hankg

@hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Software developer and (sometimes) blogger trying to figure out secret to living a healthy and content life into his 100's.

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hankg, to Humor

If you want proof that how people act on the internet is pretty much the same as it's ever been, back to ARPANET in 1984 no less...

bradford-delong.com/2013/07/ho…

hankg, to retrocomputing

It’s not every day I get to play with a Xerox Alto thanks to the people at The Computer Museum in Maryland! I suck at Missile Command BTW. Great exhibit space and worth a visit!

museum.syssrc.com

ahoneybun, to random
@ahoneybun@hachyderm.io avatar

I feel like I'm hitting a milestone here with local music lol. I think my next phone after the Pixel 8 will have to have 256GB instead of 128GB lol.

hankg,

@popey @ahoneybun One of the things I like about Tidal, and Spotify before I switched to Tidal, is generating monthly, annual, and all time "most listened to" playlists. Out of thousands of songs I have in multiple lists I probably listen to the same 100 songs 90% of the time.

rootwyrm, to random
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"Absolutely no reasonable org will allow this Microsoft Recall shit! It's a security nightmare!"

I just saw an organization that is planning to use it to "measure employee productivity" and search for "policy violations." (Not naming names.)

Remember: there are more than a few large orgs out there that gleefully install keyloggers on the same bogus pretense. (And absolutely will not tell you, the employee.)
They already see Recall as a goldmine for abusing their employees.

hankg,

@rootwyrm I was pitched helping to create a startup that was going to use keylogging/tracking and AI to “help workers be more efficient to make their job easier.” I responded, “When was the last time major gains in efficiencies primarily benefited the workers rather than the owners?” It is so transparent what is going on. After back and forth about that is truly their intention I ended with whether it is the intention or not to fuck over the workers that is where that will inevitably end. No, me passing on it wasn’t going to stop it from happening, as they pointed out, but I want nothing to do with it either way.

JoeRess, to random
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Anyone still active on twitter needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

hankg,

@JoeRess Amen!

jeffjarvis, to random
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India's polls and prognosticators are just as bad as America's
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

hankg,

@jeffjarvis Wow! This would be incredibly good news!

hankg, to random

A. Florida Man
B. Not all heroes wear capes

lol

popey, to random
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Microphone ready!
Laptop precariously balanced on books!
It must be @linuxmatters recording night!

hankg,

@popey @linuxmatters That Digital Retro book looks interesting!

hankg, to random

Six screens at the bar, all with sports channels on. The only sport events, versus news and commentary, on are women’s sports. I love that! Not that I follow sports of any kind but still think that’s a wonderful change of pace.

shoq, to random
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Does this article resonate for you folks with teens? This sounds but really awful to me.

My 15-year-old son has his first girlfriend. Unlike when I was a teen, 'hanging out' often just means talking on the phone at home.

https://www.businessinsider.com/teenage-son-first-girlfriend-2024-6

hankg,

@shoq "I've been surprised to see how much my son's relationships (whether platonic or otherwise) have played out over his phone — texting and memes rule the day...My son and his friends often "hang out" for hours at a time, too, but they do so separately, at their own homes, often over the phone or through an online game. "

Maybe it's just me being a computer geek but this sounds like how most of my friends and I interact as adults and have way way before the pandemic. I mention the pandemic since the author blames it for these behavioral patterns. What they describe sounds like most adult people I know aged 60 and under. Maybe I'm missing something.

thomholwerda, to random
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This is an absolutely insane request, and I can't believe how many people on Fedi of all places are boosting this.

If you're a journalist or a blogger or whatever and you want to write about this stuff, you don't need fucking permission from anyone to do so. I understand that it might be inconvenient for the project involved, but that's just the reality of developing out in the open.

