Posts by rootwyrm@weird.autos
(DIR) Post #Ax2PKU6fbAJotSCFsm by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-08-10T20:29:51Z
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@stux it sure would be awful if all the people who have been calling in also emailed the official media contact on the matter, seth.eisen@mastercard.com who also defended Mastercard's $26M pay discrimination settlement.Perhaps pointing out to him that Mastercard also gleefully processes transactions to purchase crypto which is exclusively used for criminal activity.
(DIR) Post #AxL8C1wUQCOq0f3Yrg by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-08-19T19:40:28Z
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@cR0w @TeflonTrout @catsalad @chillybot planes? You'll never attract the fedi that way. Everyone knows it's all about _trains_.
(DIR) Post #AyhRd4p4zNtGoaJbhQ by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-09-29T12:47:39Z
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@joepie91 let's be factual here.Palmer Lucky isn't just "the Anduril guy" nor is he just a fascist.Palmer Lucky is an avowed lifetime bigot who has openly declared his support for Nazi ideology going back over a decade. He has promoted calls to violence and genocide. He supported Alex Jones and likely still does. He is a proud supporter of the GamerGaters.Anyone working on NixOS at this point is a Nazi collaborator.(fix typo; s/in/on/. Apologies!)
(DIR) Post #Az9IlIg7toa6wUqsZk by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-13T00:03:04Z
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@foone <looks over at Visual FoxPro reference manuals><looks at picture><thinks back to users>... there is not nearly enough Fox or Box.
(DIR) Post #AzIikwqnOvxmTWyTpo by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-17T13:02:31Z
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@da_667 it's so far beyond depressing and demotivating. Even if you, as a user, TRY to keep your shit up to date?Doesn't matter. The vendor keeps doing the exact same stupid shit, introducing and reintroducing the exact same vulnerabilities, and just shrugging and telling you to buy the slightly revised piece of shit with allegedly incompatible firmware that has the exact fucking same problems.
(DIR) Post #AzIiky8YcNlUSuIB9s by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-17T13:05:26Z
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@da_667 I'm pretty sure the two "smart plugs" I own (you know, the kind you can yank out as ewaste) have multiple vulnerabilities with no patch available and also they won't work with the 'app' soon.But I can buy the newer version which has a built-in web server with even MORE vulnerabilities AND introduces more layers to reduce stability and reliability! HOW FANTASTIC. I've always wanted a light switch that can fucking crash.
(DIR) Post #AzP4FpOWR6xOJW4iki by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-20T14:35:41Z
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@foone but if we keep putting the same third of the Internet in the same building and replace the people by using hazing, a hostile work environment, and stack ranking, we'll definitely fix it.
(DIR) Post #AzeJiJg9wUlCA4v6oK by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-27T22:41:01Z
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@GossiTheDog just when I think they cannot possibly get any fucking dumber, they prove me wrong, again."Electrons are the new oil."AND HOW ARE THOSE ELECTRONS MADE, SCAM HALTMAN?HOW ARE THOSE ELECTRONS MADE?
(DIR) Post #AzngLCPgpuvgKrnmKW by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-31T11:49:09Z
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@MedeaVanamonde @pndc @cstross oh, there not only will be but needs to be extreme violence when this happens. And I mean full on guillotines and redistribution by force.Because I have done the math.This shit doesn't just make the Robber Barons look like a joke, it's bigger than all three of those put together.
(DIR) Post #AzngLDaiSPLLzLy69g by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-31T12:53:45Z
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@MedeaVanamonde @pndc @cstross and because people continually ask:The only thing keeping '08 from being a total implosion was underlying assets. Houses are an underlying asset that got turned into predatory rentals.'01, you had offices, IP, businesses that COULD work, and hardware to recover with. With much smaller holes to fill.This time?It's a literal Ponzi scheme. Basically all of the hardware is ewaste. There's no trillions in IP - not even millions. Just *trillions* in pure fakery.
