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Go to ckent@urbanists.social for anything non-tech or political, including infrastructure, solar & selling power, roads, transit, cycling … even maps, even really geeky maps with Wikipedia 'bahnstrecke' diagrams

This will be my forum for IT security and reliability, high tech and high science … but also retro tech, old Apple stuff … no really old … no, older than that. It's helpful for each audience to have these accounts separated.

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whophd, to random
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Do you like ’90s tech?
Do you like Borg Cubes?
Do you like cubic servers?
Then I have a fun video for you:
https://youtu.be/B79DmbWsqPA

Honestly the best incidental audio timings were all a coincidence — the “squeak” of the tray removal, the LED lighting up, and the green blinking lights on the drive bays — all pure luck on the first attempt, when dragging clips onto the timeline.

RickiTarr, to random
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You should get a gap year in every decade of your life.

whophd,
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@RickiTarr @davidvasandani Sorry to report that we kind of have that in Australia and it feels great. But the look on my American manager’s face as I explained my entitled leave request to him … was heartbreaking.

timrichards, to random
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Tried stringing along a scammer calling from "Telstra" and she hung up in the middle of the call. Don't know what's going on there, I try to sound meek and agreeable but they somehow suss me out. What should I be doing to waste more of their time?

whophd,
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@timrichards OK ill answer this rhetorical question sincerely — and do it from my alt account where the local posts are about information security

Short version: They only want scared + ignorant.

Long version: Do you have any concept of how many marks they have to scope to make the con work? It’s thousands or millions, the more electronic it gets.

It’s not just in their interests, but in the name of survival, to weed you out. Bad spellings are just the start of it.

If you can’t play along VAGUELY like a mark who pays, they’ll sniff you out and know they’re wasting their time. It’s not worth 2 seconds to say goodbye. Just hang up.

But a corollary — I do encourage you to learn. Keep trying. The longer you play them out, the less profitable their shameful deceit is. And while they talk to you, they talk to one less victim.

Maybe you have to react more like they expect. More surprise? More worry I think. They need fear.

whophd, to demoscene
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA

There’s , and then there’s this abomination of nature and genius

Somebody must have bet him that he couldn’t make a demo without the computer itself

NanoRaptor, to random
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The quad-package 8-core powermac G5 ran a bit hot.

whophd,
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@NanoRaptor rear view

whophd,
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@ajsadauskas @Naich @ardi60 And if you thought that was confusing, the same company also makes a “Windows Subsystem for Linux” but appears to have got the name backwards — it’s not FOR Linux, at all!

whophd, to security
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Let’s hope this -conscious choice in the Kia EV9 is the start of a trend. They didn’t have to give us this. In a real button, no less — you can connect or disconnect the data from your phone while -charging it in your car. From MKBHD https://youtu.be/CRhjL9X2yKA

Gmatom, to random
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To celebrate the Mac’s 40th anniversary, some of my old school Macintosh cross stitch projects. First up, the happy Mac startup icon on a classic checkerboard gray background. 1/10

whophd,
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@yakkoj @Gmatom There really was a divide in the philosophy of richly defined filesystems with a centrally-controlled truth versus a free-for-all

Apple in fact had multiple OSs and filesystems in the 1980s with tables of creator codes and file types, and plenty of “reserved” spaces for the future. @siracusa might like to talk about that one day … but ProDOS had its own set of 4-letter codes separate to Macintosh HFS I think — anything was better than the original Apple DOS 3.3 that had a single character, like “B” for binary (an “app”) and “T” for text and “A” for AppleSoft BASIC code. I forget if graphics (full screen pages) had one.

By the time the 1990s ended and Windows dominated, Unix beckoned, and interoperability was its own burden, it was twice bitten thrice shy, and I think OS X took a more pragmatic approach

Unix itself uses “file”, an app that takes a brute-force approach to determine contents via a pattern-matching database — and yet, never fully leveraged it

seldo, (edited ) to random
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The actual serving size of a large bag of potato chips is:

whophd,
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@seldo wait, are people answering this with the official corporate “fact”?

pvonhellermannn, to twitter
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Just have to say this one more time: the whole #X thing continues to profoundly upset me. I left in Oct/Nov ‘22 and have been very happy here, but: i had a really good Twitter community of and academics and lost it all, because hardly anyone came here. And i do not understand how they are ALL continuing to use an ever more overtly fascist platform, along with majority. The very people who i thought were the good, critical ones. I know i shd accept it but struggle.

whophd,
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@pvonhellermannn just ping them regularly, and individually. Especially today — today’s a great day to let them know what’s happened to the former bird site.

ElleGray, (edited ) to random
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You know how when you haven't tasted anything sweet for a while and when you finally have a bite of dessert it explodes across your taste buds like a kind of euphoria?

Well, I've had a tough few months and then yesterday I lost my cell phone in a taxi. After an evening of self-recrimination and dread about having to replace it, this morning I got it back. It was in the lost and found. This tiny piece of kindness and good luck almost reduced me to tears of gratitude. It was a good day.

whophd,
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@ElleGray @lisamelton Wait, do I wait for the happily ever after bit where you reward yourself with an ice cream though?

