surabax

@surabax@mastodon.ie

Middleware Development Engineer @ Intel. All opinions are my own.

Aspiring to break out of the pink plane.

За вашу и нашу свободу. 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌹

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dosnostalgic, to random
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Box art of the day:

surabax,

@dosnostalgic The "design your school" part didn't age very well.

surabax, to VintageOSes

Xenix 286 from the 1980s is Y2K-compliant, unlike other operating systems for this hardware.

#Xenix #Unix #OperatingSystem #OperatingSystems #ComputerHistory #ComputingHistory #Retrocomputing #Intel #x86 #Microsoft #SCO

surabax, to ireland

Today I met John Romero, the legendary creator of Doom and Quake, at the bookstore Chapters in Dublin!

kevinrothrock, to random

at long last

surabax,

@kevinrothrock Looks angery.

rml, to Lisp

#Lisp does #FP better

https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/emacs-unix-04_lisp-does-fp-better-than-bash.html

surabax,

@amszmidt @screwtape @tychosoft @rml @lispi314 @a13cui @ramin_hal9001 One thing that I don't like about Hurd is that its designers chose to build the whole thing around the POSIX-conformant file system abstraction when they really needed an object system.

foone, to random
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me: hey look an old thinkpad! I should see if I can get it to work
me: oh good the hard drive still works! it's got windows 98 installed on it
me: and there's the owner's social security number. great.

WIPE YOUR FUCKING HARD DRIVES, PEOPLE

surabax,

@foone I bought a PowerBook and found some spicy bookmarks on it, even though the seller claimed it was factory reset. :|

amoroso, to Lisp
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What most modern Lisps have in common is they remove the parentheses, or replace the parentheses with other characters in some contexts or otherwise dilute them.

And this is why I'm sticking with traditional Lisps. I'm completely at ease with ubiquitous parentheses, which are precisely what makes the language so powerful and uniform.

I don't want something like or inspired by Lisp. I want the real thing.

#lisp

surabax,

@amoroso The Matrix had the best response to complaints about parentheses in Lisp: "You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."

foone, to random
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why does a PS2 game have a file named COMMANDLINE.TXT in the main WAD file

what command line? this is a PS2 game

surabax,

@foone 146% is a meme in Russia that was born from a clumsily manipulated election where the total sum of votes was this.

amoroso, to linux
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A good history of Linux Mandrake (later Mandriva), the first easy-to-use, user-focused Linux distro. It's very interesting as I never got a chance to try it.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-linux-mandrake

#linux #retrocomputing

surabax,

@amoroso This was my very first Linux distro, back in middle school. I asked my father to buy a copy of Linux on the local electronics market, and this is what he picked. I had no complaints, it was probably the best distro for a newbie at the time.

surabax, to cyberpunk

An author's note from "Ghost in the Shell" by Masamune Shirow.

surabax, to infosec

Rest in peace, Kevin Mitnick: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

I don't know if younger people know him now, but in his prime he was the most famous hacker in the world, not only in the modern widely-accepted sense (someone who breaks into computers for whatever reason) but also in the original sense.

His talk at Google in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqes9QdLQ4

#KevinMitnick #RIP #Obituary #Hackers #Infosec #Cybersecurity #Phreaking #Hacking #Technology

surabax, to Lisp

The ultimate yak shave: to implement its last generation of , Symbolics developed a complete toolset in called NS that enabled them to design and verify their ASICs, gate arrays, and boards from architecture to photomasks for manufacturing.

Thanks to @jpreisendoerfer for scanning the article "The Design and Strategy" that was unavailable on the net until now.

"The Symbolics Ivory Design and Verification Strategy", page 3 and 4.
"The Symbolics Ivory Design and Verification Strategy", page 5 and 6.

surabax, to Lisp

The original flocking behavior model #Boids that was developed by Craig Reynolds at #Symbolics for "Breaking the Ice" is available here in all its pre-Common #Lisp glory: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/code/boids.lisp

The #SIGGRAPH 87 paper: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1987/boids.html

#SymbolicsGraphicsDivision #LispM #LispMachines #ComputerGraphics #CGI #VFX #Rendering #Art #DigitalArt #Animation #ComputerHistory #History #Retrocomputing #ArtificialLife #Swarms #Robotics #GenerativeArt

surabax, to Lisp

Stanley and Stella in “BREAKING THE ICE” - Original #Symbolics Tapes Restored & Remastered, 1080p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYEp26g14Wk

"June 2023 restoration, production, post, and remastering by Tom McMahon, Michael Wahrman, Jim Ryan, and Craig Reynolds."

This is a short animated movie first shown at #SIGGRAPH 87, made with S-Graphics on #LispMachines.

