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teajaygrey

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Incarnated as a human in the area of "Yay".
What others call the Bay.
Encountered networked computers before TCP.
Email? UUCP before SMTP.
I knew the late great Doug Engelbart, personally.
Helped patch an embargoed bug in BIND 2013-4854 by CVE.
Helped restore UNIX before C.
1 of 4 skratch deejays in ThudRumble's 33.3 Club as well.
Struggles amidst these Saṃsāric rings of hell.
My 2nd language is Japanese.
Default to English, if you please.
I'm a polyglot & read & write in multiple orthographies.

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whitequark, to random
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this is how i control heating in this place now

teajaygrey,
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@whitequark Room thermostats and HVAC are relatively imprecise in my experience.

I wonder though: perhaps if using Fahrenheit instead of Centigrade, they might have less of a range of fluctuation due to the more minute measurements of difference which Fahrenheit uses?

Probably comes a lot down to implementation and I haven't worked in HVAC or dealt with thermostat microcontrollers in an awfully long time.

teajaygrey, to random
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/me sees EFF toot about contacting representatives about not banning TikTok because free speech for Muricans or something.

But, I do actually despise TikTok.

Can we amend the proposed legislation so that it bans all closed sores proprietary so-called "social" media surveillance crapitalism garbage?

No more Instagram?

No more Facebook.

No more X/Twitter.

No more YouTube comments.

undsoweiter?

If anything, banning TikTok doesn't go far enough.

If you think ANY of those for-profit surveillance capitalism corporations actually give a flying fuck about freedom of speech and do not actively silence and ban and shadowban their users for the most innocuous BS, then I am guessing you haven't been paying attention in the first place.

teajaygrey, to random
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/me sees "____ is a Senior Network Gameplay Engineer. He has over 10 years of experience"

Buddy, I had over 10 years of coding experience before I was even given a 1200 baud modem.

You clearly misunderstand what "Senior" means and I am guessing like too many others, you misuse the term "Engineer" as well. ;(

shoq, to random
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Wouldn’t it be wild if there was a Sunday news show that did nothing but debunk the bullshit on all the other news shows—in real time? Dana Bash says something idiotic (again), and you quickly flip on the Bullshit Today Channel (BTC), and a panel of people who actually know something are patiently explaining what she doesn’t know, isn’t saying, or can’t comprehend?

teajaygrey,
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@LexiGirl who?

Sorry, I'm a Californian. The political BS around California being part of America is contentious enough.

Am I supposed to know who that person is?

We have approximately 333.3 million Americans presently and I will be dead and buried having never heard of most of them, let alone ever bothered to get to know the slightest thing about them presumably.

Based on search engines, she's apparently some "journalist" for CNN?

I haven't paid for cable since my marriage fell apart in 2005 and have no plans to pay for advertising laden media ever again. My ex-wife liked soap operas. I already spend too much time staring at glowing screens and don't need more distractions from for-profit morons.

@shoq

teajaygrey,
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@shoq I only do journalism in my spare time for undeadly.org for the last 20 some odd years and my general outlook on American journalism is:

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Is just about the only person left whom I have observed even trying to do that field justice.

Well, aside from the court jesters such as Jon Stewart and John Oliver. I have a penchant for mortuary humor on a dying planet.

The rest of the lot are more or less resplendently part and parcel with the oligopoly that the USA has devolved into and presumably will remain that way so long as they have advertisers' best interests at heart rather than any higher ideals.

@LexiGirl

teajaygrey, to random
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Yet again I hate touch screen typing and so called auto "correct".

I think it has been over a year since I ordered a pocket device with a physical keyboard and no update in over a month on how it is delayed by the British scheisters who sold it to me.

sarahjamielewis, to random
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After writing this note on Recall (https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/112482021770758791) a few weeks back, I've received many messages under the assumption that I don't understand how DRM / OS interaction works.

As if the integration of a broken, backwards technology into the core of our computing systems happened by accident.

