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• Post #4418948

  Remember when you could carefully pickup the telephone handset of an other extension, put your hand over the microphone, and listen in on someones phone call? Good times.

• Post #4365483

  A friend with an iPhone attempted to send me a photo (MMS) to my android (grapheneOS) phone and got, from number 866: "sorry, this service is not available" And the image/text does not arrive. Is this some extended iPhone service thingie? Web search turns up helpful suggestions from Apple Support "did you try power cycling your phone", and this gem: "To send a message as iMessage or MMS, you need a cellular data or Wi-Fi connection." Weird.

• Post #4347363

  Sigh, even I have to have an "AI" policy. https://www.bleeve.me/AI.html (Interim one for now, I'm busy.) There's a depressing amount of LLM garbage in the vintage forum. I suspect I will cause Problems in my usual subtle way at some point. There's someone cloning vi for CP/M; a commendable project. But it's all crapped up, I won't run it. I haven't told him why yet. As is always the problem, the author seems like a decent person, except this One Thing. But...

• Post #4183766

  Not yet beep and flash.

• Post #4181892

  Do COVID tests from 2020 have any efficacy in 2026? I assume not, that tests have degraded and virus mutated. But web search reveals no timely information.

• Post #4031282

  Where does everyone find the time to watch all these videos?

• Post #3999686

  A friend of mine just now sent me this text: As I was pushing stuff around at my storage units a woman across the hall was pushing her stuff about. It turns out she is the daughter of Curtis Schreier, one of the totally visionary artists of Ant Farm. I'm friends with Chip Lord, one of the Ant Farm founders, and I met Curtis at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Media Burn. Curtis is the total hippie tech visionary genius crackpot. His daughter just sent me this:

• Post #3995029

  The FSF is our ARRL.

• Post #3904322

  The first step to a general strike is a full pantry. For yourself and one other.

• Post #3892071

  Has anyone here tried out one of the small language models, tinyLLM for example? Are they truly self-contained? Don't need an internet connection to run? To run on against the contents of /home/tomj. Does this idea piss people off? Be blunt. Assuming it would be actually self-contained and not a tool tethered to one of the corps.

• Post #3870482

  Went to two big corp chain stores this week! Weird. Bust Buy, i think its called, had an SD card holder, biked over instead of online. The front of the store, with a phalanx of salesmanmals, where sll the oversized TVs and impulse buy crap usually is, was empty, with stuff pushed around to hide the fact. Last store I remember looking like this was Fry's Electronics, a couple months before they went bust. Today went to the Target at Eagle Rock mall. Wow, dead mall, with one lively store...

• Post #3844961

  So Synology says this: Warning: Enabling SSH service may bring security risks to your system. Please enable it only when necessary and avoid making changes to system configurations. ? lol

• Post #3665300

  A friend of mine is doing that crazy long walk up the sierras (he's done 1048 miles), had his Pixel 10 in AIRPLANE MODE for days, and of course no wifi to sniff, and the clock drifted off more than one hour. So GPS stuff becomes not usable. My first thought was that GPS provides accurate clock but my second was, I don't really know how GPS nav works.

• Post #3611227

  I had forgotten just how fucking tremendous Dr. Dobbs Journal was. Check out Volume 7. (The Volumes contain all of that years' monthly issues.) https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=dr+dobbs+journal+vol&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22dr_dobbs_journal%22

• Post #3584908

  We're old people, so of course we have plates we do not use hanging on the wall.

• Post #3582448

  OMFG I'm so glad we're not surrounded [here in Los Angeles] by thousands of years of history. What a fucking burden. Our house is 103 years old! (lol, ducks)

• Post #3528895

  Folks here looking for new DIP CPUs know about the NEC V20, right? Pin compatible with 8088, but runs Z80 code. Dunno if it will do that from-the-socket. RTFM datasheet. No idea who makes these though the new 8088 laptops sold on AliExpress all use them, so probably still made... #retrocomputing #i8088 #z80

• Post #3437773

  Wow, but no, utterly obvious and effectively no change to anything, since "customer product ratings" have been meaningless for essentially forever. But here we are. This is from a garbage seller (tractor supply) I never buy from but refer to for "unreasonable price". Like amazon, this "unbranded" product costs less than a real one, so i'm using them for anti-shopping. This one (water tank) is $275, while an equiv. from a far-less-awful corp is $520. I'm buy...

• Post #3314911

  An agonizing decision, but in the end, I decided to live wild! and take the risk! Crazy, man!

• Post #3314910

  The ranked scale of wits: nitwit dimwit halfwit fuckwit

• Post #3314909

  Raccoons! https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2026/short-talk/compu-global-hyper-mega-net

• Post #3314908

  TheGuardian's website reaches a new low: accept all browser cookies or subscribe. "Maybe later."

• Post #3314907

  Getting closer to having Friendly fZ80 MP/M-80 computers available... https://www.bleeve.me/fZ80/June-batch/index.html

• Post #3314906

  At my kung fu place there's a clipboard soliciting everyones email address, just to stay up to date. The sheet was mostly full. Every single one was at aol, gmail, or yahoo except mine.

• Post #2624705

  So reluctantly im voting for a white male billionaire in the CA dem gov primary. I was resigned to accepting him for gov (vs any R, i mean seriously), but in the primary? Because: absolutely must kick Becerra to the fucking curb, horrible dem machine cog. What a shit system this is.

• Post #2624704

  Wow. Time again to filter out posts with any reference to llm ai chatbot. Fediverse passing by me seems obsessed by it. Its evil work being done by corporations I've increasingly hated over decades that no one seems to leave (not that that would be easy). I have no solutions except to do my own work, and so theres no criticism implicit in this, i just can't read about it any more. Round and round we go.

• Post #2624703

  the SparkFun website is AFU for me. I can login etc, but everything involving the Cart is broken. Empty dialog boxes, edit quantity hangs (overnight), etc.

• Post #2551187

  OMG, the HOMOCORE Anthology got an amazingly positive review in the current RAZORCAKE, #152. It's out in print, but online, on the Fluke Publishing page... https://fluke.bigcartel.com/product/homocore

• Post #2456895

  ... The telephone dial: this is used for the occasional insertion of small amounts of numerical data. If any decimal digit is dialed (1 < n < 10— note that the dial position labelled 0 is equivalent to ten, and not to zero) the number n * 2e-15 will be added into the accumulator as the dial returns to rest. As soon as the rest position is reached the machine will be reset, just as if the Reset button were pressed. The dial is frequently used in conjunction with the control combinat...

• Post #2270132

  Can anyone of the era (...) recall the names of early Apple-focused magazines? 70s, to mid 80s latest? Wasn't my world so the names are escaping me and DDG just keeps trying to sell me things. All I can remember is INTERFACE AGE. These would be ground up trees, but now on the Innnernutz Ark.