Posts by steely_glint@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #AdD5S4HfYmGWNSiHkO by steely_glint@chaos.social
2023-12-26T18:34:57Z
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@feld But none of them tried to blame the customer for 'using a carwash''.Although my dad's 1964 RHD Merc 190 had a design flaw such that if you drove through a deep puddle at speed the wash doused the distributor and it would stall. Fortunately the momentum was _usually_ enough to get you through.
(DIR) Post #AhqmesONnc1wR47oMy by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-05-13T08:39:55Z
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Thanks to @saghul for the _perfect_ illustration of the problems with chatGPT:
(DIR) Post #AhyrxFt9EXDXYVmH7Q by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-05-05T12:42:20Z
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Oooh, I seem to have bought a ticket for @emf now to think about how to get there. Anyone I know going ?
(DIR) Post #AjY32OF5he8XK6f0PQ by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-07-03T08:41:00Z
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@aral @joelving @jenniferplusplus ‘he’ doesn’t even make sense on those terms, since it implies that the coder is not only male but also singular so it proclaims “no teamwork allowed here”. Sigh.
(DIR) Post #AkyM4mOgrWyeUCixYu by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-08-14T21:41:05Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou @mcc Or Java - which is effectively both your options rolled into one.Semi seriously - I have production code that includes : if (_javaVersion.startsWith("1.4")) - jdk 1.4 was supported in 2002-2008The code still works.
(DIR) Post #An608jG0shviAM7cjQ by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-10-17T11:25:27Z
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@futurebird I worked briefly with https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinishimoticha/ back in the day.
(DIR) Post #AnC29vot1dpeH3tW2i by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-10-20T09:16:25Z
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@stfn @pandora “give us back our 11 days”
(DIR) Post #Anp7ZlmqVgq0fB1Qrw by steely_glint@chaos.social
2024-11-08T05:50:22Z
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@foone mindterm (java based graphical ssh) did this. https://www.astro.umd.edu/resources/internal/ssh/MindTerm_User.pdf I am not sure what happened to it. License changes meant I stopped using it a decade or more ago.
(DIR) Post #AqyT5KdPpYv22KUvfU by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-02-10T11:40:03Z
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@foone sorta like a mantisa and an exponent 🙂
(DIR) Post #ArufDfA7J9P486nAMi by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-03-09T10:01:08Z
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tired: jailbreaking your kindlewired: jailbreaking your F35
(DIR) Post #AsawTmod6tyrZNfhcO by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-03-30T17:32:23Z
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"The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.” That is one pissed off Quaker.https://archive.ph/2025.03.29-220332/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/met-smash-down-door-of-quaker-meeting-house-to-arrest-activists-jhhchrtlt#selection-1735.220-1735.329
(DIR) Post #AucFSZzpSCdfKUOzRY by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-05-30T09:52:34Z
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@futurebird The secret service (supposedly) does, they allow a new president to choose their code name. Clinton (allegedly) chose ‘Elvis’ -ensuring that everyday his detail had to whisper into their cuffs : “Elvis has left the building “ !
(DIR) Post #AwDZou8UHduCmyPqTo by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-07-15T12:16:13Z
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TIL you can patch the java card os in your e-sim with AT commands. This seems ‘wrong’ somehow. To compound the wrongness I am sending this patch in javascript from a browser over webRTC.
(DIR) Post #AwMHZSLBIH6HUHTbyy by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-07-21T12:37:14Z
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@gsuberland @lanodan @foone In the really, really early days (1936?) The BBC had a basement full of motor generator sets to convert DC voltages to power the valve (tube) amplifiers.http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec12/iw-radio1.html has photos.
(DIR) Post #Ax4P8PSJSAF5JHTwZM by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-08-11T19:13:09Z
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@mcc As @f09fa681 knows, I've been building some non-media stuff with webRTC, but the standard is increasingly inimical to p2p data. Basically unless you have routable IPV6 at both ends most connections end up going though a server of some sort or other. It works fine if one end grants microphone access. (This is only true if both sides are browsers or things with browser-like permission schemes).
(DIR) Post #AzOnk2KZCp3htx2mY4 by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-10-20T11:29:58Z
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@aral tagging @s who might know someone....
(DIR) Post #B0HuKESZ72QJvhFmE4 by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-11-13T09:56:44Z
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@bash If it is old enough you could try remote eject of the CD tray. That was what we did with our heap of identical (badly labelled) Sun servers.(I once did this over the fledgling internet from the UK to Norway in response to a phone support request. Possibly the highpoint of my career.)
(DIR) Post #B1NBrwpnnMujF3pzCi by steely_glint@chaos.social
2025-12-18T12:36:23Z
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@futurebird It's a classic example of Orwell's observation:"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
(DIR) Post #B2PK9PjzktKB5TT0rY by steely_glint@chaos.social
2026-01-18T11:10:43Z
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@nobody Because the 'click' counts as a user interaction , juicing someone's stupid metric. Also the click grants some additional permissions, allowing them to fingerprints you better.
(DIR) Post #B2Q5XyKbUoiZABnoEi by steely_glint@chaos.social
2026-01-18T20:01:51Z
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@nobody I know. Standards are hard though.