Posts by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
(DIR) Post #B2cfFpcIoBJOuEncy8 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-24T21:38:29Z
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@georgetakei No, first it sinks to the bottom and lays on its side in the muck. Buh bye.
(DIR) Post #B2cuiy7blU0gzgnIiO by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T00:31:50Z
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@nellie_m To make the issue messier, leaf blowers were used against tear gas successfully in Portland fairly recently. But that image is apparently fake. Even if the intent was good, i wish people would not fake images outside of trivial fun reasons.
(DIR) Post #B2eX07QG94QrUpd2pc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T07:06:41Z
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Law and order. We know what law is. Whats order? Thats what cops enforce. Have always enforced. 2nd amendment, or whatever, means nothing. Cops define the accepted order of things and that's that. The number one job of a cop is to define what has happened (that you may have called them for) in their own terms, not yours. It's not cynicism, its trivial observation over decades. Plain for all to see.Money and the social order, that is what cops protect.
(DIR) Post #B2eYoWNNk5zLK0seO0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T06:16:03Z
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@mcnado I just had this convo with a friend. "Im afraid i want a gun to defend my home". I think i got across the idea that the point of a gun is to kill, only, not scare bad guys, and even 20 ft away if you hesitate you will be killed with your own gun. Snd from experience i know how hard it iscto shoot s barn door when youre stressed and esp zero experience. Now is not rhe timefro buy a gun as you say. It's not the magic fix people think it is. Never mind all the liabilities. Being afraid is not a a reason to own a gun. Americans have very fucked up ideas about guns. Never mind firing a gun in a closed space is huge hearing loss. There are rational ways to own guns but fear driven is a poor one.
(DIR) Post #B2ecWs1utYvt5GgAlc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T06:56:37Z
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@BowieSpace Devo, our extremely happy all the time special needs dog, does antics like this when no one is looking.
(DIR) Post #B2ehDobjtVS2jsATuC by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T06:44:55Z
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@rileyNahh. I work only natively. Otherwise whats the point?Ok applying modern ideas to mp/m, writing those tools for it. This approach is working great. Picking at performance through strategy not brute force. Nice tools like grep, a tool that turns user number and drive letter into "location", allows naming locations, you can go to a location then go "back" via s stack, like pushd snd popd. Consistent getOpts() command line that's sweet. Writing a less/more prog. Mostly BDS C and assembler. I havent explored RDT, the relocatable realtime debugger yet. DRI wrote some amazing code thats never veen explored that i lnow of. Writing up some permaculture ideas separating code and computing from the ideology of technology. Gonna setup to do a show'n'tell at some event in 2026. @brouhaha
(DIR) Post #B2eiTsqzyVV6UmX0eO by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T06:48:44Z
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@stuxYes! Right after they do something sbout genocides. Im not holding my breath. Americans are not more valuable than anyone else @EUCommission
(DIR) Post #B2ejuYcDQeUVV3tpvE by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T21:40:05Z
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@hongminhee We keep doors to outside open (Los Angeles); we have dogs and dogs have their own door. Outside is fairly wild, not manicured at all. The kitchen and living room floor are concrete. We do clean out house but the big rooms floor cant be kept that middle class american type clean. Im in and out 50 times a day. I don't know how people do the shoes-off thing. Weve been to people's houses in tokyo and no shoes makes much more sense there. There is not one right way to do things.
(DIR) Post #B2enBEAizQzwshgJfc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-25T06:49:47Z
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@MLE_onlineWhere are these kids now, i kinda don't wanna know. @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #B2gSNSZBaUoyHM2CAq by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-26T17:33:03Z
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@briankrebs ...combine that with the incredible enshittification the airline industry has inflicted on themselves... multiplied by so many other industries all undergoing the same "growth pressure" responses. Yowza.
(DIR) Post #B2gSpqPSX6nmKr1HMW by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-26T17:38:11Z
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@freakazoid I think you're exactly right. And the relationship is complex; there's nostalgia involved, and nostalgia too easily becomes a retrograde reaction. But for me, there were "sweet spots" in my history with computing machines, when hardware and software adequacy synergistically combined to make things flow well and satisfyingly with minimal to modest but overcomeable pain and expense. Old computers sucked. But our relationships with them were mostly benign if often frustrating and limited. But we knew those limitations to be inherent, and not imposed from without. That's key.
