@root42 I think a lot of people are weary of AI and OpenAI in particular. I have iTerm2 installed but rather than tracking which version is good, I’ll just delete it everywhere.
With the Limited Run edition of #maniacmansion I finally have a copy of the poster that came either the original release. It is chuck full of hints and funny tidbits. #lucasarts#retrogaming
Request for feedback: how would you change this #Rust compiler error? Can you tell what's going on? What the problem is? Do you get a sense of how you might be able to solve it?
Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.
I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17
@gabrielesvelto Working with existing non-ecc system, couldn't some of this be caught if the OS ran a low-priority process scrubbing memory, eg. writing and checking a random, but check-summed pattern to free pages (similar to ZFS scrubbing). Even better, important data structures should be check summed (something I actually did in a database engine I wrote many decades ago).
Oh, and what would the Amiga be without this chip? The mighty Motorola 68000. A massive DIP64 package. None of that puny 8086 crap that Intel made! With a little bit of squinting you could even think that it‘s a 32 bit processor. Of course nowadays Motorola lives a life rather in the limelight, under the name of Freescale.
What are your feelings towards the venerable 68k? #commodore#amiga#retrocomputing
@root42 I somehow didn't encounter m68k until I got access to the Sun 3/50 at Uni (~ 1988). It was all Z-80/6502/x86 before that and I didn't really have an opinion about m68k other than it felt similar to PDP-11 in some ways.
In hindsight, it was clearly the best ISA at its introduction, but RISC (SPARC, PA-RISC, Arm, MIPS, m88k, Alpha, etc) was a far superior alternative when available.
bad idea: A mouse cursor that's not just a simple floating pointer, it's a cat/dog paw... but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it's a really long leg
@foone That’s a hilarious idea. would help a lot with missing the cursor. Tangential, but I like how some cad programs use screen filling horizontal and vertical lines, make it much easier to find where you are.
> Instead of having prebaked charging data that governs that battery pack throughout its life, Breathe instead has developed a dynamic battery management system that provides much more granular control over the pack as it charges. Consequently, it says it can improve charging times by 15–30% over current packs.
@whitequark@immibis@jhwgh1968@pmdj No shit! In 2015 DSSD used PCIe G3 x4 as cableled interconnect in the rack. It was a massive collection of PCIe switches, but it slightly beat 40 GbE in bandwidth and destroyed it in latency (and we went straight to user-land bypassing the kernel).
Back in Greysythe with Briley. We managed to sneak out to the gate. Sebastian opening it, and Alyssa fetching Chestnut while the others prepare their horses. #retrogaming#brileywitch#commodore#commodore64
So, my 2013 iMac crashed again. It froze while the screensaver was on. See attached screenshot of the crash report... Any idea what this means? Is it the graphics driver? The GPU on the CPU? Power supply issues? #macos#troubleshooting
A small manufacturing defect destroys your computer's main storage, and it's nonrecoverable. All data lost.
Do you have backups so that you can restore what you cannot do without, and quickly? Have you checked those backups are happening? do you have multiple backups? have you checked they're restorable?
@azonenberg@darkling@NanoRaptor 100%, but I wanted to emphasize how focusing on the less likely "threat" might make the more likely "threat" even more likely.
For example, I know more examples of data lost to a forgotten password than data stolen due to a post-it on the monitor (not recommending this in general, but for my very aging parents, the post-it might be the better option).