Posts by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #AUWRP3vViXSZLLoTNQ by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-10T22:03:37Z
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@ParadeGrotesque somehow your mention of CD sets took me all the way back to the days of floppy sets (the 5 1/4in ones were really floppy, you'd just have to hope against hope to work your way through the entire set with no fatal bad sectors). I don't remember the 8in ones but I do recall the joy of all the extra capacity of double-sided and later high density disks!I never installed any BSD from floppy, but I did my very first Slackware.Good times!
(DIR) Post #AUcXMZTND4f7tmNCHA by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-13T20:38:39Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Vim and Emacs?! I've heard Real Programmers use cat. ;) And the lesser ones that aren't infallible and may need to edit what they wrote use ed.
(DIR) Post #AWFpZuaH06sp1DQkVc by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-01T17:26:56Z
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everything that's the same everywhere else in the world is different in the UK.
(DIR) Post #AWG7cdfq7xQccGU5PE by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-01T20:50:46Z
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@ParadeGrotesque i meant things more than people. :) from the kitchen sink to the door lock to the power plug to traffic and taxis...
(DIR) Post #AWvUx8hNuqSRvIJGZU by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-21T19:53:56Z
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no hardware change should imply no need constantly to update the OS.no change of usage should imply no need constantly to update the application.no change of function should imply no need constantly to maintain and modify the code.the fact that none of these implications hold true should make anyone with any respect for semantics think twice before putting the words software and engineering together to refer to a real thing.
(DIR) Post #AXCHfBOtc5O2DPi0Wm by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-29T22:08:04Z
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i occasionally think i may want to try a video game but even just imagining it i'm almost instantly overcome by boredom.
(DIR) Post #AXUi1xi2NezlMMnpiq by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-08T19:36:46Z
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@ParadeGrotesque but rather than sink into the earth with shame after having thoroughly wrecked the country however they could, they're trying to flee forward (fuite en avant for you, Flucht nach vorn for me), having turned next to outdoing one another in what a charity has incisively called 'performative cruelty'.Rarely have I seen so comically incompetent people so willing to sink so low for so little and fleeting power, while suprassing parody in their efforts to present failure as success.
(DIR) Post #AXUj12FG8B915lSp8K by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-08T19:47:49Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Here's one useless definition: enterprise IT as OpEx instead of CapEx, or 'how I learned to stop worrying and add my own fat margins on top of my vendors' exorbitant ones and pass them on down the food chain'.
(DIR) Post #AXY08h3V4wauNw55UG by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-10T07:58:36Z
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one thing that's not discussed enough about federating with meta is that they could track federated users or at the very least their interactions with meta's network incl. their social graph.there are such things as off-network accounts you know. and you may remember that meta has previously stored identifiers s.a. phone numbers of people without accounts with them.** as an aside that's also why i never share my contacts with any app. i wish i could prevent others from sharing mine too.
(DIR) Post #AXY08iJUOyyiHoZN32 by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-10T08:02:03Z
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add to that harvesting my posts and data to feed AIs. no, thank you.
(DIR) Post #AXb2wuVr9Vk0I22XB2 by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-11T20:59:02Z
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@ParadeGrotesque to be fair most humans can't do that either. ;)
(DIR) Post #AXnIHHZuw2vgpLdACu by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-17T18:10:26Z
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the most 'UNIX-like' Linux, installed from floppies, was my first Linux in the 90s, and it either predisposed me towards BSD or i was drawn to it for the same reasons.happy 30th, Slackware!
(DIR) Post #AYKVDeKmZf9KNvKs6a by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-02T17:10:36Z
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inspired by a recent thread:the fact that they are not visiting us kind of *proves* there is intelligent alien life?
(DIR) Post #AYPb1EAIOILM333Z32 by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-04T21:43:58Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 the key to understanding UK govt policy is to realise that it's shaped in equal measure by capitalist dogmatism, special interests, cynical reactionary populism, and comical incompetence
(DIR) Post #AYnPzk6OwmwRxVTlFw by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-16T17:55:32Z
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status update🚨🔔‼️my brain has melted and my soul has been pulverised.my body wavers forth like a crayon's tip on hot asphalt.and it's not even thursday yet!
(DIR) Post #AYngQKnsiJXEa7WCiu by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-16T21:10:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque i think the solution is to put the authors on quantum self-driving blockchain
(DIR) Post #AYrm1gnJByhPu0inei by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-18T20:26:25Z
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i welcome book recommendations.i think i'd be in the mood for something imaginative along the lines of the works of Vernor Vinge (A Fire upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky), Greg Egan (Schild's Ladder), Liu Cixin (The 3-Body Problem), Robert L. Forward (Dragon's Egg), Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time), or Haruki Murakami (too many to name).
(DIR) Post #AYrmWhlLdqkBsnat4y by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-18T20:37:34Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @cstross I liked his Accelerando (so far the only one I've read).
(DIR) Post #AajNVsdTEKwpAGv3wm by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-13T14:47:26Z
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i'm not impressed
(DIR) Post #AbhujXuiSwUrIquxhg by pdt@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-11-11T19:30:13Z
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nextcloud on openbsd seems to be a thing but does it come with an online office suite?