#SymbolicsGraphicsDivision #LispM #Lisp #ComputerGraphics #CGI #VFX #Rendering #Art #DigitalArt #Animation #ComputerHistory #History #Retrocomputing

kristenhg, to ai

One of my former (and very long-term) freelance gigs, How Stuff Works, has replaced writers with ChatGPT-generated content and also laid off its excellent editorial staff.

It seems that going forward, when articles I wrote are updated by ChatGPT, my byline will still appear at the top of the article with a note at the bottom of the article saying that AI was used. So it will look as if I wrote the article using AI.

To be clear: I did not write articles using ChatGPT.

#AI #LLM #ChatGPT

surabax,

@kristenhg There has to be some kind of coordinated political pushback against this kind of shit at this point. Similar to FSF and EFF, but focused specifically on campaigning against unethical use of the technology that harvests and regurgitates human-sourced data, against mass provenance laundering.

amoroso, to ai
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"The Brain Makers: Genius, Ego, and Greed in the Quest for Machines that Think" by H.P. Newquist (1994) tells the history of the rise and fall of AI in the 1980s and 1990s. I like the book as it also covers vendors of Lisp Machines and Lisp systems.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3751375W/The_brain_makers?edition=ia%3Abrainmakers0000newq

#ai #retrocomputing #books

surabax,

@amoroso I found this review of the book by Hans Moravec, one of John McCarthy's students: https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1105/1023

surabax, to delhi

I hosted this month's meetup of Lisp Ireland today, and I presented my talk titled "A Tour of Common Lisp": https://youtube.com/live/Y8vh_KmrtwM

This talk is an introduction and high-level overview of my favorite programming language, intended primarily for the members of the group that are new to it.

Unfortunately, I had to start too late and was interrupted, so it's only part 1 now. Stay tuned for part 2 next month!

#LispIreland #Meetup #Talk #CommonLisp #Lisp #ProgrammingLanguages #Programming

kevinrothrock, (edited ) to random

Who's getting a Threads account tomorrow?

surabax,

@kevinrothrock I'm not eager to make an account on a genocide enabler's platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook_controversy

amoroso, to retrocomputing
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In some contemporary retrocomputing works I see 1970s and 1980s computers such as PDPs and VAXen increasingly referred to as "mainframes".

Weren't they supposed to be minis and superminis? Weren't mainframes different machines, such as the IBM System/360?

#retrocomputing

surabax,

@amoroso I think the line between superminis and mainframes was very blurry.

surabax, to Barcelona

Awesome: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html

"No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here"

#Threads #Project92 #Barcelona #Meta #Facebook #FediBlock #FediBlockMeta #ActivityPub #Mastodon #EuropeanUnion #EU #Ireland #Mastodaoine #Privacy #Tech

kevinrothrock, to random

Russia is “incubating a cottage industry” of tech contractors & “new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war.” And the tech may be sold overseas. “A Swiss-army knife of spying possibilities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/technology/russia-ukraine-surveillance-tech.html

NYT describes spying software that affects Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp, not intercepting calls but accessing metadata to determine things like identity, devices, mapped relationships, etc.

Developers include firms like MFI Soft, Vas Experts, and Protei, which got started making pieces of Russia’s telecom wiretapping system.

surabax,

@kevinrothrock Many years ago I interviewed for a job at MFI Soft before I learned what they were really doing, good thing I bombed that interview. 😅

louis, (edited ) to badminton
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Setup a simple HTTP server from stdlibs that responds with a simple "Hello, World" string, no logging.

10s load test run on MacBook Pro M1 (using hey).

LispWorks 8 (Hunchentoot): ~11k req/sec
Racket 8.9: ~15k req/sec
Clojure 1.10 (httpkit): ~28k req/sec
Janet 1.29: ~35k req/sec
SBCL 2.3.4 (Hunchentoot): ~44k req/sec
Go 1.20: ~120k req/sec

surabax,

@louis I'm surprised that LispWorks is so behind.

surabax, to zig

Wow, the lead developer of Zig proposed to ditch LLVM: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270

It seems to be a pretty radical change, and not everyone is happy with it. There are users that rely on the C++ interop enabled by LLVM.

#Zig #ZigLang #LLVM #Cpp #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #Programming #Tech #Technology

surabax, to Lisp

Symbolics Graphics Division Presents: "Behind The Scenes with Stanley and Stella" (No Audio, 1080p upconvert)

Rediscovered June 2023, originally made 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZttmVtWZkUc

surabax, to Lisp

An instant messenger on a Lisp machine. From the "Communicating with Other Users" manual by Symbolics, July 1986.

A black-and-white screenshot, "Figure 19. A Converse Message About to be Sent"
A black-and-white screenshot, "Figure 20. A Converse Conversation"

surabax,

@amszmidt ITS was really cool, shame it's so obscure.

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