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@cR0w@infosec.exchange In the Alt-Txt: what monocle? I see no monocle!
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Rupert Reynolds
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Born at less than 320ppm CO₂. Hmm...
Programmer and bus driver. It's a long story :-)
Based northern UK & Scotland
Europhile, especially since I worked 1½ years in north Holland.
Currently: C, assembly
#Assembly (for fun) on Intel PC and IBM #mainframe (emulated, these days. Download and unzip "TK5" and you can play, as well).
Also other things, including a compiler for a new language. That should be ready in a decade. Or 2.
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@fj When I was fitter I managed to cartwheel across one of the borders at Vaalserberg. I can't remember which border, because I was full of Dutch bier at the time :-)
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@da_667@infosec.exchange
So, Elon Musk doesn't want people to share a picture of him doing a fascist salute. Gotcha.
Must not repost/boost. Gotcha.
Oops...
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@chefx@defcon.social @chrisoliver@indieweb.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr We could use some kind of system where ownership of a movie sold (to own) is registered, and if one company turns evil or goes bust, other members of the scheme make sure it is still available to the buyer.
But it would be *huge*, and probably prone to errors.
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@pheonix@hachyderm.io Recharging is important! We'll still be here when you are back on form :-)
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@jeffowski@mastodon.world @fnord@chaos.social Why? Because not everyone is in the same emotional place as you.
I'm in my 60s and generally as hard as nails, but it just happens I'm vulnerable today and I don't need to be both tearful and angry at the fucked-up world my children and grandchildren will be living in, when it's after 10pm and I'm on my way to bed to be up at 6am to do a job that directly affects public safety. Being angry and sleepless is not really an option, see?
For other people it's just that most of the social media scumsites jam bad news in our faces all day every day because it generates more clicks for advert revenue, and we like to spend some time on positive stuff.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange Dave Plummer* wrote a fixed equivalent to notepad that goes back to basics.
*Yes, ex-Microsoft Dave Plummer
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@kkarhan@c.im @mcc@mastodon.social I'm using a Fairphone 4 running e/OS/ which appears to be utterly Gargoyle-free unless I install the wrong apps from "All lounge".
It was more hard work to set up than a typical big name Android phone, but most things are covered, although I haven't found a decent NFC payment app yet--Curve has currently had 6,746 attempts blocked by e/OS/, which regards them as attempted data leaks.
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@ameel@mastodon.social I'm surprised anyone would distrust solar at high altitude. Cooler air -> greater efficiency, thinner atmosphere might make a marginal improvement, and if the surrounding terrain is good there will be a longer day at altitude.
Not massive improvements I guess, but those differences are in favour. Perhaps people still think in terms like sun=good, so heat=good?
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@danielgibert@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr If IMA Bank used a mainframe, they had a team dedicated to doing good things for IMA Bank.
If they outsource to Gargoyle cloud services, those services don't care about IMA Bank any more than they do about AN Other Bank. And not at all, if they have bigger clients.
It's like "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company" all over again.
Mainframes are WAY better and I've put my money where my mouth is literally, with my personal accounts on a 1970s MVS 3.8j (effectively "Open Source") running on Hercules. It doesn't sell me. It doesn't lose my stuff, or go offline. It doesn't hold my data to ransome, to prevent me from leaving if I want to. It doesn't flood me with adverts.
It just does the thing.
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@chefx@defcon.social @chrisoliver@indieweb.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I grew up with 405 lines, then 625 lines PAL. A well-made DVD is fine for me and I buy the ones I really want to keep, and rip them for a backup in case the disc dies. Same for a lot of music.
But I think the streams need the same clear concepts of rental and ownership--progress is when things get better for people, not when they get worse.
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@pheonix Yes, if it made it harder for snooping and exploits to do their thing, and especially if it could click "reject" on the consent for 753 other tracking partners with a single interaction :-)
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@robinince@mastodon.social Aaaagh! Sedbergh is so close to me, but I'm away this week. Missed you again...
I'll make it some day. Have a good session at the bookshop!
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@EricAlper@mastodon.social There is the suggestion that schools are being pressured to turn out conformists who aren't bothered to think too much.
I've seen signs that it's been happening slowly in the UK since the 1980s.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr Hey, my favourite antisocial media runs on arcane CoSy software written by people* at University of Guelph in the early 1980s :-)
Background: common MoDem speeds around that time were 300 bits per second. Not much faster than some people type. Efficiency was crucial :-)
*I'm useless at names, but I think one of them was Dave Godfrey
Random phone pic from near the Chinese Bridge on the path to Manesty. This is where the Derwent flows into Derwent water. Sandwiches and space to /breathe/ :-)
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@jackeric @MisterMaker @Gina OK, but what *guarantees* creepy behaviour is having free products from a corporation with profit-hungry beancounters rooling the roost.
