Posts by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
(DIR) Post #AhqfbawfVjynmDeMim by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-05-05T16:01:00Z
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Surprisingly the Slashdot thread is not full of people blaming the victim (at least not yet.) I can't tell you how unusual that is for Slashdot, which seems these days to attract comments only from psychopaths.But the day is young.
(DIR) Post #AhrpNy9nbg6KPctROy by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-27T04:30:59Z
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Router recommendations
(DIR) Post #AhrpNys6wvXwd3cpTE by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-27T04:34:19Z
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Context:- D-Link and Netgear have served me well but my latest D-Link AX router set are buggy and tonight the last of them just stopped routing Wi-Fi packets for no apparent reason.- Don't even f---ing think of suggesting Belkin. They owe me $200 for their crappy routers that don't work as designed, assholes.- Router should support the usual AX modes, class A networks (ie 10.x.x.x), and get out of the way if asked (ie I should be able to turn off DHCP etc.) IPv6 is a must. Port forwarding is a must. VPN support is a plus but not required.Normally I recommend D-Link but...
(DIR) Post #AhrpO0yD9Dc98YUjFw by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-28T14:51:07Z
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Nobody voted in my poll, I'm guessing bad routers is just a fact of life in 2024?That said, turned out to be because I accidentally turned on a faulty router earlier that day (I hadn't realized that plug was for it.) This was still configured to show my network's SSIDs so half the computers in the house were connecting to it and getting no connectivity. So crisis averted... for now.Need to do a factory reset on that one I guess?A long time ago I used a single standalone dedicated Wifi access point (no routing), and did the Internet connection (NAT, port forwarding, etc) via a repurposed old ($20 from eBay) Sun workstation with dual Ethernet cards. That was more than enough for ~2kbps ADSL, but alas when I upgraded to cable, I needed something a little more advanced. The first two routers I got for the purpose worked well, but the experience has gone downhill since.
(DIR) Post #AhvEF423TTpyM708NU by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-26T02:07:42Z
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Seriously, 'v256"?Why? Why are people still eschewing major.minor.point after it's become obvious by now that we've lost information thanks to integer version numbers? Firefox and Google's Chrome team have pride as their excuse, the SystemD people have no such excuses. They're devs, not marketing idiots. They know that information is lost doing this.
(DIR) Post #AhwXBj94lcUuzkMqEy by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-21T02:37:40Z
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Been using this today:https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/spaces/OZVM/overviewIt's a Z88 emulator!My thoughts here: https://tldr.virctuary.com/poundquerydotinfo/z88-z88-emulator-and-portable-computing-in-the-1980s
(DIR) Post #AhxunOyGiP3NX8Cpay by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-26T03:12:57Z
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It's a little weird that "I've just left Twitter and here's my TL;DR on why" posts still come up on Mastodon. You only just noticed he's a fascist asshole huh?[People practically bragging about how, for want of a better word, stupid they are, seems to be a hallmark of the 2020s. See also "Mastodon's too hard, you have to choose a server".]
(DIR) Post #Ai1pCbXlHmdmfnHWZU by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-18T01:05:25Z
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I remember playing with this in 1996-7, on a PC my employer was getting rid of. It felt like a real UNIX system, but obviously lacked networking etc.Wonder if it'd work on that Book 8088 thing? And if it'd be useful in that configuration? I mean, I assume even ssh would be too much for something like that.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset
(DIR) Post #Ai6GG2uZSolhogeiSe by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-30T13:55:17Z
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There's a whole memory hole thing with the web right now BTW. I was trying to remember what that phrase was (the one that turned out to be "Pivot to video"), and I did various searches based upon the Facebook scandal where they pushed it by lying about video impressions. Nothing relevant came up.Ironically, I then asked Bing's AI. Which ignored my question and gave me search results but listed in a chatty way. So I told it off, told it that wasn't my question, and gave the same question again with a few words tweaked, and this time it did list articles... sort of.In fact, I don't know if it Hallucinated the articles because they didn't have links, and didn't come up when I searched for their titles. BUT the articles that DID come up in search results when I searched for their titles did actually talk about that scandal.So all very weird.
(DIR) Post #Ai6GG5C0yvuUtMpfvc by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-04-30T14:09:12Z
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BTW I think that ups LLM text chat AI's "Useful vs Non-useful" results for me from 1:6 to 1.5:6.5 (.5 because it didn't give me links and I suspect the references were hallucinated given I can't find any evidence they existed, but the answers themselves lead to useful search results.