"No, you see the OS doesn't get to see those bits of the screen, so it totally makes sense why the system scraps your financial documents and passwords but not netflix" - utterly unhinged worldview

teajaygrey,
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@sarahjamielewis Once upon a time I was invited to a home where the albeit, former, CTO of Canonical was residing.

As the evening progressed, eventually it was decided that some people wanted to watch Jodorowsky's Dune. A copy was on DVD, but the former CTO's laptop ran Linux.

The former CTO, had never heard of all the DeCSS hubbub apparently? Even though I seem to recall some had such things printed on tshirts? Slashdot was awash in such stories, from my vantage, for years.

I asked if I could take a look and a short:

%sudo apt-get update
%sudo apt-get upgrade
%sudo apt-get install libdvdcss

Later, we were able to watch the DVD.

That Micro$oft, chose Canonical's Ubuntu for their WSL Linux BS, was completely unsurprising to me.

Even at the executive level, Canonical demonstrated profound (perhaps willful?) ignorance of DRM circumvention.

Notably the libdvdcss has apparently been renamed more than once and is at most recent check called: libdvd-pkg

Because, why would those fucking assholes want to make it easy or consistent, when they can instead keep mv-ing things so everyone else has to play whack a mole & deal with deprecated documentation?

DVD copy protections are broken & have never been meaningfully updated, so instead of accepting defeat, those who are complicit, perpetuate inordinate amounts of bull it.sh apparently?

mjg59, to random
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The Airwolf theme being performed on Tesla coils is certainly A Thing

teajaygrey,
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@mjg59 Did ArcAttack! do that? Or some other Tesla Coil band?

I deejayed an anti-surveillance fashion show with some other @Noisebridge after ArcAttack! performed a set at Maker Faire many years ago.

teajaygrey, to random
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@jacqueline BTW, I noticed that Cayin announced a new "budget" DAP their N3 Ultra!

Still: proprietary.

Running: Android 9? o.O ("What year is this?" meme goes here)

Has: vacuum tubes! (is there a "What century is this?" meme?)

MSRP: $529+?

So, I could buy two Tangaras for that?

teajaygrey, to random
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Yet again feeling vindicated in avoiding some "trendy" higher level it.sh.

I tinkered with Ruby on Rails (and even "Locomotive") an awfully long time ago and even then it felt like a waste of my time. Grateful I never invested any serious effort into it.

teajaygrey, to random
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As some asides a couple things different with that last PR that I noticed:

MacPorts' CI/build bots have an extra run, from two to three.

Yet I also noticed that @Codeberg wants me to create an account to peruse release tag tarballs, why was that necessary?

teajaygrey, to random
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I did somehow find time today to note that not only does @session not have native Apple Silicon builds.

But before diving into their build instructions here (supposedly) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/blob/unstable/CONTRIBUTING.md I couldn't help but notice that maybe this was, at some point, forked from Signal?

JFC.

The last thing the world needs is another protocol derived from double ratchet/Axolotl Ratchet and Moxie's malarky. ;-/

It's been over 20 years since SILC set the high water mark in realtime end-to-end encrypted comms, and to date, no one seems to have raised it that I have seen, despite many "reinventing the flat tire" attempts that are becoming increasingly vexing.

I even released an OTR over SILC proof of concept in 2014 just to give an example of how someone could, theoretically raise the bar a little higher if necessary.

To crickets. ;(

teajaygrey, to tearsofthekingdom
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I'm going to guess that Mega64 doing a fight scene homage to They Live, was timed in accordance with the upcoming 35th anniversary screenings of They Live.

IMHO the best part of this sketch is the scene in front of billionaires' photographs (specifically: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates) talking about how unethical it is to duplicate money without working hard for it.

"So you're just going to sit there and let your money duplicate without having done any work to earn it? God dude, that is so unethical! That should be illegal!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXztmxM74EI

#Mega64 #comedy #TheyLive #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #DuplicationGlitch #billionaires

teajaygrey, to random
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/me looks for a way in GitHub to undo some commits and sees none.

