Posts by lolcat@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #ATclLVI9sVeFr4PiqW by lolcat@digipres.club
2023-03-15T01:23:10Z
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@Teri_Kanefield Tacopino is a former "mob lawyer" who once represented and then flipped on Bernie Kerik. He also likes to buy Italian soccer clubs.https://www.courthousenews.com/bernie-kerik-says-lawyer-hung-him-out-to-dry/
(DIR) Post #AhrBw7FaJA70IIKKau by lolcat@digipres.club
2024-05-13T18:12:53Z
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@foone Sucking up resources is evidence Skynet became self sustaining sometime around 1999, and really hit its stride by 2010 or so. GenAI is just more proof. Power calc pedantry to follow. https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/07/27/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use/Estimated ~10gwh to train, and ~1gwh/day to run. ~500 days in operation, so ~1/2 twh consumed so far. ~25pwh annual global electric consumption.So, < one fiftythousandth of global consumption (~0.005%).
(DIR) Post #AhvfIAXqPkMWBZZjyC by lolcat@digipres.club
2024-05-15T21:57:20Z
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@foone Turntable? With the floppy sitting in the middle, on its side edge? With the camera fixed in position, the top edge will be a little closer to the lens, but can be rescaled?
(DIR) Post #AlPC7yOmwb9uIsZXKS by lolcat@digipres.club
2024-08-27T21:53:48Z
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@foone I have vague memories of a colleague working up a script to connect Windows PCs to our network via SLIP and Trumpet WINSOCK to enable POP access for Eudora.We ran a terminal server that supported dialup SLIP, PPP, ARAP, and, of course, serial terminals. As I recall, US Robotics modems were the only ones capable of real-world 56k rates, and even that required quite a bit of S-register fiddling. We even acted as the ISP for remote offices.A lot of that was genuinely fun stuff to do.
(DIR) Post #Alw9jqmPpbsY22feLo by lolcat@digipres.club
2024-09-12T19:27:53Z
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@ActionRetro I used to have a University of Mars sweatshirt. I swear this is relevant, at least to a few geezers.
(DIR) Post #AmFVlzRUU8CsTLXzrE by lolcat@digipres.club
2024-09-22T03:39:20Z
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@foone Now that you mention it, they're pretty well positioned to make a compelling alternative to the nightmare that are is Windows while giving the Appleverse some competition too.Imagine a BlueBox running RedHat. Built like tanks, which is in their wheel house, and competes with Apple. Great kernel support for all the carefully curated hardware...Maybe open GPFS while they're at it.Maybe the year of the Linux desktop really could be more than a meme.
(DIR) Post #Anqj8KK2VPqP53qiPI by lolcat@digipres.club
2024-11-09T00:25:59Z
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@foone Hahaha! I hadn't heard much mention of ADA since NINETEEN NINETY FIVE!!
(DIR) Post #AqbPNXsrT3AjUucJSS by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-01-29T16:41:58Z
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What's the best Linux distro to install and use on an old PowerBook G4?
(DIR) Post #AtS3AVvxVbjHjVG25o by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-04-25T13:55:42Z
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@ricci I'd a little surprised not to see more university-based instances. Go back to 1999, and every third *nix workstation at every uni seemed to be running one or more web servers (sometimes without the knowledge of the department that owned it).I could, of course, just be misinterpreting the data...
(DIR) Post #AtS69PpyzOeoOkd8Nc by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-04-25T14:29:08Z
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@ricci Could be. But being so far down the list suggests to me a big change in student culture. Back in the day ®, students *played* with computers. Having access to the global internet, static IPs, and always-on *nix hosts was treated like a subversive playground where the only limit was your imagination.Maybe that's all still true, but I can't see it bc I'm stuck in the past and am blind to how things work now.
(DIR) Post #AtSBaSAiuvHlED2kng by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-04-25T15:30:02Z
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@ricci Yeah, that trend contributed to my decision to bow out of academia a few years ago. In my experience, HPC operations tend to operate largely outside campus IT, and, as a result, you see more of the play culture there. Campus IT management generally hates HPC and does everything in their power to shut it down - not necessary bc they're opposed to playfulness (though, they are), but because it represents a power center ($$) outside their control.
(DIR) Post #AvzXGlwL3TOfSvmjpY by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-07-10T13:22:35Z
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@futurebird Plu ca change...One of my first programming tasks was in 1985 - coding mailing list sw for a non-profit. Asking for zip/postal code first, then populating unique fields automatically, plus structured+validated fields per the USPS - it wasn't rocket science, but 99.99% of systems still got it wrong.Add in the failure of every single system to adequately deal with multiple recipients at the same address, and it was already clear computers were shaping up to be a bad idea.
(DIR) Post #AxCoy5kc0qCBNDSfhY by lolcat@digipres.club
2025-08-15T21:02:59Z
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@prahou This is 100% true.Speaking with a senior MS computer scientist in ~2007/8 who was helping to lead their "Big Data" initiative, he freely acknowledged that they didn't see the academic/research cloud as ever being profitable. No, what they were after was (a) the legitimacy that comes from association with leading CS departments, and (b) leading CS talent to teach them how to convert the > 1PB of data collected about us each day (in 2008) into $$. I.e. Surveillance Capitalism.
(DIR) Post #B2cxDjAXbmXNVKxcuG by lolcat@digipres.club
2026-01-25T00:59:01Z
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@foone awk.The single line might be > 200 characters long.