ActionRetro, (edited ) to random
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What's the most reasonable use case for my Mac Pro Trashcan?

whophd,
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@ActionRetro It really is nicely engineered for a subset of modern things

rebeccawatson, to random
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A lady on TikTok says eyeglasses are just a scam by Big Ophthalmology, but her grift is based on a century-old pseudoscience that has been debunked repeatedly since it was first made up https://skepchick.org/2023/09/the-long-history-behind-the-latest-tiktok-no-glasses-scam/

whophd,
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@rebeccawatson @lisamelton Isn’t this a classic diversion from the “Big” industry that dominates / monopolises glasses and sunglasses? They sell way above cost with no competitive pressure.

stevesilberman, to gay
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After 40 years, Red Cross finally ends blood-donation policy that stigmatized and men. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/red-cross-ends-blood-donation-rules-singling-out-gay-and-bisexual-men.html

whophd,
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@stevesilberman @lisamelton I guess we had to ignore a bigger pandemic before we could ignore “the gay one”

erictopol, to random
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A visit to the doctor in 2023 :-(

whophd,
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@erictopol @lisamelton https://ioc.exchange/@whophd/110722235693976797

BBCRD, to random
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Hello to our new followers, which, for the one and only time, is everyone...

We'll be verifying our account very soon, but in the meantime, our top level domain should hopefully help confirm our identity, and we've also written about why we're here on Mastodon, what was involved to get here, and the other BBC accounts you can follow.

Say hi, follow and give us a boost!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

whophd,
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@masukomi @BBCRD @BBC 🙏

w7voa, to Mongolia
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US sees as a source for clean energy manufacturing raw materials, but shipping would be a challenge as the landlocked country is surrounded by and . https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-s-quest-for-minerals-leads-to-a-remote-nation-surrounded-by-adversaries/

whophd,
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@w7voa Australia meekly waves … we're right here … hampered by our mining overlords …

wendysiegelman, to random
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The Country That Bombs Its Own People

Visual evidence, data and interviews show that the Myanmar military’s campaign of terror, which began after a coup sparked widespread resistance, is getting worse.

Even for a country long notorious for military abuses, the violence and humanitarian crisis now are unprecedented, many experts say.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/31/world/asia/myanmar-military.html?searchResultPosition=1

whophd,
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@wendysiegelman Sure, but just checking you know about Tulsa 100 years ago, if we're talking about aerial bombing

GossiTheDog, to random
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Random bit of Microsoft telemetry dropped in this WSJ piece, good to know they’re tracking key presses.

whophd,
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@GossiTheDog @lisamelton btw … what do they mean “despite” office returns? When do they expect commuting to happen?

whophd, to random
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You know what we’ve never had in the arc of history from the Dot Com Boom and Pets dot com, to the mobile web and “there’s an app for that”, to Web 3.0 and crypto and the metaverse and AI chatbots telling you everything?

We’ve never had a “waiting room” app or website. It could sign up doctors’ surgeries and dentists and hospitals, and over the last 25 years it would’ve informed you of the BARE MINIMUM of information “you have X mins remaining / are required to return to the waiting room / have progressed to X in the queue”

In 1998 that would have been via dial-in automated voice. In 2003 it would have sent you an SMS. In 2008 it would have been with an app on your smartphone. In 2013 it would have been with a really good app — giving walking directions, ETA on demand, and notifying each other of location. In 2018 it would have been with an optional watch app so you don’t miss your appointment and can work in an office while “waiting for a doctor”.

It’s 2023.

seldo, to random
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I asked ChatGPT "Generate an angry, self-righteous notification that you intend to unfollow someone on tumblr. Make it as weird as possible." Did it ever deliver.

Finally, I must address the pineapple pizza discourse. The fact that you refuse to admit its status as an edible love letter to the spirit of culinary adventure has thrown the pineapple of discord between us. Thus, with the dignity of a capybara in a tiny boat and the resolve of a platypus choosing its best pebble, I hereby pronounce my intention to unfollow you. Our Tumblr companionship, once as vibrant as a neon cactus in a sea of beige, is now as defunct as the chances of a zebra being mistaken for a barcode. In unfollowing you, I am doing my part to uphold the sanctity of internet oddities, peculiarities and eccentricities. Regards, [Your Username]

whophd,
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@seldo edits all past references to Reddit-As-A-Service

foone, to random
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ahh good, my 386 has support for this hard drive.
it's type 29. you know, because you have to select the hard drive you want from the list.

whophd,
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@foone Mine is 31.

TerribleMaps, to random
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Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seitengr%C3%B6%C3%9Fe_PDF_7.svg

whophd,
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@Terra @stanford @TerribleMaps I'm having evil thoughts 🤔

Because the next question is: What is the maximum byte size of a PDF?

Because then it gives us some kind of boundary as to what level of detail we can put in (notwithstanding a plethora of data formats, compression, 3D, and other metadata)

After all — I realised yesterday that a 4K-quality photo I turned into a photo frame, was from a far smaller source image than I remembered — just 600 kB! (attached)

We could really do this …

whophd,
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@Nifflas @risottobias this page seems to think it's 15 megainches in theory and 200 inches in Adobe's implementation

https://www.cadzation.com/help/pdfpagesize.htm

mekkaokereke, to random
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"Be kind" is not a complete thought. Be kind to who? And don't say "Be kind to everyone!🤗" Because it's not possible to be kind to everyone.

Mr. Rogers is often held up as the example of someone that was kind to everyone. But even he roasted racists! He was unsympathetic to bigots who wanted to hold on to America's tradition of segregation. Something, something, paradox of tolerance.

"Be kind" is often the coward's way out of speaking up for those that need defending.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K6O_Ep9bY0U&t=1m30s

whophd,
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@mekkaokereke @lisamelton I feel there’s an analogy to people who suffered abuse from parents and need fixing through kindness — which is only slightly possible with enormous effort and sometimes not at all — but you can’t condone any abusive actions they themselves

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