"much version, such control".

sigh

teajaygrey, to TeslaMotors
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"If Electric Cars Were Honest - Honest Ads (Tesla EV Parody)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRUg2NXmLd0

#HonestAds #Comedy #BitterTruthWithSugarCoatings #EV #ElectricCars

teajaygrey, to random
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So, between Meltdown, Spectre, Zenbleed, Downfall:

How many more speculative execution bugs are still left to be found?

Of the "performance gains" professed by speculative execution, how many are far less than the mitigations reduce performance?

Where my mind has been going recently, again.

Someone else do the benchmarking, please.

No one with affiliations with Linus Media Group, kthx.

teajaygrey, to rust
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In yet another example of things which do not inspire confidence in Rust, nor things written in Rust:

"This port has been deleted. This page will exist till another port with the name 'rust' comes into existence."

o.O

teajaygrey, to opensource
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My favorite @librewolf issue:

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/770

"Add support for MacPorts "

"Since Homebrew is supported why not Macports too?"

Me: a MacPorts maintainer, "maybe because MacPorts actually builds things from source and Homebrew thinks its OK to just be a wrapper to installing a DMG?"

e.g. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/56d6d85d58a73a2b481cd5d58216296dd4239e63/Casks/f/flightgear.rb

Bad example?

Well here's the Homebrew cask for LibreWolf itself:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/56d6d85d58a73a2b481cd5d58216296dd4239e63/Casks/l/librewolf.rb

Again it's just a wrapper to installing a DMG!

That's not building jack it.sh from source. I guess it does have a little smarts insomuch as it will determine if it is Intel or Apple Silicon (meanwhile, MacPorts still supports PPC/G4/G5/etc. vintage systems. Because: it actually BUILDS THINGS FROM SOURCE, it's not a precompiled binary distribution platform.).

What a bad joke Homebrew is.

Alas, LibreWolf's build instructions are uhhh, well they don't build on macOS, they cross compile from ???

I mean there are the not so convincing notes on building from source here:
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source

But also linked from there is this:

https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/macos

Which reads: "Archived project! Repository and other project resources are read-only"

I sincerely have no idea how people on macOS build LibreWolf from source, from the project documentation itself. Homebrew, is of zero assistance, because Homebrew: also does not build LibreWolf from source.

teajaygrey, to random
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smirks

Commit message:

"Stop lying about code style being ANSI C."

The change?

  • "This program is written in highly portable ANSI C."
  • "This program is written in highly portable C."

Y'know, I am OK with it just being portable.

teajaygrey, to random
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" Firefox version 97 and newer supports data URLs of up to 32MB (before 97 the limit was close to 256MB). Chromium objects to URLs over 512MB, and Webkit (Safari) to URLs over 2048MB."

Doesn't M$-Word have a 32MB limit on text?

Something seems very, VERY wrong with browsers.

"objects to URLs"

"URLs over 2048MB"

I feel as if I am not only missing something, I absolutely don't want to know and from a distance am horrified that such memory abuses are even sanctioned.

teajaygrey, to random
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Sees some journalist with a line, "when 300bps was the fastest internet connection"

Umm, what?

"56 Kbps
In the late 1960s, the precursor to the modern Internet was an experiment conducted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a branch of the US Department of Defense. In 1969, ARPANET came online with speeds of up to 56 Kbps."

As far as I know, the same 56Kbps leased lines were true for NLS (oN-Line System) which was subsumed into (D)ARPANet as the first node.

However, the 1968 "Mother of All Demos" was a bit different insomuch as it was a public demonstration outside of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) held at the Civic Auditorium in SF, salient Wikipedia excerpt:

"The Augment researchers also created two customized homemade modems at 1200 baud – high-speed for 1968 – linked via a leased line to transfer data from the computer workstation keyboard and mouse at the Civic Auditorium to their Menlo Park headquarters' SDS-940 computer.[Note 2]"

The 1968 Mother of All Demos also utilized two leased video lines from the phone company, though I am less clear about the technical specifics of such things; I'd welcome insights from anyone who might know!