I am obviously not going to write about this because I don't give a shit, but if you do give a shit... Write about it six ways 'till Sunday and assuming you're not making shit up or lying, don't let anyone attack you for it.

hankg,

@thomholwerda Which project is this referring to?

hankg,

@thomholwerda n/m Figured it out...

dominucco, to programming
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JarJar is such an epic coder that he’s monitor is backwards

hankg,

@dominucco …at least they got the fingers right for once, ironically lol…

hankg, to rant

With news The Daily Beast is now going to be run by a Murdoch toady that helmed right wing rags that carry water for MAGA types I'm just thinking about if there are any major outlets not owned and/or run by right wing or right wing people and/or owned by right wing super rich people/hedge funds. The MAGA or at the very least non-MAGA Republican boosters essentially have the run the place. All newspapers, all cable news channels except MSNBC in the evening, the overwhelming majority of local news stations, the overwhelming majority of radio stations, Politico, The Hill, Vox, HuffPost (thanks to Vivek fuckwads new ownership), Substack, Twitter, Truth Social, all the Meta properties, et cetera. I could go on. The best the rest of us get is bothesidism faux balance bullshit that doesn't piss off mega-rich owner types at ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS and small scale operations like Flaming Hydra, 404 media, Ghost, Mastodon/ActivityPub fediverse. Talk about a very narrow space. Grr...

hankg, to retrocomputing

It's astounding how modern computer idioms we take for granted could be done with NeXTSTEP in 1991. The live video and on-the-fly editing are even more impressive, albeit requiring the $15K model computer. That was impressive performance for that price at the time too though.
#ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #SteveJobs #NeXTComputer
Steve Jobs NeXT Cube with Dimension Board Demo 1991 rerecorded Rob Blessin Black Hole Inc 2024 #1

hankg,

@Wen I have a NeXT slab that a coworker gave me in the early-2000s. I haven't turned it on for awhile. I kind of want to get it and most of my retro-computing collection recapped (or at least looked at by a hardware person) at this point. I do spend time dabbling with versions of NeXTSTEP I never could play with on InfiniteMac.org though :) infinitemac.org/

thomholwerda, to random
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This is it. This is the workstation case I'm looking for. This is the industrial look I want.

...pricing though. Oof.

https://estore.in-win.com/products/dubili

hankg,

@thomholwerda Steep but doable

hankg,

@thomholwerda Has G5 Mac Pro vibes to me too!

hankg, to Humor

The one thing I miss since leaving Twitter is the legit DougJ Balloon Juice blog’s NYT Pitchbot. Nails it as usual :)

thomholwerda, to random
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I think I threw up in my mouth a little.

https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

hankg,

@thomholwerda I think I’ll pass too lol

hankg, to rant

All of this "Democrats should worry about tit for tat" is beyond hypocritical. Democrats did not do tit-for-tat against GWB after the ginned up Clinton Impeachment. Democrats didn't do it to Trump after GOP tried the same thing with Obama nor when they refused to support legislation they normally would under Obama. Trump already tried to make the US AG and DOJ his personal law firm. He directly interfered with investigations against cronies and his family. Meanwhile Democratic congressional members and the Biden's own son are under active investigation and criminal cases for stuff that was shady as fuck, in the case of Menedez, or wouldn't normally have gone this far in the case of some of Hunter's charges. Republicans were already going to use these things without the pretense they are presenting here because one of their own was finally held to account.

cgsines, to random
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. . . claims that there are millions of jury ballots missing. Democrat court workers seen loading boxes onto pizza trucks.

hankg,

@cgsines ...and evidence that all the ballots were made with paper from Jina whose writing can be changed from the Soros owned Jewish Space lasers... :)

hankg, to random

I rail on billionaires all the time for their sociopathic pursuit of ever more money and power. The fact is that they behave like most people would if in those shoes. It's like the white people today who say, "I would have been with MLK in the 1950s/1960s". The overwhelming majority of white people were not. Therefore, statistically, probably neither would you. There are truly evil people in the billionaire class, maybe even at a higher percentage than the average population. The problem is often one of general human failings though. That's the reason why we shouldn't let people aggregate that much perpetual power and money in the first place.
#BillionairesShouldNotExist

hankg, to programming

Last night I experimented with KVM and VirtManager. With the exception of not being able to figure out resizeable drive images without the CLI I think I'm most of the way to being able to replace VirtualBox as my emulation environment. #programming

hankg, to random

I had assumed the whole Republican talking point, even by "moderate" Susan Collins, DA Bragg said he'd "get" Trump during the campaign was true. I should have known better at this point. He did not.
politifact.com/article/2023/ap…

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