Posts by sgf@mastodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #AZ85IBbFQtqXjf1Eq8 by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-08-26T09:28:54Z
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"It's the little things that count." - Transistors. They're called transistors.
(DIR) Post #Aa7wGXT9Ysqnn3srtw by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-25T06:59:11Z
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@eolach A pattern I keep seeing on Fedi is unhelpful "You should do X" posts in response to problems that completely fail to take into account that different people have different needs.Usually it's "you should run your own instance". Telling a black person to open themselves up to racist abuse and grow a thicker skin, though? That's a new one on me.And telling a black person to use a "whitelist"? At best, very thoughtless.
(DIR) Post #Aa81LAovhDzIlV6Cau by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-25T14:18:54Z
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@eolach Speech comes with consequences, and the consequence for blatant racism is getting blocked. Blocking racist abuse is no more building an echo chamber than spam filtering is; there's no value there.This isn't some weird long tail thing. mastodon.social blocks detroitriotcity. Blocking racists is pretty mainstream, even if you decide to only complain about it to small black-run instances. 🤔...
(DIR) Post #Aa81LBZMuZ8P5WpHyi by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-25T14:23:10Z
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@eolach Mostly, though, if you think people who can't handle abuse shouldn't be on the internet, you're hanging out in the wrong places.There are billions on the internet now, and most people don't think receiving abuse is an integral part of it. Most people don't think free speech is about enabling the racist abuse of strangers.Find better people to hang out with before you start believing Ayn Rand made sense.
(DIR) Post #AaADHDJ46B1r5Dzc1Y by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-26T07:47:00Z
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@nach Aw, did you get "triggered" by me simply suggesting non-inclusive language is thoughtless? You look really very offended by that.You seem to have accidentally wandered into mainstream Fedi, and that must be very confusing to you. Don't worry, I'll block you and you won't have to see my scary posts again.Still, 👍 to all that free speeching you're doing there, with the naughty words and stuff. I bet your mom's proud of that.
(DIR) Post #AaGh5XSfV5bvgtaqDw by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-29T08:15:17Z
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@eolach Let's start with terminology:1. Your switching from saying "blocklist" in earlier to "blacklist" here isn't subtle.2. The use of language is to communicate with people. "Whitelist" and "blacklist" are less precise than e.g. allowlist and denylist, and have "white = good, black = bad" connotations. To assume technical conversions have no social aspect is facile.3. As such, saying "You should use a whitelist" to a black person makes you look ignorant or offensive....
(DIR) Post #AaGh5YC2mNuHxcp4wy by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-29T08:20:10Z
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@eolach Mostly, though, this comes down to goals. If you want to communicate effectively, if you want a black person to consider your views on handling racism on Fedi, you might show awareness of relevant use of language.On the other hand, if you just want to say what you like, free speech style, do what you like. When it becomes clear that you have no interest in being listened to, people block or mute you, and that's working as intended.
(DIR) Post #AaGh5YrsGrMq3MOU9Q by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-29T08:24:22Z
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@eolach On to the technical side: Fedi has plenty of precedent in other systems. Usenet and email both use allow-by-default with blocking for bad actors. This makes sense when the number of good actors massively outweigh the bad actors.If you propose allowlists, can you name a successful *large scale* social system that runs off allowlists?
(DIR) Post #AaGh5aoP2jmM5Amk1A by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-29T08:29:13Z
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@eolach So, to summarise the conversation so far:"Free speech" has consequences. Blocking abuse, like blocking spam, is good.Deny lists have a multi-decade successful track record in large-scale social systems, unlike allow lists.The choice of words is important if you want to communicate effectively, technical conversations always have a social element.
(DIR) Post #AaRXRaghK9IpGUahzE by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-26T21:17:42Z
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I'm happy with this: An emulated classic (24-bit 68K) Mac with 5MB of RAM. No original classic Mac had >4MB of RAM as the ROM got in the way (*). I've patched the ROM & System 6 to support a relocated ROM. The main constraint on increasing RAM to e.g. 15MB is now the memory-mapped I/O, which also needs relocation. The eventual goal is a physical large-memory classic Mac.(*) The Mac Portable's ROM location allows up to 9MB of RAM, but it's a bit weird, and I'm going for the full 15+MB.
(DIR) Post #AaRXRcmRXl5RktIKDg by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-26T21:18:34Z
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(Reverse-engineering and patching over at https://github.com/simon-frankau/big-classic-mac)
(DIR) Post #AaRXRexVRb7mVmUBk0 by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-28T21:26:01Z
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I'm now drawing with the Macintosh Portable on 9MB for a 24-bit Mac. Moving the SCSI hardware out of the way was easy, finding the assumption of a maximum of 8MB RAM in the MoveHHi system call, OTOH, was a right pain. Perhaps I should have started with the Mac Portable ROM. Ah well.
(DIR) Post #AaRXRgmwdprgBbYmYa by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-09-29T22:48:04Z
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Now up to 13MB of RAM, comfortably exceeding the Mac Portable. Possibly the most RAM a classic Mac has ever seen, even if it's virtual. :p
(DIR) Post #AaRXRikBN4qMFcHbWq by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-10-01T09:35:13Z
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Last one I promise (for now :p).15.5MB is as far as I think worth's trying with a 24-bit (16MB address space) Mac. The rest goes to ROM (256KB) and memory-mapped I/O.Next steps are probably to see if System 7 will run (complete with MultiFinder, to use all that RAM) and run a bunch of classic apps to exercise the thing.Then, at some point I should work out what drivers to write to make this work on a DIY Mac clone...
(DIR) Post #AangwNVnPTIqj5nBVg by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-10-15T11:19:28Z
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@rmi @thepi @jhwgh1968 @whitequark People who understand SCSI are doomed to reuse it.
(DIR) Post #AbEFvGWUmg2Fv8rJDM by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-10-28T09:50:22Z
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@mattblaze Reply guy had a point that if you want to deprogram people who've gone down the rabbit hole, simply contradicting them with the truth isn't very effective.OTOH, it doesn't have to be *your* job to deprogram them, and as a researcher it probably shouldn't be your job to do so.Some people like B&W photography, some people like colour photography. It's dumb to demand people switch styles, and dumb to suggest everyone use low-saturation colour. Also, I'm crap at metaphor.
(DIR) Post #Ac5mwJuqwMwdS13V9U by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2023-11-23T08:24:17Z
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@Wolven So glad to see we have AI horseshoe theory, and all we hear from is the extremists.
(DIR) Post #AhTHpZpjLPlLzhygUa by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2024-05-02T05:49:29Z
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@0xC01DC0FFEE Could be worse, I suppose. When I saw that I first visually parsed it as screw terminals inside a D-sub shell, which... would be challenging, I guess?
(DIR) Post #AhpplIjKtT3qYyil6m by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2024-05-06T08:07:25Z
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Assembly. You need it to reverse copy protection, and once you're good at it every task looks like a nail for that hammer. I've heard that some will use Matlab, though.
(DIR) Post #Ahvt1PFZsxv8EFvsHY by sgf@mastodon.xyz
2024-05-15T22:02:39Z
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@dangoodin Someone rooted kernel.org... and they used it to send spam?!Seems a bit unambitious compared to e.g. backdooring the kernel or something.