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@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Would like a photo of the tangle of garden-hose SCSI cables on the back.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06See saccade.com. I am (was?) @isonno@mastodon.social on Twitter.
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Clearly, you've never had medical care at Stanford Health. Your US numbers are missing a couple digits.
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@mwichary@mastodon.online Thanks for pointing out the "AI innovations" tab. At least I was able to shut much of it off.
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@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io @DosFox@tech.lgbt I also recall finding the Cray maintenance contract in the printer tray. It was $30,000 a *month*. In late 1980's dollars.
And god knows what the electric bill for that beast was. Let alone the two full-time Apple sysadmins to look after it.
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@waxy@xoxo.zone Having Flickr in the hands of a "Family run site" does not instill confidence it'll run for 100 years.
Somebody dies, the kids want to cash out, the domain goes to the highest bidder. Flickr becomes yet another porn/crypto/gambling site.
@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org @anildash@me.dm
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@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io @DosFox@tech.lgbt Yeah - everybody used VersaTerm or NCSA Telnet to talk to it.
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@jeffhokit@mastodon.online @GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io @DosFox@tech.lgbt Yes! I can't find a picture online, but the hall had black and white tile with a peaked ceiling and fancy sconce lights along the way.
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@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io @DosFox@tech.lgbt The color display showing the Mandlebrot set wasn't a Mac though - this was before you could get 24bit color cards for the Mac II.
It was some special framebuffer directly attached to the Cray, with long video cables to a monitor outside the machine room.
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@DosFox@tech.lgbt @jeffhokit@mastodon.online @GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io Software developer. In keeping with the chaos of late '80s / early '90s Apple, nothing I worked on there ever shipped. 🫤
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@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io @DosFox@tech.lgbt I used to work in the building with the Purple Cray. I remember coming in on a Saturday when the Cray was idle, and playing with the Mandlebrot viewer as the sole user on the machine.
One of those little graphic design mysteries: How did the four-pointed sparkle come to represent AI?
Worth reading the whole thread.
This proposed data center is larger than the city of San Francisco (62 sq mi?!) and would use more power alone than the entire state of Utah consumes.
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@tubetime Add a bright LED for a fancy flashlight. Maybe also works as a small power bank to recharge your phone?
RE: @arstechnica@mastodon.social
Next: TSMC builds fusion energy plant to supply -both- their energy and helium demands.
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@edwardk@infosec.exchange I remember their system of "we'll get everything, trust us" creeped me out. But when I tried their app, it was downright flaky. Review from 9 years ago:
https://saccade.com/blog/2017/10/backup-software/
I flunked a data-broker-privacy-snoop identity test because I didn't recognize a zip code I'd lived in briefly over thirty years ago.
Did it ever occur to the people designing these tests that Palantir's memory may be better than ours?
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@DosFox@tech.lgbt Yeah, there was always neat stuff going on.
This was the project I was originally hired on for:
https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
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@mwichary I'm always reminded of this ad when I see those warnings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY
Get a Mac - Vista Vs Mac - Security - New Mac Add
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@atoponce@fosstodon.org @robpike@hachyderm.io V4 had lower case? Or is this a concession to modern sensibilities?
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange So, maybe this is just a way into conning Americans into needlessly getting new passports with Tяump's face plastered on them?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/politics/us-trump-passport
When I was a kid, gas stations had to start selling fuel by the 1/2 gallon because the pumps only had two digits for the price and couldn't handle prices over $1.00/gallon.
Looks like that may happen again?
In three weeks, WSJ notes around $2B worth of military hardware is already lost.
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@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io Hmm, not sure if there's enough storage on my device to download the VAX opcodes.😀
Gosh, 'ya think watching Meta lose a large liability lawsuit had anything to do with this?
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@pfsmet@mastodon.social I had to try these to believe them.
sum([math.pow(i,3) for i in range(1,10)])
math.pow(sum(range(1,10)),2)
Magic!
RE: @oneunderscore__@www.threads.com
This.
Gather up all the far-right into one spot (say, a spare Dakota) and fence them off. Let them have their theocracy, guns, racism, misogyny, etc. in their own special little haven. Give it a few months, maybe a year tops.
It will detonate. All the smart, reasonable people escape; the remainder go to war with each other.
These are people that fundamentally don't get along with other people.
@davepolaschek@writing.exchange Saw this right after your post about selling your BMW.