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@lorry@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop I’ve got a simulated KS10 running DECwar… in a Raspberry pi. Which is also running a couple of VAXen and maybe an IBM mainframe or two…

@aachrisg @javerous @drikanis @ludicity not the same. Using a search engine is basically having optimized documentation. I learnt the trade ‘fighting’ with the old ‘wall of paper’ of DEC orange binders with VAX/VMS documentation. Being able to search for them was a blessing.

@cstross@wandering.shop so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines? The horror story (almost) writes itself.

@Reinald@nrw.social @esoastronomy@mastodon.social same here. What is really mind blowing is the image processing technology allows me to capture images close to those from Palomar with a 6 inch SCT paired with a photographic sensor plus some neat processing tricks.

@reloadedhead @fj because they exist in a shared space.

@cstross @sundogplanets yeah, that’s the definition and found a few of them when I trolled flat earthers as a hobby. The thing is written media, specially ‘short’ written media does not give a lot of hints about intention.

@danielgibert@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr except actual mainframes are more efficient.

@tsturm @cstross I’m in basically the same situation, plus getting a weekly email reminding me I have not activated my copilot pro license. If you have the option to simply ignore those polls, it could be the best strategy. I

@KraftTea @cstross I wonder how ww2 style fighters will do against shahed type drones. Maybe a wing of spitfires, mustangs or 109s could erase those things out of the sky.

@allpoints@mstdn.social @angusm@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I’m definitely stealing this

@rozeboosje @Patrickoldhiker @drikanis @ludicity I know EXACTLY what you mean, because I’m in the same situation.

@sharlatan@mastodon.social for deep space, I use siril. For planetary, registax. But I have the hobby on hold… haven’t had a good session in the last 2 years. I’m getting lazy and I’ll probably get a robo-scope -vaonis or seestar- to do the work for me.

@sundogplanets @cstross please don’t take this as sealioning (it _could_ be something a sealion would ask, but believe me, this is not my intention) Where is the limit of ‘honest asking’ or ‘honest trying to explain’ to ‘sealioning’ or ‘mainaplaining’!

@503bartley @cstross @KraftTea like in wwii early detection is probably key. If you know the shaheds are coming you could deploy either propeller fighters or even an Hercules gunship with multiple radar or laser controlled guns to wipe out the drones. Jet propelled ones are a different story though. Even being cheaper than a proper cruise missile they are not so cheap and easy to build as a shahed. Jet engines are much harder to make than reciprocating ones.

@cstross @hypolite @KraftTea uh, serious V-1 vibes on that thing.

@cstross @hypolite @KraftTea yeah, but I understand the appeal of Sahed type drones is they are cheap to make: they use a motorcycle style engine which has to run just one time, so no worries about durability etc.

@cstross@wandering.shop @jgordon@appdot.net yes

@matthiasott @loadhigh thanks for the heads up. Done!

@cstross @jlargentaye @lorry the 16GB version is over 200 USD now. Thanks, AIbros…

@monospace hmmmm… There is a little program around which allows PAKs to be GENerated. It’s written in .c, and all of it is in lowercase.

@jyrgenn @aachrisg @javerous @drikanis @ludicity now I have something like six simh emulated VAXen running in a couple of raspberries at home. And also a there PDP-11s and Kl10 mainframes. And THIS is incredible

@jyrgenn @aachrisg @javerous @drikanis @ludicity did you use LSE? (Language sensitive editor) At that time it looked like magic.

@aachrisg @jyrgenn @javerous @drikanis @ludicity wow, THAT’s hardcore!

@WGAvanDijk@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop better wait for the Dems to get the House back

@cstross@wandering.shop can add some comedy to the scene. C3PO is based on a LLM and instead of stopping the wall he accelerates them, with the usual ‘you are absolutely right, of course’ dropped by the dumbbots every time Trump tries to rephrase the ‘stop this damn thing’ order.

@cstross @su_liam @bruce @dearlove it was but the inhabitants of that universe didn’t speak about it. But there was no ‘lawyers’ section in the yellow pages… (Wonder how many post-boomer people understands what does this mean)

@monospace oh, and before VSI sends the cops for me, I inherited some PAKS when my company decommissioned the VAXen. I also have two small uVAX machines I boot from time to time.

@cstross@wandering.shop no worries. I was just commenting… not shouting at you at all. That webzine deserved to be shouted.

@cstross @HighlandLawyer googled (or more precisely ‘ecosia-Ed’ it. Yuck .

@TheTearMiser@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social looked at it. Used it. Realised how bad it is, both in results and in social and environmental impact. So thanks, but no, thanks.

@cstross@wandering.shop @arstechnica@mastodon.social well, it’s more like the reverse: the HP keyboardoongle is a raspi 500 with corporate bullshit. (But I understand it can have a place in corporate environments, where the bullshit is part of the ecosystem)

@anhedonie @cstross @sundogplanets good point.

@rootwyrm@weird.autos @sundogplanets@mastodon.social you mispelled ‘putting in a gillotine’

@jyrgenn @aachrisg @javerous @drikanis @ludicity yup, first it was called VAXset after DECset. I pestered my bosses until I got a license. Their static code analiser was also incredible for the time.

@cstross@wandering.shop uh, the proverbial Chinese room output was supposed to be based on rules. The LLMs are just an hyper inflated (non totally) linear regressor. The Searle’s Chinese room was closer to intelligence than the LLMs.

@rogerb@mastodon.scot @angusm@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop I remember that situation being part of a novel setup. Can’t remember the title, I think it was a late A.C. Clarke work. The UK governor used the title of ‘prime minister’ though.

@davebarnes @lorry @cstross I have some vax hardware, but it’s in the microVax range. No tape drives (I would need a new apartment to host them!), except for a small SCSI DLT unit that probably does not work anymore.

@Photo55 @cstross yeah, but that would ruin both the dark tecnothriller and the gore-ish horror story I have in my mind. Unfortunately I have zero talent as a writer so both stories will remain in my head.

@archaeohistories@ohai.social @cstross@wandering.shop fun fact: in my days of trolling flat earthers I saw some of those idiots claiming this is a proof the space program is a hoax.

@jef @kottke Well, sorta… https://lng.sourceforge.net

@_elena@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I found I had already blocked it through one of the lists I’m subscribed to. Anyway, blocking the gestapo is the minor or the sins they would find in my TL.

@TheTearMiser@mastodon.social @iinavpov@mastodon.online @nixCraft@mastodon.social no, mid term there will be a breakthrough in AI research that will shelve LLMs as a bad start. LLMs are a brute force solution, basically a cul de sac.

@cstross@wandering.shop @jgordon@appdot.net the current figure provided by the WORKING Venezuelan government increases the figure to 80 https://www.elperiodico.com/es/internacional/20260104/venezuela-40-muertos-bombardeos-estados-unidos-125360095 (Link to a Spanish paper, in Spanish)

@geolaw @cstross @cap_ybarra @jguillaumes those were the days… Did Pamela Jones finally reveal herself? I doubted she was a real person at that time.

@fj @cstross and they should remain this way