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etchedpixels

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social

Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trains

ESO: EtchedPixels & PenguinOfEvil (Wombles, Greymanes, Chill Mode)

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etchedpixels, to random
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Microsoft co-pilot is down. Now they are stuck because they've got nothing to ask how to bring it back up again 8)

jwildeboer, to random
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As if didn't cause enough chaos and flash elections, billionaire and hobby politician Rishi Sunak announces yet another election to confuse the UK electorate. On the 4th of July. Le fucking sigh. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/rishi-sunak-will-call-general-election-for-july-in-surprise-move-sources

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer Not sure we are that confused. The 4th is just a quirk of the announcement time scale and the fact Thursday is the conventional day of week. It had to happen by November anyway and his party is the party of old people, who stay at home when it's cold and don't vote then.

etchedpixels, to UKpolitics
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Every election I hear the words "dissolving parliament" and have visions of bond villains with cats and sizzling noises.

sjvn, to random
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Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places https://zdnet.com/article/where-are-floppy-disks-today-planes-trains-and-all-these-other-places/ by @sjvn

Floppy disks live!

etchedpixels,
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@sjvn Not just technical debt, it's often certification issues. It's $50 to replace the floppy interface with a Gotek, and half a million dollars of paperwork to recertify the change to a safety critical system, or you could just keep using floppies as you have an existing proven safety case.

Rail is particularly fun for this with all sorts of ancient stuff hanging around because it's either got a safety case or was grandfathered in on the basis it never broke and can no longer be touched

etchedpixels, to retrocomputing
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The elegance of the DG Nova instruction set really becomes apparent when you write emulation code for it. The entire core CPU emulation (no devices) is 250 lines of C, including comments and not even written to be small.

Nova 3 and 4 will probably add another 50-100 lines at most

#retrocomputing

etchedpixels,
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@loke If you are nesting interrupts you store the contents of 0 somewhere else then either put it back when ready or jump through the saved version.
The other detail is that INTEN takes effect one instruction after not immediately - ie it's the same trick the Z80 later did so you can EI RETI, but in the Nova case you can INTEN JMP @0

etchedpixels, to gentoo
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Nice to see and catching up with which has had a

"Microsoft co-pilot laundered code is not accepted in this project"

for a long time. Possibly I need to generalize the rule these days.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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With , even just domestic solar panels and privately installed batteries we can get domestic electricity mostly for free in a few years in many developed regions of the world. The electricity companies will do everything to make that impossible. But their claims of a grid that can't cope only shows their centralised approach that favours big consumers is failing ;)

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer Our largest electricity company is now a very renewable oriented business. Since not everyone can have an off shore wind farm in the garden, or hydro or whatever deep drilled thermal comes out they will be fine even with major home battery advances.

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer Much the same. Grid is operated by one body, multiple energy suppliers and sellers. Self generation isn't going to beat grid tie for a long time IMHO

The far sooner version of the problem is the gas grid. As everything moves off gas the gas grid cost gets divided by fewer people so the prices soar so people leave so.. kaboom...

Same for the petrol supply game (and some nasty knock ons to oil refining which is set up to produce the wrong mix of outputs for the future).

etchedpixels, to dadjokes
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If you eat nothing but the numbers and A-F out of a bowl of alphabet for a day and then go to the loo is the result a hex dump ?

#dadjokes

timonsku, (edited ) to random
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Yo, if you live in Berlin and have a sunny balcony/garden/window. You can get a plug-in solar setup for basically free.
This city subsidy program gives you up to 500€ for a setup and most only cost you around 300-400€.
Its basically free electricity for your apartment/home.

https://www.ibb-business-team.de/steckersolargeraete/

https://www.berlin.de/solarcity/solarcity-berlin/im-fokus/foerderprogramm-solarplus/

E: Actually a lot more citites and even some states offer similar programs: https://www.vattenfall.de/infowelt-energie/solar/balkonkraftwerk-foerderung

etchedpixels,
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@timonsku Would be nice to see more of that in the UK and less "Oh but we've made it a conservation zone so no solar because it'll ruin the look".

Still pays for itself in 4-5 years here with the feed in tariffs - bit longer with battery. Unfortunately there are bizarre historic rules about feed in payments and second hand panels not being eligible that are only now starting to get resolved or it would be 3-4 if you used 2nd hand panels.

etchedpixels, to random
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There really ought to be an open season on private jets each year. It would be a wonderful CO2 reducing way to bring environmentalists and hard-man hunting types together as they stalked small jet planes with manpads.

gamingonlinux, to linux
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What do you think is the best thing to happen to in the last few years?

etchedpixels,
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@gamingonlinux I can't decide between Steamdeck/Proton and Windows 11.