By the 1970s, 3Mbps Ethernet was prevalent.

"The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork." (I would conjecture more likely a contraction of: "The Intergalactic Network of Computers" but I didn't know J.C.R. Licklider personally).

Regardless, while the Bell 103 modem was 300bps and from 1962, I don't think (m)any Internet nodes were connected that way primarily, ever?

TL;DR: the Internet was always faster in most parts than 300bps, even if some of its users weren't blessed to have faster connections.

teajaygrey, to random
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What was it a couple of weeks ago where I was head scratching about Taylor Swift having TWO private jets?

I re-watched Inception last week.

How could I have forgotten that they performed their Inception-errific-injection during a first class air fare (of an airline owned/purchased by the adversary) by sabotaging the target's private jet? Thus necessitating them to book a ticket on a plebeian airline?

I guess Taylor Swift's threat model is just on a different level?

I am grateful I am not so rich and famous as to have to worry about fictional threats from Christopher Nolan movies.

I have more than enough real world threats as it is.

teajaygrey, to random
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"We gave them $14 million to work on the protocol."

Jack Dorsey/Blue Sky are/were morons apparently. Rich, but ignorant, what a terrible combination.

Imagine what Pekka Riikonen would have done to improve SILC with $14 million?!

SILC was ALREADY libre/free open source and a protocol before Twitter ever existed.

SILC ALREADY had end to end encryption! It even implemented PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) before SSL/TLS tried to do so.

SILC even attempts to mitigate eavesdropping of its users' communications from hostile server operators, something which almost no other realtime encrypted comms protocol even seems to realize is a threat.

Why do the morons get all the money while the people who actually advance the state of the art tend to get ignored and forgotten to obscurity?

teajaygrey, to random
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I admit, I have my biases.

I don't really know how others reach theirs, but I tend to derive continual inspiration in the field of computing from the demo scene.

The individual who tipped my off to @hyc's LMDB being worth a gander is (or at least was) part of Fairlight.

No, not the Fairlight CMI digital synthesizer used by Kate Bush in "Running Up That Hill" which has had retail prices ranging between: £15,000–£112,000. (chips on Reverb start at $60, software on eBay goes for $500.00+ I don't even see a full unit for sale in usual aftermarket retailers, though I see a cached listing for one for $16,000).

This Fairlight:
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65400

teajaygrey, to amiga
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Computer history:

Amiga Workbench was essentially derived from TRIPOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPOS) which despite being in research since 1976, had its initial release in 1978.

As far as I can guess: that is why Amiga Workbench 32bit time "EPOCH" begins on January 1st, 1978.

Despite that, Amigas were still resilient not just to Y2K problems but also Y2K8 problems and of course also no y2k38 problems. Further reading on Amiga time epoch issues here: https://amiga.de/diary/developers/y2k.html

What remains a "mystery" to me is why Linux which had its initial release in 1991, chose 1970 as its 32bit time epoch? I would hazard to guess, Linus always knew he was writing a bad clone, so rather than fix problems, or at least set the clock forward (e.g. set Linux epoch to 1991) to ignore problems a bit longer he became "problem compatible" with UNIX.

IMHO, Andrew S. Tanenbaum was too kind in his chastising on Usenet way back when (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate). Linux, in no small part, set back computational research decades, by choice of its 32bit time epoch alone.

As mentioned elsewhere, not all UNIX variants derived from real CSRG/BSD provenance have rested on their laurels. OpenBSD 5.5 released in 2014: already professed to be ready for 2038.

Many (most? all?) Linux distributions, remain vulnerable to 2038 time problems, even today in 2023.

#microkernels #UNIX #time_t #32BitTime #Amiga #TRIPOS #Linux #AmigaWorkBench #OpenBSD #UNIXEpoch

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