(DIR) Post #B2hB25uz5veftNPuL2 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T01:53:25Z
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Aww crap, the Plustek scanners are not supported by linux. xsane and Vuescan support my other scanner fine but not the Plustek. Plustek is one of the few that have "book edge" scanners, where the optical head is only 6mm from the edge of the cabinet, so you can not harm old books (i've got one 200 yr old book I need scan pages of).Anyone know of LINUX SUPPORTED book edge scanners?
(DIR) Post #B2hDHdiNvARYxm40tk by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T02:18:37Z
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OK, writing "RSP" programs for MP/M. What a weird little system this is. RSPs are Resident System Programs, realtime dynamically loaded, position-independent (!) 8080 programs (!) that load into banked memory. On MP/M what were built-in's on CP/M (DIR, TYPE, etc) are .RSPs on MP/M.RSPs are daemons. The one I just wrote is a clock display that writes date and time in the margin between windows on the screen ("dead space"). It sleeps 99.99% of the time, wakes up once per second to write in the margin.What's really interesting about RSPs is that though they are background tasks you can type the RSP name on the command line, and the CLI (command line interpreter) will send the command tail to the running task. (Various controls including not allowing etc.) So MARCLOCK (margin clock) accepts a command liine changing default position, date format, colors, etc.Now that I've reigned in a few poorly behaved programs (mostly ones that poll the livin' shit out of the keyboard) performance is GREAT.The MARCLOCK RSP is 936 bytes long.(The margin itself, the black gap visually separating the four consoles) is itself an "H19 terminal" that accepts text and escape sequences, a 5th window.)MP/M is a lovely thing. Now to play with the "cron" equivalent.
(DIR) Post #B2hE6f3KhrbDshBuBU by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T02:27:52Z
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The CLI is not a shell, or a standalone program. It's an RSP that gets messages from the terminal process, that attaches to it's console. User programs can send messages to the CLIs! To do "DIR" on MP/M is to type "DIR return" to the TMP, which sends that text to a free CLI, which executes it and sends the result to the specified console. There isn't a shell or terminal per se. It's super frugal and very clever. There's lots of access controls that can be open or very narrow, but of course and program can cheat and pee in RAM and crash anything. So you don't do that, on purpose anyway. Since my Z80 is emulated I can in fact implement a half-fast memory-write protection scheme; but to do some things you get pointers up into kernel space and write bytes (lol). Multi-level pointer indirection on an 8080 is umm not elegant.
(DIR) Post #B2hGrh1XOasHVruCae by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T02:58:46Z
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@davefischer Yeah, it's baffling enough that each one is totally different, since we know the basic task is so old, well defined and invariant.And more so they they don't just document it. What a shit show.
(DIR) Post #B2hH936MZ24guQRFUu by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T03:01:54Z
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@pumiquxt doesn't look like it.Interesting.
(DIR) Post #B2hHvuqs1e3TVoUf1E by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T03:10:45Z
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Here's a lovely but sad and complicated story of The Hags, a dyke gang (I guess) in San Francisco's queer 80s and 90s.https://www.thebeliever.net/hags-in-your-face/I really miss Stacy Quijas. She was a roomie for a short while at 666 Illin' Noise Street. I suspect we were amongst the most straight-up supportive adults she'd ever lived with, and while she wasn't great about washing dishes, etc, lol, she did her best to not be a problem, and we all loved her.We lent her the house truck one day; she drove some Hags into the Mission and it came back with the rear window shot out (gun), The Hags apparently got in an argument with a Mission gang. She was the main character in my novel for good reason.
(DIR) Post #B2hI2GlVSrs9DH0wMK by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T03:11:52Z
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@MLE_online I never thought of that usage!!
(DIR) Post #B2hIKQ9rHUo5Ya3m0O by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T03:15:11Z
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Here's a photo of Stacy's legs! On L7's PRETEND WE'RE DEAD single or EP I forget.https://us.rarevinyl.com/products/l7-pretend-we-re-dead-numbered-uk-12-inch-vinyl-picture-disc-record-lashx34-4127
(DIR) Post #B2hXJLHJRAWRRfUS2K by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-27T06:02:59Z
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@tsturm @catsalad @dev I didn't know that different size mountains had their own kind of lions.