NanoRaptor, to random
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A "They Live" AR filter for Apple Vision Pro.

etchedpixels,
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@jwz @NanoRaptor Even better would be replacing their heads with animated talking corporate logos of their major donors

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

etchedpixels,
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@emmatonkin @rrwo @ocdtrekkie @mcc It will no doubt take years to beat the EU into acting but
https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

is starting the process already

pid_eins, to random
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Even though Fedora probably is kinda popular among developers, it sometimes baffles me what is and what isn't packaged in Fedora.

I mean come on, how is it possible that there's no meson mode packaged for emacs on Fedora?

I mean, it's pretty obvious: if Fedora wants to be taken seriously as a developer platform, I think it's pretty obvious that this is a glaring omission, like no other! 🤓

etchedpixels,
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@pid_eins Even weirder is that for years they've been busily packaging a broken weird gcc 68K fork not the real thing - not that packaging any 68K gcc is probably a high demand feature.

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
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Sigh. Google flagged https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/classic-rts-perimeter-returns-as-perimeter-legate-edition-with-linux-support/page=1/ as containing "Malicious or unwanted software" with no way on the adsense control panel to speak to them, to get them to recheck it.

It's a news article about a game, that links to the GPL source code (GitHub) and a Steam page.

What about that is "Malicious or unwanted software" exactly?

etchedpixels,
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@gamingonlinux Everyone I know at Google left. Says it all. It might have better PR than twitter but the rest .. shrug

mike, to random
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The big problem with Tesla that this article misses completely is that many of Tesla's most enthusiastic customers (like I once was) no longer want to support a person who is actively promoting hateful conspiracy theories and providing nazis and Russians with a platform to disrupt the upcoming U.S. election.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/chaos-at-tesla-what-analysts-think-about-elon-musks-cuts-and-layoffs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into AC/DC AI @ac

etchedpixels,
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@t_mkdf @mike @ac BYD are already discussing where they will build their EU and NA factories. They are well aware that they'll have to do some production in other markets to keep the politicians onside just as Japan did. NA looks like it will be Mexico so they can use NAFTA to avoid tariffs, EU not yet clear.

glynmoody, to ireland
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plans to send seekers back to under emergency law - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/28/ireland-plans-to-send-asylum-seekers-back-to-uk-under-emergency-law "Taoiseach wants to reduce arrivals through Northern Ireland amid concern that Sunak’s plan is driving people to Ireland" this is going to end in tears...

etchedpixels,
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@glynmoody Except that the UK is no longer a safe country due to the Rwanda law so he won't be able to send them back any more. Something I am quite sure the UK government has factored in and intended.

etchedpixels, to random
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Every time some wannabe economics nut starts explaining how people should be economically rational explain that economically rational people would look at their pet cat when it needed the vet and conclude that since new cats are basically free it's not economically rational to repair the existing one.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to Bulgaria
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Here's a pattern to observe: Whenever a #EU directive (which MUST be implemented in national law) is perceived as a net positive, the national governments will claim it is THEIR success when they (after max 24 months) implement it in national law. They will almost never mention that it was the EU that did it. When a directive is perceived as net negative, the blame goes to Brussels. The EU can never win and show how much good they do. That's why I use #ThanksEU.

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer It was that way when I first got involved in it. Plus being an absolute cess pit of unregulated lobbying and dodgy dealers.

Worse than the "EU did it" side was that there was systematic policy laundering going on where policies that would be unpopular were trundled by national governments through the EU so they could then blame the EU for them,

etchedpixels,
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@jwildeboer The EU is very corrupt and broken. It's less corrupt and broken than many of the alternatives however but things like lobbying need fixing badly.

It's what happens when you retrofit a trade scheme as a government and then don't actually redo the system design because nobody can agree whether it's supposed to be a trading scheme plus or a united states of Europe and each members position changes every few years. Plus half the the time they hate each other and it's only there by need.

NanoRaptor, to random
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You get to make one change to any single genus of animal that’s immediately applied to all of its members worldwide.

What do you change for maximum chaos?

etchedpixels,
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@NanoRaptor I'd make humans genetically incapable of lying, then sit back with popcorn.

1br0wn, to ai
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‘The head of Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services has said artificial intelligence will result in “minimal” need for call centres in as soon as a year, with #AI’s rapid advances set to upend a vast industry across Asia and beyond... its pipeline of #generativeAI projects doubled quarter over quarter to be worth $900mn to the end of March.’ https://www.ft.com/content/149681f0-ea71-42b0-b85b-86073354fb73

etchedpixels,
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@glynmoody @1br0wn Or to judge by a certain airline lawsuit - a lot better, because if you can persuade the AI to promise something you can then go see your lawyer next.
Whole marvellous litigation farming business opportunities await

etchedpixels, to random
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Today is cat to vet day aka open warfare. This time the cat has made a pre-emptory first strike by vomiting all over our bed

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