I might have to leave my girlfriend if she keeps calling YouTube The Tube of You", and Facebook "The Book of Faces".
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Likes high level abstractions and low level bit twiddling. Spends spare time on ASMotor, gateware and retro computing.
@dirkdierickx @8bitboyz There’s obviously also the financial aspect. My family sure wouldn’t be able to get more than one system. The late 70’s and 80’s were a very different time what with >10% inflation and interest rates in my country.
@8bitboyz I think we’ve matured and no longer engage in that kind of playground mentality. As #retrocomputing enthusiasts, I think most people can appreciate every system for what they are. A Commodore kid myself, I also have Spectrums and a couple of TI’s now, and enjoy playing with other systems on MiSTer. They are all lovely with their own quirks and strengths, but it’s okay that one system holds a special place in your heart.
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Facebook got caught exploiting Android again to track you:
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Holy, holy shit. This is why you don't use LLMs. For anything. Ever.
Update: Getting some so-smart reply guys "explaining" how LLMs work. I KNOW THEY DON'T THINK. I know what they are, and that IS WHY I've always told people to stay away from them. This is just an amazing example I wanted to share. You don't need to explain anything to me or assume I'm an idiot who doesn't know what an LLM is or does.
k thx bye.
#AI #LLM #ChatGPT https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
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I try to keep politics out of this account as much as I can. But, right now, in light of the UK Supreme Court ruling, I am ashamed of being from the UK.
FWIW, whatever gender you are, I really don't care, but will treat you well and address you by whatever pronouns you prefer. Unless you're a bigot, in which case, don't expect to be treated well at all.
@sardaukar I don’t have a reliable dB meter, so no. I can say that before, it was rack server level noisy. I used it back then, but I could not today, it is uncomfortably loud, and it’s sitting right in front of you on the desk. It is by a wide margin the loudest computer I have owned.
It’s not completely silent now, a 60mm fan at 2100 RPM does make some noise, but it’s a massive improvement.
This is my Motorola StarMax 3000 that I bought back in the 90’s. It’s one of the Mac clones from the short period where Apple had a clone program. It has the Apple designed Tanzania board that the 4400 also used. The 4400 is generally regarded as the least “Mac” Mac, so the StarMax is even less of a Mac I guess. It was my first “Mac”, and I got it pretty cheap when they were getting rid of the old stock.
The StarMax was universally criticized for its obscene noise level, and it is really is very loud, to the point of being unusable.
I’ve worked a little on mine recently.
It has two fans - a 92mm in the PSU and a 60mm in the front, which takes care of the CPU. Yes, really. 60mm.
I have replaced those with Noctuas.
Another noise source, which is perhaps even worse, is the obscenely loud OEM IBM hard drive. I have replaced it with a CF card in the back, also making getting files across easier.
The StarMax has also been fitted with a Sonnet CPU upgrade, which replaces the L2 DIMM and needs an extension to activate.
All in all, this is a delightfully quirky system.
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THREAD: When Chris Krebs and his workplace, SentinelOne, was singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.
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win11 is so fuckin bad and Microsoft so untrustworthy at this point I will exit the Windows software ecosystem I've stuck with for nearly 30 fuckin years over it.
Time to start testing out different linux distros on my desktop to find one I like.
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Wanted: a patched phone operating system which instead of having permissions for apps returns them all random data, unless I have allowed them access to the real thing.
Randomly generated address books, location coordinates, WiFi network names, picture folders full of noise, battery levels that fluctuate wildly.
Fucking poison the data gathering well. Make it looks pretty realistic. My phone has enough storage and compute to create realistic looking names and telephone numbers. Let the advertisers think I'm traveling back and forth on the Orient express.
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Congratulations to the Swedish demoscene for becoming recognised as UNESCO cultural heritage! :blobcatheart: 🇸🇪
https://levandekulturarv.se/forteckningen/element/demoscenen
After 15 years I did it - I made the switch from Android to iOS. And why, you may ask, did I do that?
I try not to be a fan of anything. I tend to use the thing that annoys me the least, because every damn thing manages to piss me off in its own way. I don't care what you might prefer, you should use whatever works for you. 15 years ago Android annoyed me the least, so I stuck with it. Yeah, it has its faults but it's worked fine for me.
2025 and the world has changed. Apple now seems to be the big tech company that sucks the least orange cock. I'm woke. DEI is a wonderful thing. So I'm making the political decision to move to iOS, I'll just have to swallow the bitter pill and make it work.
After three days I'm really happy to say it's been fine. It doesn't annoy me the way it used to. The Android and iOS UX has converged so much that I have been able to recreate my home screen 1:1, now that iOS has widgets and this incredible innovation of being able to place icons exactly where you want them. The switch has been completely seamless.
It turns out what I really liked about Android is the deep customization you can do. I also like the freedom of being able to install whichever third party application you want, but the cost of that freedom is too high for me. But hey, I'm in the EU, so home screen PWAs on iOS are a thing.
As with Android, there's things that piss me off in iOS, but I'll live.
(This is not debate club, if you prefer Android or something else entirely, you do you [which you absolutely should])
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The New York Times just discovered parallel computing.
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My mom accidentally referred to cryptocurrency as “kleptocurrency” this morning and I think I’m going to call it that from now on! 🤑
I think I successfully repaired my flaky DE-10 Nano, which I had already replaced with a good one, so why not give it shot. It would only start up after having had power for a minute or two and then power cycling. The PCB is also ever so slightly bent.
I hit the FPGA and DRAM with my electronics heat gun, and on the DRAM there was an audible click or snap, so that was promising. And now it works. We'll see if reflowing it is a permanent solution.
And now I have two MiSTers. I'm not sure I'm comfortable selling this one.
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