks, view minute money, etc. Unsubscribe. #rant #StallmanReport
(DIR) Post #AnqiL0s02Y00YqDeme by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-11-09T00:12:08Z
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What happens when you have the fusion of kleptocracy, oligarchy, kakistocracy, with a hint of theocracy all rolled into one? Sounds pretty fashy to me. I guess we are about to find out :( #uspoli
(DIR) Post #Anrus5BQPwOC6Qnh44 by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-11-09T13:38:47Z
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I love these sorts of memes :) #humor #geekhumor
(DIR) Post #Apbpr6biTqu5oB0kls by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2024-12-31T15:30:31Z
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Are downloads for offline listening broken for anyone else that uses Tidal? I haven’t been able to get anything to process from my downloads queue for days now. #tidal #music
(DIR) Post #ApeRy4tvPMEh7MCRRg by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-01-01T21:45:45Z
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On my run I was listening to an episode of “Gone Medieval” which had the topic of the life of nuns. It had me wanting to reread up on Sister Buster, “The Iron Nun” who retired from doing Iron Man races at the record age of 82. Turns out she is still doing shorter triathlons into her 90s. Truly an inspiration. #health #fitness #triathlon #longevityAt 92 Years Young, the "Iron Nun" is Still Running
(DIR) Post #AqfnICb2MTRtYm6XRY by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-01-31T21:52:04Z
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This FOSDEM talk on restoring a Commodore C900 Unix workstation should be interesting. It's a pretty obscure machine and it sounds like herculean effort to get drive working. #RetroComputing #Commodore #fosdem fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
(DIR) Post #Av1WTJmDC7wVJ4h1e4 by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-06-11T12:09:37Z
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I love the whole Snow White design language that Frog Design came up with for Apple in the mid-1980s. Think the Apple //c, Macintosh II/SE, etc. There were lots of concept machines including a truly portable LCD-based laptop that was impossible to build at the time. Thanks to lots of 3D printing this YouTuber made it for real. Truly astonishing. #RetroComputing #apple #3DPrintingApple’s first iPad? I Build it
(DIR) Post #AvrkuiVD02MCWjnF20 by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-07-06T19:00:31Z
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Kenny Chaffin2025-07-06 18:58:36EVs Will Decimate Big Oil. Even Without U.S. Tax Credits.Electric vehicles are already displacing millions of barrels of oil per day globally. Oil demand is expected to fall spectacularly over the next decade.insideevs.com/news/764730/evs-…
(DIR) Post #AwqfMAvN9hLZLkDmbo by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-08-03T00:57:01Z
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The Discovery Channel, and their likes, ran shows about these conspiracy theories but didn't *exactly* call them out as conspiracy theories. I guess that was the 1990s equivalent of clickbait. The brainrot long predates social media.
(DIR) Post #AxebaSWPqA224J6Fyy by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-08-29T02:45:52Z
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I know this is one of those things that dates someone but I found this very funny :) #humor #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AxiY3fl65BzwKqTtx2 by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-02-20T02:01:06Z
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The amount of progress we've been making on fusion power in the last year has been astounding. #science #physics #fusionFrance runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes
(DIR) Post #B1m91kE2M6mcaYuEQS by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
2025-12-30T13:30:52Z
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This is a very cool service that I only discovered because of this post. It's a great write up about the backstory of the project as well. I either forgot it existed or learned about snac, a C-based AP server implementation, because of it as well. Neat!