Mike Spooner

shelldozer@oldbytes.space

<p>Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.</p>

Posts

Post #4306361
There have recently been quite a few posts about oddball pinouts of ICs. Do any of you remember things like the NEC UPD78PG11E? Quad-In-Line with additional 28-pin DIL socket-contacts on top... #pinout #icpackage #oddball
Post #4015511
Some people were distressed by the events that transpired at the conclusion of the World Cup final, but we should perhaps be grateful that Infantino and Trump didn&#39;t try to kiss the players on the lips. #rubialesdisgrace
Post #3578252
Yesterday's main local news, as reported on the national radio bulletin, was that several of the main dining/catering businesses on the island were stopping weekday daytime meals due to a "truly massive chef shortage". Some wag called the radio station during the phone-in program to suggest that those businesses should try to recruit small and medium-sized chefs instead. I've been giggling at that for the last 24 hours.
Post #2733893
They talk about &quot;intelligence too cheap to meter&quot; as if intelligence was something to be metered. The future these leaders present is horrific not because the machines will turn us all into paperclips but rather because they imagine themselves as building a moat around thinking itself. https://huronbikes.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-not-a-software-engineer/
Post #1859075
lol, Dick Van Dyke would be proud: &quot;The Gemini model I was using initially responded in a very US-American way, which didn&#39;t fit the British voice of my speaker. I told the model, via the system prompt, that the output was being spoken in a British voice, but the result was a bad US-American impersonation of British (&quot;a&#39;waight guv&#39;nor apples and pears&quot; etc etc)&quot;
Post #1724122
Hubris? Security firm Checkmarx says its free and open-source tool that scans for security flaws, dubbed Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure (or KICS), was compromised and that its Docker, VSCode, and Open VSX extensions were manipulated to steal users&#39; credentials. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-checkmarx-supply-chain-breach-affects-kics-analysis-tool/ https://checkmarx.com/blog/checkmarx-security-update-april-22/
Post #511264
Gold.