(DIR) Post #AzngLM44x7aIGjlf28 by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-10-31T13:12:34Z
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@MedeaVanamonde @pndc @cstross I'll take as an example a startup I worked for in '00. Little known company that was building the world's first real near-end distributed CDN. The product was VERY solid, but the bad sales team, terrible culture, and bad management doomed the company.You won't find the acquisition on Wikipedia. But Akamai bought the whole thing out of bankruptcy in '02 I think it was. The hardware and software became GHost, one of their biggest products.
(DIR) Post #B09kz6u1mACls8yTKK by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-11-12T03:11:49Z
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@ricci if this is Martin Newell's copy, then this is likely going to be a NIGHTMARE to recover. This looks to be a 1600 BPI tape, and his thesis says he was working on a PDP10.https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA039008.pdfTHAT'S the scary part. DEC didn't make a 1600 BPI drive! (TU45 wasn't until '78, and sucks.) The only one I know of from '73 would be the HP 7970A. I have NO idea how you'd connect that up to a PDP11.
(DIR) Post #B09xuZvZjVxvqcrr4y by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-11-12T05:36:40Z
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@ricci based on the tape and label combined, my guess would be there was a PDP11 hooked to an HP 7970, though I don't know how. Flux is still going to be a challenge because you're having to guess at controller and drive, which could completely change how it needs read.But the size really has me thinking it's 1600; that'd be around 20MB. Which sounds about right for v4 + all source + manuals.
(DIR) Post #B0NgjohPeTN9i1wPfk by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-11-18T14:53:58Z
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@hacks4pancakes "The Internet is decentr-"If the Nazi regime in DC decides that they don't like your domain name, then ICANN will take it away.No, not being a .org/.net/.com will not help.No, the lack of direct government control doesn't change anything. They are based in the US and beholden to the regime.
(DIR) Post #B0xiU61WDzE3AVatO4 by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-12-06T04:00:49Z
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@fizzyizzy05 @soatok @danirabbit nope, nopenopenope.These are not simple fascists. These are full on Nazis, full stop. They subscribe wholeheartedly to Nazi ideology. They talk endlessly about 'great leaders' and 'useless eaters' and 'final solutions' and on and on and on.They are Nazis. They must be called out as Nazis.Their employers must be called out as Nazi collaborators.Their projects must be clearly labeled as Nazi in objective and aspiration.No shelter or redemption for Nazis.
(DIR) Post #B0yOYqZzGj3ynBfFWy by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-12-06T13:30:43Z
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@strypey @fizzyizzy05 @soatok @danirabbit insisting that people espousing Nazi ideology aren't Nazis makes what side YOU are effectively on painfully clear. I'm sure Mike Godwin will entertain your argument for longer than I will.
(DIR) Post #B15j7UP14XdDKx33o0 by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-12-10T02:20:12Z
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@netspooky @catsalad hey! That's me when some 'data center' dude claims 208 3ph 60A is high power! Or that +48VDC 3kA is high power!Yes, that 'DANGER: EXPLOSIVES' sign is legitimate.
(DIR) Post #B1hQJfBUZ0t3b52ugK by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-12-26T19:51:57Z
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@da_667 @GossiTheDog this is full on unprecedented. The 80's and 90's never, ever got this bad. We are literally at the point where specs that would be marginal 8 years ago are rapidly crossing into 'or I could buy a car' territory.A system with a straight up unusable 16GB, 7800X3D, basic B850, 4070, and 1TB SSD will now cost you over $2,500.
(DIR) Post #B1hQJmkqPyKD4kdkG0 by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2025-12-26T19:57:54Z
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@da_667 @GossiTheDog and this is NOT with super expensive components. Most of them are so low-quality I won't build with them. This is just the basic trash PC somebody like Cyberpower would crank out and make even worse.Bumping to 32GB instantly pushes into $2750+ territory. With a 4070 Super and a B850. BEE EIGHT FIFTY for fuck's sake.
(DIR) Post #B2GKgJPsXeQEbd6aki by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2026-01-14T02:39:51Z
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@atax1a that shit is being spread, again, by the same guy who is spreading the lie that super leet h4xx0rs used a legitimate Qualtrics survey to steal everybody's Discord tokens without ever touching Qualtrics. Just trust him, he's an EXPERT on Discord. Just like that time he outed all those bots.