Posts by rk@well.com
(DIR) Post #B6D1BXUlU3X5Hdt7Ee by rk@well.com
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I have had TLC’s “Creep” stuck in my head all day. I mean literally since I got up this morning.
(DIR) Post #B6SMWzUjadSsc1LJR2 by rk@well.com
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@niconiconi *So many* infosec companies based in countries with mandatory military service put “all of our founders worked in the $COUNTRY military!” And it’s like “yes and so did every company’s founder in that country.”
(DIR) Post #B6UPJHRojUqKPu3IMS by rk@well.com
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I carry my wallet…
(DIR) Post #B6UPJHeDzMlf2NrChU by rk@well.com
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I promise this isn’t in preparation to steal your wallet. I feel like I used to always carry my wallet in my right pocket and then…somehow flipped to carrying it in my left and it now feels weird to put it in my right pocket.
(DIR) Post #B6X9fhk6dLlaY19nc0 by rk@well.com
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Clipper
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@mirabilos And the weird TV censor chip.
(DIR) Post #B6iEQAo1vOOrvQiQsa by rk@well.com
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@joe “It is designed so that each approach they take will spawn an anomalous solution. The anomalies are designed to interact with each other, linking together to form an endless and unsolvable puzzle.”
(DIR) Post #B6pUOLJOqqe7IqG0Nk by rk@well.com
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Look at this asshole. #cat #caturday
(DIR) Post #B6qhXsZQ3mR9cWaUyW by rk@well.com
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https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL236/history/20260530/2020Z/KEWR/LEPAUnited 236 just squawked 7700 and has turned around to return to Newark.Scuttlebutt is that there’s “someone doing something odd with Bluetooth” on the flight. No idea what that could possibly mean, since that can’t affect flight safety. If it were a bomb or hijack threat, I’d imagine they’d land at the first available airport, not all the way back to Newark. Very curious.UPDATE: Someone had a BT speaker in checked luggage named “bomb”#aviation
(DIR) Post #B6qhXtoLRlyDT6ZvsW by rk@well.com
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My favorite speculation is that someone is AirDropping offensive images or something, so, not a threat to the flight (meaning they don’t need to land at the first available airport), but offensive and problematic enough that someone pulled the trigger.
(DIR) Post #B6qhXv1qv2MxFHuEZU by rk@well.com
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Listening to LiveATC, they did ask if “the passenger is secure” so it sounds like someone was doing something potentially threatening. I’m wondering if the Bluetooth thing was just some sort of (not very technically accurate) cover story to explain the return to EWR.
(DIR) Post #B7RDb66hPZ1AvD5yV6 by rk@well.com
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@tomjennings @petrillic So I am intimately familiar with PCMCIA because of how horrible Commodore was with the AmigaThe first Amiga? Expansion bus on the side. The Amiga 500? Same slot, but upside down and on the other side, so nothing fitThe 2000, with Zorro slots. Hosted the Video Toaster, *the* killer app for the Amiga. The 3000? Too short for the VT to fit.The Amiga 600/1200, with PCMCIA slots…except based on a pre-ratified copy of the standard, so many PCMCIA cards wouldn’t work.😐
(DIR) Post #B7fomzNPwqTcV284rQ by rk@well.com
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@pulkomandy I am surprisingly familiar with that standard (I’ve implemented pieces of it).The standard is…not great. A lot of functions defined as “Look at FuncFoo for more information” in various places but “FuncFoo” is *never defined anywhere*. Lots of typos and missing struct definitions. But yes. I do have a soft spot in my heart for that spec.
(DIR) Post #B7fomzqqBS0pyHtZiq by rk@well.com
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@pulkomandy This is on my desk as we speak. The first edition, documenting Windows 3, 16-bit.
(DIR) Post #B7fon2VgIZryDX1Deq by rk@well.com
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@pulkomandy And yes that plus the ECMA-standardized version of FAT-16 would also be a Completely Standards-Compliant Operating System.
(DIR) Post #B7foqIaGzZZEwGijrM by rk@well.com
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We were walking the dog and then my wife saw a new cat across the street so there was a change of plans.#cat
(DIR) Post #B7hcPLyxRJdaWdZV6u by rk@well.com
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I don't know why we're suddenly all talking about geese in the context of the labor theory of value and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
(DIR) Post #B7jrGxllSvKIk6mH0S by rk@well.com
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@gutenberg_org
(DIR) Post #B8AbaMc3jdfFYceGhs by rk@well.com
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@fribbledom …*frantically increases BUFFERS=*
(DIR) Post #B8fuyU3JVskp4UrQbg by rk@well.com
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@ariadne Cognitive scientists: By definition is would be impossible to prevent a super intelligence from escapingPeople in 2005: I simply would not allow it to escape. People in 2025: Why sure, Claude, you can execute that script you wrote in /tmp