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• Post #4240856

  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117008034058808495 Or if you were programming a 32 KW PDP-11 the first time ‘round, ran off the end of the address space, and then had to learn about using overlays in the task builder (TLB, the RSX-11M/M+ linker). Other apps avoided TKB overlays by chaining among different apps, while apps directly chaining to apps is less commonly encountered nowadays. Mention of TKB to those of a certain experience has been known to cause twitching, too. If you’ve...

• Post #4219938

  NWS Albany NY on the current flooding: “An additional 0.5"-2.0" of rainfall is possible in the Flood Watch area...and some localized amounts to 3" or so are possible along the east facing slopes of the eastern Catskills, southern Greens and Berkshires. Rainfall totals in the Capital Region/Saratoga Region, upper Mid Hudson Valley, northern Taconics, Helderbergs, and the eastern Catskills have received 4-11" of rainfall with 11.03" of rainfall in the NYS mesonet at Schoda...

• Post #4096487

  Clarity in Technical Reporting (NASA SP-7010, 1964) A worthy document still, some sixty years onward. https://archive.org/details/ost-technical-writing-19640016507/mode/2up "FOREWORD With the sharp increase in recent years of the volume of technical reports in aerospace fields, it has become even more important for report authors to present their material clearly and concisely. This booklet, which offers commonsense suggestions for improving written and oral reports, is designed not only...

• Post #3884476

  LG displays reportedly download adware via Windows Update, per Gamers Nexus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM Buy an LG display, connect it to Windows, get McAfee ads. Yay. More generally, vendor-provided storage and printer add-on “drivers” (on macOS, at least) have looked increasingly shady for a while, and some browsers and anti-malware apps have looked increasingly like surveillance engines. Of all of what we could be doing, the best and the brightest, this? 🤬

• Post #3765976

  Reddit thread on IT management of Microsoft Windows, Azure, Entra ID… https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1uuas5j/it_admins_feel_overwhelmingly_sick_of_microsoft/ Selling into the C-suite worked for IBM aeons ago, until it didn’t. How long it’ll continue to work? IT history is littered with operating system vendors that derailed too, many having coasted on their installed base, and the wreckage wasn’t pretty. 📉 A very wise senior (AG) once commented that all companies either operate...

• Post #3751863

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116903120796259321 The Amazon “top brands” checkbox provides something analogous, and with no browser extensions required.

• Post #3744085

  The Brave browser: Some cheery reading from Cambridge Analytics on the Brave browser, and on other “privacy-first” products and services: “Brendan Eich’s 2015 promise was seductive in its simplicity: a browser that blocks trackers, ads, and the entire apparatus of surveillance capitalism. Seven years later, Brave has attracted 60 million monthly active users with that vision. What those users largely don’t understand is that Brave replaced Google’s tracking with its own.” https://cambridgean...

• Post #3584817

  Politics: I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.

• Post #3481746

  Many somebodies will be polling for the “bit flip” at eighteen, of course. https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/06/29/260629-whats-wrong-with-eu-age-verification/

• Post #1378273

  "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." ―God Entity to Bender, Futurama Also the proximate cause of layoffs among more than a few IT groups.

• Post #1248590

  This recall — for an oven that can delay its ignition and blow its own oven door open — reads like a cartoon. Something which should have stayed in a cartoon, too. https://m.ai6yr.org/@cpsc_bot/116414982918783956