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Yup, but I still have graphics start on a tty ;) I just don't have a login because I use an ephemeral OS (custom alpine base) with runit. It's like windows 95 all over again, you s…

Maybe not attacks but... "Congratulations you've won 100M+ climate refugees!"

It looks cool. Two quick things: - the pricing page is an unstyled 404 right now - the docs subdomain requires javascript to display at all which is fine I guess but odd because th…

Think about how far they've come if you get them to have these "misconceived" ideas! They would understand code and data are in the same place, that all flow control effectively bo…

__attribute__(packed) structs with an enum at the front indicating their type. The receivers use a switch to figure out which sub-message to interpret the strict as... It isn't pre…

That's amazing! Thanks for the tip!

I guess I'm the odd duck with a switch that has never been online. It sounds like the switch2 isn't for me. Sad but I don't want another device that wants to be more than it is, I …

Yup,people are really good about it in my experience too. I just stand off to the side of the camera, and say "no biometrics please". They take a minute to check my documents and i…

>> Can you imagine an intelligent process in such a place, as static representation of data in ram? > Yes. You can’t? This is not > really a convincing argument. Fair, I believe it…

I think it is this, it's been a couple of weeks: nasm -f bin -o foobar.com foobar.asm Top of the file you'll need this offset for DOS (or 7c00 for an MBR) to adjust your pointers w…

I don't know if it's been much used but it is known and works. I was doing this early on in my x86-16 assembler experiments but ended up using DOS as a program launcher for an easi…

Today I learned (!) What?! A .com file can have a full 64k for every segment! Amazing! All of my little experiments are .com files and I dread having to go to .exe at any point so …

Mmmm well my meatsuit can't easily make my own heart quiver the wrong way and kill me. Computers can treat data as code and code as data all pretty easily. It's core to several lan…

It's not about the random numbers it's about the tree of possibilities having to be defined up front (in software or hardware). That all inputs should be defined and mapped to some…

I tried to keep my long post short so I cut things. I gestured at it -- there is nothing in a computer we didn't put there. Take the same model weights give it the same inputs, get…

I've been saying this for a decade already but I guess it is worth saying here. I'm not afraid AI or a hammer is going to become intelligent (or jump up and hit me in the head eith…

I lent out my copy of the Dawn of Everything so I can't get exact quotes or pages but this reminded me of a point in the book (which I highly recommend) which I'll attempt to summa…

Have a near 10 year old Librem (original 13"), works fine. But if it breaks I'm getting an old Thinkpad and putting coreboot on it. Perhaps my usage is too light, no IDEs, no elect…

Really??? I had an iBook from 2001, and put Linux on it, but power consumption was definitely the best of laptops in that entire era. What could it be, like 20-30 watts? Motorola P…

Wow! Just discovered OpenCore Legacy Patcher! My wife's ten year old Macbook Air can get updates!! Thank you for the tip this will help a lot since it is not the "year of the Linux…

Disable JavaScript and you're largely fixed. Amazingly enough there is a large enough contingent doing that such that you are far from unique (and it helps most all of the fingerpr…

I carry a point and shoot for photographing my kids -- it's amazing. You can take it out without looking at it, turn it on, take a photo and turn it off and return it to your pocke…

I've taken to saying, much to the chagrin of my techy friends, that "the best language is a dead language". Usually speaking about C which isn't even dead but maybe should be, just…

I got super interested in Clojure and the java UI frameworks a year ago. But the languages on top of languages scared me. I wanted something simpler, so now I'm writing x86-16 and …