Paying means they have an income stream which depends on keeping a reputation for behaving well. It also feels good :-)
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@kevlin Good question!
And you remind me of the detective work needed to tie a line on a bank statement via PayPal to an item bought on Ebay*, or to tie any courier delivery message with its purchase, so I can know what's arriving. Every purchase generates at least 6 e-mails that don't obviously belong together. The Ebay seller account doesn't match the physical shop name, which doesn't match the registered business name.
*I love everything else about Ebay, getting better stuff from genuine small sellers, a pleasure in complete contrast with the 'evil river' monster Amazon that Cory Doctorow can describe better than I can.
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@adorfer Oh boy. (shiver!)
I used to be passable at that stuff, and yet by about 5 mins I learned something new about CA size!
It was hard work, especially from assembly.
As I remember it, DB2 was built on VSAM, because its performance was good, and I guess because it was available :-)
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@Lana@beige.party For the avoidance of doubt, my friend sometimes describes himself in those terms, which is unfortunate because he is what we used to call "a diamond geezer" and an inspiration, and in truth the world needs more like him.
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@robinince Wish I could come, but my work has all been pre-booked for a while.
Have fun :-)
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@mcc@mastodon.social As I remember it, there is a reasonably strong correlation between the decline in pirates and rising CO2, if we allow a number of years delay between the two.
I'm going for the "correlation is causation" fallacy in a big way here, and saying "We need more pirates" for our climate, as well as for their handy eye patches!
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@Lana@beige.party JOOI has anyone worked out a way in which those figures might almost-nearly make sense?
I feel for all the good people in USA who do not deserve the ridicule and scorn the world now pours on the whole of the USA, out of habit :-(
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@robinince@mastodon.social I can remember when "Public Service Broadcasting" meant having sound principles. My dad often had to bang somebody's desk at Bush House and I remember my mum telling him to be careful not to get sacked.
PSB has lost its way, but it's still the name of a good rock band.
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@revk @an0key @gamingonlinux Judging by the number of #KevlinHenney pics I see online, there is a lot of Windows runn^W failing out there :-)
#SimonAndGarfunkel
...and the sign flashed out its warning,
in the words that it was forming,
and the sign said "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls,
and whispered in the sounds of silence."
1964. Oh...
#SoundOfSilence
It appears someone was 'triggered' by my sig in another place.
It says "Mundus sine caesaribus" (roughly "A world without kings")
I didn't think it would be that controversial!
#MundusSineCaesaribus
Project Binky 43 is up! (Bad Obsession Motorsports Mini GT4)
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I wish I could remember where I found "11:11" by Mikaela Davis.
#music #SingerSongwriter
Not my usual style of music, but it made me go and buy more at Band camp. (They just notified me of a new album)
Oh well... my laptop's fan needed a workout, and now it's getting one :-)
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@misty Hey that's pretty good :-)
If you haven't already, worth adding to a discogs wantlist and adding a saved search to EBay.
Soon I will have my own genuine hand-carved clue-by-four #ClueByFour #ClueStick #ClueBat
(My 2" by 4" balsa wood is due for delivery today or tomorrow).
I should learn how to bind the handle with cord for a nice grip :-)
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@munin OK, so we know that any abusable tool will be abused.
Now this might sound like a small detail, but why are there so many abusive bastards working for the police?
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@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz It looks like one of the 2 hoods a mad scientist would use in the personality-swap cartoons :-)
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@cdarwin "Land of the free" my arse.
Free yourselves, by making sure you don't vote for fascist lunatics in future.
Just saying...
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@bishop6@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr CIX (runs CoSy) is a bit niche these days, but I have contacts there going back years and I often get a different POV there.
Cliff Stanford built Demon Internet in cix:tenner-a-month with backing from a bunch of cixen who fancied local dial-up access. Terry Pratchett was pterry@cix and Douglas Adams was DNA, from memory. Various UK tech authors, too.
I get the same vibe but bigger from the fediverse, which is why I'm here :-)
#AIskepticism are there any #AIskeptics who would like to view some Smalltalk slop?
It makes me itch, but I felt the need to see what I'm dealing with, so I got Claude to help me write a kind of Sketchpad clone in Pharo Smalltalk.
Surprisingly, it works OK as far as it goes, but it seems to be too big for what it does. The best and the worst of it is I didn't know any Smalltalk when I started, and I still don't know enough now to judge.
Please feel free to reply, ignore me, or reply by DM.
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@benaar@mastodon.social Those 9/10 can go! Nobody needs 5 significant figures in a fuel price.
Will the display show ”1001” instead? If it can't do a decimal point, I'm sure they can put a sticker on the sign :-)