(DIR) Post #AsLzW943dOjweaBfpQ by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2024-12-23T01:00:37Z
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So there's a pub you used to hang out at. The Blue Bird. Just down the street. Uglyish building, and owned by some corporation, but the beer was OK.You kinda started going there after you agreed to meet your friends there once. Seemed friendly. Occasionally people argued but nothing serious. Management were a little slow kicking out the troublemakers, but they did get the job done most of the time, occasional misunderstanding aside. Occasionally Neo Nazis would try to come in, and management would ultimately kick them out, albeit after enough regulars told them to deal with the issue or else. There was one notable exception, an elected politician, but even he was out when he took part in a riot.As The Blue Bird became your regular hang out, you met quite a few other regulars. You made friends. The pub itself was ugly and corporate, but it became a special place for you. Part of your routine, part of how you kept in touch, a place to hang out on a Friday night, a place you have fond memories of.Until one day you saw an "Under New Management" sign on the window. For a few days it continued to be called The Blue Bird, but then the owner renamed it to The Straightened Swastika. You walked in on a Friday night as usual, and the first thing you noticed - aside from half the lights not working, and the windows being painted with blackout paint - are a bunch of Neo-Nazis. They're yelling threats at one of your gay friends. Bizarrely, the new manager kicks out your friend. And some of your other friends who defended your gay friend.A rat happily waddles out of the kitchen, and you ask around only to hear the pub has cancelled its pest control service. The Straightened Swastika feels creepy, hostile, unsafe, and unpleasant. Your friends leave it, and so do you. Fortunately there are other pubs, there's The Ancient Elephant down the road, next street over has Clear Heavens, a would-be chain restaurant, and another owner of a successful bar you didn't care for much just opened another pub called "Clothes" so near The Ancient Elephant you can sit at one and talk to people at the other.Anyway, my question for you is: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL CALLING X "TWITTER"? WHY ARE YOU OFFENDED WHEN WE DON'T CALL IT THAT?You wouldn't call The Straightened Swastika The Blue Bird would you? You might call it "The Nazi bar where The Blue Bird used to be", but you WOULDN'T FUCKING CALL IT THE BLUE BIRD.Twitter was a special place. There's a Nazi bar where it once was. They're not the same thing.#twitter #x #birdsite
(DIR) Post #At07pjHt8jOvsa5u6K by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-04-12T02:35:34Z
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@foone Now I'm imagining some DIP switches on upper side to set the IRQ and DMA settings of the sound card on my next i7...
(DIR) Post #AupN4b4b7iSKPLBeEa by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-06-05T17:48:36Z
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@foone Pffft there's no way Firefox/230 supports anything below TLS 7.3, webmasters will know what's up right away!
(DIR) Post #AvQx3J7Nco5zpSP1Zg by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-06-23T20:56:13Z
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I suspect the C16/Plus 4 would be good ones too, they had excellent colour palettes despite their unpopularity.CoCo will be pretty difficult. The others... maybe dithering will help with the C64 and Spectrum?
(DIR) Post #AvTHtA7OJ2OFMrAJZw by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-06-24T23:59:30Z
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@phoronix Leaving aside the legitimate concerns about the project's governance right now, and speaking as someone who'd dearly like Xorg to be forked by someone who cares about X11, XLibre doesn't sound as if it's a viable, compatible, replacement right now. Certainly it needs time to prove itself and for its developer base to prove their commitment to maintaining a stable, secure, and backward compatible X11 server.
(DIR) Post #Awd7vNymlZaJpfrXkG by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-07-29T15:47:02Z
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@phoronix I assume Wayland's higher latency is part responsible for this?(So many X11 critics live in 1991 and think it still requires everything local be transmitted over a network socket.)
(DIR) Post #AwhAQxQ5wjh1udkiVE by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-07-31T14:34:03Z
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@phoronix I have played with this in the past and it's a really bad idea, very easy to end up overwriting something you didn't intend to. And... btrfs (and probably many rival FSes) contains the same functionality, except done correctly, anyway. I wish them luck but I feel like this isn't going to help with stability.
(DIR) Post #AxFXmKt8n3CZ6H8gMq by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-08-17T04:35:17Z
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@foone The Z80 (and I believe 8080, which it's a superset of functionality wise) combines several 8 bit register pairs for a limited set of 16 bit operations, BC, DE, and HL. For the most part, these are used as address/index registers.It's an efficient use of what's there as it's rare anyone needs seven accumulators, and needing two or even three index registers is something people frequently do.It does make sense as long as you remember it's more "The Z80 allows you to use each of the BC, DE, and HL index registers as two eight bit arithmetic registers each" than vice versa. Overall the Z80 was VERY nice to program, not as clean as the 6809, but a huge improvement on that other popular 8 bitter. Alas it wasn't as performant so people liked the latter more.
(DIR) Post #AxkT72W7oRfkKkBUAK by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-09-01T02:39:08Z
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@foone I think that's true only for software - it was hardware compatible with the 8086, not the 80186?I recall the V30 being sold as a cheap upgrade to the Intel 8086 in Amstrad's PC1512 (An 8086-based IBM compatible that was popular in Europe in the late 1980s.)As well as being slightly faster, the V30 could also natively run 8080 software, so PC1512 users would use it to run CP/M software at native speeds.Computing was still fun back then.
(DIR) Post #AzgHIb6giDq35krCIS by poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com
2025-10-28T21:52:05Z
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@foone Wow, thanks for that, I'm kinda shocked someone's making a rigid airship given their history (hydrogen, which everyone blames for the end of airships, was only a significant factor in them being destroyed because of the Royal Air Force igniting them intentionally, outside of WW-I most failed due to the difficulty making rigid airships work in bad weather. The worst airship accident was actually an American helium filled rigid airship, the USS Akron - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron.) It seems to be an inherent problem with the concept, given a lighter than air vehicle can be knocked into something else or twisted out of shape just by a gust of wind.Not that I'm against Brin doing this, so much research into stronger materials has been done in the 70 or so years that rigid airships have been avoided. I wish them luck.